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I was scared to death.

It wasn't a person.

You are about to see
real people...

I knew this had to be a ghost.

...reliving horrifying
paranormal encounters

for the first time.

[Screaming]

When history comes back
to haunt us...

It smelt like death.

I felt somebody shove me.

Get out!

I buried this for nearly
30 years.

...be prepared to be afraid.

Paranormal Survivor:
Underground Railroad.

Interview with Maureen Hennelly.

Take One.

Marking.

We bought this house
in June of 2012.

It was in complete
total disrepair.

They were actually thinking
about knocking it down.

We actually fell in love
with it.

We knew the structure itself
was very sound.

And my husband knew he could
renovate it by himself.

From what we understand, it was
abandoned for about 5 years,

and empty.

I had a feeling that there was
something not quite right

with the home.

Local people were tellin' us

about objects and
people moving around

and lights showing up in
the house while it was vacant.

We just always referred to it
as the local haunted house.

Despite the warnings,

Maureen and Mark we excited
to own a home

with so much history.

We noticed a trap door
in the floor.

[Maureen] What?

You're not gonna believe it.

Come on, look at this.

The trap door would soon reveal
a shocking secret.

Careful.

Stairs are steep, so be careful.

This is amazing.

Look at this.

I don't know what it is.

Come on down.
Come on in.

Oh, my God.

We could look out towards
the back wall of the home,

towards the backyard,

and we could see where
there was an opening.

So, we kind of surmised that it
was probably a hiding place

or a tunnel that had an entrance
somewhere in the backyard

that was sealed up.

You could probably fit maybe
about six people down there.

After researching the home
a little bit more,

I was able to find out

that this house was part
of the Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad
was a network of secret routes

and safe houses used by
slaves to escape into freedom.

This house has been used to
harbour slaves and protect them

during the evening
while they moved north.

But I can't say it really
bothered me.

I just thought it was history

and I thought it was
very exciting.

Eager to renovate the home,

Mark put in long hours
in the evening

getting it ready for his family.

I used to see things be
in different places

from one place to the next.

And I knew I didn't leave it
there.

Things were getting moved.

I thought maybe
I was losing my mind

but things were definitely
moving in different places

than I left them.

When somebody decides
to renovate their home

or change things,

the energy that has be
absorbed over the years

from an entity or an evil
death, a traumatic event,

that absorption comes to life.

It awakens the spirit.

[Ringing]

I would hear a bell ringing.

Like a servant's bell.

Not a telephone but the old
servant's bell ringing.

Patrick?

Marie?

I thought maybe I was just
hearing things

and hallucinating.

But I would hear it throughout
the evening,

and not just one evening.

It went on maybe once or twice
a week I would hear it.

I heard women's voices

and it sounded like
they were in the next room.

They were having a normal
conversation.

They weren't upset,
they weren't arguing.

They were just having
a conversation.

But I couldn't understand what
they were talking about.

But once I left the room,
they stopped.

I went back in,

continued working and
they would start talking again.

Mark wasn't the only one

who would experience
strange activity.

Soon, it was Mark's teenage son
Patrick.

One day, Patrick forgot his key.

So, my son tried the front door.

He tried the kitchen door.

Both were locked.

He walked around back, he tried
the back door in the foyer.

That was locked.

And he came back around
to the front door,

and then he noticed it was open.

It was just locked
five minutes ago.

He came back and
it was wide open.

Like any teenager,

he didn't think much of it and
he walked into the house.

And then Patrick went into
the main bathroom

in the hallway upstairs
and he shut the door.

Now, my husband had taken all
the doorknobs off all the doors

while he was doing
all the renovations.

And for some reason, the door
locked and he couldn't get out.

Patrick heard people literally
walking around

having conversations
with each other.

[Indistinct conversations]

Let me out!

I think it was probably a
half hour to 45 minutes later,

I showed up and
he must have heard me.

[Patrick] Dad!

[Banging]
[Patrick] Dad!

Patrick!?

[Patrick]
I'm locked in the bathroom!

I walked up the stairs and
I let him out.

What's up?

And he asked me how long
I'd been here.

I said, "I just came in."

And he goes, "Well, I heard
footsteps walking around

while I was locked in here."

And Mark was like,

"I don't understand why the door
wouldn't open for you."

And Pat's like, "It wouldn't
open until you opened it."

Eventually, the activity
in the house was so intense

that it became dangerous.

We were having lights
malfunctioning.

Went to step down
the first couple stairs

and I felt somebody shove me.

[Screaming]

Soon after moving into
their historic home,

Maureen Hennelly and
her family

began to experience disturbing
paranormal activity.

Let me out!

Which quickly escalated
into violence.

Went to step down
the first couple stairs

and I felt somebody
shove me.

[Screaming]

And I went flying
down the stairs.

I'd never experienced anything
like that before.

I feel like I was very lucky

that I was not more
seriously injured.

Somebody pushed me.

It was pretty upsetting.

And at that point, I was like,

"Okay, we may have a problem
here with this house."

I reached out to

the Pennsylvania
Paranormal Association.

Paranormal investigator
Mark Keyes

and psychic medium Virginia
Centrillo agreed to help.

When I arrived at Maureen
and Mark's home,

as soon as I walked in,
I was greeted by a couple.

They had period clothing on and
they met me right in the hallway

just before you go towards
the stairs.

I started to realise they were
husband and wife.

They wanted to be known.

As I approached the stairs,
I felt I was going to be pushed.

And she was trying to
keep me away from the stairs,

this spirit.

So, I looked at the owner,
Maureen,

and I said, did someone push
you down the stairs?

And she said,
"Oh, yes. Yes, they did."

She let me know
that the female spirit

guarded the center
hallway stairs

and that she was the one who
pushed me down the stairs.

She pushed Maureen
down the stairs

trying to show Maureen
who's boss.

She ruled the roost
with an iron fist.

"This is my home.
What are you doing here?

Why are you talking it apart?

Why are you breaking things
down?"

Can you show me the rest
of the house?

The husband and her were keeping
some sort of secret.

And she was the caretaker of
what was going on in that home,

as far as their secret.

It was a secret that
would only be revealed

when they headed through
the hidden trap door.

I picked up movement,
a lot of movement.

And I was hearing talking,
like whispering.

We had a motion light that kept
going on and off.

So, where one of the motion
lights were,

Mark was touched.

Something just touched me.

There were actually two slaves
in the basement.

They were hiding.

It was like an Underground
Railroad that was the secret.

Both homeowners, they were
protecting the two spirits,

protecting these slaves.

At this point, they knew my
intent was not to harm at all.

They finally allowed me to go
and find these two young ladies.

When the spirits of the husband
and wife

allowed me to speak
with the girls,

they were very frightened,
very scared, very cold.

We sat down and
we did a little circle.

They needed love.

I was used as a channeler
at that moment

to place love around them.

Show them love.

Show them care.

Show them warmth.

And we asked each one of them
to come forward,

so they'd become lighter
and go into the light.

And as we were talking to them,

you could feel
their energy shift.

With the slave spirits gone,

Virginia was sure that
the homeowner spirits

would soon follow.

After the investigation,

the activity in the home
dropped off dramatically.

The atmosphere just
seemed more open, lighter

is the only way
I can describe it.

Nothing physical has happened
to me

or anyone else in the family

and I'm not concerned
that anything will.

Before we had the investigation,
I was probably a big skeptic

and I really didn't believe
in the paranormal.

But experiencing what
I went through,

I am no longer a skeptic.

I believe.

I believe.

Every building has its own
unique history.

But sometimes a haunted past
can rear its head

with truly horrifying
consequences.

Paranormal Survivor:
Jailhouse Shock.

Interview with Sandy Boyd.

Take one.

Marker.

The Lake County Jail officially
closed in 1973.

After its closure, the jail was
turned into a historical museum.

Sometime in 2008,

I came in for a regular tour

and I fell in love
with the building.

And I started
volunteering after that

and I ended up doing
tours myself.

Originally, in 1882,
it was built with 10 cells.

The jail once housed
dangerous criminals

from one of Al Capone's
most feared hitman

to notorious depression-era
gangster John Dillinger.

Sandy sometimes got the feeling

that some of the old inmates
were still in their cells.

When you walk through
the building,

you do get a creepy feeling.

And I think what it is

is that you feel like
you're being watched.

You hear footsteps,

and at first, you're not sure
where they're coming from.

It sounds like hard-soled men's
shoes walking across the floor.

And the first thing your
imagination wants to do is

picture a guard
doing his guard walk.

And then at times, you hear
cell doors closing.

Jails are very common places
to be haunted by spirits

because of the fact that there's
a lot of negative energy.

There's a lot of depression.

There's a lot of aggression.

There's a lot of anger.

And all of those things manifest
in some way.

They manifest in energy

and that energy can become
trapped in that environment.

At first, Sandy thought
the museum could cash in

on the creepiness of the jail.

I approached the board
to start ghost hunting

about a year after I'd been here
as a tour guide.

Sandy's son, Randy,
also volunteered to help.

I do the paranormal tours
during the weekends

to help raise the funds
for restore the jail.

It was supposed to be fun.

But the more that
we started doing it,

it was not always,
you know, as fun.

Sometimes it was uncomfortable.

You're always on edge
inside the jail.

It's like you're constantly
in a room

where nobody kind
of wants you in here.

Sometimes you feel
very crowded,

other times you feel like eyes
are always on you

and it's just
kind of uneasy to be in here.

There was a time when I was
walking away from a group

that was doing an
investigation of their own.

I was just walking
down the hallway,

I looked up.

I was scared stiff.

Sandy Boyd and her son worked
as tour guides

at an old jailhouse museum.

But strange activity plagued
the building.

And it didn't take long
for the spirits in the prison

to make their presence known.

I was walking down the hallway,
I looked up.

And there was a shadow
that was standing there.

I didn't wanna move.

I was scared stiff wondering
what it is.

How is this actually
in front of me?

What is it gonna do?

The shadow as in front of me
for about 5 seconds or so

and then disappeared.

I saw Randy standing there.

He wasn't moving.

He wasn't making
any sound or talking

or pointing anything out.

He was just standing there
staring.

Are you okay?
What's going on?

[Gasping]
What's going on?

By the time that my mom had
gotten there,

it had already vanished
into thin air.

I was no longer able to see it
and neither was anybody else.

When I finally got Randy's
attention,

he looked over at me and then
he looked straight back up.

And he said,
"I just saw somebody."

There was something right there.

There's nothing there.

There's nothing there.
Don't worry.

Just come on.

We went and got
the voice recorder

and we thought if there is
somebody there

that wants to talk...

Is there anyone here that wants
to talk to us? Anyone?

Anyone that wants
to speak to us?

We just started asking some
questions out loud.

Are you male?

Are you female?

Are you an inmate?

Are you a guard?

Is there something you need
to tell us?

Anyone here who wants
to speak with us?

We played back what
we'd recorded.

We listened back to all
of our questions.

[spirit] "What's happening?"

We heard a man's voice
loud and clear.

"What's happening?"

[spirit]
"What's happening?"

You could clearly hear somebody
in the background saying,

"What's happening?"

Sounded confused.

He sounded scared.

It was terrifying to hear a
man's voice like that.

It makes you feel as if there's
a lot that you don't know about

that's going on in a building
that you go into everyday.

Despite their encounters,

Sandy and Randy continued
with their ghost tours.

We had begun doing
a haunted house

for a fundraiser in the jail.

We'd invested money
into, you know,

decorating the jail.

Before opening night, Sandy had
a few last minute preparations.

Before I started painting,
I kind of said out loud,

"Guys, I'm just in here.

I'm just gonna paint this
and I'm leaving."

Just gonna finish up painting.

I won't be long and
I'll be outta here.

But Sandy's attempts to
appease the jail's spirits

was to no avail.

All of a sudden,
I got that feeling

that somebody was
in my personal space.

They were a little too close.

I looked around and I didn't see
anybody physically there.

And then behind me,

I had some metal chairs
stacked up against the wall...

[Clanging]

One slammed down to the floor
directly behind me.

It wasn't like it had just slid
down the wall.

It was thrown to the floor
with some force.

When a entity can physically
move something,

such as throwing an object,
it is extremely powerful.

It takes an exorbitant
amount of energy

for an entity to concentrate its
energy and move something.

They're trying to get
your attention.

They're trying to either
warn you to be careful

or warn you to get out.

It's not always evil

but they are trying
to get your attention.

I happened to kind of turn.

There was a man
just standing there.

Get out!

[Screaming]

Afraid of what
might happen next,

Sandy and her son Randy reached
out for professional help.

Sandy called us in 2015

for us to come in here
and search

and see if there's
paranormal activity

that Sandy was stating that
was happening in here.

I brung my cousin, Dan Marshall
and my wife Brandy Rush.

My wife is a medium.

She can see the entities.

It helps us with our evidence.

They talk to her.

When Brandon's team came in,

we concentrated on areas
we felt the most energy.

So, there's a long tunnel
in the jail,

and it's actually just to
connect the 1908 addition

to the 1928 addition.

Upon entering into the tunnel,
it was real dark, eerie.

Just a real creepy feeling.

Brandy was getting a lot
of strong feelings.

James.

I'm feeling James.

He's angry.

She mentioned the name James.

And we knew the name James.

And I was actually
kind of surprised

that she had picked up
on that name so quickly.

We had an inmate here,

his name was
James "Fur" Sammons,

and he was Al Capone's
right-hand man.

He had gone on a lot of hits
for Capone.

He was not a nice man
in any way.

You're not welcome here.

He came towards her
very negative.

"You need to go, get out."

I feel like there's spirits
all around you.

It felt like people
touching you.

I felt a cold hand grab
my arm real tight.

You guys feel that?

At that time, I turned around
to ask my cousin,

"Did you grab me?"

He says, "No."

[Sandy] At that point, we had
decided to investigate

a different part of the jail

and we headed up the stairs
to the third floor

where there's a federal
cell block.

The third floor housed
the jail's worst criminals

in the toughest conditions.

Solitary confinement.

While we were there, we had our
K2 meters on.

With Brandy having sensitivities
to energy,

she again felt something that
was more aggressive

and maybe a little more negative
than she was used to.

Are you okay?

[Sandy] My fear for Brandy

was that she had made this
connection with James,

a hitman for Al Capone,
when she had first came in.

And because of her stature

and that she's a little
on the smaller side,

I was afraid that James
had targeted her.

Get out of here!

[Screaming]

When jailhouse museum
tour guide Sandy Boyd

was tormented by
a ghostly apparition,

she called in
paranormal investigators.

Now, they were being attacked

by the spirits of
previous prisoners.

Get out of here!

He came towards her breathing
down her neck.

My wife had felt like somebody
had pinched her in the back.

Started feeling kind of warm
back there.

Lift up her shirt...

She had a scratch, but it was
weird kind of scratch.

It was shaped like a cross.

She felt it was James,
said for us to leave.

And Brandon's wife
wasn't the only one

to experience disturbing
paranormal activity.

My cousin, Dan, he started
feeling like he was real hot,

sweaty, dizzy,

like he was gonna throw up.

I almost had to hold him 'cause
he was gonna fall down.

We gotta go.

We gotta.

The team may have been finished
with the investigation,

but the spirit was not finished
with them.

When I started walking down the
gun range on the second floor,

I walked up on
a six foot shadow.

It darted around
the other corner.

My cousin, Dan,
seen it running at him.

Ah!

Dan!

Dan, you all right, man?

He was really scared because it
came running towards him

and went right through his body.

And that's when
he started screaming

and I came running over there.

He says,
"I feel real hot in my back.

Something's going on," you know?

I lift up his shirt...

You see a bright scratch
all the way down

from his neck halfway
down his back.

Ah, let's go.

Come on.

Due to the violent attacks,

Brandon put an end
to the
investigation.

Seeing my wife and my cousin
being attacked

in this investigation
was very shocking.

It was very scary for them being
attacked 'cause you don't know.

You just don't know what
you're getting into.

The attacks had a profound
effect on Sandy.

But rather than have the
historical spirits removed,

she switched up her approach.

We've changed the way that
we interact with ghosts.

We have a lot of "pleases"
and "thank yous."

We became more personable.

A lot more courteous, thank you,
please.

Treating them like
they're actual people.

Thank you.
Rest in peace.

Brandon and his team
questioned us

if they could help us.

If there was anything
that we would want them

to do with us or for us.

And we kind of made a decision
at the time

that it's not up to us to do
something about it.

Whatever's going on
in this building

has been going on long
before we got here

and will probably go on
long after we leave.

Home is supposed to be a haven,
a safe place.

But sometimes a house can hold
such dark secrets

that just living there becomes
a matter of life and death.

Paranormal Survivor,
Season Four.

Interview with Lore Whiteside.

Take one.

Mark.

I was really attracted
by the house

because of how big
it was. It was old.

I was excited to get moved in.

Thought it was gonna be
a good adventure.

I was happy.

But Lore's opinion about her new
home quickly began to change.

I started feeling like someone
was watching me

pretty much as soon
as I moved in.

It always felt like
you were never alone.

And no matter what room
of the house you went to,

you were just always
being watched.

Soon, Lore's uneasiness became
more than just a feeling.

[Thumping]

I started hearing the
unexplained noises right away.

I could be sitting in
the living room by myself,

nobody else with me,

and I would start hearing
thumps on the walls.

And they weren't just
light little taps.

I mean, they would shake
my pictures type of thumps.

[Thumping]

[Scraping]

A couple times when I'd hear
the scraping in the walls

it'd almost sound like nails
on a chalkboard.

[Screaming]

They were very high-pitched.

They would, you know,
give you goose bumps.

[Slamming]

One day, literally every single
door in that house

was slammed shut.

[Screaming]

It shook the whole house.

Literally, the whole house
shook.

And it was loud,
like deafening loud.

The troubling activity
didn't stop there.

First time I'd seen a shadow

that was kind of like
a human shape,

I was unpacking.

I was starting to put all
my knick-knacks out.

And I seen it out
of the corner of my eye.

I looked and it's like,

"Okay, well, there's
nothing there."

But then it came back
around another corner

to where it was right
in front of me.

I was terrified.

Lore Whiteside's historic home
was not as perfect

as she first thought.

Paranormal activity
kept escalating,

signaling the presence
of a dark entity.

It was right in front of me.

I was terrified.

The shadow was probably
about six feet tall.

And it kind of just stood there
and then it just walked away.

And when it walked away,

it walked into a wall that
went to nowhere.

Lore searched for an explanation

for what was going
on in her house.

When I moved in, the neighbours
were kind of shocked

that I was living there.

And I'd asked them why
and they said,

"Well, there was a suicide
on this property."

One of the previous owners
husband shot themselves.

Concerned the rumoured suicide

was behind
the supernatural activity,

Lore decided to look
into the home's past.

The house was built
in the early 1800s.

And when it was built

it was originally built
to be a funeral home.

It was a funeral home
for multiple years.

I thought that maybe
it's just one of the spirits

from when it was
a funeral home still there.

Because there was a
lot of death in that house.

If a home used to be
a funeral home,

there's a very good chance

that there's a spirit
still within the home.

Spirits will attend
their funeral.

And sometimes
they just might decide

that this is where
they wish to stay.

Finding everything out
about the house

made me feel really uneasy.

'Cause if I had known that it
had been a funeral home before,

I would've never moved in.

Knowing the house's history

didn't stop the activity,
however.

In fact, things just escalated.

I had gone to bed and I woke up

'cause I had gotten really,
really cold.

And when I woke up

there was above me
a solid black mass

just hovering there.

It was just there.

There was no features.

It was just a solid--

You couldn't see through it.

Almost like a blanket.

Just black mass hanging
above me.

It eventually just disappeared

when I seen it after
a couple minutes.

I was just like frozen in place.

I did not fall back to sleep.

I didn't sleep in my bed
for a couple weeks.

That wasn't the end
of Lore's troubles.

First time I found scratches
on me

was in the first two
or three weeks

that I moved in there.

I'd feel something burning

and that's when I'd look
and I'd have claw marks.

Three scratches from seven
to eight inches long.

I would find them on the side,
like where my ribs are,

on my legs, thighs.

I mean, just places that
you don't just bump into

and say, "Okay, well,

I must have just bumped
into something."

No.

Me getting scratched

started becoming almost a daily
or nightly thing.

It didn't just happen at night,
it happened during the day.

I could be sitting
there and look down

and you could actually see
the scratches appearing.

I started going into
an extreme depression

with the scratches.

I was getting to the point

where I didn't even wanna
be seen in public

because I looked like someone
was literally beating me up

on a daily basis.

I just couldn't handle
it no more.

To help her, Lore called in
paranormal investigators

Eric McGill and Shawn Gilmore.

She was at her wits end.

She had had so many experiences
by this time.

Shawn is an empath,

and Shawn's initial impression
was that he felt a presence,

a very strong presence.

Shawn stated that
when he came in

he immediately felt like
a weight was on his shoulders.

The air was just thick
and very, very, very oppressive.

[Eric] For the investigation,

we brought out six to eight
static cameras.

They set up cameras everywhere.

Had all kinds of equipment
set up in places.

Eric and Shawn decided to start
at the heart of the activity,

Lore's bedroom.

As I was watching
the K2 meter go off

and what seemed to be responding
to us intelligently,

it was pretty surprising.

But all of a sudden,

the K2 meter just stopped
getting any readings.

It just went to a zero again.

We walked back downstairs
to check our cameras

and then we heard

and felt a loud crash.

I like to describe it similar to
somebody dropped a bowling ball

from about chest level.

The floor bounced underneath
of our feet.

The whole house just shook.

The windows rattled,
the whole nine yards.

When Shawn and I felt and
heard the loud noise,

we immediately started going
towards the room

where we thought
that sound originated.

Before I entered the threshold,

I felt a strong static charge
and a very cold chill.

And I just froze.

Ah!

Eric!

Eric?

We found that our camera had
been shut off all on its own.

This kind of interaction

was kind of like
a wakeup call for us.

It reminded us

that we didn't introduce
ourselves to the presence

before we started
the investigation.

Before beginning
an investigation,

it's really important
to introduce yourself

to the spirits in the home.

Because you wanna make sure

that they are not intimidated
by your presence.

And they can really be upset
that you're there.

So, you wanna make sure
that you tell them

that you're not there
to hurt them

and you certainly aren't there
to provoke them.

We sincerely apologise
for intruding on your space.

We mean you no harm.

Let's go back downstairs.

By the end of the investigation,

I still hadn't reached
any conclusions

or anything like that.

We were pretty much relying
on going home,

filing through all the footage
and seeing what we captured.

But initially,

my assumption was that there was
just a strong presence there

that wanted to communicate.

They explained to me that they
had a lot of stuff to go through

and that it could be a few weeks
before I hear anything.

After the investigation,
the activity did change

and it changed to the worse.

[Gasping]

One night when I was bed,

I woke up to being
suffocated and choked

by something
that was not human.

It was extremely solid
black mass.

It smelt like death.

I really thought I was gonna die
at that point.

Lore Whiteside had
been the victim

of terrifying paranormal
activity in her home.

[Screaming]

But even after calling
in experts to help out,

the evil entity continues
to attack her.

I was being physically assaulted
by something that was not human.

It was extremely solid
black mass.

It smelt like death.

I remember trying to scream
for help.

Nothing would come out.

Nothing.

It was choking me.

I couldn't breathe.

When I realised I wasn't able
to even get out of its grasp,

I was terrified.

I really thought I was gonna die
at that point.

It ended when I seen
a white light.

It was like a flash
of white light.

I don't know where the white
light came from,

but once that white light
just flashed,

it just was gone.

I don't know where it went
but it was gone.

The attack made me
feel violated.

It made me feel filthy,
disgusted.

I took a shower and literally
tried to rub my skin off

'cause I felt that dirty.

After I got attacked like this
is when I decided

I could not live
in this home any longer.

And I packed up and I was out
of the home within a week,

I left.

I left property behind

that I refuse to even
go back and touch.

Even though the investigation
results proved inconclusive,

Lore finally found peace as
she settled into a new home.

Since I moved, I am safe.

I can't be 100% certain
if the escalation in activity

was a direct result
of our investigation.

When dealing with
the paranormal,

anything is possible

because we're dealing with
the unknown.

I believe if I had decided
to stay there

it would've killed me.

I strongly believe in my heart,
whatever is there,

it would have killed me.

If I could forget that house
ever existed,

that would make me
a happy person.