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Narrator: In this world, there is real evil

in the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places.

These are the true stories

of the innocent and the unimaginable.

On Halloween night,

Nick Webber leads his friends to a mysterious cemetery

to seek the truth of a local legend

that refuses to die.

Stalked by angry spirits...

the teenagers must face their fears of the unknown

if they want to survive until dawn.

Between the world we see and the things we fear,

there are doors.

When they are opened,

nightmares become reality.

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captions paid for by discovery communications

Green lake, Wisconsin,

once known as the village of dartford,

was settled in the mid 1800s.

Lured by the majestic shores of green lake,

pioneers built this small farming community

on the trade of grain.

As with most small towns,

its history is rich in folklore and urban legend.

Most tales are passed down for pleasure,

but there are others whispered in the darkness,

warning those who dare to uncover the truth.

In the center of green lake lies an old cemetery,

which stands as testament to the town's past

and to those who once lived there.

Legend says that it's haunted.

Let's go.

On dark nights, when they have nothing better to do,

local teens test the legend for themselves.

I think I see the mausoleum.

I want to check out the Indian graves first.

That is creepy.

Come on, let's go.

Narrator: Inside dartford cemetery is an old mausoleum,

the final resting place of some of the town's pioneers.

So, who's going first?

This was her idea.

Okay.

Mnh-mnh.

Okay, I'll go first.

So, what's supposed to happen now?

Now we wait.

This is stupid.

Tell him what happened on Halloween.

I will, as soon as he gets up here.

Okay. So, what happened on Halloween?

First of all, you have to remember,

this happened to people from our school...

People we know.

[ Alarm clock beeping ]

[ Knock on door ]

What?

You're gonna be late.

Narrator: Halloween, 2005.

16-year-old Nick Webber lives with his mother

in montello, Wisconsin, 25 miles outside of green lake.

Get a move on, babe.

[ Sighs ]

Any big plans for tonight?

Oh, just the usual...

Sex, drugs, ritualistic killings.

Where are my keys?

They're by the door, mom.

Since the recent divorce of his parents,

Nick doesn't see much of his mom.

My mom's work schedule and my school schedule

didn't always work too well together.

Listen, I'm gonna be late tonight coming home,

but I have leftovers in the fridge for you, okay?

Ritualistic killings, huh?

Or I might go over Christian's house and watch movies.

Happy Halloween, honey,

and don't be late for school, all right?

Love you. Love you.

Narrator: Montello's population is only 1,400,

so there are not a lot of things for teenagers to do around town.

Nick looks for an interesting place

where he and his friends can spend Halloween night.

Webber: I came across a website

that had a database of different places in Wisconsin

that had haunted locations.

Narrator: Chad Lewis is the creator and webmaster

of unexplained research.

Lewis has spent over 10 years

researching and collecting stories

from people who have had paranormal experiences

related to legends,

like the one surrounding the dartford cemetery.

Lewis: I'm interested in folklore and urban legend,

really out of the same reasons

people have been interested in it

since the beginning of time... Curiosity.

I don't know what happens when we die.

I don't know if we're alone in the universe,

but I really want to find this out.

Narrator: After launching his website,

Lewis was inundated with e-mails from young people

performing what they call "legend trips,"

casual investigations of allegedly haunted places.

Lewis: What they want is to go and visit these places

and then decide for themselves

whether or not they believe it's haunted.

Narrator: Chad investigates

and then profiles the legends he receives from his readers.

One... The legend of witch road...

Gets a lot of attention.

It was supposedly named after a witch that once lived there.

Her house still stands in the woods.

Lewis: One of my favorite stories about witch road

is a couple were there with their 4-year-old son.

I'm gonna take some pictures of the house.

Five minutes, Jeff, okay?

I really don't like it out here.

What are you doing here?

Michael?

What are you doing?

Who are you talking to?

Lewis: He said he was talking

to that nice little girl who lives in the woods.

Jeff?

Jeff, we are leaving right now!

[ Birds cawing ]

Don't do that! We are leaving.

Narrator: Others have had similar experiences on witch road.

But the identity of the little girl remains a mystery.

The more popular legend trips propose a dare,

something the seeker must do

in order to prompt a supernatural occurrence.

One example is the mausoleum

in the center of dartford cemetery.

Lewis: The dare is that if you stand or sit on the mausoleum

that someone or something will push you off.

Narrator: Nick is intrigued.

Webber: I didn't necessarily believe in ghosts,

but I always thought it was a possibility.

Narrator: Later that afternoon,

Nick tells his best friend about the local legend.

He knows that if anyone is willing to take the dare,

it's Christian Adams.

I have got an idea for tonight.

We are going to a haunted cemetery. Ooh, scary!

Adams: One way I describe myself would be a troublemaker.

I kind of disregard the rules.

Really, I looked up this website

about this cemetery in green lake.

It's an old pioneer cemetery,

and people have supposedly seen all kinds of ghosts

walking around in there... An Indian chief.

There's this dare that if you sit on top of this mausoleum,

a ghost will push you off.

Dude, you're gullible as hell.

But I'm game. Let's do it.

Webber: The dare intrigued us

because it was actually something that we could try.

What are we doing?

What are you doing? Get off my car, John boy.

Narrator: Nick and Christian hang out with John Lloyd.

Lloyd: In high school,

we played a lot of prank jokes on a lot of people,

and everybody knew us because of that.

We're going to a haunted cemetery tonight, John.

Cemetery?

Nick, we need to get you a girlfriend.

No, you're really gonna love this.

Dude, you got exactly two seconds to get off my car!

I got baseball practice anyway. I'll see you guys later.

Peace.

Dude, if I was you, I wouldn't tell John about the dare.

Adams: We didn't really want to tell him about the whole dare thing.

He scares kind of easy,

so we decided to just kind of withhold that information.

Narrator: After school...

[ Rock music playing ]

Christian. Christian!

What? Come look at this.

"The dare... if you sit on the roof of this mausoleum,

a ghost will push you off."

I'm a Polish immigrant.

I was raised by strict Roman-catholic parents,

so as far as ghosts,

I never really put much thought into it.

You don't actually believe this stuff, do you?

No, not really, but it will freak John out.

Then come on, man. Let's go get him!

Lloyd: I was raised to believe that there is no paranormal,

that there's no such thing as ghosts,

no haunted places, no haunted houses.

Are we going or what?

I thought you didn't want to go to the cemetery.

I want to go somewhere.

He's right. Let's get out of here.

[ Owl hooting ]

This has potential.

Lloyd: When we first got a glimpse of the cemetery,

it was the creepiest place I've ever seen.

Hey, you coming?

[ Owl hooting ]

Did anybody bring a flashlight?

Then how we supposed to see in there?

Good enough.

That's some real firepower.

It seemed like everything in the cemetery was watching you.

Webber: As we walked through the gravestones,

you could see that they'd been worn down with time.

What are you doing?

Webber: It felt like something grabbed my leg.

Do not kid a kidder, Webber. Move your butt.

I had never felt anything like that in my life.

John, come stand right here.

No way.

Adams: Are you coming?

I went along and kind of put it behind me.

Knock knock. Anyone home?

Bring it out.

Hello? Wakey Wakey.

I figured that provoking a ghost to do something

might actually work.

Bring out your dead!

I guess no one's home.

[ Owl hooting ]

Aah!

Ohh!

[ Laughs ]

We'll see how much you laugh

when you got a mouthful of busted teeth.

John, I was just kidding.

This is stupid. I'm going back to the car.

[ Laughs ] John!

Look, you made him mad.

Yeah, I know.

Go get him.

John, wait.

Lloyd: After he screamed in my ear,

I was not only terrified but very angry.

Nick knows that I don't like to be scared.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were gonna freak like that.

It's just I'm over this cemetery,

and, really, what's the point?

Why don't we go back to montello and go to the party?

We were kidding, John.

We'll go home soon. I promise.

Truce for now.

Let's go.

So, Nick, that Tina girl from my physics class

definitely wants your body.

Yeah, I'm sure.

I'm serious.

Have you seen the way she looks at you?

She does talk to you a lot.

Webber: And in the back of my head,

there's a creepy feeling

that there was somebody there that didn't want us there.

I didn't really want to act afraid

in front of my two buddies.

Look at this.

Narrator: Christian notices a large crack in the mausoleum.

This wasn't here before we sat down, was it?

I don't think so.

I think we should move.

Yeah, you're probably right.

Lloyd: I knew that that crack wasn't there before.

What are you doing?!

We didn't do anything, John.

No, I'm not falling for another one of your pranks.

It felt like somebody had pushed me.

This wasn't a prank. We were standing right here.

Then someone else is here.

What the hell was it, then?

You probably just fell, John.

No, I was pushed off.

You're kidding me, right?

No, I'm serious.

Adams: It just so happened that the one person

that we neglected to tell about the dare...

That's the person that actually gets pushed off.

It worked. The dare... it actually worked.

What dare?

If you sit on this mausoleum, a ghost will push you off.

What?

I'm going back to the car.

No, we can't go back to the car now.

Don't you you want to see if this is real?

I do know. I felt it.

I'm staying. I want to see if this is for real.

I guess I'll go back with him.

Okay. I'll see you two guys in the car.

Later.

Adams: I was intrigued by what happened to John.

This might actually be

a more interesting night than we had hoped.

Do you think it's a good idea leaving Christian back there?

Why not?

If he's so determined to find something,

then let him find something.

I was worried about what might happen if we split up.

What? What is it? What is it?

It's probably just Christian trying to sneak up on us.

I'll go get him.

I'm going back to the car.

[ Children giggling ]

[ Indistinct speaking ]

I thought I heard the sound of children.

[ Children giggling ]

Why would there be children out this time of night,

near a cemetery?

[ Children giggling ]

[ Children giggling ]

John?

I kept getting the feeling that something was watching me,

and I could see, like, shadows out of the corner of my eye.

John?

[ Rustling ]

Christian? This isn't funny!

Lloyd: To see the names and dates change on a headstone...

They're changing for some odd reason,

and I didn't want to be there to find out why.

John, stop! Stop! Stop it! It's Nick.

It's me, John.

It's all right.

What's wrong?

Webber: I had not a clue what was happening.

Whatever was showing itself wanted us to leave.

Narrator: Christian explores the oldest graves

in the pioneer section.

Adams: A lot of these tombstones

had this kind of a bluish gleam around them.

It was just really creepy

because there was absolutely no reason

why it should have been there.

I noticed that there were these peculiar tombstones.

They were very thin tombstones with this oval thing on top.

I looked back,

and there was five of these weird-looking tombstones.

I know there was seven when I looked the first time.

At that point, I became a lot more scared.

Okay, I know someone's here.

They were just standing there.

What do I do if they start coming toward me?

Should I run?

Something's wrong with him.

[ Door opens ]

Christian?

What happened?

Let's get out of here.

[ Engine turns over ]

Lloyd: I didn't tell the guys about the experiences that I had

because...

I felt like maybe I was the only one.

Adams: I didn't really want them to say

that they saw the same things that I saw.

If they'd have said that,

then that would have really...

Been too much for me to handle at that point.

For all of that to happen at once

puts so many questions in your head.

That's probably why we weren't talking to each other...

Because we were thinking too much about what had happened.

Narrator: Nick searches for any information about the cemetery

that can help him come to terms with what happened there.

The mausoleum is rumored to house the remains

of several children who died of polio,

but he can find no evidence of a crack on its surface.

Webber: I think that the crack may have actually been

the way that they escaped from the mausoleum.

It made me feel uneasy

that we had possibly disturbed the spirits of these children.

It just puzzled me why these things happened

and why they happened to us.

[ Beeping ]

Ugh!

Narrator: Nick thinks his dream is a message from beyond.

The point of the dream was that I shouldn't go back.

Narrator: The next day,

he tells his friends everything.

My dream... it was... It was weird.

It wasn't just ghosts of dead people.

It was, like, evil.

I saw two kids at the cemetery.

They were standing right in front of me.

I thought I was going crazy.

I saw something, too.

Yeah, me, too.

It was kind of surprising and reassuring to all of us

that we all kind of had things happen to us.

You couldn't pay me to set foot inside another cemetery.

I don't know what would have happened

if we had stayed there that night.

It was a very scary and traumatic experience for me.

And the three of us know we're not crazy, right?

But who the hell's gonna believe us?

Narrator: As the story of dartford cemetery

passes on from one person to the next,

the legend trip continues.

Adams: I saw two kids at the cemetery.

Lloyd: I was pushed off.

Webber: It was evil.

Narrator: After hearing the rumors

and doing the research on his own,

18-year-old Corbin Van buren and his friends

visit the graveyard in the fall of 2006.

Let's go.

Van buren: We were interested in going up just for the thrill.

And we figured everything we had heard was a joke.

I think I see the mausoleum.

I want to check out the Indian chief's grave first.

[ Indistinct speaking ]

What is it?

I thought I heard something.

Don't worry about it.

As we were walking through the cemetery,

we would hear twigs snapping behind us,

leaves rustling around.

We had the feeling of something following us.

Narrator: Corbin inspects the grave of a fabled Indian chief.

Van buren: The rumor about him was

that you would see him walking around

in his full uniform, full headdress.

That is creepy.

Let's go to the mausoleum.

Hang on.

I said hang on.

There's somebody else here.

It's probably a family

checking up on their relative's grave.

In the middle of the night?

Come on. Let's go.

We saw what we thought to be a figure

walking through the cemetery.

We just thought it was one of our friends playing tricks.

Now, you have to remember...

Narrator: Corbin tells his friends

everything he has learned about the legend.

What?

[ Gasps ]

Let's get out of here.

That's when we realized that it was not

one of our friends trying to play a trick on us.

All of us were scared to the point

where we felt it wanted us out.

What was that?

I don't know, man.

We didn't know what happened.

But it was something that couldn't be naturally explained.

What happened to your arms?

[ Screaming ]

Van buren: The marks seemed to be maybe an animal claw of some sort.

Narrator: Corbin is struck by a sudden pain.

Van buren: It felt like someone was just taking a knife

and stabbing it right through my leg.

We knew it wasn't anything from brush or trees

or anything on that order.

We knew it had to have been something

that had gotten to us.

[ Breathing heavily ]

Narrator: That night, Corbin compares his encounter

with the ones posted on Chad Lewis' website.

Van buren: After having that experience,

we do believe the other stories that we had heard.

Narrator: To this day,

legend trippers continue to explore dartford's cemetery,

tempting fate and hoping to get an answer

about what lies beyond the physical world.

But John, Christian, and Nick will never return.

Lloyd: If we had stayed there longer...

Who knows how physical they could have gotten?

It was just a good thing that we had left when we did.

Adams: If there are spirits there,

there could be spirits anywhere.

Spirits might be all around us.

I think that the spirits are all still in the cemetery,

but some things are better left... left alone.