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I was terrified.

I know it may sound crazy to some,

But I've got a job I got to do.

I had a mystery on my hands.

I wanted to find out the cause for the alarm...

And leave.

It just felt like somebody was with me.

Ah!

I had no idea what I was looking at.

Whatever this was, was not of this world.

Being firemen, we're accustomed to death,

But this passed that threshold and then some.

We started playing at the ouija board,

Messing with something beyond myself,

Something that I can't control.

I couldn't put it into words how afraid I was.

And she said, "we're all going to die."

I had no idea that it could even go

From firehouse to my house.

Don't **** with ouija boards, and don't **** with the dead.

Oh, my god!

911-- please state your emergency.

I think it's a ghost!

Copy that, dispatch, on my way.

Security specialist john griffin responds to an alarm

That's been set off in a decommissioned office

Building at a trauma hospital in upstate new york.

I chose the security field because I really wanted

To find a place that I could help people.

And because this hospital has been abandoned for some time,

It's become a haven for addicts

And potentially violent criminals,

Putting the officer at risk.

- Dispatch, unit four. - Go ahead.

No sign of forced entry.

I'm going to check inside. - Copy that. Keep us updated.

The very nature of the alarm suggests that someone is inside.

The alarm we received was a motion alarm.

It is the motion of anything that is passing through

Or near the alarm that sets it off.

Griffin's next task is to reset the alarm,

Turning it off audibly, keeping it signaling to dispatch

So they can continue to track his

Or anyone else's movements in the building.

With the alarm silenced,

The halls are as quiet as a tomb.

Sound, you could hear echoes.

The hallways were very large.

It was a pretty broken-down building.

As per protocol, officer griffin begins a systematic sweep

Of the four-story building starting with the ground floor,

Making it impossible for whoever is inside to get past him

And out of the building,

But sprawled over 2 acres and with more than 75 rooms,

This building is an enormous trojan horse

For anyone with evil intent.

I'm not armed, so if I do sneak up on somebody,

Then if they are armed, it becomes a fight for my life.

Griffin finally reaches the room

Where the motion detector was triggered.

In the past, I have dealt with an armed individual,

So you make sure that you're going to do everything possible,

Every protocol to make sure that you're safe.

Griffin employs a training tactic

In an attempt to reveal the intruder.

I rolled the flashlight on the ground

To try to see if I would see any shadows cast

That would look more like a person.

I wasn't hearing or seeing anybody --

No breathing, no walking, no shuffling, no nothing.

Appeared to be pretty much empty.

There was just a desk.

It just looked like it was abandoned.

I'm like, "could this be a faulty alarm?"

I mean, what's causing this alarm at all?

So I'm thinking to myself, "okay, well,

It could be some maintenance workers.

Maybe they were the ones that were in the building."

Dispatch, has maintenance been in the building,

Or they already left?

Dispatch, it says here that they left about 2 hours ago.

Copy that, dispatch.

At this point, I had a mystery on my hands.

The security officer proceeds to check the rest of the floor.

Then I started hearing a noise coming from down the hall.

It sounded like the creaking of a metal door.

The slam completely startled me.

That's a huge metal door.

With the way that the door slammed, how big are they?

That became a concern because at this point,

I'm by myself with somebody that potentially may be very strong.

Bracing himself

For a potentially violent confrontation,

Griffin checks the rest of the floor

On which the alarm was triggered.

Every room he passes is a possible hideout

For a very strong

And very desperate person just waiting to strike.

But again, he sees nothing.

Griffin proceeds up to the next floor of the building

Moving ever further away from the exit doors

If he ever needs to escape.

I advised dispatch where I was going to be starting my sweep,

And then advised them that if they see any unusual alarms

Of areas that I am not in to let me know.

Officer griffin, this is dispatch.

Please keep us advised of your progress.

I went through the second floor.

There was nothing.

I went through the third floor...

Nothing.

The only floor left is the top floor, the fourth floor.

As I'm walking down the hallway,

I notice that there's a light coming from one of the rooms.

This did not make sense because when I pulled up

To the building, the area where this room was,

Those lights were off when I arrived.

At this point, seeing that the light was on

For that specific room, the intruder had to be in there,

So I'm thinking, "I have this person cornered."

Hey, hold on!

Hang on!

Ah! Ah!

I had no idea what I was looking at here.

Responding to an alarm set off

In an abandoned hospital building,

Security expert john griffin

Is on the hunt for a mysterious intruder.

I had a mystery on my hands.

On the top floor, he's confronted

By something unexplainable.

A light coming from one of the rooms.

Hey, hold on!

- Ah! - Hang on!

From what I observed up there, it looked like a nun.

Ah!

I found this bizarre, but given the fact

That this used to be a dormitory for nuns,

It reminded me that the rumor was a nun allegedly

Hung herself at the top floor.

But the door is locked.

Griffin gives chase.

He's forced to double back to the main stairwell

To cut off the intruder's escape.

I looked down.

And then it was nothing.

She was just not there.

This balcony was supposedly the site

Where this nun jumped to her death.

This is an area which would be saturated with this

Heavy energy, this guilt, this sorrow, this regret,

So it makes sense that she would draw him there

Because she wanted him to know the manner in which he died.

Officer griffin, this is dispatch.

Can you update your status, please?

All right.

Officer griffin, are you there?

At this point, I just didn't know what to think anymore.

Griffin recovers from the initial shock

Of what he's seen and reverts to his training --

Stop this intruder's escape no matter what it is.

All the scenarios that I could possibly play out

That would make complete logical sense

Were being defied at this point.

- Why are you here? - I heard this voice in the hall.

I turn, and I look, and I saw her again.

As clear as day, I heard this voice as clear as day.

In that moment, I knew whatever this was, was not of this world.

I had just seen a ghost.

Suicide leaves behind a very heavy, dark psychic residue.

A spirit needs their story to be acknowledged,

And especially if it was something tragic.

They need someone to know the manner in which they died.

They need to feel a sort of justice.

They need to have witnesses.

John, you all right?

Sergeant had arrived at the building.

Find anything in there?

I didn't know whether to tell him what I had come across.

I didn't want to come across as being crazy at this point.

It was all clear.

But as per protocol,

His sergeant sends him back for one last task --

All potential trigger points must be inspected and reset

Before clearing the location.

He handed me the paperwork and said,

"we need to test these alarms,

So you need to head to these rooms

And look for these five alarms and test them with dispatch.

The sooner you finish, the sooner you're out of here.

I was heading back into the building by myself,

I mean, knowing that there's no intruder in there,

But something else.

In all, there are five alarm stations to reset.

The sheet indicated that the alarms

That we needed to test were on the second floor...

...So walked up to the second floor,

But keeping in the back of my mind

What I had just experienced.

Am I going to come across this again?

I mean, where is this... Is this figure going to appear?

What's going to happen next?

There's no sounds, and I tried to stay as quiet as I could

So I could listen to any -- if anybody was moving around.

Making his way to the first alarm station,

Griffin moves cautiously through near-pitch-black passageways.

So far, no signs of life...

Or death.

He finally reaches alarm station number 1...

...And quickly proceeds to test it.

One down, four to go.

This is dispatch, test of alarms.

All indications are operational.

I am frozen with fear at this point.

I did not know what to do.

I was terrified.

Security officer john griffin

Answers a routine alarm call

That turns out to be anything but.

- Hey, hold on! - Thrust into hell.

Inside, he corners a mysterious nun

Seemingly not of this world.

Find anything in there?

Narrowly escaping, he's sent back inside

To reset the alarms...

...Sending him back into a life-and-death struggle.

Her voice was very stern.

She quickly vanishes leaving griffin shaken and confused.

This time, she sounded angry

That I was at that location at the time.

It put me in a very unique state of mind.

My heart almost sunk.

Suicides leave behind very powerful emotions,

A very heavy, dark psychic residue.

John's life may be very well in danger.

I did not know what to do at this point

Because I can't just go outside and tell my boss,

"I'm not testing these alarms.

There's a ghost in the building."

He needs to finish the job he started, and fast.

I know it may sound crazy to some,

But I've got a job I got to do.

Alarm 3 is located in sector 7 hallway.

He moves deeper into the building

Towards the next alarm station.

He now has only two alarms left to test.

It definitely scared the hell out of me.

He races to the next alarm fearing for his life.

This is dispatch.

We show one alarm left to test.

I need to try to get the job done as quickly as I could

So I could get out of there.

As I was getting closer and closer to the last room...

Why are you here? You don't belong here.

This time, she's in the doorway.

This is dispatch.

Officer griffin, can you give us an update...

I was terrified, but I did still continue.

As part of my job, I have no choice.

So you're determined to keep doing your job

Even though that there's a ghost standing out in the hallway?

Is that what you're saying? - I'm -- yeah.

I'm still determined to complete the task that I was given.

Moving towards the final alarm,

Griffin can no longer see the nun.

My heart began to pound.

I could just -- I could hear my heart in my head.

Is she going to be there in this room?

why are you here?

With the final alarm tested...

You don't belong here.

He runs as fast as his legs can carry him.

I began shaking more and more as I was getting closer and closer.

Griffin's senses are now on full alert.

One last door, and he's out,

But he's hit with a fresh dose of hell.

Suddenly, she was just there.

And I was just terrified.

My exit is right there.

Griffin finally decides to stand his ground.

He advances toward the apparition.

And it works.

The spirit flees, leaving griffin free to escape.

At that point, I exited.

I was pretty much hightailing it out of the building.

I'm not really sure what she wanted from me,

But it was clear she wanted me out of that building.

I believe the spirit was leading him

Through the whole time.

When you have a very honorable person such as a nun

Do something such as a suicide,

Something where there's so much shame attached to it,

We bear so many crosses in this lifetime,

And we often need a witness, someone to see the grief,

The tragedy that we've been through.

I shall pay you my vows.

Sometimes, spirit has to resort

To some very extreme measures to get our attention.

This is actually very dangerous.

I think maybe john was lucky.

The only thing I knew for sure is that I never really wanted

To go in that building again.

But given that the building is on his nightly patrol route,

He has little choice.

To cope, he develops a strategy,

Reaching an uneasy truce with the spirit world.

Whenever I would enter the building after that,

I would call out to the nun and let her know

That I'm entering the building,

And what I'm entering the building for out of respect.

You have to always be open to the possibility

That you never know what's going to happen next.

Hello? Is anybody there?

Ah!

Are you there?

- Whoa, did that just happen? - I told you, this works.

Unit 466, we've got a 1096,

4521 faulkner road.

Rookie firefighter jacob parsons and his crew respond

To the unusual 911 call.

The 911 call came in as a 1096.

1096 is altered mental status,

Which really means abnormal behavior.

First on the scene, the firefighters

Move inside the house to assess the situation

Until the police and paramedics arrive.

I was instantly met with a young woman, spanish,

In her 20s, and she was hysterical.

She was really, really frantic about her grandma.

I could see a small woman underneath the blanket,

And I could hear speaking

In what I could only assume were incantations.

Trained to deliver emergency medical care,

Jacob proceeds to examine the woman.

Ma'am, can you get up?

In altered mental status,

You have to rule out a couple things.

Talking with the granddaughter, she had no history of dementia,

No history of alzheimer's.

Jacob and his colleague can find no medical explanation

For the woman's strange behavior.

She was completely fine 5 minutes before they called.

All her vitals were great.

But instead of cooperating, she escalates,

Speaking in an unknown language.

And she said that her grandma

Started speaking in tongues, claiming she saw a ghost.

It was a woman in a white dress.

At that, she instantly sat up slowly, without using her hands,

And let the sheet just kind of fall down.

Luckily at this point, another rescue crew arrived behind us.

That was the ambulance.

While paramedics prepare to transport the woman to hospital,

The two firefighters clear the rest of the house...

...And discover what looks like wet footprints...

...But it leads nowhere.

Dismissing it as a simple plumbing issue,

The firefighters head back to their truck.

With a patient en route to hospital,

Jacob and his crew can't seem to shake from their minds

The woman's sudden and unexplainable behavior.

We were all beside ourselves.

We drove the whole way back to the station in complete silence.

Even more terrifying to jacob is the possibility

That he may have actually played a part in her bizarre condition.

He fears he may have triggered the event

By his actions earlier in the evening

And has unleashed something evil.

To pass the time, jacob had crafted a ouija board,

A seemingly innocent game linked to a strange coincidence...

I realized that the exact time the call came in

Was the exact time we sat down

And started playing with the ouija board.

I asked where we're going to go on our next call.

Okay. If you're for real,

Tell us where our next call is going to come from.

The ouija board spelled out f- a-u-l.

- Let's go. - Let's roll.

Come on.

A few seconds later, a 911 call came in,

And it was for faulkner road.

This completely floored us.

I mean, we were in disbelief.

In case it wasn't just a coincidence,

Jacob decides to make it so they can never play the game again,

At least not with his makeshift board.

I believe that what this woman experienced

Was due to us messing with a ouija board.

None of us went to bed easy that night.

None of us slept good that night.

An alarming sound rips through the station.

I woke up about midnight.

Everybody was in bed because I heard

The pass alarms going off in the bay.

The alarm is an emergency signal

Attached to a firefighter's air tank.

Your turn to check it out, rook.

It's typically triggered when a firefighter has stopped

Breathing for more than 30 seconds.

It's always a bad omen.

You're always taught from the second you start fire school --

If you hear that alarm, you need to turn it off

Because that means somebody is not moving.

But jacob has no idea why it's going off now.

There's been no fire call all night,

And the tanks that trigger the alarms are safely on the truck.

There's two trucks and six pass alarms.

Now, they were all going off at the same time

Which is astronomically improbable.

Stranger still is a trail of wet footprints similar

To the ones he saw back at the strange woman's house.

Looked up, saw this woman soaking wet in a white dress.

And she said, "we're all going to die."

Minutes after playing

With a makeshift ouija board

To kill time at the fire station...

- Are you there? - Whoa.

Did that just happen? - I told you, this works.

Firefighter jacob parsons and another crew member respond

To a mysterious 911 call...

...Where a woman appears to speak in tongues...

...Only made more strange later that night

By the sudden appearance of wet footprints

Leading to a terrifying figure.

And she said, "we're all going to die."

But the woman soon disappears...

...Triggering yet another baffling mystery.

I noticed that the electrical lines

Were pulled from the trucks.

These are auto injector lines.

They only pull out if the truck has been turned on.

We are even told when we start in the fire department

To never pull them out by hand.

Therefore, it had to be concluded

That somebody pulled them out on purpose.

The burning question for jacob is,

"who would want to harm he and his crew, and why?"

What the hell is going on here?

Jacob can't shake the feeling his unit

Has become the target of someone or something.

If the trucks aren't plugged into an electrical outlet

When they're not in use, they will drain the battery,

And you will not be able to turn them on and respond

In the time that's needed to save a life.

I couldn't put it into words how afraid I was.

Jacob wonders how the mysterious woman

That appeared to him briefly ties into the sabotage.

Stumped for answers, he decides to turn back

To what he feels triggered all these strange events --

His homemade ouija board.

Maybe it can shed a light on the mystery.

And as soon as we touched the planchette, it started moving.

I asked it if it was a male or a female.

Are you male or female?

Okay. - It said female.

I asked how old she was.

43.

I asked, "you want to speak to me, don't you?"

As soon as it said, "yes,"

I had a vision in my mind of a woman

Soaking wet in a white dress pointing at me.

Using a ouija board is kind of like putting up a sign

Outside your own front door saying, "come on in."

You don't know if you're going to get somebody nice

Or if you're going to get somebody terrible.

Terrified by the visions unleashed by his ouija board,

Jacob wants no further part in this evil game.

At this point, I said, "I'm done,"

Quit and walked away.

It's just too real.

The next morning, things go from bad

To worse with a piece of news that shakes jacob to his core.

I woke up to a text from my ex-wife.

Yeah, it's me. What's going on?

She said our oldest son, who was about 4, said,

"there's a woman in the room."

I instantly knew what he was talking about.

Okay, hold on. I'm coming.

Just hold on, and I'll be there in a bit, okay?

Jacob races home, deeply worried for his family.

- As soon as I got home... - Hey, buddy.

Hey. What are you doing there?

I said, "hey, son." it's okay.

He said, "oh, there was somebody in the room."

I tried to put my best poker face on.

He says there was a woman in the room

And said she was really mad.

At this point, I am messing with something beyond myself,

Something that I can't control.

When firefighter jacob parsons innocently fools around

With a homemade ouija board,

He unleashes a horrifying presence --

A mysterious woman in white who terrorizes one of his patients

And then sabotages the station's equipment.

If the trucks aren't plugged in,

You will not be able to turn them on.

What the hell is going on here?

Her next target, his most precious possession...

Yeah, it's me.

...His son.

Our oldest son, who was about 4, said,

"there's a woman in the room."

I instantly knew what he was talking about.

I had no idea that it could even go

From one firehouse to my house.

So it scared me straight.

In this case, it seems that jake picked up

A spiritual attachment,

An entity that was clinging onto him

And was going to follow him wherever he went.

Often, spirit entities will latch onto the person

That they feel most attracted to or that brings them through,

And in this case, jake is the guy that opened the door

To allow this entity to come through into our world.

The firefighter, terrified by the dark forces

His innocent actions have summoned,

Puts an end to this twisted game.

I refuse to put my son in any further danger.

It's rather disturbing that jake's young son

Also saw the entity in his own home.

Firstly, our home is where we're supposed to be at our safest.

Our families are the things that we value the most.

When firefighters see the most horrific things on the job,

They leave that ideally at the firehouse and then come home,

So for jake to take this entity home,

A consequence of something that he did on the job,

And then have it threatening his family,

That's got to be incredibly disturbing for him.

I instantly called my coworkers.

They were just as scared as I was.

We all have small kids.

It could've happened to them as easily as it happened to me.

A ouija board isn't a children's toy.

Some people claim that it has done

Nothing less than wreck their lives,

Causing them physical harm, financial harm,

Breaking up families.

Jacob wonders if the woman in white

Is somehow connected to the firehouse itself.

This department in central florida is a small department.

I believe it was started around 1826.

It was really old, a lot of history there.

A lot of different calls have been run out of there

And a very, very busy firehouse with a old demographic.

Okay, how did you die?

I asked how she died.

Ouija board said she drowned.

Being firemen, we're accustomed to death.

We're used to being around the dead.

We're used to traumatic things,

But this passed that threshold and then some.

There are those in paranormal circles

Who believe in an entity called zozo,

Which seems to come through spirit boards

All across the world,

And if these stories are to be believed,

This is a very dark, very negative entity

That has a negative impact on the lives of those involved.

Determined to close the hellish gate he inadvertently opened,

He's compelled to destroy this board for good.

My lieutenant is actually an ordained minister,

And he said that we need to rip the ouija board

Up into seven pieces because that's the holy number.

We ripped it up into seven pieces...

...And blessed it with holy water...

...And never talk about it again.

From that day on, I won't touch a ouija board.

If anybody is messing with one, I'll leave.

I would say in my pride, I believed

That I could handle it, but being a new father,

I was completely ignorant to the fact

That it could affect my son.

- Can we go to the park? - Okay.

Don't worry.

She won't come after you again, okay?

I promise.

Don't worry.

Does it still haunt you?

To this day, it still does.

Best advice I have for anybody out there

Who's interested in this,

Don't **** with ouija boards, and don't **** with the dead.

Zozo, zozo...