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Your heart rate's climbing again. 126, 127.

Are you sure you're okay?

I feel other people in here with me.

I do not like it here.

Heather.

On this episode of Expedition X...

There it is.

Good Lord.

My team confronts sinister forces

at what some say is the most haunted prison in America.

Wow!

As they delve deep into the dark history

of Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Penitentiary,

investigating reports of violent paranormal entities...

Whoa!

This is where we see the Hat Man.

...and even demonic possessions.

You're gonna die tonight.

That deep voice, who are you?

Is there a demon here with me?

Satan?

Oh, my God. I wanna get out of here.

All right, pop quiz.

What's the scariest movie ever made?

- Oof! - Uh...

Alien, Silence of the Lambs.

Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre,

or the new Paw Patrol movie.

- That giant humdinger. - Okay.

- It was scary. - Ha-ha.

It's clearly The Exorcist.

Sure. Fair enough.

The vomit does stay with you.

Yeah. Agreed.

But what makes it so scary

is that there are real-world reports

of supernatural possession.

And I just got a really disturbing report

from a place near my neck of the woods.

Brushy Mountain Penitentiary down in Tennessee.

- The prison? - A former prison and a former coal mine.

A place where they used to make the prisoners work in brutal conditions.

It closed in 2009.

But ever since, the paranormal activity has been off the charts.

In fact, a recent visitor,

they say, was actually possessed.

Wow.

The whole idea of possession is just terrifying.

But I've heard of this place.

And when you look into the history of Brushy Mountain,

there is no shortage of bona fide horror.

The state of Tennessee is deeply in debt.

A former Confederate state

still reeling from the aftermath of the Civil War.

They need a way to generate money fast.

They come up with a truly shocking solution.

They'll build a prison next to a coal mine,

and force the prisoners to work in the dangerous mines for free.

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is born.

From the turn of the century through the 1960s,

Brushy Mountain is a place of brutal forced labor.

Conditions in the mines are horrific.

Hundreds of inmate miners die by collapses or explosions.

Hundreds more perish in disease-infested cells.

Those able to avoid injury or sickness may still die

at the hands of sadistic guards

and vicious fellow inmates.

And when Brushy runs low on workers, it's no problem.

Law enforcement simply rounds up more.

Overwhelmingly Black young men.

Charges them with bogus crimes

and works them to the bone.

Along the way, Brushy earns a grim moniker.

The end of the line.

Brushy Mountain remains a violent, bloody

maximum-security prison until its closure in 2009.

New owners launch an effort

to preserve the prison's history.

But as soon as visitors and staff members

begin spending time at Brushing,

terrifying paranormal activity follows.

Startling photos of shadow figures

are captured in the auditorium.

Black mist and growls are reported in the cellblocks.

And now, the activity has disturbingly escalated.

According to eyewitness testimony,

a recent visitor's eyes rolled back in her head.

She spoke in a threatening, growling voice.

You're gonna die tonight.

And when she finally came to,

she had no recollection of the event,

leading the multiple witnesses to conclude that she had been possessed.

Brushing Mountain staff are convinced that this potential paranormal activity

is only getting more frequent and more violent.

They wonder if the prison's dark history is still somehow alive.

Could the dead of Brushy Mountain Penitentiary

have escaped their eternal incarceration?

Y'all see why I want to investigate this, right?

Look, there's no question

Brushy Mountain has an absolutely awful history.

But I do think we have to be careful

when investigating a so-called possession, right?

There could be other factors at play here.

Right. Extreme physical distress,

psychological factors can make people behave in ways

that are, honestly, pretty disturbing.

I get it. But take a step back here

and look at the activity reported,

look at the history of this place.

Where there's smoke, there's fire,

and there is plenty of smoke.

I agree. I think there's a lot here.

This is unlike any place that we've investigated before.

A haunted prison, haunted mines, and reports of an actual possession.

I think we have to check it out.

So, go to Brushy Mountain Penitentiary

and see if you can find out what's going on.

And to paraphrase the scariest movie ever made,

- "Don't die up there." - Ha!

Exorcist reference. Well done.

You're always so reassuring, Gates.

Well, I do what I can.

It's a two-and-a-half hour flight from New York to Knoxville, Tennessee.

From there, Phil and Heather make their way

to the tiny town of Petros,

surrounded by the dense forests

of the eastern Tennessee Valley.

This is seriously getting the moat out here.

It is almost as if the people who made the prison

wanted to hide what happened inside there from the public eye.

This is in the middle of nowhere.

Even if you do manage to escape as a prisoner,

you're probably not making it very far.

I know I wouldn't. Not with all these hills.

Yeah, I know you wouldn't either.

Look how steep it is, though.

Wow. There it is.

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.

That's imposing.

To say the least.

Look at all that barb wire on that side.

Good Lord.

Driving here would have been

someone's last feeling of freedom

until they went through that gate.

Oh, there's Jaime.

This is our first witness I was telling you about,

- Jaime Brock. - Hi.

- Hi. How are you? - Nice to meet you.

Thanks for having us here.

Yeah. Welcome to Brushy.

Obviously we're here to hear the story about a possible possession.

Are you willing to tell us about it?

Um, yeah.

It was one of the most terrifying nights of my life.

It's even making me nervous now, just thinking about it.

But, um, I can take you to where it happened.

- Yeah, lead the way. - All righty.

This is the auditorium.

This is where the possession happened.

And why were you up here in the first place?

I was here with a group of friends.

We were just here hanging out.

I was showing them the prison.

I was sitting right here on this step.

My friend was sitting over here on this step.

And she just started making this weird noise.

She was breathing funny.

- Like, panting? - Um, it--

If you've ever been around someone that's dying,

have you heard the death rattle?

- Yeah. - That's what it sounded like.

The death rattle.

She's sitting here, and she's just in a blank stare,

- and it's just the whites of her eyes. - Oh, gosh.

I asked her, "Are you okay?"

That's when she said...

You're gonna die tonight.

"You're gonna die tonight."

She took a step.

And when she did, she went down.

She hit the floor.

We pick her up.

She's fighting us.

It's like she's not wanting to leave the prison.

And she's like, "[bleep] you."

I know for a fact that she was doing this for at least 45 minutes.

So, when you see her in this condition,

what do you think is happening to her?

I felt like she was possessed.

- So, you sent us this picture... - Mm-hm.

...which, when you zoom in,

I mean, that looks like a tall person

- with what, a top hat on? - Mm-hm.

This is where we see the Hat Man.

So that would have been right here.

- Right where I'm standing at now? - Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. No one was there.

You told me no one was standing here.

- I think you can see-- - No one's standing there.

- That's not a shadow? - No.

Who do you think this might be?

We did have a killing here.

There was an inmate here that had his throat cut from ear to ear.

Wow.

His name was Johnny Baxter.

- Right here? - Right here.

Seems like we've got a lot of ground to cover.

Do we have your permission

- to investigate this entire property? - You do.

You're gonna be here all by yourself,

so please use caution.

So you think this possession could potentially happen to one of us tonight?

It could. Yes, absolutely.

I always have someone with me,

so I would advise you to do the same.

After Jaime leaves us for the night,

we get to work setting up security cameras

in the most active parts of the prison.

The auditorium, where Jaime's friend was supposedly possessed,

and a shadow figure known as the Hat Man is frequently seen.

B block, where cell doors reportedly shut by themselves.

D block, where growling sounds

and people being scratched have been reported.

And The Hole,

the prison's solitary confinement unit,

where sightings of full-bodied apparitions are often reported.

Our producer, Brian, will be monitoring the camera feeds

for any unusual activity.

How's that look?

All right, those cameras look good, guys.

Let's get going.

With everything in place,

Phil and I head back to the auditorium

to investigate the shocking story of the possible possession.

What should be the plan?

Well, let's go over what Jaime said.

Jaime was, what, there?

- Yes. - And her friend was here.

She fell.

She could have hit her head on this corner for all we know.

That's a major head injury.

That could easily cause a pretty extreme reaction.

But when did it start?

It started when she was sitting there,

because that's when she said, "You're gonna die tonight."

You're gonna die tonight.

Right.

It does sound very much like a possession.

Is this the real deal, and is it demon?

I've never seen a case like this,

but demonic possession is--

That's pushing it for me.

There's no doubt that terrible things happened here.

What I want to know is if those terrible things left a paranormal mark.

That Johnny Baxter got sliced from ear to ear in the exact same spot

that Jaime's friend had the alleged possession.

What if he lost his voice, and he's trying to find a voice again

by taking possession of her friend

so that he has his voice back?

So, I want to try and find out

if I can get Johnny Baxter on the Spirit Box.

Maybe we can get the Hat Man,

maybe we can get tangible proof

that this place is really haunted.

Lead the way.

So, I'm just gonna go ahead and turn it on.

My name is Heather.

I'm here to listen to you.

And I'm here to give you a voice.

Is there a presence here?

Several?

Is there someone named Johnny here with us?

And I'm here to give you a voice.

- What did you hear? - The deepest voice possible.

That deep voice, who are you?

- What, what? - Stop for a second.

Let me play the recording back on my phone.

That deep voice, who are you?

"Devil."

- Oh, my God. - What the hell is that?

I mean, that-- Right?

Yeah. I mean, that clear as day says "devil."

Right in the spot where Jaime alleged

there was a demonic possession.

You want to try to get more answers?

Yeah.

We leave our security cameras running

while we push further into the prison,

heading to an area with an extremely dark history

and extraordinary reports of paranormal activity known as The Hole.

It's down here.

This area was once a solitary confinement unit,

where closet-sized rooms with no windows or openings

were designed to bring prisoners to their breaking point.

Sometimes up to ten prisoners would share one cell.

So small.

Shadow figures and disembodied voices

have recently been reported here.

Okay, cameras are set.

I'm going to try to do a solo experiment in complete darkness,

watching for potential hallucinations.

Once the door is closed, this place will be so dark,

I won't be able to see my own hand.

But our IR cameras will be able to clearly capture my every move.

While inside, I'll be wearing a heart monitor

because physiological changes triggered by anxiety

from being in an extreme environment

can cause the mind to play tricks on a person...

- Okay. - All right.

Let me lead you to your cell.

...and can easily be misconstrued as paranormal activity.

- So your normal resting heart rate is 68. - Yeah.

All right. You asked for it.

It is really dark in here.

I literally can't even see my own hand.

Put it on my face.

How are you feeling, Phil?

I'm trying to stay calm.

How's my heart rate?

You're at 76.

So, it's already up a little bit.

Wow.

What's going through your head, Phil?

Eighty-three.

I cannot imagine being in here with nine other people.

This is already too much.

You're spiking, Phil. You're at 103.

Makes me want to keep my back to the wall.

Your heart rate's climbing again.

126, 127.

Twenty minutes, Phil.

The imagination is getting a little bit too real.

Ooh, I'm getting goosebumps.

I feel other people in here with me.

Are you sure you're okay?

I do not like it.

I do not like it.

Heather!

You okay?

I need to see that there's no one in there.

When you're in there, it's like your brain is playing tricks on you.

I think I spent too much time in there.

I think the darkness just started to make

my imagination go a little too far.

You say it's imagination. Could it be paranormal?

I'm telling you, it's physiological.

My heart rate was reacting, my mind was probably reacting.

Or it was something real in there with you.

Your heart rate really spiked.

Uh...

I'll give you this.

I've never felt like that before.

I would not like to do that again.

Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I'm doing this.

- Good luck. - Thanks.

Oh!

It's just pitch black. Oh, my God.

You can't even tell where the wall ends.

Ooh.

Oh, I do not like that corner.

Oh, it feels like something's right behind you in that corner.

Well, she does not look happy in there.

You okay in there?

Not really.

It does not feel like I'm alone right now.

I'm gonna try the Ovilus.

Okay, let's see.

Oh...

Is there anyone here with me right now?

Is there anything you want to say?

Is Johnny Baxter here with me?

Is the Hat Man with me?

Hello.

Hi, Hat Man.

We're at 15 minutes.

It feels like a day.

Are you seeing anything?

I feel like the entire time, I haven't been alone.

She's shaking. Her hand is completely shaking.

You said hello to me, Hat Man.

What do you want to say to me?

Is there a demon here with me?

Satan?

Oh, my God.

Satan?

Oh, my God!

I wanna get out of here.

Are you okay?

- Let me out. - Okay.

I'm coming.

Phil!

- Okay. - Oh, my God.

- Are you good? - It's said "Satan."

How did you feel? I could see you shaking?

Terrified. It is like you said,

that your mind starts just scrambling.

But my mind did not say "Satan."

The Ovilus did.

"Satan"?

Fair point.

With our investigation coming to an end for the night,

we decide to leave our cameras running

to see if we can capture any unusual anomalies.

As morning breaks, it's time to update Josh on our experiences so far.

Hey, Heather. Hey, Phil. Good to see you guys.

Good to see you, Josh.

How was last night? Did anybody get possessed? Anyone projectile vomit?

Okay, easy for you to joke about, Gates,

but it's really serious over here.

Last night when we were in the auditorium

where the possession allegedly took place,

I got the word "devil" on the Spirit Box,

and then, we went over to The Hole,

I actually got the word. "Satan" on my Ovilus.

Wow, that is disturbing.

Yeah, it is disturbing.

Dark forces are at play here,

but we still don't know who or what could be causing them.

So I'm meeting with a historian later today

to try and see if I can get more of the history

and the back story of this place.

I think that's a great idea.

Meanwhile, I've just contacted someone

who claims to have recorded disturbing growls and screams

around the penitentiary.

This is someone who used to work at the Knoxville Zoo.

And they say these sounds

are unlike anything they've heard before.

This guy is convinced this is paranormal.

I think this is the type of sound I need to hear myself.

Yeah. Heather, good luck with your historian.

And stay safe out there, my favorite jailbirds.

Get busy living.

- You got it. - See you later.

See you.

- You must be Debbie. - Oh, hi.

Debbie Williams was a guard at Brushy Mountain

from 1980 until its closing in 2009.

Now the prison's resident historian,

she collects documents and artifacts

detailing the horrifying conditions

in both the prison and the mines.

What was life like in Brushy?

Was it very tough for the prisoners?

It was very tough.

During the 1960s and '70s, we were known

as one of the bloodiest penitentiaries in the United States.

The inmates were all mixed together

from the smallest crimes, uh, stealing a horse,

uh, all the way up to murder.

Some of these inmates only had,

like a one or two-year sentence,

but they never left here alive.

So, if you were to estimate how many died here,

what are we talking about? Hundreds?

Oh, no. We have estimated that possibly

as many as 10,000 people died in the mines

and on these grounds.

- Ten thousand people. - Ten thousand people.

Oh, my gosh, that is absolutely tragic.

So, what am I looking at right here?

So, this is one of the leather straps

that was actually used to administer the lashings to inmates.

Inmates could get lashes

for not making their tonnage in the mine,

all the way up until 1966 or '67,

a directive came down from Nashville

to stop administering corporal punishment with the belt.

Even though they weren't allowed to have sanctioned lashings,

they would still sometimes take them over to D block

and administer lashings there.

- Thanks for meeting me out here. - Absolutely.

Nice to meet you. I'm Phil.

Good to meet you. I'm Brian.

Josh tells me you got

- a pretty wild recording while you were here. - I did.

Can you walk me through?

What were you doing here that day?

We were, um, out here doing a tour of the prison.

You know, it was at night

in April of 2023.

I had come outside.

I heard one of the most disturbing things I'd ever heard.

So, I happened to pull out my phone and I recorded it.

The only way to describe this sound

is that it came from another dimension.

- Another dimension. - Another dimension.

I know that sounds crazy.

It sounds a little crazy. But you know what? Play the recording.

- Let's see. - All right.

That's the first one.

What was that?

I've never heard anything like that.

Neither have I. I have no explanation for it,

- whatsoever. - I mean, what could it be?

I hear you're an avid outdoorsman.

- Absolutely. - How are you so confident

this isn't a known animal?

Well, I've spent pretty much my entire life

running around these mountains.

I did a stint at the Knoxville Zoo,

and I know my animals,

and I've never heard a sound like that.

The sound was so loud,

it essentially vibrated through the prison itself,

- which is basically concrete buildings. - Mm-hmm.

And there was people inside of the prison

that heard this sound.

Wow. So that wouldn't be something

like a jet crossing the sound barrier?

No, no, no. It came from the mountains.

- I am 100% certain. - What's in these mountains?

You know, there is the prison mines

- that run, um, all behind Brushy Mountain. - Mm-hmm.

There was... ...a lot of death that happened there.

Something really strange is going on in these mountains.

When we started this museum,

it was because we were proud of the work

that we were doing in the '80s and the '90s.

And not until I started doing research,

did I see

the terribly dark way the inmates had been treated.

- Because they kept it secret. - Yes, they kept it quiet.

What was life like when you're on mine duty?

When you were working in the coal mines?

So, as bad as life was here on the prison grounds,

it was even worse inside the coal mine.

The miners at that time would normally work 12-hour shifts.

There were no safety measures.

- Did anyone die in the mines? - Oh, absolutely.

In the early 1900s,

there was a mine cave-in that killed

seventeen of the convicts,

and the cave-in was so bad

that they just left the bodies there.

And moved around

and built another entrance into the mine behind the cave-in.

So they didn't even try to rescue them?

No, too much work to dig 'em out.

After learning about the appalling conditions in the mines,

I asked Debbie to show me any historical records

and photographs of people who worked and died there.

During the mining days,

you can see the inmates coming back in

from their shift in the coal mines.

And this is one of our former Captain of the Guards.

Oh, my God, that hat! Who is that?

This is Doc Armes.

He was the Captain of security here for a while,

he ran the bloodhounds.

He had a reputation of never letting a man get away

that he got on the trail of.

Uh, then he later went on to become deputy warden.

This could be Hat Man.

You're talking about the picture that was caught?

- Yes. - Absolutely. Yes.

I would lean more toward it being a guard.

- Really? - Yes.

Because there was a lot of guard on inmate violence.

That helps me explain to you

why we were one of the bloodiest, most violent prisons.

If ever there is a place that would be haunted,

it would be here.

As darkness falls, Heather and I meet back up

and start to make our way to the mine entrance.

- Phil! - What you got?

- We got a mine. - A mine entrance.

We found it.

Look at the size of that thing.

That is the biggest mine entrance I've ever seen.

- Look at these rocks that are down. - Geez!

So this thing is actively falling apart.

Oh, my goodness.

One 2,000-pound chunk of rock at a time.

- It's definitely helmet up. - Yeah.

You found the gate. Why don't you go in first?

Oh. Why, thank you, Phil.

Such a gentleman.

Wow.

Okay. If we hear rumbling, we get out of here quick.

- Okay? - Okay.

They had to blast this out with dynamite.

Dynamite and pickaxes.

And a whole lot of prisoner power.

Yeah, 17 miners were trapped in a cave-in

and they were left to die.

I want to try to get to the place that the cave-in happened.

Okay, let's keep pushing.

These are structural beams to support the ceiling.

That's comforting.

Holy [bleep]! Look at this pile.

Oh, my God!

Look at the roof. You could see

- where all of this just came off in one go. - Yeah.

- This looks like a cave-in. - Yeah.

- This could be the spot. - Right here.

When someone dies, a very tragic death,

their spirit may be trapped

in the place that they died in.

I think we could get a lot of activity here.

Well, the activity I'm interested in,

which is clearly happening in here, is seismic activity.

So Brian, the witness I talked to,

obviously heard that strange sound,

which he described as a scream

coming from the direction of the mines.

And I'm still leaning towards

it could have been something seismic.

So, what I have is a thing called a geophone.

So, if you take this,

and you put it down.

It's similar to the type

used by search and rescue teams.

Basically can pick up the tiniest of vibrations

inside rocks,

so that if there's a survivor on the other side,

you can hear their noises and you'll know,

"Hey, we gotta dig this way."

So, see how it's recording right there. Listen to this.

Whoa!

- Hear that scratching? - Yeah.

It should be the softest sound ever,

- but it sounds so loud. - Yeah.

So, this can pick up the faintest vibrations in the rock.

While we're doing this, I want to do an EVP session

at the same time to see if I can get anything.

Okay.

Got my tempest here.

Let's see what we find out then.

Here we go. My name is Heather.

Is there anyone here with us?

You can use this tool to communicate.

You can also use the geophone.

What's the current temperature reading?

42.29.

Are there any prisoners

in this mine?

Did you die in this mine?

I know it must have been miserable being in here,

having to meet a quota.

No way out.

Are you trapped? Are you still here?

Were you buried alive?

Whoa! Hang on. Listen, listen.

Hear that?

Tch, tch, tch...

- You hear that? - Oh, my God, Phil.

- You hear it? - It's rhythmic. Yeah.

It sounds like a ping.

It sounds like a pickax.

No way.

It sounds like a rhythmic pickaxe.

I mean, if you're stuck in a cave-in,

what else are you gonna do?

You're just gonna try and get out.

We hear you using a pickaxe. Is that you?

It stopped at 39 degrees.

Just feels cold as hell in here.

Is the Hat Man here?

Are you telling me that Hat Man is a threat?

It stopped.

I don't hear it anymore.

It just got quiet, and just stopped.

Right as I talked about the Hat Man?

Just completely stopped. I don't hear it anymore.

Hang on, listen, listen.

- Nothing. - It's gone.

If Doc Armes was Hat Man, this would all make sense.

Every prisoner that tried to escape,

Doc Armes was a threat.

Is that why you stopped using a pickaxe?

Is there anything you want to say to me?

Still not picking it up.

It's gone.

What's going on? You good?

- We're on our way. - Yeah.

Let's get out of here. Pack the equipment.

Okay.

Let's move quickly but carefully.

Okay.

Let's go, let's go.

You got something?

All right.

Let's see, let's see.

So this is up in D block on the second floor.

It's a windowless room.

And check this out.

There's no one up there, nothing happening.

And then...

- Oh! - Whoa!

Brushy Mountain Prison,

surrounded by massive walls and a dense wilderness,

was often likened to Alcatraz

because it was believed escape would be impossible.

In spite of this, a large number of escapes

were attempted at Brushy, and almost all of them failed.

One audacious effort in 1938

saw prison miners blasting their way to freedom

from inside one of the mines.

But quickly, they were all rounded up.

Another in 1977 saw James Earl Ray,

the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...

I have a dream.

...fashion a makeshift ladder

and climb over the prison walls.

It launched one of the largest manhunts in Tennessee history,

leading to Ray's recapture two and a half days later.

Bloodhounds found him hiding in a pile of leaves,

weak and exhausted,

only a few miles from the prison.

It seems there really is no escaping Brushy.

Whoa!

Oh, my gosh.

That looked like a person's shadow.

Look at the motion.

Tell me that doesn't look like a person

that is beating up another person.

That could be either, A, a prisoner that was tortured,

or, B, the guard actually doing the torturing.

Let me just see it one more time.

I think it's a shadow person.

You say "shadow person." I say shadow of a person.

Did we get him on any of our other cameras?

- There is no one else here. - You sure?

There's no one else in the entire building.

- No other cams have picked anything up? - Nope.

Which room is this?

This is the second floor, D block.

I think we have to go check it out.

- I think we should get to that room. - Let's do it.

- This must be the room. - Okay.

I just want to figure out. If the camera

- is right out there... - Yeah.

Then the shadow... Place it would've been cast...

Right here in this area.

I can't ignore the fact that it could be an animal

or there could have been something out there.

- No lights. - Yeah, but it's an IR.

So IR shadows can be different.

But yeah, it'd be right against this area.

What's your plan?

I want to use the Ovilus,

but I want to use it with a trigger object.

What is it?

The whip Debbie gave me at the museum

was responsible for cruelly punishing prisoners.

Perhaps in this very room.

I'm hoping that we can use it as a trigger object

to get whatever we caught on the security camera to respond.

Wow.

This is an actual whip

that was used at the prison for punishment.

I don't even like holding this thing.

Let's see what comes from it.

Okay.

Okay, let's see.

Is there anyone here with us?

We have our...

Whip here.

It was used to administer such torture and pain.

We want you to know that this object

cannot hurt you anymore.

I'm here to give you a voice.

Is there anyone here with us?

What happened right here in this room?

Were you tortured inside of this room?

"Fatal."

How did you die if you died here?

"Homicide."

The timing of these responses is incredible.

Who was the shadow that was beating someone?

Armes! Doc Armes!

It's Armes!

Do you think he's the one doing the punishing?

That's who we saw?

I mean, if he was deputy warden,

this room would have been running underneath him.

The truth of what happened in this room

is now out.

You never should have had to suffer like that.

And we hope

that you can be at peace now.

My team came to Brushy Mountain Penitentiary

to investigate terrifying reports

of demonic possession.

Even though we knew the horrors we were walking into,

the scale of disturbing, unexplainable activity

Phil and Heather discovered was still stunning.

Who are you?

Heather spent days analyzing the recordings

captured during her EVP session

at the site of the so-called possession.

She discovered chilling audio

that she struggles to explain.

Whoa! Hang on.

Listen, listen.

Phil did, however,

debunk the strange sounds captured

by his geophone in the coal mines.

It sounds like a pickax.

No way.

The rhythmical pounding is not phantom pickaxes,

but the amplification of dripping water.

Perhaps the most disturbing evidence we captured

comes from our IR cam.

An apparent apparition,

violently lunging backward and forward.

- Whoa! - Oh!

Heather believes it could be the ghostly imprint of a guard

or a prisoner committing an act of terrible violence.

Armes! Doc Armes!

Whatever it is, Phil and Heather

were unable to recreate it.

It'd be right against this area.

And we've confirmed

no one was in the cell block when this anomaly was recorded.

We came to Brushy searching for demonic activity

and whether paranormal or not...

"Satan"?

...we can say that we did find it.

I want to get out of here.

Violent prisoners, abusive guards,

horrifying tortures.

The history of Brushy Mountain proves,

without a doubt, it was a hellish prison.

And a place we can all be truly glad to be free from.