Were you a soldier that fought in a battle here?
That looks like a yes.
[Heather] It looks like a yes.
Are your bones still here on this battleground?
[creaking]
Oh, my God.
[Heather] What was that?
[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X,
my team travels to the most haunted city in America
to brave a night in a true house of horrors,
the Sorrel Weed Mansion.
[Jovie] In the background, they'll see somebody who was not a part of that tour.
[Josh] Once home to a family...
plagued by violence and tragedy.
She locked herself on the third-floor balcony and jumped.
[woman moans]
[Josh] ...its only residents now
are said to be hostile spirits.
-You're talking about actual physical violence. -Yeah.
[Heather screams]
Heather?
[Heather] Something just touched my face.
-[Heather gasps] -[Phil] Holy [bleep].
-The ceiling. -[Heather] The chandelier.
That's swinging a lot.
[theme music playing]
All right, guys, what do you think of
when I say Savannah, Georgia?
Mint juleps.
First of all, that's Kentucky.
Second of all, it's gonna be ghosts.
I do love a mint julep.
-But, yeah, it's gonna be ghosts. -Ah.
They say Savannah is the most haunted city in America.
[Josh] They do, indeed.
It has hundreds of years of haunted history,
and I have just been contacted
by the custodians of the Sorrel Weed House,
one of the oldest homes in the city,
and they claim they are literally under attack by paranormal forces.
Something sinister is stalking Savannah.
Founded in 1733 as the capital of Georgia,
Savannah was envisioned as a utopia.
Today it is a beautiful, genteel city,
but it also has a history of darkness and violence.
-[whooshes] -[cracks]
[woman screams]
1779. The city is the site
of one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolution,
the Siege of Savannah.
Hundreds die when revolutionaries fail
to retake the city and its port from the British.
But death was not the only evil that took place here.
For over 100 years,
Savannah was a key hub in the international slave trade.
Over 20,000 slaves were brutally trafficked through the city,
almost 90% of them kidnapped directly from Africa.
[man speaking indistinctly]
[Josh] All of this horror makes it no surprise
that paranormal activity is reported throughout the city.
Of Savannah's 1,500 historically designated buildings
and 22 historic squares,
more than two thirds are reportedly haunted.
In Savannah, they say you don't ask if you've seen a ghost,
you ask how many.
But in a city that seems overwhelmed by paranormal activity,
the Sorrel Weed House still manages to stand out.
Built in 1840
-on the blood soaked ground of the Siege of Savannah... -[booms]
...it was the family home of wealthy merchant Francis Sorrel.
But the home quickly became a horror house.
Three of Francis' children died,
leaving his wife Matilda so distraught
she flung herself from the top floor balcony to her death.
[woman screams]
Francis' surviving son, Dr. Frank,
went on to use the home to perform surgeries.
Far from this becoming a place of healing,
it only led to more suffering.
-[woman screams] -Dr. Frank's experimental surgeries
left scores of patients dead.
Now it is alleged that the ghosts of Matilda, Dr. Frank,
and even Revolutionary War soldiers
are all regularly sighted
stalking the halls of the Sorrel Weed House.
Recently, things seem to have taken a turn for the worse.
Visitors believe they're becoming
the targets of hostile paranormal activity,
with reports of suffocating feelings of sadness,
disturbing shadow figures,
and even phantom assault.
[woman screams]
What is happening in the spirit-filled streets of Savannah
and is the epicenter of it all the Sorrel Weed House?
-So? -I think it's haunted.
A place with all that history has to have activity to match.
There's a concept I like to call layering,
where, if multiple tragedies happen over time
in the exact same place,
it enhances all of the paranormal activity.
Like haunting squared.
Ooo, we're doing ghost math now.
Math, no. Ghosts, yes.
-Count me in. -All right. Phil?
Look, these things that happened in Savannah were evil, no doubt.
Thousands dead. Tens of thousands enslaved.
But here's the thing.
How could you live there and not have that
in the back of your mind all the time?
There's reports that people feel strangely sad at the Sorrel Weed house.
Wouldn't it be stranger
if you were there and you felt happy?
I mean, this is a place of real tragedy
and you're gonna feel it.
So just a case of history and our heads.
It could be.
Well, there is one way to find out the truth.
-We've gotta go there. -You've gotta go there.
The mission is head to Savannah,
go to the Sorrel Weed House,
and find out if it is truly plagued by paranormal entities.
And while you're doing that, I will dig into
other recent reports from around Savannah.
If this truly is the most haunted place in America,
there should be more there for you to discover.
All right, Phil. First, ghosts,
then you get a mint julep.
Can't we drink first?
-[both] No. -Fine.
[Josh] The flight from New York to Savannah is two and a half hours.
From there, Phil and Heather head into the heart
of the city's historic district,
traveling in suitably historic style.
[Phil] When I said you were good to arrange the transport,
this isn't exactly what I had in mind...
[horse whinnies]
...but you know what? It's nice.
I am living out my best Cinderella fantasy
in an old horse and carriage.
Does that mean I'm your prince?
No, it doesn't. Absolutely not. No.
Ooo. There's the Sorrel Weed House.
-[Phil] That's it? -[Heather] That's it.
[Phil] This is about to get interesting.
[Heather] Jovie?
-Heather. Phil. How are you? -Great.
Jovie Berrios has worked as a tour guide
at the Sorrel Weed House for seven years.
Originally drawn to the mansion
for its historical significance,
he's since come to believe
it's one of the most haunted sites in all of Savannah.
[Jovie] Welcome to the house.
[Phil] This is so well kept.
[Jovie] 1840s when it was completed.
Francis Sorrel was the original owner.
A very prominent, wealthy shipping merchant in the antebellum era.
This is his family home.
The story of the Sorrel family itself
is a tragic one,
particularly his second wife, Matilda Sorrel.
They did have eight children together.
-Unfortunately, three of them did pass away as infants. -[Phil] Gosh.
One of them did pass away in the house.
And that eventually led to Matilda's tragic death.
Very much.
She locked herself in the third floor balcony,
jumped, landing headfirst into the courtyard down below.
Broke her neck, cracked her skull.
She didn't die on impact.
She would have passed away a few hours later in her bedroom.
So it was prolonged.
It's a compounded location full of tragedy.
How does all of that manifest into paranormal activity today?
One thing that's being reported a lot in the house
is technology and equipment malfunctioning.
You've got people who report seeing shadow figures.
And this giant over-mantel mirror
and this very small over-mantel mirror.
Some guests will take a photo,
look back on it five minutes later,
in the background, they'll see somebody
who they know was not a part of that tour.
[Phil] What about when people are actually staring into the mirror?
I don't ever advise anybody
to start staring into the mirror.
You can get lost in it so quickly.
What do you mean by that?
I've had people before who will stare into it,
and it kind of takes a moment to snap them out of it, and they'll tell us,
"Oh, I was just staring into oblivion.
I don't know what was really going on."
Do people see faces in the mirror as well when they're looking at it,
or does it just show up in photos?
Rarely will I have somebody tell me that they'll see
somebody's face staring at them
from the background in the mirror.
One of the things that's frequently reported in the house
is this visual of a woman
just appearing on the balcony.
And it's the same balcony
that Matilda, the lady of the house,
would have thrown herself out of.
It's been getting a lot more disturbing,
a lot more concerning.
You're saying things are getting worse.
Very much.
There's one room in the house
that holds the most disturbing history,
the most tragic history, and that's the basement.
I do wanna take you guys down there.
[Phil] So, what would happen down here?
You've got people who see shadow figures in here.
Several people have seen the face of a little girl
staring at them underneath this table.
Who do you think this might be?
[Jovie] One of Francis Sorrel's children.
Matilda Ann Sorrel, unfortunately,
passed away at the age of five from pneumonia.
But then you have a couple of guests
who, unfortunately, have their earrings ripped out of the ear,
bleed from the lobe, bleeding all over the floor.
[woman whimpers]
You're talking about actual physical violence.
Yeah.
And several people
have reportedly seen a shadow figure
sitting in that wooden chair.
The guests themselves will sit on the chair,
and they'll feel they're being pulled completely into it.
[Heather] Do we have any thoughts as to why there's activity here?
So this is where one of Francis Sorrel's sons,
Dr. Frank, performed all manner of trauma surgery.
Amputations, facial reconstructions, bullet extraction.
Within the three years that he performed surgery in Savannah,
it's estimated that he lost about 200 people.
-200 deaths. -[Jovie] Mm-hmm.
So, when you think of all that blood seeping off the table,
that's gonna be sleeping exactly where you guys are standing over right now.
So that's just blood seeping into the actual dirt beneath the house.
[Jovie] Into the very foundations of the property.
[Heather] Background noise.
[Phil] Yeah.
After Jovie leaves us for the night,
we set up our security cameras throughout the house.
Focusing on the most active areas,
we cover the main living room,
known originally as the women's parlor,
where people claim to see spirits in the mirrors.
We also cover the adjacent men's parlor,
where guests, especially women,
have reported feeling a suffocating energy.
We put a camera near the front entrance
to monitor any motion in the main hallway.
Push it a little bit right.
That looks pretty good.
And we also set one up on the upstairs balcony
where Matilda Sorrel
-tragically jumped to her death. - [woman screams]
Finally, we place cameras in the basement...
-How's it looking? -That looks great. Yep.
[Phil] ...where hundreds of patients
died from Dr. Frank's surgeries
and people report seeing a sick little girl.
Okay. Looks like we got this place covered.
We decide to begin our investigation
in the exact spot where Dr. Frank would have operated.
[Heather] I have something I wanna try. A Polaroid camera.
Often, I can get things in photographs
that you cannot see with the human eye.
I'll do your Polaroid experiment
if the first photo I take is you sitting in that chair.
And remember, this is the chair
where they've gotten a shadow showing up.
As long as they don't mess with my earrings.
I make no promises, Heather.
[Heather exhales]
How's it feel?
[Heather] Like a chair.
Not feeling a sinking feeling?
Not feeling like there's anyone right behind you?
I mean, this whole house feels like there's someone behind you.
Fair point.
Okay, let's do this first photo.
-[camera shutter clicking] -[camera whirring]
Okay, I wanna set up REM pods.
I'll set one up over by the chair
and then underneath the table
'cause that's where people saw the small child.
[Phil] And let's put a REM pod right here
where the surgical table was
and all that blood was spilled.
-[Heather] Good idea. -[Phil] Okay.
I'll give you a little space.
I'm gonna go around the rest of the basement taking more images
-and just seeing if anything shows up. -Okay.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[camera whirring]
So, I'm trying to take as many of these images as possible
because my hope is that I'll get something that,
in Heather's mind, is a paranormal anomaly,
but in my mind, it's more of a statistical inevitability.
It's either bad film or wave reflection,
some kind of lens flare.
You will get some kind of fluke,
and that is not real evidence.
So she's gotta keep taking more.
[Heather] I'll be monitoring the REM pods
and recording the room for EVPs
while asking yes or no questions.
If Dr. Frank, any of his patients,
or even the ghosts of little Matilda Ann are here,
they could respond affirmatively
by setting off one of the REM pods.
-If anything... -[REM pod beeps]
-...touches this antenna... -[REM pod beeps]
...it goes off, right?
So we'll know if something's here.
My name is Heather.
Is there anyone here with us?
You can use these REM pods to communicate.
Is there anyone here in this room with us right now?
[REM pod beeping]
Okay.
Were you a patient in this room?
Did you live in this house?
[REM pod beeping]
Yes, you lived in this house?
Is Dr. Frank in this room with me right now?
Matilda Ann, are you in this room with me right now?
I heard her story--
[REM pod beeping]
Okay. Matilda Ann...
Do do you like sitting in that chair?
You can just touch the antenna.
Are you sitting in the chair right now?
-If-- -[REM pod beeping]
Phil?
Heather?
[REM pod beeping]
What's happening?
[Heather] The REM pods are going off like crazy.
[Phil] What are you saying?
I've asked if they lived in this house.
I've asked if it was Matilda Ann sitting in that chair.
And the REM pod went off.
[REM pod beeping]
[Phil] Jeez.
[REM pod beeping]
It's just that one, right?
-This one too? -[Heather] That one too.
[REM pod stops]
-[Phil] And this is where surgery would have been. -[Heather] Yep.
I'm gonna check the recordings for an EVP,
but it for sure felt like
I was having a call and response with someone.
Well, what do you know what I got in my pocket?
What?
A bunch of Polaroid images.
Should we take a look? Let's put it up here.
Okay, Let's see what we've got. So...
-[camera shutter clicks] -I'm not seen anything there.
Nothing too interesting there.
Ooo. Look at that.
-[camera shutter clicks] -You see,
that's the film kind of messing up,
and I could see someone looking at that
and claiming that's a ghost.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I mean, that's definitely a film issue.
[Phil] Okay.
I've got... Let's see the ones of you in the chair.
-[camera shutter clicks] -Whoa.
That's kind of weird.
Some of the ones of you have not developed at all.
But the flash, you saw the flash go off every time.
Yeah, 100%.
The only ones that didn't develop...
-[camera shutter clicks] -...are these four that I took of you.
That is really bizarre.
[camera shutter clicks]
Let's just hold on to them and see if they continue developing.
In the meantime, it got really quiet.
These are off.
[Phil] All of them?
The batteries are in there.
[Phil] This one's dead.
-Nothing. -Nothing.
[Phil] All three of the REM pods just died.
[Heather] Completely drained.
I've never seen that before.
Do you remember the last time that you changed the battery on all of these?
Right before we came out here.
Maybe it's the moisture down here.
Yeah, but how did they all three die at the same time?
Do you have an explanation for that?
I don't. I've never seen this before.
That lines up with technology not really working in this house.
Are you saying that the spirits train these things?
That's one way for them to use energy.
They have to pull energy from other things.
Is the camera still working in here?
-That camera's still working. -Yeah.
Why just the REM pods, then?
That's what I told them to do.
I said, "Use these REM pods to communicate with me."
They listened to your directions
a little bit too much, then, if that's the case.
Yeah.
-[footsteps] -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's footsteps.
[footstep]
There's no one up there, Phil.
[whispers] I'm gonna go check the camera,
-and go check the monitor. -Okay.
There's no one up there right now.
[Heather] It would have been this room.
There's no one in there.
The entire crew is down here with us.
-I'm gonna grab my bag. Let's go. -[Heather] Okay.
Okay, let's make sure we truly
are alone up here.
This is for sure the room
-that is directly over where we were. -[Heather] Yeah.
[Phil] And it sounded like someone was walking.
Old houses do settle.
I'm sure this thing creaks all night.
Phil, those were footsteps.
Okay, but then who was walking in here?
Definitely get water damage here sometimes.
Could have been water dripping.
See any moisture on the ground?
A drop of water would not sound like that.
[Phil] It's an old house, Heather.
All right, let's keep going around
just to make sure there's no one else in here.
[Heather] So, this is the men's parlor.
-[coughing] -[Phil] Are you all right?
[Heather coughing]
-[coughing] -You need to get some water?
[clears throat]
My throat just got super tight.
That's creepy.
Everything's just tightening up really tight.
[Heather coughing]
It just feels tight.
It just feels like my throat is closing up.
What the hell did I just choke on?
That, I do not know.
Do you wanna go into another room?
Yeah, please.
-[clears throat] -Okay.
-Better? -Yeah.
I've never seen you choke like that.
I don't know what that was.
And that was the men's parlor?
Yes, where women probably weren't allowed.
Maybe something was telling me to get out.
[Phil] We continue searching the house
for any signs that someone was on the first floor
while we were in the basement.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
-[footsteps] -That's footsteps.
But with all doors to the outside locked,
there's no indication anyone else was in the house at that time.
[door creaks]
-That's a creepy little door. -[Heather] That's a creepy door.
[Phil] We return to the women's parlor
where we first heard footsteps.
-All right, we are definitely alone up here. -[Heather] Yes.
[Phil] One thing that really stood out to me in this room
are these mirrors.
Jovie said that, when people take photos,
they see things in reflections.
Maybe there's something about this type of glass
that's in front of mirror that's causing it.
But the other thing that can happen in really low light
is this thing called this strange face illusion.
-Have you ever heard of this? -No.
[Phil] When you look at a face in the eye in really low light,
eventually, your brain starts to make it change.
It takes one second for that face to get distorted
into something unimaginable.
-All right. -And I want to see if it happens to you right now.
Okay. I'm always keen to try something new.
Okay, so...
Okay, so, experimentally,
what they've found is that, when it's under one lux of light...
[device beeps]
So this is 2.9. We can make it dimmer.
Let's try facing these this way.
This is right in the range.
[Heather] Okay, so I just stand here and I just stare at my face?
[Phil] Stand there and you stare at yourself right in the eyes.
It's already happening to me.
[Heather] Yeah, I don't like this at all.
-[Phil] What are you seeing? -[Heather] Bug eyes.
[Phil] Yeah, my left eye is getting really big.
-[Heather] Yeah, no joke. -[Phil] My nose is giant.
-[Heather] Yeah. -[Phil] Completely distorted.
One eye is way bigger than the other.
[Heather] I look like a horse now.
My mouth is way too big.
I mean, I understand how people, over time,
if that happened to them,
would want to interpret it fantastically.
But what scientists observe,
that just happened to you immediately. You gotta give me that.
All right, I give you that, but what about the photos that are taken?
I mean, that's evidence.
That's not someone making up what they're seeing in the mirror.
So they say.
Let's try it your way.
[Heather] All right, let's do it.
-Okay. Ready? -[Heather exhales] All right. Yeah.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[camera whirring]
[Phil] Okay, let me do one more.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[camera whirring]
-Wanna take some? -[Heather] I do wanna take some, actually.
All right.
If anyone is here with us, please appear in this picture.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[camera whirring]
[Phil] Should we try this one?
[Heather] Yeah. One more time.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[camera whirring]
These are developing slowly but to getting there.
[Heather] Okay, I've got another idea.
-Obviously, the REM pod died on us, right? -Mm-hmm.
Back in the day, they didn't have REM pods,
they didn't have Polaroids,
but what they did have were pendulums.
I wanna go old school and try a pendulum
in the men's parlor where I had such a strong reaction earlier.
You basically wanna use the techniques that, maybe,
-they even used in here 150 years ago. -[Heather] Right.
Back in Victorian times,
people were fascinated with death.
Seances were all the rage.
I think we'd stand a good chance of getting
some type of response using pendulums.
[Phil] I guess it could make sense.
Everybody who lived here would have known death,
would have happened literally under where we're standing right now.
I could see people here being curious enough
to dabble in some of those dark arts.
Let's go dabbling.
[Phil] Okay, Heather.
[Heather] Right.
[Phil] What is this?
[Heather] That is a pendulum board.
A pendulum board works similar to a Ouija board.
The words yes and no, as well as the letters of the alphabet
are laid out in a circle.
It's believed spirits can manipulate pendulum movements
in response to questions,
with the answer being whichever word the pendulum then swings over.
Okay.
So, this is some old school paranormal investigation?
Yeah. I mean, pendulums have been around for a very long time.
This one is rose quartz.
I'm just gonna tell you from the outright.
To me, that's a pretty rock,
and when you're swinging it,
that is just your subconscious,
giving you the answer that you want it to.
Well, maybe someone is communicating with my subconscious
to give the answer.
You're seeing that as, what?
-A spirit speaking through you? -[Heather] Yeah.
But it's not just me that believes that.
Listen, I'll respect the method,
see where it takes us.
Okay, let's do this.
You have to calibrate your pendulum
before you start asking questions.
So if you could please head towards yes.
Thank you.
If you could head towards no.
Right back to the center.
Is there anyone here with us right now?
What does that say, Phil?
It says yes, but it's just swinging forward and back.
-Just keep pushing it. -Okay.
Is this Dr. Frank?
That would be a no.
Are you a Sorrel?
Thank you.
Were you a soldier that fought in a battle here?
All right, that looks like a yes.
[Heather] That looks like a yes.
Did you die on the ground here?
-It's a yes. -[Phil] It's a big yes.
Yeah.
Are your bones still here on this battleground?
[creaking]
[Phil] Oh, my God.
[Heather] What was that?
[Phil] Really loud.
Grab your light.
That was a door creaking, right?
[Heather] Yeah.
-[Phil] You go that way, I'll go over here. -[Heather] Okay.
That door, does it make a noise?
[door clicks]
[Heather] No creak.
Not this door.
[door creaking]
That was definitely it.
It was definitely this one.
Are any of these windows open?
I'm just trying to figure out if there's a breeze.
-[door creaking] -This is a heavy door.
It would have to be a strong gust of wind to move that.
Damn, that is really loud.
What were you asking?
If the bones were still here.
[door creaking]
That's one way to answer.
I just have to make sure.
So this is an open flue.
There's a slight breeze coming through this.
-[Heather] A light breeze is not moving that door. -[Phil] Here,
put your hand over here.
Feel this.
It's a little bit of a breeze,
but there's just enough.
With the right wind conditions up there,
a change in air pressure,
there could be a gust big enough to move this door.
[Heather] I, for one, seriously doubt that.
[Phil] I think our best bet is to review the footage.
[Heather] Yeah, 100%,
but before we do anything else,
we need to go check and see if those pictures developed.
-[Phil] Okay. -All right.
-Okay. -[Phil] All right.
Okay. What else we got?
-The flash is really overpowering in low light. -[Heather] Yeah.
It's a little interesting above the flash.
-But I think that's just dirt. -[Heather] Yeah.
Okay.
Ooo, what is that?
Let me see.
Whoa! Look at that behind you.
In the doorway.
-That looks like... -A shadow person.
It looks like the shadow of a person.
[Heather] But no one is in here with us,
and my shadow doesn't go that way.
[Phil] That's pretty bizarre.
It's hard to make out, but it's there.
So, I'm not committing that that's a shadow person,
but it is... It's unusual.
No other photo we took tonight has anything like that.
[Heather] Oh, my gosh.
It was standing right here in this hallway.
Right here, honestly, at the base of the stairs.
I say we go up there.
[Heather] Okay.
It's so dusty.
[Phil] Yeah.
[Heather] This is where Matilda committed suicide.
[Phil] Wow.
[Heather] Oh, my God.
It is never a nice feeling to be
standing right where someone had their final thoughts.
Imagine getting to that point
of actually deciding to throw yourself over this railing.
Not to mention having lost three children.
I feel like I should do a call and response up here.
By myself.
Maybe that might make Matilda more comfortable.
If you could stand in the courtyard
so I can holler down at you if I need you.
Just do me a favor.
Don't get too close to the edge.
-There's a flashlight. -[Heather] Thanks.
I won't be far.
While Heather attempts to establish solo communication with Matilda,
I'll be monitoring her on the FLIR.
Can I get a wave?
I'll be looking for any anomalous heat signatures
that suggest something or someone is with her.
Okay. Registered you.
I'll keep an eye on you and see if anything else
-shows up on the FLIR. -[Heather] Okay.
[Heather] Now I'm alone,
I'm hoping Matilda will feel comfortable enough to communicate with me.
Any word coming through the spirit box
could be evidence she's present.
[electrical static]
Is there anyone here with us right now?
You can use this GeoPort to communicate.
I'm here to give you a voice.
Did you live in this house?
-[electrical static] -[woman speaking]
Did you just say you were married?
Matilda, is that you?
[woman speaking]
That was a woman's voice. That was a woman's voice.
I'm so sorry you lost your children.
Are you still with me, Matilda?
Is there anything you wanna say, Matilda?
[woman speaking]
Help?
What can I do to help?
-[woman speaking] -Stop?
I'm not stopping yet.
-[electrical static] -[man speaking]
Everyone's dead?
-[electrical static] -[man speaking]
[electrical static]
[Heather] Is this difficult to talk about?
-[man speaking] -Leave?
-[electrical static] -[man speaking]
All right. That's it. I'm done.
-Phil? -Yeah?
I'm done. I'm coming downstairs, okay?
-[Phil] Get out of here. -Yeah.
They told me to get out, and I just felt like I had to leave.
Anytime something tells you to get out,
that's probably a good idea to listen.
It is getting late.
I think we should just hunker down for the night.
I wanna take the men's parlor,
and I think you should take the lady's parlor.
Ladies weren't invited into the men's parlor,
so I think we could get some activity
just by me being in this room.
So, your idea is to try to provoke
old dead guys while you're asleep?
Yeah. Stir something up.
I'll be one room away. You can always holler if you need me.
[Heather] All right.
As we get ready for bed,
we prep our personal cameras
to document any activity that might occur.
Our fixed cameras will also be running,
so we'll have continued coverage
of the hotspots around the house, and us,
as we try to sleep throughout the night.
Normally, I'd wish myself sweet dreams,
but I think that's highly unlikely here.
Something by the size of this couch
tells me not a lot of people slept on this thing.
[eerie music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[chandelier tinkling]
[music intensifies]
[Heather screams]
Today, Savannah is famed as
one of America's most beautiful cities.
But that beauty hides a tragic past.
And perhaps no year was more tragic than 1820.
A city-wide fire devastated downtown,
destroying 463 buildings.
The city's charred ruins meant that residents had to congregate together,
leading to a devastating outbreak of yellow fever.
Hundreds died in a matter of weeks.
Some concluded the outbreak was God's punishment on Savannah
for its participation in the slave trade.
To this day, a marker stands in memorial for those that perished,
stating that nearly 700 died in the outbreak.
But what's interesting is the exact number of dead,
a number the memorial seems at great pains to hide.
The total number of deaths from this so called biblical yellow fever outbreak?
Six-hundred-and-sixty-six.
Heather?
What the [bleep]? What just happened?
Something just touched my face.
Touched your face. What do you mean?
I was just asleep here,
and I just woke up from it touching my face.
It just was so light. It was just like...
[Phil] Did something just crawl on your face?
[Heather] No. No.
I felt it. And then it felt like something
just brushed the back of my head.
What are you talking... Like someone's hand
-was touching your face? -[Heather] Yes.
-And brushing your hair? -[Heather] Yes.
-[Phil] Are you sure? -I'm positive.
Nothing fell off from the ceiling in here?
-[gasps] -Holy [bleep]. The ceiling.
That's swinging a lot.
[chandelier tinkling]
Not normal.
So, okay.
Could I have made this thing move just by running in?
[Heather] That's the ceiling. That's not the floor.
Jovie said the house gets more active later in the night.
It's now 4:15 am.
-I mean... -[Phil] But that's also
when your brain is in its deepest part of sleep.
That... You could have some, like, sleep paralysis.
You could have something convincing you that
it's here when it's not.
And what about the chandelier?
That's not sleep paralysis.
That I cannot explain.
Okay, well, the bottom line is
we have footage from your camera.
We have security footage.
We're gonna need to check those tapes
to see if that just happened out of thin air
or if there was something in here with you.
I'll leave my camera on.
If anything else happens, we'll have that running.
[Phil] After a long night of intense activity
and little sleep,
we check in with Josh
to update him on our investigation so far.
Hey, Josh.
Well, I do declare, if it isn't my two southern spirit charmers.
Bless your little heart, Josh.
So did Sorrel Weed House
deliver on its haunted history?
Well, there certainly was a lot of history.
And a lot of paranormal activity.
I think I may have gotten something from Matilda Sorrel,
and I think we photographed what looked like a shadow person.
Or a shadow of a person.
[Heather on video call] And maybe the most disturbing thing of all,
as I slept alone on the couch in the parlor,
something touched my face.
Wait. What? Are you serious?
She's very serious. She let out such a scream
that I think I have a case of tinnitus now.
-Thanks, Heather. -[Heather on video call] Okay.
That aside, the chandelier was moving.
When we reviewed our footage this morning,
we caught an actual shadow figure behind me
while I was sleeping.
[Josh] Whoa! And there was no one else there
that could account for that figure?
No, it was not me.
We honestly aren't quite sure what it was.
It definitely seems like
there's something going on at the Sorrel Weed House.
But it may just be the tip of the iceberg.
Since the two of you got there,
I have been inundated with requests from locals
who wanna share their own recent paranormal encounters.
It seems like activity is spiking
all over Savannah.
So, I'm sure you haven't had a lot of sleep,
but you may wanna grab a cup of coffee
because there is a lot more for you to investigate
in America's most haunted city.
Next time on Expedition X...
My team expands their investigation
into America's most haunted city,
revealing it's long buried secrets...
Who here has experienced anything they can't explain?
[Josh] ...said to be infested with ghosts...
When I walked out, I could see a tall shaped dust figure.
[Josh] ...to an ominous creek
where a shocking tragedy took place.
And until we talk about what happened here,
we're gonna have spirits that are angry.
[Josh] As Phil and Heather discover...
[Phil] I think that's it.
[Josh] ...how a horrifying past
may have left a terrifying paranormal legacy.
Can anyone show themselves right now?
-[Phil] That. -What?
This is what people say happens here.