[Josh] Tonight, the conclusions of one of our biggest expeditions yet.
My team is deep into an investigation of strange phenomena
inside this crumbling fort.
[both] Holy [bleep]
[Josh] On the storm battered gulf coast.
[Jessica] There's not a single spot in this entire fort,
that doesn't come with a story.
[Josh] Mounting evidence...
Look at that.
Look likes we might be right on top of it.
[Josh] sends Phil and Jess on an epic search for answers.
[speaking]
[Josh] I call in reinforcements
World class ghost hunters from Kindred spirits
Amy Bruni and Adam Berry.
[Amy] I think we've got a lot of ground to cover.
We have work to do.
There are so many spiders here.
[Amy] Oh, my God.
Do you what this round object is on the ground?
[scoffs]
That's crazy.
Ooh, I've got goosebumps.
[Josh] It's an investigation that could end in disaster.
[speaking]
[Jessica] Pick out the line.
[Josh] Can they exhume the secrets?
- Are there other people with you? - Hundreds.
[speaking]
[Josh] My name is Josh Gates.
In my travels I have experienced strange things that defy logic
and made me question everything.
Oh, my God!
Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.
Let's go!
Phil Torres is a scientist, who hunts for rational explanation.
[speaking]
Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.
[speaking]
Together we're searching for answers...
What is that?
To the world's most extraordinary mysteries
This is Expedition X.
My team has been investigating historic Fort Morgan, in costal Alabama.
A civil war era stronghold of brick and granite.
[Phil] Woh! Can't imagine what this would be like in a heated battle.
[Josh] Nearly a 1000 deaths have been documented within these walls.
There have been reports of people saying that they've heard voices,
[indistinct voices]
[Josh] Could there be discontented spirits,
still roaming in this old battle ground?
[speaking]
What did you see?
Our video cameras captured an eerie figure we can't explain.
[both] Holy [bleep]
And that's just the beginning.
[Jessica] Memory of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stewart
Charles are you here?
This is where you were killed?
What the [bleep]?
Did that just come out from one of the ceilings?
- [Jessica gasps] What the [bleep]? - [Phil] Ooh.
[bell dinging]
Did you hear that bell?
[Phil] The boats I see, all look like they're miles away.
[Jessica] Are there any bells on those buoys?
We would hear 'em and I'm not hearing anything like that.
So, why dist we just hear?
The wreck of the Tecumseh is right out there.
Maybe this haunting extends past the fort.
[Josh] You think there's more work to do
out of the fort and now out of the water?
I would suggest expanding the investigation.
You're talking about a lot of territory to cover here.
You guys might need some back up.
- I have an idea. - Okay.
I know two great paranormal investigators of the east cost
You both know Amy and Adam from Kindred Spirits?
- Yeah. - I love them.
This is right up their alley. Let me call them,
and see If I can get them to come down there and lend a hand.
Perfect.
In the meantime Jess, I would dig into more of the history of the Tecumseh.
See if you can learn more about who is on board.
If you really think there's a connection to those bells,
see what you can uncover.
Sounds good. I'm on it.
I'll look into the permissions for getting up to that wreck.
Thanks Josh, we'll get in the water.
- Bye. - Good luck.
[Josh] We're widening our investigation to cover Mobile Bay.
Just offshore from Fort Morgan
is the final resting place of the Tecumseh,
the union ship that went down in battle and took 93 sailors with her.
[Phil] So, I'm taking to the skies to see if from the air,
we can get eyes on this infamous wreck, and it won't be easy.
[both speaking]
[helicopter whirring]
The wreck lies only 30 feet below the surface.
And to this day, it's the graveyard for the sailors who died when she went down.
[speaking]
The Tecumseh has war grave status,
which means the wreck can't be approached without permission
from the Secretary of the Navy.
So, only a handful of the researchers have been allowed
to dive over the past six decades.
[speaking]
[Josh] In the water's directly below,
on August 5th 1864, the battle of Mobile Bay began.
The USS Tecumseh,
is a 223 foot long iron clad warship.
Just after the battle starts, the Tecumseh hits an underwater mine,
and sinks in less than 30 seconds.
Carrying 93 men to their watery graves.
[speaking]
[Jessica] While Phil drives to get the bird-eye view of the Tecumseh,
I wanna find a little more about the souls that were lost when she went down.
So that I can reach out to them, during the investigation.
I'm meeting with John Gurner. A military historian,
specializing in civil war era combat.
He tells me that Tecumseh went down, when it hit a torpedo.
The torpedo field is actually what we would consider a mine field today.
Yes, underwater mines.
[John] But now, she's been hit.
Already lifting a little bit to one side.
She starts to go forward down,
and then starts to spiral. Almost like she turns in the side and goes straight
and just... Straight down.
[Jessica] John gives me a list of the names of all 93 sailors
that were lost.
But he tells me that the battle of the Mobile Bay,
didn't end with the sinking of the Tecumseh.
After the Tecumseh goes down,
Admiral David D. Farragut starts giving the commands to move the ship.
And someone asks, sir, what about torpedoes?
He said, well, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
- Or for bells. - For bells?
For bells.
[bell dinging]
- Do you hear that bell? - Oh, I hear that bell.
That's the command to make the ship maximum speed possible.
[dramatic music playing]
[speaking]
[Phil] I let Michael Panck, specializes in aerial surveys of historic battles sites.
He points out the Tecumseh's location.
Only about 300 yards offshore.
[speaking]
[Phil] Recent storms here have churned up the ocean floor.
But unfortunately the Tecumseh is still not visible from the air.
She's likely buried under several feet of mud.
To make matters worse,
what I can see from up here is the condition of water.
Muddy, churning, terrible.
If Josh pulls through with permission to dive the ship,
I'll need sonar to locate her.
But for now, It's time to head back to Fort Morgan.
Our reinforcements have arrived.
[Josh] Amy Bruni and Adam Berry are both highly respected
paranormal investigators.
Between them, they have over three decades of experience seeking spirits.
I had the pleasure of working with them a couple of years ago,
when we investigated ghostly reports on the Queen Mary.
[Jessica] If just turn that flash light on, and then turn it back off.
- [Jessica] All right. - Get out of here.
- Yeah. - [both chuckle]
Every time you ask it to turn on and off, it's turning on and off.
- Hello there. - Hi, guys.
- Welcome to Fort Morgan. - Thank you.
Hey, we can see why you need our help.
[Jessica] Yeah. This place is massive.
There's not a single spot on this massive fort that doesn't come with a story.
Adam and Amy are experts not just at determining whether a place is haunted.
But also discovering why a spirit is lingering there.
Adam asked our producer Brian to look for a relic from the fort
that we can use as our trigger object during our investigation.
- What is that? - This is... This is a cannon ball.
From a war.
- [Phil] How much does this thing weigh? - [Brian] 32 pounds.
We can use it as our trigger object.
[Jessica] A trigger object is an item that's emotionally relevant
to a place or an entity.
And might encourage a response from a spirit.
I got it.
- You're the one with the muscle, so... - Yes.
[Jessica] We'll begin tonight's investigation in Bastion four
where last night, we experienced a strange sequence
of events while trying to reach out
to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stewart,
the fort's commander during the civil war.
Stewart was tragically killed when a misloaded canon exploded.
[cannon fire]
We had some signs of contact from him the other night.
So maybe now, this civil war era cannon ball
will provoke him into speaking to us.
I believe it's his spirit haunting this fort.
Let's just see if anybody's here at all.
[Jessica] Okay.
We'll start by trying to record EVP's.
Which stands for electronic voice phenomena.
Recording devices can capture sounds that are outside the range of human hearing.
The nice thing about this recorder is it is voice activated.
So it doesn't record unless it hears a voice.
So if you get a response after a question.
You know that there was some sort of sound that triggered it.
Even if you don't hear it.
[Phil] Jess, Amy and Adam are hoping to pick up phantom voices.
But I believe there's a more logical explanation
for the sounds that have been reported.
Just as face pareidolia fools off brain enticing faces in random objects,
auditory pareidolia tricks the mind into hearing words in random sounds.
This fort with its stone walls and odd angles
could amplify wind, dripping water or crumbling rock.
I think those noises might be what people misinterpret as paranormal.
It is best you just be as silent as possible.
[Amy] If there's anyone here who is non-living...
we'd love to speak with you.
We're looking for somebody who is in charge.
Is your name Charles?
If there is a message that you're trying to get across?
If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.
Do you know what this round object is on the ground?
Do you recognize it? Can you tell me the name of it?
Let's listen and see if anybody answered us.
[recorder playing]
[Amy through the recorder] If there is a message that you're trying to get across?
If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.
[indistinct chatter]
- What was that? - That's crazy.
[Amy through the recorder] If there is a message that you're trying to get across?
If there's someone you want us to contact for you, this is your chance.
[indistinct chatter]
- It was like a, duh-duh-duh. - Yeah.
- Sounds like Julia. - [indistinct chatter]
[Amy] Julia, listen.
Do you hear the, "Uh?"
[indistinct sound]
You can hear the Ju-li-ahh.
[Jessica] Deciphering voices from beyond is a special skill.
Even though Phil and I had a tough time hearing it,
Amy and Amy heard the name Julia.
What's interesting is that,
that happens to be the name of Colonel Stewart's wife.
But I hadn't told them that.
-I mean it matches... like it's-- -Right.
But I'm not necessarily hearing Julia.
We should keep going with it.
[Adam through the recorder] Do you recognize it? Can you tell me the name of it?
[indistinct shouting]
- The-- - Woah!
What was that?
It's a response to the cannon ball.
[indistinct shouting]
Something like this took Charles life.
If that happened to him
and he sees it in a space that he's in,
it's not gonna be a good reaction.
- It's gonna be like, rragh! - Exactly.
- [indistinct shouting] - Wants to talk to Julia.
- Hates that thing clearly. - Hates that thing.
- Odds are it could be Charles. - Charles.
The intelligent ones, there's usually a reason they're still here.
Like they usually have that kind of classic, unfinished business.
- Mm-hmm. - And the fact that he may have said Julia,
The fact could indicate that is his unfinished business.
That is why he's still roaming around here.
It would be helpful if we found out what happened to Julia.
Like literally, you could come back here tomorrow
- and show him. - Mm-hmm.
That was very cool.
Is there any other message that you would like to leave us with?
[Jessica] We continued to try and make contact for the next couple of hours.
But Colonel Stewart has gone quiet.
The next morning while Amy and Adam dig through military and historical archives
looking for more information about Colonel Stewart and his wife Julia,
we get amazing news from Josh.
He came through with permission to dive on the Tecumseh.
I believe it's possible the wreck is somehow connected to the four bells that we heard.
Which I learned was the Navy's signal for full speed ahead.
[Captain] Full speed ahead!
[Jessica] That said to be the command given to the remaining Union fleet
just after the Tecumseh went down.
[Phil] While Jess is here to talk with ghosts.
I'm hoping to lay eyes on an incredible piece of history.
We're using Sonar to pinpoint the ship's exact location.
[sonar beeping]
We're getting some bumps.
Yeah it's getting higher, look at that!
Looks like we might be right on top of it.
All right. Drop it in.
Our dive captain marks the spot based on the sonar reading.
So, Jim, as far as I know,
this is the last well documented photo of where the Tecumseh is.
- This is from the 1960's. - Correct.
[Jim] That was found in the last dive.
That was a while before the navy took control back of the Tecumseh.
This whole area right now is a war grave.
I believe there's 93 crew members that are still aboard.
[Phil] Has anyone dove on this since?
[Jim] It's protected site. You cannot dive to the Tecumseh.
If they see a boat here diving they'll run 'em off.
Police right there making sure that nobody else joins us.
All right. Let's get suited up.
[Phil] Our exclusive permission comes with restrictions.
We can dive over the top but we aren't allowed to dig here.
Or disturb the wreck in anyway out of respect for the sailors entombed inside.
This is a notoriously dangerous place to dive.
Salty ocean water is heavier than the fresh water
that pours into the bay from multiple rivers.
Those two shifting layers of water create currents that are strong,
and unpredictable.
The visibility here will be practically zero.
So to help us navigate,
we drop guide lines from our boat to a safety boat.
And over the spot where the ship lies.
[Jessica] Once Phil finds the Tecumseh,
I want to try to communicate with the spirits of the lost sailors
by using a hydrophone.
A microphone designed to record sound underwater.
We're gonna record everything on an underwater EVP.
Somebody was ringing a bell.
And I wanna see if we can find out who.
There were no ships or boats anywhere near us
when we repeatedly heard bells ringing.
- [bells chiming] - Towards the beach?
I believe those sounds could have been an echo from the battle of Mobile bay.
And the last moments of the Tecumseh.
[Phil] Once we're in the water, Jim will be my safety diver.
[water splashing]
We'll be tethered together as a buddy system.
To keep the currents from sweeping us away.
Check. Check. Check. Phil, can you hear me?
[radio disturbance]
[Phil speaking]
[Jessica] We copy.
[Phil speaking]
Once I'm at the bottom, I'll use an underwater metal detector to locate the wreck.
[Phil speaking]
[metal detector clicking]
[Phil speaking]
[Jessica] Now that Phil is close to the shipwreck,
I lower the hydrophone.
Ooh!
Man, that current is strong.
It feels like I actually have a fish on the line.
I hear some clicking.
I think that's probably Phil using the metal detector.
[metal detector clicking]
Hey, Phil, I wanna try some underwater EVP's.
So I need you to repeat after me, okay?
[Phil speaking]
Is there anyone from the Tecumseh that would like to reach out to us?
[Phil speaking]
Did anyone from the Tecumseh create a bell sound from the other night?
[Phil speaking]
Whoa!
[radio static]
Phil?
Are you there?
Woah!
[Phil speaking]
[radio static]
Phil?
Are you there?
[Jessica] Phil lost the line.
[Diver Captain] Copy that. Copy that.
Phil, do you copy? Are you okay?
Phil, Jim, can you guys, hear me?
Yeah, this is [bleep] stupid.
[Jessica] In extremely low visibility like this,
the guide line is a literal life line.
It's the only way for a diver to know where they're going
so they don't get swept off couse.
Buoy's right there.
I see Jim.
Hey, he got the line!
Hey, they're coming to you guys. They gotta come to you. So head on over there.
The current pushed us 100 feet towards the gulf.
Hey, you guys all good?
We're all good over here.
We're all good.
Ready to get dry.
All right. See you at the dock.
I'll analyze the hydrophone recordings later
to see if we were able to capture any responses to my questions.
Hopefully, Phil's near-death experience was worth it.
I heard, "I've lost the line," then, I heard nothing.
- And then, I saw bubbles just all over the damn place. - [chuckling] Oh, no.
So, I just thought you've been dying.
- You thought I became a ghost? - Yeah.
- Oh, my God. - Sorry. We're okay.
- [Jessica] You owe me a ka-trillion beers. - Fine. Fine.
[Jessica] While we were busy with our off-shore investigation,
Amy and Adam tracked down a couple who say they witnessed first-hand,
some strange phenomenon at Fort Morgan.
Larry Conley spent five years in the navy
and has a passion for military history.
His wife, Melinda, joined him on a visit to Fort Morgan.
Together, they experienced something disturbing inside this tunnel.
The tunnel is the main entrance to the fort,
and hundreds of soldiers would've marched through here
on their way to the battleground,
including our primary paranormal suspect, Colonel Stewart.
We heard that you guys have had some paranormal encounters in the fort.
So, can you kind of take us through what happened?
Sure. When we first got to the fort,
we were walking down this very tunnel, and we're about halfway through,
and I hear, and she heard it too, someone say, "Hey."
Okay.
So, I turn around, thought maybe I was
in someone's way or I dropped something, and there was no one around.
- Was it male or female? - It was male. Yes.
- Did it sound like it was right next to you? - Right behind us.
- [Amy] Oh. - Yes.
Was it really crowded out front at the time?
It was a rainy day.
So, there was people out there but they were more towards the bay here.
- I see. - So, no really right here.
Was there water dripping? Or was there, like, water filling up here, you think?
No. No water.
But that was not your only experience. So, what else happened?
Right. We'd gone inside and I'd looked back here, and she had some scratches.
[both] Oh, so, you got scratched.
- What did it feel like? - It really didn't hurt.
- But it left a mark? - Yes, it left two marks.
And what did it look like?
- [Larry] I've got a picture if you'd like to see it. - Oh, yeah.
[Adam] Oh, I see. Right here.
- [Larry] There, there, and there. - [Adam] Oh, right there too.
[Amy] The scratch is pretty wild.
[Jessica] I believe it's possible that Melinda and Larry
may have encountered the spirit of Colonel Stewart.
If he has the ability to throw bricks...
- [thudding] - What the [bleep]
Trip up our equipment...
maybe even appear on camera,
then perhaps, he could've taken a swipe at Melinda.
We head back to the fort to meet up with Amy and Adam.
They've been doing their own deep dive,
looking into the personal history of the colonel.
He was commander of the fort when he was killed in a cannon accident...
while preparing for future battle with the Union naval fleet.
We started digging into Charles
to figure out what was going on with his family, right?
We did find out his wife was pregnant when he passed.
Did he know that she was pregnant?
I'm sure, because she had the baby two weeks later.
And they named her Charlie.
His only son passed away when he was eight. He fell out of a tree.
That's a lot of heartbreak for one family.
You know, we've encountered spirits
who don't know they've passed away.
So, if there's anything he's gonna wanna know,
it's, "What happened to my family? What happened to my unborn daughter?"
- It's just a matter of, I guess, telling him. So... - Mmm-hmm.
And seeing if the activity picks up or changes or dissipates.
We have work to do.
[Phil] We decide to split into two teams.
Amy and I are heading to the entrance tunnel where
Larry and Melinda say that they heard a disembodied voice.
I want to check conditions to see if there's anything natural
like dripping water or animal activity
that could've caused those sounds.
[Jessica] And since my EVP session at the Tecumseh wreck was cut short,
Adam and I want to try again to make contact
with the sailors who died when it sank.
The shipwreck is only 300 yards off shore.
- See that glowing spot right there? - [Adam] Yeah.
- [Jessica] That's the Tecumseh. - Okay.
- We'd investigated along beach shores before. - Uh-huh.
And obviously, the-- It's hard to hear
because you have wind blowing. The contamination is high.
So, if we use the Spirit Box and headphones,
that'll be our best way to, like, get information.
- Something a little bit more clear... - Yeah.
- Than we would normally-- - Yes.
This is where we wanna set up.
A spirit box scans through hundreds of radio frequencies at high speed.
Some believe that entities pull words through the device in order to communicate.
While I'm asking questions, Adam wears the noise-cancelling headphones
and a blindfold so he won't know what I'm saying, or when.
He'll call out any responses he hears.
Adam and Amy have had years of success
connecting with spirits using this technique.
I'm excited to try it out with another paranormal expert,
and without Phil here to roll his eyes.
Adam, can you hear me?
Okay, I'm gonna get it started.
Is anyone from the Tecumseh with us right now?
Was it you ringing the bell?
- Feel free to reach out to us-- - I'm here...
too.
When you say I'm here too, do you mean two people?
Or... Is there two people here with us right now?
We'd love to have a conversation with you.
I've a list of names for people that were stationed on the Tecumseh.
If this is you or if you know this person, feel free to reach out to us.
George Work.
Acting Master Thomas Eustick.
Is James Dalton with you?
Ah...
Are you in pain? Are you screaming?
Is that...
Is that what you're trying to express?
Are there other people with you?
Hundreds.
[Jessica] Are there other people with you?
Hundreds.
[Jessica] Ninety three sailors went down with the Tecumseh,
and nearly 1,000 died over the course of the fort's history.
We might be communicating with both sailors and soldiers from the fort.
This could truly be
the most tragic, most haunted place I've ever been.
Did something happen to you?
This was where Melinda and Larry were walking.
And they heard a disembodied voice say, "Hey" to them,
like, behind them.
- And they said that there was no one else around. - Okay.
It was raining. It wasn't a busy day at the port.
But this was where it all started for them.
You'd also think, with rain, that would cause a lot of, basically, white noise.
- It would be harder to hear voices around. - That's true.
I will say, walking around this place,
- you hear sounds bounce around a lot. - Yeah.
Can we do, if I just walk out there and say, "Hey,"
- and see if it sounds like it's in here? - Okay.
- Here, I'll say it a few different ways. - Okay.
Few different spots.
Right. I'm gonna start right here.
Hey.
[Phil] I can hear you clear, but I can also see you.
Do you wanna try to get out of sight and see how it bounces around here?
[Amy] Sure thing.
I'll do one this way.
Hey.
That was a good one.
- Hey. - [Amy] Hey. How did that sound?
I gotta say, I think that was a pretty successful experiment.
There were some where when you said it,
it almost sounded like the sound was just kind of bouncing above me.
It was really hard to tell if it was in front of me, or behind me.
And I was way out in the parking lot.
- [Phil] Really? - Yeah.
[Phil] The key to this auditory illusion
is the fort's unique architecture.
The long oddly angled walls bounce sound waves around
in ways that our brains don't anticipate.
When these echoes stack up just right,
it can create a very convincing impression
of noises coming from a different location
as Amy just demonstrated.
But Melinda also believes that something or someone scratched her.
- And this is where the witness said she was scratched? - Yeah.
[Phil] I'll say, the walls here...
there's not as many objects just sticking out or broken bricks
that would explain someone getting scratched.
- No nails or anything. - Uh-uh.
- It's just flat concrete. - Yeah.
[Phil whispers] Oh, my gosh. There's so many spiders here.
[Amy] Oh, my God. Oh, God.
There's so many.
[Phil] There are over 90 species of spiders in Alabama, most of which are harmless.
Many of the ones I see here are funnel weavers.
This place is amazing.
[Amy gags]
- [Phil] Wanna see a trick? - I don't wanna see a trick.
[Phil] Hey, sometimes, it brings 'em out.
- [Amy] You do this on purpose for fun? - Yeah.
[whispering] Oh, that guy's eating right now.
[Amy] Ew, ugh.
They're like in every nook and cranny.
Walking around the place like this
you're gonna be thinking there's something all over you.
So she was probably hyper-aware, like I am right now
of every little feeling.
Like easily, I don't know, I wonder if she...
Anytime you think something's crawling on you,
- you're going to scratch and so-- - Yeah.
I think...
- We should consider that as a possibility... - Okay.
Of how the scratch occurred.
Yeah, I agree with you.
[Jess] Is there anything you feel we should know?
Turned on his head.
The Tecumseh flipped as it was sinking.
Were you stuck on board?
[man] Hmm.
Can you tell us your name?
Is there anyone else that would like to speak with us?
[Jess] After an hour the responses seemed to stop.
[man] Oh my gosh. That's wild.
I got a little, uh, shocked.
What it sounded like for me was that...
At first it sounded like there was like one or two voices
and it wasn't, I mean, like, coming from somewhere.
[Jess] Mmm-hmm.
And then there was a cacophony of voices, as if
it felt like there were a lot of people trying to speak up.
It seemed like we were getting very specific responses.
It's like a crowded room.
Everybody is trying to get the attention.
That's cool. So it's as if being here night after night after night sparked something.
I mean, I just think there's a lot of people stuck here
- throughout history at different points of time. - Yeah.
That are, kind of, talking over each other.
A lot of souls reaching out.
And when somebody, kind of, turns the light on in that room.
It's like, you know, moths to a flame.
Right.
[Jess] We head back to bastion fort to meet up with Phil and Amy.
This might be where Colonel. Stewart was killed in the cannon misfire.
And it's where we believe we made contact with his spirit last night.
We're hoping our new information about what happened
to his pregnant widow and children
will earn us a response.
[Phil] Okay.
Adam has a camera ready to record any anomalies.
While Amy has her digital recorder to pick up EVPs.
[Amy] Charles Stewart.
We're back. We have some information for you.
Your wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter two weeks after your accident.
And they named her Charlie, after you.
Your son, Evander, did have an accident when he was eight.
Um, he fell out of a tree and passed away.
Your son and his sister and your wife are all buried together.
But if you're here worried about them, you don't need to be.
You can go be with them.
[Amy] We can listen to that and see.
[static] Charles Stewart. We're back. We have some information for you.
Your wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter two weeks after your accident.
And they named her Charlie, after you.
[static] were you--
- Ooh. - [exclaims] What?
[man] Did he say Charlie?
[Amy] That was crazy.
[Jess] I've got goosebumps.
The USS Tecumseh isn't the only sunken Civil War vessel
that's said to be sending ghostly signals to shore.
On February 17th, 1864, in Charleston harbor, the H.L. Hunley,
a Confederate submarine, hits the Union blockade ship, USS Housatonic with a torpedo.
Becoming the first sub ever to sink an enemy ship.
Afterwards, eyewitnesses report seeing a signal light from the Hunley
confirming that their mission is complete.
But the sub never makes it back to base.
In 2000, the Hunley is recovered from the bottom of the harbor.
Forensic analysis indicates all eight crew members
died suddenly at their stations.
Possibly from the shockwave of the torpedo blast.
So, who raised that signal light?
To this day some claim to see a ghostly light shining across Charleston harbor.
But skeptics say that's just the power of suggestion
working on the subconscious mind.
Named her Charlie after you.
[static] were you--
- Ooh. - [exclaims] What?
[man] Did that say Charlie?
[Amy] That was crazy.
[Jess] Ooh, I've got goosebumps.
[Jess] Can you play it back again?
Accident. And they named her Charlie, after you.
- [static] were you worried for them? - [Amy] Yeah.
[Amy] It says Charlie.
- [Adam] I heard it from over here, like, loud too. - [Amy] Yeah?
- I mean that is so wild. - [Amy] That was a good response.
So, Sir, if there's anything else we can do for you, we're happy to do so.
Just say it.
Here we go.
[static] If there's anything else...
[Amy] We continue calling out to Charles, but after that initial reaction
to the name of his daughter, he seems to have gone quiet.
Perhaps he's satisfied with the update we brought him about his family.
- [Josh] Hey guys. - [all] Hey.
[Phil] ...Josh.
So, how did it go in the Gulf? How are you doing?
- We're doing great. - Yeah. So, Amy and Adam, that was a fantastic idea.
Thank you so much for putting them in touch with us.
Sure. And how was that dive on the Tecumseh?
There's literally zero visibility. Complete darkness.
Had to use sonar and then the metal detector to find this wreck.
[exclaims] Wow. That sounds terrifying actually.
But hey, at least you were up close to this incredibly historic wreck.
Jess, did you find the source of those bells?
So, while he was diving, I was using the hydrophone to do an EVP session
and we got some amazing results.
So I'm going to send them to you. Check these out.
Okay. What do we got?
[click]
[bang]
What is that? What am I hearing?
At first I thought it could have been the noise of us jumping into the water.
But then it just keeps getting louder and louder.
To me it seems, very obviously, that it is cannon fire.
It does sound like that.
And if you check the other file.
There's what sounds like somebody's voice speaking under the water.
And this thing was so far down
it was definitely not picking up anybody talking on the boat.
All right. Let me give it a listen.
[static] Hello.
There's something there but that is really hard to make out.
What, what do you think that is Jess?
A little bit of what sounds like a hello.
[static] Hello.
There were dolphins around. It could have been a dolphin.
- Saying hello in dolphin voice. Yeah. - Hello.
- It's possible. - It's not poss--
But the loud explosion sound. No clue.
So in terms of the investigation in the bay.
I would call the evidence here inconclusive.
You know, I, that first sound file is really intriguing but,
let's talk about the fort itself.
The question remains. Is Fort Morgan haunted?
Oh, hell yeah.
[Josh] My team analyzed the, more than,
200 hours of audio and video data they collected.
In the end, Phil and Jess were able to find explanations
for some of the phenomena around Fort Morgan.
Remember the ghost photo that triggered this investigation?
Phil was able to make a very similar image.
Suggesting it might be the result of atmospheric conditions.
As for the disembodied voices reported there.
Phil determined that the Fort's distinct architecture and acoustics
- can create echoes seemingly from nowhere. - [echo] Hey.
The trail cams Phil placed around the Fort did snap a few shots of wildlife.
Though, not the bobcat, who's eerie screech we captured.
And when they analyzed all of Jess' recordings
from inside the Fort for any EVPs.
[Jess] Are you there? Hello?
[Josh] They got nothing but crickets.
[crickets chirping]
Literally.
And the surveillance cameras they left running showed no further ghostly anomalies.
But the team did gather other evidence that can't be easily explained.
Jess and Adam called out to the lost souls of the Tecumseh.
- [Jess] Are there other people with you? - Hundreds.
And got what could be answers.
And our team's attempts to connect with Colonel Charles Stewart
yielded intriguing results.
Charles, are you here?
The REM Pod alerts.
The brick that fell.
- [thuds] - What the [bleep]?
Did that just come out of one of the ceilings?
And what seemed like intelligent responses.
[static] were you--
- Ooh. - [exclaims] What?
[man] Did that say Charlie?
[Josh] All of those unexplained events, happening around the same time
begs the question, what is really going on at Fort Morgan?
Believers would argue that the pain and tragedy
that occurred within these walls, and just offshore
is most certainly the cause of a haunting.
More than a thousand lives were lost here
over its 125 years as an active Fort.
Lives suddenly and brutally cut short.
And as the crumbling Fort faces what may be it's final days,
even a hardened skeptic will find it difficult
to explain this.
For more information on Expedition X
head to Discovery.com/ExpeditionX.