[Heather] It seems so quiet in here.
Is there anyone here with me?
Oh, my God!
-Phil! -Heather?
-Get over here right now! -What's going on?
A body is in the tree.
[Phil] Oh, my gosh.
[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X...
[Phil] Whoo! There it is.
-Oh, my goodness. -Whoa. [laughs]
[Josh] My team travels to England
to investigate its most haunted castle.
I was bodily thrown against the wall.
It was very violent. And there was blood.
[Josh] A place of brutal violence.
Thousands died in its dungeons.
Why did you kill your wife?
[distorted voice speaking]
[Josh] Now, the souls of both the tortured and the torturer
are said to haunt its halls.
Did you like causing terror?
-[camera thuds] -[Heather gasps]
[Phil and Heather] Oh, my God.
[Josh] Horrifying history will be uncovered...
[Phil] Oh, [bleep].
-What, what, what, what, what? -[Phil] Look. Look, look, look, look!
-[Heather] Is that a rib bone? -[Phil] That looks like a rib bone.
[Josh] ...as Phil and Heather check in
to the castle of the damned.
[Heather] Are you the little boy
whose skeleton was found in this room?
[creepy music playing]
[gasps]
[bleep] my life, [bleep] my life.
[Heather] All right, y'all.
Take a look at this picture and tell me what you see.
[Phil] Looks like a person.
[Josh] If you squint, it almost looks like a suit of armor.
Exactly.
That's what people think they're seeing.
A figure in a suit of armor.
But here's the thing.
There was no one there.
And this picture was taken
at supposedly the most haunted castle in all of England.
Chillingham.
Seriously, a haunted castle and it's called Chillingham?
[laughs] I know, I know, that tracks, right?
The spelling has evolved over the years,
but the chilling part goes way back.
Something tells me this castle doesn't have the most charming history.
No, hell, no.
This place will make even George R.R. Martin blush.
It has centuries worth of war, murder, torture, you name it.
It's been in the owner's family for over 800 years,
and they're convinced it's haunted.
They're the ones that sent me this picture.
So, Chillingham, I know this place.
It really has an incredible history.
Some of the very worst tortures imaginable
were said to be invented at Chillingham.
Supposedly,
this is one of the most blood-soaked castles in all of Britain.
Four thousand castles still stand
in the United Kingdom.
But when it comes to violence, horror,
and potential paranormal activity,
nothing comes close to Chillingham.
Located in the wilderness of northern England
on the border with historic rival Scotland,
Chillingham castle was built in the 13th century
by the noble Grey family
on the site of a former monastery.
In 1286,
the death of Scotland's king Alexander III,
triggers a succession crisis as he had no direct heirs.
England's king, Edward, seeks to exploit Alexander's death
by establishing himself as Scotland's monarch.
Scotland resists the English king,
igniting the war of Scottish Independence in 1296.
Chillingham is on the front line,
becoming the base of operations for Edward
during the long and bloody campaign against the Scots
who are led by William Wallace,
better known as Braveheart.
[man shouts] Death to the false king of Scotland!
[Josh] Many of the Scottish soldiers captured
end up in the castle's dungeons.
But they may have wished they died on the battlefield.
A man named John Sage
is said to have been appointed chief interrogator.
[soldier screams]
[Josh] He reportedly kills 50 people a week,
torturing his victims with horrific innovations.
Like the Rack and the Iron Maiden,
a metal coffin lined with spikes,
which was closed while the victim was still alive.
Thousands die at Chillingham,
tortured, burned alive or starved to death
in the dungeon's most dreaded chamber known as the oubliette.
Ultimately, king Edward fails to subdue the Scots.
Skirmishes continue for centuries,
and Chillingham remains on the bloody front line.
It's no surprise
that reports of paranormal activity eventually emerge.
The first written accounts of Chillingham's ghosts
appear in a pamphlet published in 1925
by Lady Leonora Tankerville.
She becomes so fearful of the paranormal,
that she seeks the services
of notorious Victorian occultist Aleister Crowley.
Crowley travels to Chillingham
and reportedly conducts rituals
that some believe cause something sinister
to slip through from the netherworld.
Today, visitors routinely report
terrifying encounters inside Chillingham.
Full body apparitions,
including regular reports of a mysterious Blue Boy,
horrifying, disturbing voices.
And worst of all,
people say they are attacked by violent poltergeists.
The property's current owner, Sir Humphry Wakefield,
is convinced his castle is haunted
and that the activity is only getting worse.
Do the walls of Chillingham still hold the souls of those that suffered here?
A violent history spanning centuries, stunning evidence,
and the Godfather of the occult himself, Mr. Aleister Crowley
believes this place is legit?
Come on now, we have to investigate.
Crowley certainly took his paranormal research seriously.
If he thought Chillingham was worth his time,
it could certainly be worth hours.
What do you think, Phil?
I guess the first thing that comes to my mind
when I hear of a horrifying castle is
did any of this history actually happen?
Or is it all about luring the tourists?
For all we know, it could've been exaggerated
in what is essentially a 1000-year-long game of telephone.
How much of it can we actually believe?
You have trust issues, don't you, Phil?
Listen, I'm not flatly denying that any of it happened.
I'm just saying I'd be curious to look at Chillingham
through an archeological lens.
If so many of these ghostly encounters
are based on this history of war and murder,
what physical evidence was left behind?
I agree with you.
If Chillingham's the real deal,
it should be filled with historic evidence.
Your job's to go find it.
Wait, so, we're all in agreement?
-Haunted castle time? -Haunted castle time.
Absolutely.
Your mission is to get to Chillingham,
meet with Sir Humphry and his staff,
and figure out if this is a genuine haunting
or just a case of folklore taking on a life of its own.
-Let's do it. -Let's go.
[Josh] From the Big Apple,
it's a seven-hour hop across the pond
to Edinburgh, Scotland.
From there,
Phil and Heather drive an hour south to Chillingham,
crossing the border into England.
Wow, this countryside is stunning.
[Heather chuckles] It is beautiful.
But remember,
that all of that beauty hides some really sinister history.
Oh, boy, you about to ruin this nice, lovely road trip for us?
[Heather] I am.
-I'm gonna bring you right back down to earth. -[Phil] Okay.
[Heather] So, this is actually the site
of the battle of Flodden field in 1513.
And that's where 10,000 Scotsman died
and 4000 Englishmen died all in one day.
-Fourteen thousand people in a single day. -Yeah.
[Phil] That is a lot of death.
Whoo! There it is.
-Oh, my goodness. -Whoa! [laughs]
[Phil] This is like a storybook castle.
Only this is a much darker story.
I wouldn't read this to kids.
Should we go meet Sir Humphry?
And don't forget the "sir".
Sir it is.
Sir Humphry.
-It's an honor to meet you. Thanks for having us here. -Thank you very much.
Good to meet you indeed.
[Heather] Sir Humphry Wakefield married into the Grey family,
the custodians of Chillingham Castle
for over eight centuries.
At 92 years old,
he continues to preserve the castle's legacy
and has opened its grounds to the public.
[Phil] Wow.
What's the name of this room?
This is the Great Hall.
[Heather] This castle's been in your wife's family for 800 years?
[Sir Humphry] That's right, yes.
[Heather] When did you first learn
that this castle might be haunted?
[Sir Humphry] When I first came here...
I said, "Fine, please do."
He came and said there were too many ghosts,
he couldn't deal with them.
-So, Sir Humphry, given the history here... -[Sir Humphry] Yes.
...given what it seems like a lot of people have experienced here,
do you think this place is haunted?
Too many unlikely things have happened.
[Phil] With Sir Humphry's words echoing in our ears,
he directs us to meet his castle historian, Richard Craig.
[Heather] Richard, nice to see you.
[Phil] Richard is an expert
on Chillingham's millennia-spanning history
and its bloodcurdling hauntings.
This is the king Edward I Room.
There's a lot of castles across the UK.
-A lot of them claim to be haunted. -Mmm-hmm.
What is it about this place
that you think makes it stand out the most?
[Richard] During the first Scottish War of Independence,
it's estimated that some 7500 poor souls
were brought here to be subjected and tortured.
[Heather] Seven and a half thousand were tortured in this castle?
[Richard] Mmm-hmm.
There's no bloody history in this castle without John Sage.
He was the torturer of the castle,
appointed by Edward the first
to try and find information relating to William Wallace.
[Phil] How would he interrogate people?
They'd be taken to the torture chamber,
subject to hot irons.
It would escalate to the most feared device in the torture chamber.
The Rack.
People would be roped into the Rack
and then stretched ever so slowly
until joints began to pop.
[soldier screams]
Oh, my God.
Bones began to break.
Still alive, of course.
Other ones would be thrown in the oubliette.
What's the oubliette?
The oubliette is basically a hole
in the floor of the dungeon
with quite a significant drop.
That was end of the road.
Because oubliette comes from the French word oublier,
which means to forget.
And that's what would happen.
This room where we're standing
is also known as the killing room.
-We're standing in the killing room? -[Richard] Yes.
John Sage was burning people in the courtyard at the stake.
He assembled the children of these people in here
to watch their parents being burned.
-Did someone kill him? -That...
Yes.
Good.
He met a very sticky end.
John Sage's wife died by his hand.
He strangled her.
And consequently,
he was hung, drawn and then quartered.
And it is said that his ghost haunts this castle.
It's a very violent presence.
Just last weekend,
we were moving through the Great Hall in a group.
Suddenly, one girl was thrown bodily to the floor.
And I was bodily thrown against the wall.
[Heather] Physically thrown around.
It was very violent and there was blood.
John Sage was out for blood, and he got it.
What makes you think it was John Sage?
Because we were provoking him.
-If we were to try to provoke him... -[Richard] Mmm-hmm?
...what would we do?
Go down the route of,
"Everybody said you were a monster.
Prove this to us."
And then see where that goes.
This place is like nothing else on Earth.
Chillingham is the holy grail of paranormal activity.
Believe me.
[Phil] With over 30,000 square feet of castle to investigate,
Heather and I get to work setting up cameras in the most active rooms.
So far, so good. Heather.
First up, the king Edward Room,
also known as the killing room,
where visitors have reported shadow figures
and objects moving on their own.
As well as the dungeon,
where Richard tells us the disembodied wailing
of John Sage's prisoners can still be heard.
We set up a camera in the Pink Room,
reportedly the castle's most haunted bedroom,
where the ghost of a little boy
is said to appear as a blue orb.
And we make sure to monitor the castle's chapel,
where Aleister Crowley was rumored
to have performed occult rituals
and some even say
opened a portal to another dimension.
Lastly, we position a camera at the Great Hall...
Can you tilt up little bit?
...where Richard says he and his guests recently had
their violent encounter with John Sage.
-[over radio] Great Hall, we got it. -[Heather] Copy that.
[Phil] Our producer, Brian, will be monitoring the cameras
for any unusual activity.
All right, all cameras are recording.
Looking good.
[Phil] As night falls, we head to the Great Hall
to investigate reports
of the bloodthirsty ghost of John Sage.
[sighs] Okay.
[Heather] The Great Hall.
[Phil] Geez.
[Heather] There's so much history in here.
[Phil] Look at these weapons
just laid out everywhere in here.
[Heather] There are so many artifacts,
each could have its own residual energy.
[Phil] Yeah.
There's so many figures in here.
Knight in shining armor.
It's like they're all staring at you.
[Heather] Remember,
this is where Richard said a violent attack happened.
[Phil] He said he was in front of the fireplace.
[Heather] I wanna do a call and response session.
If you think people actually got physically attacked in here,
aren't you worried what happens
if we kick it up a notch?
[Heather] Yeah. We need to be careful.
I'm thinking I'll lay out some EMF trip wires.
That way, we'll see 'em light up
and we'll know something's heading our way.
Take one end
-and just run it all the way down. -[Phil] Okay.
[Heather] Okay.
Here's my spirit box.
What's special about this one is
is you can use two different antennas.
I can use myself as a conduit,
or I can use something metallic.
[Phil] And you connect it to right there?
[Heather] Exactly.
And we have a lot of metallic objects in here.
So, I wanna see if connecting this spirit box to a weapon
will actually trigger John Sage.
[Phil] Okay, let's go for it.
-Pick your sword. -Ooh.
Well, there's a lot to choose from.
Okay.
We will essentially attach this pointy end right in there?
[Heather] Right there.
[static]
My name is Heather.
Phil is here with me.
Is anyone there?
Is John Sage with us?
-[distorted voice speaking] -Sage.
Did that just say "Sage"?
Sounded like it.
If John Sage is here, I'm not afraid of you.
I heard that you killed your wife.
Is that true?
[distorted voice speaking]
[both] "Yes."
Why did you kill your wife?
[distorted voice speaking]
Is that why you like to torture people? For power?
Did you like causing terror?
-[camera thuds] -[Heather gasps]
[Phil and Heather] Oh, my God.
[Heather] What was that?
[Phil] Oh, [bleep], it's a camera.
[Heather] Oh, my God.
[Phil] Your camera. Holy [bleep].
I'm just trying to figure out how that could've happened.
I mean, is this...
Is it the tripod that's broken?
What the...
I mean, it takes a lot to push this thing over.
It takes a lot of energy.
-There's no wind, no gust. -[Heather] No.
It took a physical force to push that camera over.
And that's what Richard said happened to that group of people.
They got shoved over.
[Phil] I'll take a camera getting pushed
-over one of us getting pushed any day. -[Heather] Yeah.
[Phil] We gotta check that footage,
see if anything was moving around in here.
I don't know what's going on here,
but it sure does not make you feel welcome.
On that, we can agree.
With our questions to John Sage provoking a response,
we decide to move to where he inflicted torture on his many victims.
The castle's dungeon.
[Phil] Okay.
Dungeon.
Look at this place.
[Heather] It's so tight.
[Phil] Whoa.
[Heather] Oh, my God.
-[Phil] Is this what I think it is? -[Heather] Yes.
That's the oubliette.
[Phil] Wow.
This is where they would've thrown prisoners to just die.
-Does this thing lift? -It's not nailed down.
[Phil grunts softly]
Wow! Look at that.
Heather, there's a whole room down there.
[Heather] This is where countless people died.
That residual energy,
that blood seeped into the soil...
We gotta get down there.
Oh, I think I have some gear in the kit
that can get us down there.
-Let's grab it. -Let's do it.
[Heather] Seriously, be careful climbing down.
[Phil] All right.
Try and squeeze in here, Heather.
-[Heather] Yeah, it looks like you barely fit. -[Phil] Ooh.
Wow.
[Heather] What are you seeing?
[Phil] It's a lot bigger than we thought it was.
Look at this place, Heather.
[Heather] Just being in here is making my stomach turn.
-[Phil] You know what I just realized? -[Heather] What?
[Phil] This is the first bit of actual solid earth
we've seen in this entire castle.
This may be the only place we can actually dig.
-You wanna dig? -I wanna dig.
You don't know what you'd be disturbing.
Hundreds, if not thousands of people died in this very room.
[Phil] I think it's worth it
If we can find some clues that tell us what happened down here.
-All right. -Okay.
[Phil sighs]
Okay, grab a shovel.
-Let's do some digging. -All right.
-[Phil] So, you see this area over there? -[Heather] Yeah.
I'm wondering if that is some sort of drainage channel.
So, artifacts, any organic matter,
anything that could've fallen into this pit
would've moved in that direction down here.
[shovel clanging]
I feel like I'm making some progress here.
There, look. Look, look.
Different colored earth down here.
The deeper we dig,
the further back in time we go.
[Heather] Wait, wait, what's that?
-Can you see that white? -[Phil] Right there?
-[Heather] Yeah. -[Phil] Yeah, what is that?
Oh, [bleep].
-Oh. Look, look, look, look. -What, what, what, what, what?
[Phil] Holy [bleep], look at that.
[Heather] Oh, my God.
That's a bone.
[Phil] That is a bone.
[Heather] Is that a rib bone?
[Phil] That looks like a rib bone.
Think it's human?
I can't say for sure.
But look at that.
I mean, you can see the marrow on that side.
This could have been a person
who faced a horrible death.
We need to put it back exactly where we found it
and treat it with respect.
[Phil] Mm-hmm.
We'll let the right people know,
and they can investigate it further.
Yeah. Agreed.
I'm going to take some photos of this...
-[camera shutter clicks] -[Phil] ...and then get this back in there.
[Heather] Okay.
After taking pictures of the bone
and returning it to its resting place...
[Phil] The dirt will help preserve it.
[Heather] Okay.
...I pull out my Ovilus,
reaching out to anyone
who might have died in the oubliette.
My name's Heather.
Is anyone with us in this room?
[disembodied voice speaking]
[Heather] Oh, my God.
Speak to us.
We're here to talk to you.
Did you die here?
[disembodied voice speaking]
"Body." Body.
I mean, that could--
That could be the body that we found.
[disembodied voice speaking]
"Priest."
Maybe they were asking for a priest
in their dying moments.
So someone pleading
for their last rites to be read to them, essentially?
Yes. People believed
if you didn't have a proper burial,
you wouldn't go on to the afterlife.
They would be trapped here.
[eerie music playing]
[Heather] Phil and I head upstairs
to the castle bedrooms,
but our night's investigation is far from over.
-[Phil] Okay. -While Phil will be staying
in the infamous King Edward room,
I'll be taking the pink room,
which Richard claims is the most haunted bedroom
in the castle,
for a ghastly reason.
In 1920,
workmen were breaking through the wall.
They came across the bones of a child.
People staying in the room are woken up
in the middle of the night
by a child with a blue aura around him.
[Heather] In case the boy's spirit wants
to make his presence known while I sleep,
I set up several toy-like trigger objects around me.
A motion-detecting music box and cat balls,
which will light up if touched.
Toss them on this bed.
Okay, Heather, I'm ready to pass out.
Holler if you need me.
Yeah, will do.
[Phil exhales]
[Heather] Now you can see
when I roll over,
that music box does not go off.
Got the sensor pointing out,
so it will only go off
if there's movement in the other direction.
[exhales]
Is there anyone here in the room with me?
If there's anyone here,
can you light up one of the ghost balls
or play the music box?
-[music box playing] -[gasps]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
[music box continues playing]
[Heather whimpers]
[breath shuddering]
Are you the little boy
whose skeleton was found in this room?
-[music box playing] -[gasps]
[bleep] my life. [bleep] my life.
Phil, get over here.
There's crazy activity going on.
[Phil] Okay. Okay. I'm coming.
[tense music playing]
[eerie music playing]
[Heather whimpers]
[tense music playing]
[Phil] Heather?
Heather, what's going on? What's going on?
Oh, my God.
The music box was going off.
The ghost balls were going off.
And right when I called you,
everything stopped.
You were telling me that this place was lit up,
and it just stopped?
Yes.
It's [bleep] crazy.
I was just in bed.
And see, like, I'm moving now,
and that's not going off.
-[beeps] -That's how close you have to be.
[Phil] Are you kidding me?
No. And it was non-stop.
[Phil] So you think...
you were visited?
I don't think. I know.
[Phil] Okay.
I mean, at this point,
I think I'm just going to stay up until morning.
[Phil] We still have a lot more investigating
to do tomorrow,
so try and get some sleep.
[Heather] I'll call you if I need to.
[Phil] Okay.
[door closes]
[Heather] [bleep].
[quivering] I'm freaking out.
[Heather exhales]
[tense music playing]
[Heather] After a mostly sleepless night,
we decide to broaden our search
beyond Chillingham's walls
to its 150 acres of grounds.
[engine starts]
[Heather] And to get to where we're going,
we need a little help.
All right. I'm going to go meet
-another witness in the forest. -Okay.
And I've identified an area
where I might be able to find the evidence I'm looking for.
-All right. Have fun. -You too.
[Heather] My witness has asked to meet me
at a very specific location,
a thick grove of tangled trees
on the southern end of the castle grounds.
-Mark. -[Mark] Hi, Heather.
Thanks so much for meeting with me.
Mark Trotter is a former police officer
who now gives tours on Chillingham's history.
He's had several strange encounters on its grounds
that he can't explain.
Why did you want to meet me here?
This is one of the most haunted places
in the grounds of Chillingham Castle.
I think it's all to do with all the battles
that have been here.
This field behind us was where most of the battles took place
back in the medieval period.
This was the best way to attack the castle.
And of course, you have to remember also
that all these trees would be used
to hang Scottish prisoners.
Hang people?
[man grunts]
[Mark] Yes, and the other thing,
they never used to cut them down,
because they believed
that if they didn't get a Christian burial,
then their soul would wander the earth for eternity.
So they would allow them to rot and drop to the ground.
We've had heavy rainfalls
and little bits of bone have come up
of people who've just been left where they've fallen.
There could be bones lying in the ground
right there behind me.
Absolutely.
And also, you know,
we talk at great length about the medieval period.
[Mark speaking]
So the history and the violence goes back
much further than the medieval period.
People have lived and died here for 6,000 years.
[Phil] I've decided to search the castle's perimeter,
just outside its defensive walls,
where many battles reportedly took place.
Armed with my trusty metal detector,
I'm hoping to find relics
that confirm Chillingham's dark history.
[metal detector chirps]
Okay, might have got something here.
Let's see.
Okay, okay, what have we got?
[tense music playing]
Okay.
Yeah, looks like a square nail.
It's old.
But does it indicate violence?
Not necessarily.
Let's keep looking.
[Heather] So what about this area right here?
Has there been any activity in this area?
People have seen shadowy images,
figures even.
People have heard things.
I did a tour one evening,
and there was a gentleman stood next to me.
We're in the pitch dark.
All of a sudden, he just took off running
into the darkness,
and he ran into a tree and knocked himself out.
He ran head first into a tree?
He did.
And when he came around,
I've never seen anyone so frightened.
He told me that he'd heard a voice
in his ear saying, "Hello".
Did anyone else hear it?
No, no. Nobody else heard it, just him.
I was stood right next to him.
I never heard a thing.
So someone or something is trying to get your attention.
That's it. They are trying to get your attention.
When I first came to Chillingham,
I wasn't interested in spirits or ghosts.
I thought it was a load of rubbish.
But since then, I've been here for nine years.
I've had an awful lot of experiences
in these grounds.
There's no doubt in my mind
that spirits are amongst us.
So Chillingham made you a believer?
Absolutely.
-[Phil] Oh. Oh. -[metal detector beeping]
[loud beeping]
[Phil] That's a big hit.
Gotta keep going deeper.
Holy, [bleep]. Look at this!
We got something!
Wow.
Look at that!
It's heavy.
This feels like it might be made out of lead.
And look at the way
the metal is folded over on itself.
I don't know exactly what this is,
but it is very unusual.
[Phil] With a potentially significant archaeological find
on my hands,
I snap pictures to send to Josh,
hoping he can identify
-exactly what this object is. -[camera shutter clicks]
[Heather] As night falls,
Phil and I head to the hanging trees,
purported to be the most haunted location
on the castle grounds.
-So this is it. -[Phil] Wow.
Look at these trees.
[Heather] Remember that picture from HQ?
-Yeah, of that floating knight figure? -Yeah.
-[Phil] That was taken here? -It was taken right here. Yeah.
[Phil] Okay. I've been wanting to find
where that picture was taken,
because I actually have an idea
on how I might debunk it.
Oh, yeah? What are you thinking?
I mean, look at our breath right now.
[inhales and exhales]
From this angle,
it already looks like we're creating
a bit of a vertical figure
in that mist.
I'm going to try to do an experiment
that kicks this up a notch.
Okay.
While you're doing your experiment,
-I want to pull out the SLS. -Okay.
So here's my plan.
I have this.
It is a handheld smoke machine.
And I have a bright light,
and I have a cell phone camera.
My hope is that if I combine the three of these,
I can create my own ghost.
Let's try it.
So the idea here is
to let the wind take this smoke
to try to get the mist to give some sort of pattern.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Phil] Look at that.
[Heather] Knowing that these exact trees were
used to hang hundreds of people,
I'll be using the SLS to scan for any spirits
that may be present in the hanging trees.
Just scanning this tree.
Okay.
If there's anyone here with us,
you can use this SLS to show up.
There has to be residual energy here.
So far, I don't have anything.
[Phil] Here's the original.
There.
And here are my photos.
Okay.
Not quite.
I mean, it's not an exact match,
but it's definitely in the same ballpark.
And keep in mind, I was using a tiny handheld fog machine.
So this place has a truly terrifying history.
I just don't think this image is a part of it.
[Heather] It seems so quiet in here.
Is there anyone here with me?
-[dramatic music playing] -[Heather] Oh, my God!
Phil!
[Phil] Heather?
-Get over here right now. -What's going on?
[Heather] There's a body.
A body is in the tree.
[Phil] Oh, my God.
That literally looks like
there's a person swinging right there.
[Heather] Yeah.
[Phil] Right from that branch.
-[Heather] Right there. -Oh, God, the way it's moving.
It keeps grabbing for the neck.
Like it's in agony.
[Heather] Yeah, it does.
It looks-- [gasps] It's gone.
I mean, the SLS has been known to get false positives
when there's a lot of vertical lines
in front of it.
But these are twisted tree branches.
[Brian speaking over radio]
Okay, we're heading there now. Let's go.
[Phil] What happened?
You will not believe this.
This is the King Edward room, which you know very well.
[Phil] Oh, yes, I do.
[Brian] Everything's still, nothing moving.
I've been watching this thing.
And look there.
Watch that sword.
[dramatic music playing]
[both exclaiming]
Chillingham's most famous investigator,
Aleister Crowley, led a unique life,
to say the least.
Born to immense wealth,
Crowley gave up privilege to pursue the paranormal.
He became obsessed with the occult,
developing his own religion,
fusing esoteric rituals,
magic, and meditation
with a healthy dose of sexuality,
not to mention a healthy dose of drugs.
Despite his eccentric beliefs,
the British government allegedly hired him as a spy.
After the Allies captured Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess,
in 1941,
the government reportedly considered
having Crowley interrogate Hess
due to their shared fascination
with the occult.
Crowley is even said to have partnered
with British intelligence operative Ian Fleming
of James Bond fame.
But unlike 007 and his martini,
Crowley's drink of choice was
one of the strongest spirits in the world,
Absinthe.
Cheers, Aleister.
[hoarsely] Oh, it's so smooth.
That sword moved!
Oh, my God.
Let me see that again.
[Brian] Okay.
Ooh, it looks like someone's trying
-to get it off of the wall. -It does.
And that wasn't just the camera moving at all?
Sometimes it can kind of pixelate
-and make an object look like it's moving. -No.
The rest of the room didn't move, Phil.
Yeah, that's a good point.
When did this happen?
Like, five, 10 minutes ago, right before I called you.
That's about the time that the SLS went off.
Yes.
We got to get up there.
[Phil] Let's go.
[tense music playing]
[Phil] So...
it was this one, yeah?
[Heather] Yeah.
[Phil] How... did that move?
So it's being held up by one nail here,
one nail there.
Like, that takes a lot of force to move this thing.
I cannot see how it would move on its own accord.
I've got an idea.
It's something we haven't used before.
Wait here.
Since we were drawn to the King Edward Room
by an historic artifact,
I want to use a paranormal device
specifically designed to scan trigger objects.
The TDT can also detect environmental anomalies
and can translate EMF disturbances into words.
What I want to do is try and scan the sword
and this room in general
and just see if we get any hits.
Yeah.
My name is Heather.
I'm here with Phil.
Is there anyone here with us?
Why did you want this sword?
[disembodied voice speaking]
Blood?
Isn't the other name for this room
the Killing Room?
Based off what John Sage did.
Yeah. Did you die here?
[disembodied voice speaking]
[Phil] Windows?
What does that mean?
John Sage made all of those children watch
as their parents were burned alive outside.
Through the window?
Through the window.
That window?
[Heather] I don't know.
[Phil] It's gotta be.
[disembodied voice speaking]
It just said torture.
That was John Sage's specialty?
Yes.
[Phil] You think he's here?
You think he's the one who tried to grab that sword,
finish what he started?
John Sage, are you here?
If you are here, we're not afraid of you.
You have no power here.
We will not forget the torture that you did.
You cannot torment anyone...
any longer.
If it really is John Sage
that we've been communicating with,
we should leave him in history
where he belongs.
He doesn't deserve a voice.
[Josh] Heather's words were seemingly prophetic.
The team continued to search for John Sage
through the night,
but there were no further responses.
Heather believes her challenge may have worked.
By confronting Sage,
his spirit was perhaps scared off for good,
or at least for now.
[bleep] my life. [bleep] my life.
[Josh] But of course, that was only the team's final encounter...
Oh, my God. A body is in the tree.
[Josh] ...of their many disturbing moments
at Chillingham Castle.
[gasps]
[Heather] What was that?
[Josh] The team carefully reviewed footage
from the fixed camera in the Great Hall,
but remained unable to determine any reason
for it to fall at the moment it did.
[Phil] Just trying to figure out
how that could have happened.
[Josh] Footage of the wall-mounted sword
in King Edward's room...
[both exclaiming]
[Josh] ...was equally confounding.
Like, that takes a lot of force
to move this thing.
[Josh] Examining the footage frame by frame,
the sword does seem to impossibly move
of its own accord.
Phil believes that it could be
some kind of digital glitch in the footage,
but admits he's never encountered
anything like it before.
Even if some of the horrifying things we saw
and heard were disputable...
[Phil] Look at that.
[Josh] ...the things we found were not.
[Phil] Look, look, look.
[Josh] We showed images of the bone
found in the oubliette...
[Heather] Oh, my God.
[Josh] ...to a forensic anthropologist,
and they confirmed it appeared human.
But most shocking of all was the lead object
Phil discovered near the castle.
[Phil] Holy [bleep]. Look at this!
We got something.
[Josh] It was sent
to the UK's National Physics Laboratory
for detailed analysis.
And their findings were stunning.
The object was dated to be at least medieval
and likely older.
Even more remarkable,
x-ray imaging indicated
writing hidden within the object.
It is believed what Phil discovered is
a Roman curse scroll.
The Romans would forge objects containing curses
aimed at their enemies.
They would then bury them,
bringing misfortune to the place and its people.
Could this object explain
Chillingham's disturbing paranormal activity?
Unquestionably, it is a find
of great archaeological significance,
as well as being perhaps
the most unsettling artifacts we've ever found.
Yes, after all we experienced and discovered...
-[disembodied voice] Sage. -Sage!
[Josh] ...it is hard to argue
that there are any places
more chilling than Chillingham.
-[man shrieking] -[dramatic music playing]