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That is the creepiest [bleep] thing!

I just heard what sounded like human laughter over there.

Oh, right there, right there! We are not alone out here.

On this episode of "Expedition X"...

Wait till you see this.

Stephen King is the undisputed master of horror.

But is his fiction actually frightening fact?

Who here has experienced something strange

in the town of Bangor? - It's a lot of hands.

We travel to King's hometown of Bangor, Maine,

investigating a dark and deadly history

that is the foundation for his greatest works.

Down in Devil's Half Acre, they're getting away

with basically murder.

There's lots of accounts of bodies

being found down there.

Oh my God!

Their faces are scratched off.

The team discovers long-hidden secret tunnels

that inspired the lair of Pennywise in "It."

What the [bleep] was that?

That's when I realized something is down here with me.

Oh!

As Phil and Heather find out the truth behind Stephen King's

most iconic horror stories.

Oh, [bleep]!

OK, guys, I've got some childhood trauma to share.

Makes sense.

I'm just saying it checks out, Phil.

Bear with me.

So when I was a kid, I spent my childhood

crawling through storm drains, catching salamanders.

- Naturally. - Of course.

It was a blast until one day I encountered something

so terrifying, it scared the life out of me.

What? Like some monster salamander cryptid?

No, that would have been amazing to find.

Well, he would have loved that.

Absolutely. No, the "it" I'm talking about

wasn't in the storm drains.

- It was the book "It." - Oh, Stephen King classic.

Creepy clown, Pennywise, luring children to their doom.

- In the storm drains! - In the storm drains, I see.

Wait a second now.

You conquered the Amazon,

but you're scared of a little sewer?

I'll admit it's a work-in-progress for me,

but it stuck with me so much so that the other day

I went down a rabbit hole to see if there was

any truth behind it.

That there's a killer clown in the sewer?

No, that there's any truth behind the novel.

And it turns out, surprisingly, there may be,

because when Stephen King was writing "It,"

he was inspired by real strange stories

from his longtime home of Bangor, Maine.

And to this day, people in that town

regularly report paranormal activity.

Bangor is a really interesting place.

So on its surface, it is this beautiful, idyllic Maine city,

but it does have this very dark history, actually.

There are a lot of paranormal sightings there,

and it did inspire a lot of King's novels.

So I think you and the master of horror may be

onto something here, Phil, because behind It's

terrifying fiction, there might be something even scarier,

which is terrifying fact.

In Stephen King's novel, "It,"

an ancient evil lurks in the sewers

beneath the town of Derry, Maine,

feeding on children's fears by taking the form

of their darkest nightmares, most often a bloodthirsty clown

named Pennywise.

The fictional Derry has a long, dark history

of freak accidents and grisly murders.

But it pales in comparison to the real darkness

of the town that inspired it.

Welcome, not to Derry, but to Bangor.

Founded in 1769 on the Penobscot River,

the new settlement is quickly decimated

in the Revolutionary War.

The British then reclaimed the city in a bloody battle

in 1814.

But these tragedies are only the beginning.

By the mid-1800s, Bangor is known

as the lumber capital of the world.

Millions of logs float down the river,

along with the occasional battered bodies of loggers

killed in brutal accidents,

drunken brawls, and foul play.

Because with the city's wealth comes serious wickedness.

Downtown Bangor becomes such an illicit den

of brothels and saloons, it earns the nickname

the Devil's Half Acre...

...where murder is a weekly headline.

In response, Maine becomes the first state

to outlaw alcohol in 1851, and Bangor's sins

go underground, carving out miles of hidden tunnels

for speakeasies and unspeakable acts.

By the time National Prohibition arrives in 1920,

Bangor is already a stronghold for bootleggers,

smugglers, and organized crime.

The violence peaks in 1937,

when FBI agents gun down gangster Al Brady

in the middle of downtown,

where some say his ghost still roams the streets today.

But he's not the only specter haunting Bangor.

At the old water tower, people hear

disembodied laughter...

...and report strange temperature drops.

While at the 136-year-old theater, witnesses claim

they've been grabbed by an icy, invisible hand.

And in the historic downtown area, there's been

an uptick in shadow-figure sightings

ever since sinkholes opened and exposed

the forgotten tunnels beneath the city.

The very tunnels that inspired the sinister lair

of King's ultimate evil...

...Pennywise.

Do Stephen King's stories of supernatural terror

echo a real and ancient evil that, until recently,

was sealed away beneath the city?

Are the horrors of "It" slithering off the pages

and into Bangor?

This is fascinating. The history of this town

coupled with all the experiences people are

having, could very well be authentic paranormal activity.

And I do think that that activity could have helped

shape the novel "It."

Or it could be the other way around.

Maybe King's killer imagination has started to seep

into the minds of the people of Bangor.

But either way, there are too many reports to ignore.

We have to get to this town, if only to conquer

my childhood trauma. - Sure.

Some people go to therapy. Phil wants to go to Bangor.

I think it's really, really interesting,

especially the discovery of these tunnels, right?

I mean, who knows what secrets are lurking down there?

So that's your mission.

Get to Bangor, investigate these

paranormal encounters, and discover whether

the book "It" had one hell of a ghost writer,

the ghosts of Bangor.

It's only a 90-minute flight from New York to Bangor.

And once they leave the airport, Phil lines up

an It-appropriate way to get around the city...

by bicycle.

No jeep in these hills? Really?

I mean, if the kids in "It" use their bikes to adventure

around town and take on Pennywise,

I figure it's gotta be a great way for us

to get a lay of the land.

I don't have a kid's energy.

Oh! Look at that! Wait till you see this!

Check this out, Heather!

This is Stephen King's home.

This is where he wrote "It" and so many

of his other classics. - Now, this is my kind of house!

Look at those bats!

- Would you move in here? - Absolutely!

Keep up the good work, Stephen!

Here it is, the old firehouse.

Let's hear some stories of haunted Bangor.

Hello, hello.

We asked a group of locals to meet up

and share their stories of eerie encounters

from all over the city.

All right, why don't you guys take a seat

and we'll get this started.

So who here has experienced something strange

in the town of Bangor?

- A lot of hands. - That's why we're here.

All right, let's hear some stories.

Who's got a story to share?

I'm an actress at Penobscot Theater.

One night during a show, I was backstage with a good

friend of mine, Christie, who's here.

She goes, "Do you see... behind me?"

And I go, "The man?"

But it was through a scrim. And I went, "Why?"

She goes, "That person isn't there."

So what exactly did you see?

There was a face right against the scrim.

And so, Christie, you were there?

I was there.

It was a head, or did you see an entire body there?

It was a head just staring.

I walked right up to that scrim and literally put my hand out,

and there was nothing there.

So you're convinced that this was a ghost?

Yes. Mm-hmm.

Anyone else got something they wanna share?

- Yeah, go ahead. - So this happened

fairly recently at the Bangor Opera House late at night.

We were doing a production of "A Christmas Carol."

I was Tiny Tim.

I was backstage waiting to go on.

And then I feel like the sensation of somebody,

like, grabbing my shoulder, like a tight press

of my shoulder.

- And there's nobody there. - What do you think it was?

I think that it's a ghost named Sammy.

She was a little girl trying to get my attention.

OK, thanks for sharing this.

I've lived next to the Standpipe for 73 years,

and there was a boy that was killed in it

in an accident in 1940.

Howard was sliding down the banister,

and he slipped and fell between the banister and the tank.

- Oh, wow! - And by the time

they got to him, he was still alive,

but didn't make it to the hospital.

So what strange things are reported there today?

There's people that say they get a chill when they go

in the building, and they hear children playing in it.

One of the most interesting things about the history

of Bangor is there's a whole series of tunnels underground.

There's a lot of talk about them having been haunted,

and they run throughout underneath the city.

Mm. All right.

Anybody else got a story they wanna share?

Yes?

There's a lot of stories of the Kenduskeag Stream.

Stephen King called it the Barrens, and that name

kind of stuck. It goes right through Bangor.

It's a real eerie place.

There's a lot of Satanic rituals, witchcraft,

not anything you wanna mess with.

And this is common knowledge that this is going on

down there? - Yeah.

Mm.

I also work at Penobscot Theatre Company

of the Bangor Opera House, which is the building

that the theater is in.

I do have a piece of evidence that we've collected,

if you'd like to see it. - Yes!

- Wow! - Whoa!

They wanted to take a picture of the progress

of the building of the set, but no one was down there,

and that's what we saw afterwards.

It looks like you can see his whole face!

So there's no way that someone was standing

in front of that set? - That's right.

Any guesses who that might be?

The Bangor Opera House burnt down in 1914, rebuilt in 1920.

There are two firefighters who died in the fire of 1914.

That could be one of them.

I mean, that's an amazing piece of evidence.

You've gotten a fair amount of activity over there.

It seems like such a beautiful town.

Feels like you guys are trying to scare us out of here.

We have a lot of leads to look into.

But with so much activity reported

at the Bangor Opera House, Phil and I decide to make that

our first stop of the night.

We split up to cover more ground.

Phil goes on stage to look into Christie's

mysterious floating head.

Meanwhile, I make my way to the dressing room,

where some witnesses claim to have seen the spirit

they call "Sammy" behind them in the mirror.

I'm gonna set myself up in the exact same situation

to see if I can get some more activity.

I'm gonna have a recorder going.

This is Heather.

Is there someone here with me?

Sammy, can you show yourself to me?

What the [bleep] is that?

That sounded like a growl.

Sammy, did you just make that noise?

Can you make it again?

Did you [bleep] hear that?

That sounded like someone knocking

on the other side of the [bleep] wall!

There's nothing here!

What's on the other side of this wall?

So you clearly just made a knock.

Can you make a noise?

Bro.

Bro, did you hear that one? That was a tap-tap.

I think Sammy is messing with me.

I'm just gonna take a peek, see back here

to the other side of that wall.

Oh!

And these must be the stairs that that young boy

Miles had the experience of a cold hand

grasping his shoulder.

Ooh, temperature change.

It's definitely colder over here.

Wow. A floating disembodied head.

Look, look, look.

OK, so I guess they just have floating heads around here.

Let's see if we can recreate that floating head

that the witnesses saw.

I've heard about the ghost, Sammy.

I've got a couple of different objects

that I wanna see if she'll interact with.

OK.

I have an EMF tripwire because when I was a little girl,

I loved colorful things.

All she has to do is get near it or touch it

and the sensors will go off. How about some ghost balls?

Sammy, let's play.

Sammy, are you there?

Can you show yourself to me now?

Ooh! So you're right beside me right now.

You are right beside me right now.

OK, OK. So you're letting your...

your presence be known.

You're just sitting on that step.

If you're Sammy, can you light up the whole string

of EMF lights?

Ooh!

That whole thing just lit up. Did you see that?

Ooh!

They said the head was next the scrim.

Scrim is this. It's this lightweight material

that is used in theaters all over the world

because of the way it interacts with light.

Imagine you're in a scenario where there's a light

behind you and you're casting a shadow,

you would be able to see this face behind the scrim,

but the second you move and your shadow is gone,

boom, the face is gone too.

Now you see it,

now you don't.

Can you touch one of these balls?

Or can you move one of 'em? They'll roll really easily.

Sammy, are you the one that gripped Miles's shoulder?

Ooh!

Yes!

Are you trapped here?

Ooh.

Did you grab Miles's shoulder because you were lonely?

Or because you were afraid?

Did you leave?

'Cause it feels like you may have left.

I'm gonna leave my audio recorder running

in case you have anything else to say.

I'm gonna press on.

There's a lot more Bangor to investigate tonight,

so Heather and I decide to divide and conquer.

I head over to the Kenduskeag Stream,

the inspiration for the Barrens in Stephen King's "It,"

and, according to our witnesses, the site

of alleged Satanic rituals.

First thing I'm gonna do is get on my Flir.

Anything living and breathing down here,

it will show up bright white.

Basically, I just wanna make sure we are

truly alone down here.

Check it out!

Look at this! Look, we got bones!

Sometimes this means this is some sort of altar,

some sort of offering. Other times, it's just bones.

So I'll take a look around, see if I find anything else

that hints at what happened here.

Right here.

No way!

This is candle wax! Look at this.

One, two, three, four,

four candles.

This looks like someone, at least with the intent

of some sort of witchcraft, some sort of ritual,

so at least it seems like that part of the story

of what happens down here in the Barrens may be true.

OK, I'm gonna keep moving.

While Phil explores the Barrens,

I'm looking into the Thomas Hill Standpipe.

Oh, wow!

The setting for an iconic scene in King's novel, "It,"

and the site of a tragic accident in 1940.

The Bangor Water Department granted us exclusive access

for our investigation.

Oh, my!

Oh, OK.

This is where Howard was playing, right here,

and then he fell over...

...and passed away.

I'm just gonna do a call-and-response

session here.

I've got this audio recorder.

I came here to figure out

what all of this activity is.

Howard, are you here?

Ravine.

Ravine.

Howard, is that you?

What you want me to do?

The center.

The center of the structure?

Above.

You want me to go above the standpipe right now?

I'm listening.

I'll leave my audio recorder running.

Let's go up.

Wow.

That is the creepiest [bleep] thing.

I just heard...

...what sounded like-- like human laughter!

Over there. Is there anyone over there?

Oh, right there! Right there!

Come here! They're right there.

Right back there.

I just saw a head peek out from behind that tree.

We are not alone out here.

Hello? Anyone here?

I'm certain I saw someone show up right here.

I'll put my Flir away

so I can be ready for anything.

Hello?

Oh [bleep], look at those! Look, look!

Oh, my gosh!

This is-- that is wet.

That is where someone just stepped.

And it leads

all the way up to here,

to these culverts.

Oh, my God!

Oh my God!

I just heard laughter inside here.

Hello?

There's no way in. This is weird.

I mean, this is where, according to the story,

Pennywise lives.

This is where my childhood nightmares began.

Feels like everything I've experienced down here

in the Barrens led me to this, to the tunnels that run

underneath and throughout Bangor.

Looks like we're getting close to the top.

Ovilus told me to go above. I am above.

OK.

Oh my god! Look at that!

This is amazing!

You can see the whole city of Bangor.

A door. All right.

What the hell is this?

I gotta say, it feels incredibly creepy

to be standing over the entire water tank.

Now that I'm here in the center of the standpipe

and I see all this metal,

I'm gonna turn this structure

into a giant antenna for my spirit box.

Let's see if one of the biggest buildings in Bangor

can tap into all of the town's activity.

You can use this device to communicate with me.

I'm trying to understand the activity in Bangor.

Tell me what I need to know.

I heard the word down.

So I need to go down?

Yes. Yes.

Where do I need to go down?

Below?

Deep underground.

Are you in the tunnels?

"All of us," yes.

Evil?!

- Phil, do you copy? - Hey, Heather.

- How's it going? - I got intense activity.

I felt like I was led to the top of the standpipe,

and I got the words, "Down," "Below," "Tunnels."

Well, guess who just found down below tunnels

in the Barrens? - You're [bleep] me!

Could you get in there? Could you find

a way into the tunnels?

No. Let's regroup and form a plan.

Copy that.

After an eventful night, Heather and I split up

to dig deeper into what's really happening in Bangor.

I'm meeting up with Tia Wilson, a local historian

who's an expert on the city's dark past.

We're here investigating the origin of the inspiration

behind Stephen King's "It." - Yes.

As everybody knows, a lot of that evil comes

from what's down below. - Yes.

We've heard about these tunnels, but I'm just wondering

how much of this is just urban legend

and how much of it is true?

Yeah, well, there are tunnels under the city.

- OK. - Prohibition started

in Maine in 1850, so we were the first state

in the nation to start prohibition.

- Wow! - So 70 years

before it actually became a law for the rest of the states.

So these tunnels were then building an infrastructure

of illicit activities during that extended

prohibition period? - Absolutely.

There's like a whole underground city that we don't know about.

Are there maps of the tunnels?

There are no maps of the tunnels.

OK.

They didn't want people to know about the tunnels

because the tunnels were used for shady business.

So was this just people who wanted to have a drink?

No, no, no. I think the people

that were going down here may have had

a little bit more of a dark passion.

So we had gang members, we had the prostitutes.

Of course, we had maybe dirty politicians,

but they were going deep down into these tunnels

where they wouldn't necessarily be seen or found.

So was this a dangerous place to be?

Absolutely-- you wouldn't wanna be down there at night.

You wouldn't wanna be a woman walking down there alone.

- OK. - A lot of fist fights.

Sailors would get beaten to a bloody pulp.

And they're getting away with basically murder.

Down in Devil's Half Acre, there's lots of accounts

of bodies being found down there.

They found a body of an infant in a puddle.

- Oof. - Yeah. Yeah, terrible.

So there is a lot of history literally beneath our feet.

Yeah, and there's no record of it.

There could still be bodies down there.

- Mm-hmm. - They've barricaded up walls.

Do you have any advice, anything we should look out

for when we're down there?

collapsing walls, closed off tunnels.

To me, that's the biggest danger.

You don't wanna go down there and not be able to find

your way out.

Intrigued by the hits that directed me to look

deep underground, I found a witness

who says he's been there.

- Luke, hi. - Hi!

Heather, nice to meet you.

Luke Warren claims to have explored

miles of tunnels beneath the city

and had a terrifying experience deep inside.

What's it like down there?

I'm not typically a guy who gets nervous very easy.

I was nervous. I was scared.

It's just massive.

It's easy to get lost down there.

It's a labyrinth of rooms, corridors.

You get turned around easy.

Once you get into one room, it seems like it opens up

to another room.

You come back to go out of that room,

and it looks totally different.

I can only imagine that not only would that feel

terrifying, but in some ways it would feel like something was

messing with you. - It did.

It was like you're in a house of mirrors, almost.

Further in I went, it changed. The air changed.

I started feeling that I wasn't alone.

I noticed I was starting to breathe a little heavier.

My heart was beating heavier. My palms were sweating.

I've been to a lot of places that I consider creepy,

maybe even haunted. Never had that feeling before.

Wow! So I understand

that you filmed entering these tunnels?

Yeah, whenever I explore any old location,

I always film, this particular time,

I caught some stuff that I can't explain.

Let's see it

Here, I'm inside one of the bathrooms there,

two stories underground.

I was just looking around, seeing if I could see

any writing for dates or anything on the wall,

and that's when I realized that something is down here with me.

Oh!

That door just closed by itself.

- Slammed shut? - Mm-hmm.

Wow.

How does it feel watching this video back?

It still gives me goosebumps.

It's something that haunts me to this day, this feeling

of, "You're not alone." You'll feel it.

I felt it the whole time, and I wasn't prepared for it.

You think these tunnels are dangerous?

Without a doubt.

The tunnels just have a life of their own.

Using the detailed directions Luke gave me,

Phil and I are able to find the only known entrance

to the maze of tunnels, hidden in the basement

of an old building downtown.

There should be one more door down here.

OK.

Over here.

- You got it? - Yeah.

Luke said the entrance to the tunnels would be

through a reinforced door. - OK.

Let's see what's down here.

It's stuck.

Ugh!

Oh, my God, Heather! Look!

This is it. These are the tunnels.

- Wow! - Look at that!

The historian I talked to said that there's basically

no records for any of these tunnels

because they were all built for illegal activity.

But what is known about these locations is that the worst of

the worst happened down here, including murder.

Yeah, and my guy told me he felt like these tunnels

were messing with him.

- Just keeps going back. - Oh, barber chair.

Barber chair.

It was just left here!

Yeah, it seems like...

as the city started to modernize in the mid-1900s,

they must have just closed off entrances to the tunnels.

Just completely forgot about them.

- That's a stretcher. - Yeah?

I mean, you wanna talk about a bajillion

different trigger objects that are just lost to time.

Really old books in here.

Storage areas back here.

This is just too creepy!

Did this take us back around?

Are we walking in circles?

Maybe this place is a maze.

Before we explore any further, I get out the XLS camera

to search for any paranormal activity.

Let's see if we can find anything.

There's something I wanna try.

- What are you thinking? - Lemme show ya.

There definitely would have been multiple entrances

and exits to the tunnels.

So you told me that Luke had a door slammed on him,

so I'm wondering, what if there's a draft

that moves through here sometimes?

OK, so how are we gonna test that?

A red balloon?

Yeah, when in Stephen King's underworld,

you bring a red balloon. - OK.

Tie it to a string, put a little tiny weight on it

so it's neutrally buoyant, and any breeze will make

this thing move around.

So, got this recording.

If this balloon moves, we'll have it documented.

- OK. - Roll.

OK.

Oh!

What the [bleep] was that?

I see glass. I don't see any broken glass.

Here. Here. Look.

It's like a jar or something just fell.

Look at all that glass down there.

Oh my goodness. Where was it?

I have no idea.

Check these out.

- Oh. - What?

That's creepy.

Oh my god! Their faces are scratched off.

Look at those kids' faces!

Oh my god. They're all scratched out.

It's like they're trying to erase whoever that was.

Something wants our attention here.

Do not feel friendly.

I have to do a call and response here.

All right. This is Heather and Phil.

We're recording in the tunnels.

We know something is down here with us.

So who are you?

Do you enjoy scaring us?

Pursuit?

Something is pursuing us right now?

Whoa!

- Danger from what? - I don't know.

Let's see what's back here.

- Stick together. - OK.

Well, I recognize this.

- Is this in this video? - Yeah.

What happened to him in here?

So he was staring in this mirror,

and that stall...

slammed shut.

I just don't get it.

It does kind of close on its own.

He didn't push it open and let it close.

OK.

Door lock here to keep it open?

No?

I think we should just stare into the mirror

and see if anything happens.

- You just want me to stare into a mirror? - Yeah.

If there's anything in here,

we came all this way

because Luke saw a door slam shut in here.

Can you make it slam shut again?

What was that?

What the [bleep] are we hearing?

It was like whispering.

That sounded like it came from right out the hallway,

right? - Yeah.

Another door.

Whoa!

Just outside Bangor, a patch of woods hides

the origin of what Stephen King has called

his most disturbing work.

In the late 1970s, King's young family rented a home

next to a busy road where animals were

constantly struck by speeding trucks.

Stephen noticed neighborhood children

gathering the corpses and burying them

in the nearby woods, marking the graveyard

with a misspelled cemetery sign.

King's own cat would go on to be interred there

when it, too, was mowed down by a truck.

Even more shocking, King's toddler son was

almost a victim, too, running into the road

before being saved just in time.

And all of this gave King a terrifying idea,

wondering what would happen if whatever was buried

in that cemetery came back to life,

whether that was an animal or a boy.

Thus began the nightmarish novel "Pet Sematary."

Oh, [bleep]!

What the [bleep] Heather!

Did you not hear that?

No!

It was right behind me! Something just fell!

The hell is that noise?

It sounded like a train.

There's no trains above us.

That sounds like a barrel being rolled.

I think you're right.

It literally does sound like something being rolled.

I don't know what is happening here--

- What was that? - The balloon!

The balloon is gone!

Where is it? Where is it?

- Oh, my God! - No!

It's here on the ground.

Holy [bleep]. How did this thing pop?

Wait, you feel that?

There's a slight breeze, which must have pushed

the balloon this direction.

But that means there might be another passage.

Someone could have come through here.

Might be messing with us.

Or could it have been someone trying to get us

to go down there?

Let's find out. This takes us further down.

Luke said once you started seeing the old stone,

you knew the tunnels were getting older.

As I progressed further in, it did get into, like,

an older brick and some rock walls in there, too,

that looked like something from way back.

Look at this place.

- Wow! It's so old. - Hey, it keeps going back here.

Heather, I think I can fit.

Phil!

Be careful!

Whoa.

OK, I'm in.

Phil, what are you doing?

Wow!

This has gotta be the oldest section

of the tunnels we've seen.

This is unreal! What's on the other side?

Heather, there might be something

on the other side here.

Are you willing to die for it?

Phil, look what you're standing on!

It looks like a caved in.

It does look like a cave in.

And what was the last word I got on the Tempest?

- Danger. - Exactly.

Something wants to hurt us, and you're playing

right into its hands. You need to get

the hell outta there.

I'm hearing things fall around me.

I don't wanna be inspiration for another Stephen King book.

In Stephen King's novel "It," an evil force, Pennywise,

lurks in the tunnels beneath Derry,

luring people to their doom.

Heather is convinced that truth is stranger than fiction...

[bleep] was that?

...believing she and Phil experienced something

very similar beneath Bangor.

Considering the evidence gathered during their time

in Stephen King's hometown, there's a disturbing amount

that could horrifically prove her right.

While Heather was doing her spirit box session

at the top of the town's watertower...

I heard the word down.

...she had left an audio recorder running

two stories below, right by the banister

where young Howard Goodell fell to his death.

It's faint, but Heather believes

she can hear a child laughing.

A residual echo, perhaps, from the 12-year-old victim

before tragedy struck.

And remember that Phil heard what sounded like

child's laughter, too.

Oh, my god!

Right after he captured this Flir footage

in the Barrens.

We are not alone out here.

We analyzed it, and the shape stands

a little over four and a half feet tall,

the average size of a 10-year-old boy.

He thinks it may have been kids playing a prank.

Heather disagrees, wondering if it was

something more malevolent, playing with Phil.

But no part of Bangor was more active

than the long-forgotten prohibition tunnels.

Was this a dangerous place to be?

Absolutely!

There's lots of accounts of bodies

being found down there.

While in the subterranean bathroom where witness Luke

heard a door slam...

...Phil and Heather both heard the sound of whispering.

What the [bleep] are we hearing?

We ran an analysis on the audio

and no distinct words could be detected.

But at that exact moment on our IR camera,

the balloon began moving.

Shortly after that, it popped.

The balloon!

Nothing environmental could easily explain it,

and no one else was found to be present in the tunnels.

Was something really pursuing Phil and Heather?

Drawing them ever deeper into the maze-like basement...

Oh, my god!

...and pushing them towards misfortune?

Something wants to hurt us, and you're playing

right into its hands. You need to get

the hell outta there.

Heather has no doubt Stephen King's horror

is all too alive in Bangor.

But before they left town for good,

Phil had one more fear to face. - All right, Phil.

Grate that inspired Stephen King's "It."

Time to conquer your childhood fear.

Going in.

Ugh! Oh, it goes deep.

Let's see what's in there.

- Oh, my god, Heather! - What?

Oh!

Wanna play, Heather?

- Feel better now? - May smell like sewer,

but that was totally worth it.

You know what? You can get your own self out.

Looks like it's just me and you, Pennywise.