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JACK: We're the first paranormal investigation show

ever to set foot on this property.

I just saw a shadow move.

Like, right there, something went...

What was that?

Yeah. What was that?

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Is this place a portal to Hell?

[ Crow caws ]

Oh, jeez. [ Bleep ]

-[ Child laughing ] -This is [bleep] nuts.

♪♪

He believes that you're demonic,

so this should really piss you off.

[ Bell clangs ]

[ Laughs ]

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Today, we are going to investigate

the infamous LaLaurie mansion here in New Orleans.

That's right. It's kind of a big deal.

This is -- This place has never been investigated,

especially from a paranormal TV show,

so we're setting the bar high.

Yeah, and it -- I mean, it's pretty historic.

I've been trying to get in here for 10 years,

but I think the first step we have to do

is start separating the truth from the myths -- Exactly.

...because there's a lot of rumors

about the atrocities that happened there.

Let's hit it.

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New Orleans is the only city I've ever been to that

I feel like you could just lift everybody out

and this city would still have a pulse. Yeah.

It's just -- It is alive with this unique energy

that I've never felt anywhere else that I've gone.

A lot of people think New Orleans is actually

the most haunted city in America.

-Yeah. -You've got voodoo.

You've got a huge amount of black magic.

Apparently there's people that identify

as vampires that live here. -Oh, yeah.

It's a huge part of the culture,

this kind of mysticism and dark arts.

And you have to wonder in a place where there's

this kind of acceptance of, kind of, like, anything goes,

the people that don't have the best intent,

did they open up doorways that they shouldn't have

and that can't be closed?

So my belief is that there could potentially be a portal

at the LaLaurie house because of the extent of the trauma

that occurred on the grounds.

I think Madame LaLaurie,

She was, like, a Dr. Mengele of her time.

Yeah. She was pretty twisted.

We know that she was a wealthy woman

in New Orleans for her time. -Okay.

She was well-to-do. Everyone knew her.

They liked her, but what they didn't know is

that she was keeping dirty secrets in her house.

Slavery was a way of life here in New Orleans at the time,

but what separates her

is that she had no regard

for their life at all.

Even for their standards, she was freaking twisted. Mm-hmm.

We know there was a torture chamber in her house,

so we have a lot of tragedy that happened here.

We know there was a fire and that everyone had to get

out of there pretty quickly.

Yeah, which kind of put the LaLaurie house on the map. Mm-hmm.

I would probably say she, you know,

was the first American female serial killer.

Yeah.

So I think the first order of operations,

before we go to the house, I've arranged for us to meet

with a local historian, Sidney Smith,

who's kind of the leading authority

when it comes to the paranormal history at the LaLaurie mansion.

Thanks, Austin. Pulling over now.

So we're gonna kind of get the skinny on what's fact,

what's speculation.

Listen, it's haunted enough for "American Horror Story"

to do an entire season about that house

and the things that happened there,

so that kind of lets you know how

[bleep] up that place is.

All right, this is the Sidney Smith interview

about the LaLaurie house.

Sidney, what do we actually know about the mansion?

It really was a real-life house of horrors --

the absolute worst mutilations, worst torture chamber

that you could possible imagine, cruelty beyond human belief.

Madame LaLaurie's original name was Marie Delphine Macarty,

and she owned over 50 slaves, men, women and children,

and over the course of time,

about 20 slaves disappeared without a trace.

It's conceivable that she probably killed these slaves,

tortured them to death.

A fire breaks out, set by one of the slaves.

Mm-hmm.

A woman who had been chained to the stove,

and allegedly she set the fire

to draw attention to the atrocities

that were taking place inside the house.

They found seven human beings almost dead.

There were dislocated heads.

There were limbs that were broken

and set in different angles.

One woman had a hole in her head that was filled with maggots,

and she was alive still.

Now in the days after the fire,

people wouldn't walk anywhere near that house.

It was abandoned.

It was empty, but people heard screams and moans.

They would hear chains rattling.

They'd hear all kinds of stuff

coming from within what was deemed to be an empty house.

Well, it was deemed to be ghosts and this type of thing. Mm-hmm.

So the accounts of paranormal activity

go all the way back to 1834?

Oh, absolutely.

Oh, absolutely, but there's an interesting twist here.

Decades later, when the house was being renovated,

carpenters made a very gruesome discovery.

They found bodies under the floorboards

of slaves that were buried alive,

so the screams that people heard in the days

after the fire were real.

Wow.

One of the rumors that's going around

is that her slaves practiced voodoo,

and maybe that's part of the reason

why the house is so haunted.

What's your take on that?

Well, New Orleans certainly has a heavy-duty history

with voodoo without a doubt,

and voodoo is still practiced here today as a religion --

-Mm-hmm. -...so it's conceivable

that there's a lot of energy coming out of that house.

So what kind of hauntings have you heard occur on the property?

Actually, a friend of mine, a lady named Annie,

Annie lived there as a child in the '60s, 1960s,

and she has quite a few stories to tell you --

-Wow. -...and I actually have arranged

for her to speak with you all today.

-Oh, great. -Thank you.

That will be great.

That'll definitely help our investigation.

We learned a lot from Sidney, and I think what surprised me

is how much of the legend ended up being true.

I think that's the biggest takeaway I have

'cause I expected much more to be rumor.

Annie, thank you for joining us.

-I really appreciate it. -My pleasure.

What is your earliest memory of living at the LaLaurie house?

I remember when we moved in was in the early to mid-'60s.

Had you guys heard that it was haunted at any point?

Not at all.

When we first moved in, one afternoon,

we walked into the living room there,

and our beds were tossed away.

They were no longer up against a wall.

They were pushed in the middle of the room. Hmm.

While I was asleep at night,

I used to hear noises.

-I would hear screaming. -Really?

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And I just begged my father every night,

I said, "Please, put the lights on."

He says, "Sure, sure,"

so he allowed us to sleep with the lights on at night,

and it was very, very frightening.

And it all came from within the apartment, your apartment?

-Yes. -Facing Governor Nicholls

and then Royal was, you know, it was --

The whole corner apartment was our apartment.

One evening, I looked up,

and I saw what I thought

appeared to be a little girl

sitting on the corner of the rooftop,

and her legs were dangling.

She appeared to be an African-American child

with a dress blowing,

and I thought to myself, "What is that?"

She was sitting on the corner of the building.

-I'm sorry. -Are you okay?

It haunts me.

This has never left me.

Been interesting all these years having to live with this.

Yeah.

So I think one of the most upsetting things

was when I went back 20 years later

to make peace with the house -- -Hmm.

-...and I was knocked down. -Wow.

I didn't think that was very nice --

-Yeah. -...but it happened.

-That's crazy. -Yeah.

-It was frightening. -Yeah.

KATRINA: I believe Annie is telling the truth.

I think she's very genuine in her testimony.

It's actually pretty extraordinary

because you can tell her experiences in that house

have completely affected her to this day.

-Roll. -Really?

-We'll do this later. -Yeah.

You mean just...

Annie, are you okay?

Annie, after the interview,

went downstairs with one of our producers

and, like, nearly collapsed because she's, like,

so emotionally drained from just sharing this experience.

It's been with me almost all my life,

and having to relive it to this extent

is a really frightening experience.

Yeah.

The LaLaurie mansion has power. I have no doubt about that.

There's something in that place.

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Okay, LaLaurie house.

1 to 10, are you nervous?

-Are you... -A 20.

I am maybe even more than a 20,

but to know that it's actually true,

that people are actually having experiences to this day,

that's fascinating, and I don't think

that's something that a lot of people know. No, exactly.

All right. Let's do this.

Katrina and I have a heavy burden

on our shoulder with this investigation

because we're the first paranormal investigation show

ever to set foot on this property,

so we have an obligation to really try

and paint an accurate story of what's going on here.

So the order of operations, we are gonna do a tour

of the building with the property caretakers

who've worked here for years and years.

-Hello! -Hi.

How are y'all?

-It's so beautiful. -Thank you.

Oh, my gosh.

-Katrina, my good friend. -Hi, nice to meet you.

I'm very excited to be here. Thank you for meeting with us.

So now you work here?

My mom is the caretaker of the home,

and I do the cleaning of the house.

And do you guys live on the premises, too?

-My mom does. -Oh, wow.

So she has a lot of stories, and so do I,

you know, just odd things that have happened.

When you come in the house, like, certain spots,

I don't like to go in by myself.

I don't come in here by myself at night.

-I'm scared. -Really?

Because you just have an eerie vibe.

It's just an eerie vibe.

After changing hands many times over the years,

the LaLaurie house is just a privately owned home,

so it's off limits to the public,

so it's really good for Jack and I to understand

if the haunting is the same as it was in the '60s

or if it's changed at all.

Right this way.

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This was actually an office before.

We were trying to set the house up with a fax machine,

and my cousin was down here faxing.

I said, "Well, just fax the house

because I have a fax machine."

She wrote on the fax paper, "Hi, Lisa,"

and when I got home, I read the paper,

and it says, "Hi, I'm Madame LaLaurie."

-Get the [bleep] out. -No.

Would she have done that as a joke?

No. She -- I was here. We were here cleaning.

And at your house,

you only got one sheet of paper coming through?

One sheet of paper and that's all it said on it.

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This is the living room.

Can I say something just real quick just to document it?

It was so faint, but I felt the shift.

I came through this door. Do people have that happen?

I got dizzy for, like, a split second.

It was, like, actually, I feel it right now.

LISA: This is the living room.

Can I say something just real quick?

I came through this door.

I got dizzy for, like, a split second.

It was, like, actually, I feel it right now.

It's, like, a lightheadedness.

Like, it's, like, a pressure.

Hmm. Interesting.

As far as any kind of natural element,

I don't know what would do that to me.

There is no weird smells in the house,

so, you know, something might've been around us during that time.

Moving on up.

That's Carol.

So your daughter was filling us in a little bit. Yeah.

You've worked here for a long time. Mm-hmm, almost 12 years.

And you live on the premises, too?

Yes, I have an apartment right here.

Okay, so have you had odd experiences?

Some. I don't like staying in the kitchen by myself

'cause that door just flings open and shut randomly.

You just don't know.

And you can watch the doorknob turn by itself and open,

and there was nobody on the other side.

I think the servants used that door to come in

and serve the family.

Do you feel like they're here with us?

Yeah, definitely. I do.

And when you least expect it, it goes...

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In fact, it did that this morning to us, and I said,

"Y'all are not gonna do this to me today."

I feel like we're disturbing something.

-Hmm. -I don't know what.

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Katrina, this would've been

Annie's apartment that she lived in. Oh!

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While I was asleep at night, I used to hear noises.

I would hear screaming.

Yeah, yeah. So this would've been it then? Yes.

LISA: This is the dining room.

In this room I've seen a little girl in that window

looking out to the street in a white outfit.

It was a glimpse.

JACK: Interesting.

I think probably the biggest challenge

Jack and I are gonna have is that

this is a very large property, and there is so much going on.

Every single room seems to have a story with the paranormal,

and that's just the stuff we know about.

This was the ladies parlor.

So one of the rumors is that people

have conducted different rituals in here.

I've seen stuff, but I don't know

what actually has transpired.

-I was not here for any of it -- -Mm-hmm.

...but I've seen remnants of it.

What kinds of things would you see?

Like, a board.

-Like a spirit board? -Exactly.

Potions, maybe that they got from a voodoo store.

So they understood that this place

was having weird things happen.

-Exactly. -Yes.

And it came to the point where they wanted answers or...

-Yes, yes. -Oh, interesting.

100%.

It's the same thing we want -- answers.

Oh, yeah, same thing we want.

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So the owner, he does have guests that come,

and one guest actually sent us a picture,

and it looks like a blob at the foot of this bed.

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JACK: It's weird.

What?

It looks like two sets of eyes,

but it looks like whatever this this,

it looks like it's holding that. -Yes.

I have never seen anything like this

in any kind of of photo that somebody has shown me.

I have no idea what was in that picture.

I'm not gonna say it's evil, but it sure as [bleep]

doesn't look inviting.

This is a bathroom.

-Mm-hmm. -This is a secret room.

-Whoa. -Okay?

And I was way down by the bed back there,

and I felt something touch, but it was real cold.

This has got to be the eeriest room in this house,

and this would've been slave quarters.

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This is where the little girl ran out these doors

and plummeted to her death in the courtyard.

[ Girl screams ]

I saw what I thought appeared to be a little girl

sitting on the corner of the rooftop,

and her legs were dangling.

Any time trauma has taken place in a location,

it can leave an echo.

[ Footsteps ]

KATRINA: So what's happened up here?

Well, Madame LaLaurie tortured her slaves up here.

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Wow. Has anyone ever experienced

anything paranormal, anyone...

The electrician has.

Things just randomly happen to him

when he does work up here. -Yeah.

Unexplained.

And he got hit in the head with something.

One minute he's fine.

The next minute he's bleeding from his forehead.

-Hmm. -He feels fearful.

-Hmm. -You know, he's afraid.

It seems like the whole house has a pulse to it.

Exactly.

So there's a lot of ground to cover,

so we're gonna have to really be kind of selective

about how we're gonna go about doing it. Yeah.

Definitely hope to get some results, that's for sure.

-Yeah. -So do I.

JACK: It seems like it's the whole house that's active.

It doesn't seem like it is confined to one area.

By all accounts, this place is humming

with paranormal activity.

So finding out about the rituals adds an interesting element --

-Mm-hmm. -...because what was invoked?

-Right. -So you're opening a portal.

You're opening a doorway. You're inviting something in,

have your interaction that you're kind of looking for,

but then afterwards you're supposed to close it back down,

and we don't know if that was done here. Yeah.

And I think to that point, too, I think it's --

We don't know what we're gonna find

because nobody has ever been in here to investigate.

Yeah.

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MAN: [ Speaks indistinctly ]

We're gonna get the cameras rigged in place

and begin the night investigation.

Cable coming down.

♪♪

Okay. So add a cassette then.

-Absolutely. -How we looking up there?

Good. Yeah, all set.

All right, if there's anybody up here,

we want to talk to you tonight.

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[ Cellphone vibrating ]

Hi. What's up, babygirl?

-Hi, Daddy. -Hi.

Oh, I like you're haircut.

Daddy...

No ghosts yet.

I don't believe that anything

has attached itself to me before.

That's my biggest fear about doing this kind of thing.

I don't want to bring anything home to my kids.

All right. We got to get back to filming.

Bye!

Hey, so camera is all set up in the attic.

-Cool. -Yeah.

How's everything else look?

Everything's looking good.

Camera one is in the dining room.

Camera two is the second floor hallway.

Camera three is in the bedroom

where that strange mass was photographed.

Camera four is the attic.

Five is the balcony in the courtyard.

It's a really, actually, awesome view,

and six is the first floor entryway,

living-room area. -Okay.

Oh, yeah, and also we have the 3D mapping camera

up in the kitchen. -Perfect.

So one of the things we use is a 3D mapping camera,

and basically how it works is it detects something with mass,

something that moves, like a body,

and when it does, it maps it out like a stick figure,

and if something shows up on camera

that we can't see with our own eyes,

the thought in the paranormal is that,

that could potentially be a spirit

or some sort of energy force.

So we're kind of covered in all the areas

where there's been activity. -Mm-hmm.

KATRINA: I think our main mission here is to sort out,

you know, fact from fiction.

Can we validate any of the stories

that people have experienced over the decades.

I mean, people use the word portal here all the time.

Is there any validity to that?

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All right, so the night investigation is about to begin.

Things to watch out for -- the noise of, like,

clanking metal like chains

or something like that, hearing voices, seeing things.

You know, this place is known for having

pretty significant poltergeist activity.

Don't be afraid to call out whatever you see, feel, hear.

-Let's divide and conquer. -Great.

Dope.

Whoa. Hold on a second. I just noticed something.

I'm not lying right now.

We're picking up some kind of entity in the room.

Yeah, it's in the [bleep] chair.

What are we looking at?

Can you shine some light over there?

What the [bleep]?

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What the [bleep]?

♪♪

This is really weird.

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Who's in the kitchen with us right now?

-Oh! -It just disappeared.

It just [bleep] vanished.

Katrina, can you go stand right there?

Yeah.

Now just hold still for a second.

Now it just registered you.

This was Annie's bedroom.

Oh, that's right. That's where we are right now.

-Yeah. -We're in her apartment.

We walked into the room, and our beds were tossed away.

They were no longer up against a wall.

They were pushed in the middle of the room.

-Oh, it's back. -This is insane.

It's in a totally different spot.

I'm gonna move my hand. Am I getting closer?

It's on the other side of the chair on the little ottoman.

Over here?

Yeah, you're getting close.

It's actually increasingly cold on my hand right now.

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-It just went away. -It went away?

Yep, vanished.

If you're here, if you're actually a spirit,

can you do something else in this space

so we know you're here?

[ Knocking ]

Can you do a knock?

If you want to try using the GeoPort?

Yeah.

Jack and I are gonna use a communication device

that is used in the paranormal field a lot.

It's called ITC technology, and it's basically,

you can consider it a telephone to the dead.

Okay, we want to talk to whoever's been sitting

in this chair, sitting over here.

You can use this device to talk to us.

[ Garbled voice ]

Oh, it's back.

What is your name?

[ Garbled voice ]

It's back in the chair.

If you can see all of these people in this kitchen,

the ones that are dressed like me,

how many of us are there?

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It just said nine.

Did it really?

Are there nine people here?

-It's a good little trick. -What'd it say?

Do you want to switch with me?

Can you go stand next to Jack?

Oh! It totally popped up.

I think we could be dealing with something intelligent here.

Did you die at the hands of Madame LaLaurie?

♪♪

Are you the little girl that Annie saw?

Do you remember Annie? She lived here a long time ago.

♪♪

What'd it say?

So it's gone. It's just you now.

Yeah?

If there's any kind of consciousness left over

from the people that lived here as far as the paranormal goes,

you know, you have to start to wonder,

is this part of what people have been experiencing here

for years, like Annie,

whose apartment would've backed right up to the kitchen?

It's gone. It hasn't come back yet.

All right, let's move on 'cause time's a ticking.

Yeah.

Should we go to the slave quarters?

Yeah, go to the slave quarters, yeah. Yeah.

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Dude, it is spooky in here.

Yeah, it is.

The energy in this room is completely different

from the rest of the house. -Oh, yeah.

It's like we're -- we left the house completely. Yeah.

KATRINA: To the best of our knowledge,

we know they've had poltergeist activity

in this side of the building

and that it's been pretty violent --

furniture moving, things being thrown.

We know this side of the building

was the slave quarters,

so, you know, when the slaves were discovered,

it would've been in this building.

The kitchen would've been in this building.

This is kind of like the epicenter of the trauma

that took place here,

so hopefully we can get some communication

and figure out who's here and why they're still here.

We are probably the first people ever to come into this space --

Knowing the actual real...

...knowing the actual history and try to communicate.

Is there anyone in here with us right now?

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I'll tell you one thing.

It'd be very hard to sleep in this room.

It just, like, does not feel comfortable.

I'm feeling a lot of, like, anxiety in here.

You are?

Yeah, like, just feeling anxious.

♪♪

-I just saw a shadow move. -Where?

From across that picture.

Like, right there, something went...

♪♪

What was that?

Yeah, where did that -- what was that?

-I just saw a shadow move. -Where?

From across that picture.

Like, right there, something went...

♪♪

What was that?

Yeah, where did that -- what was that?

I heard it, but I couldn't make it out.

Yes.

Are you afraid of us?

♪♪

I just feel like there's something over there.

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I'm just going to turn on the GeoPort.

[ Garbled voice ]

Can you tell us who's here right now?

What is your name?

[ Garbled voice ]

-Yeah. -LaLaurie.

I heard LaLaurie.

Are you Madame LaLaurie?

-Yeah. -Did you just hear that?

I [bleep] heard that.

Somebody just breathed in your ear. Yes.

Yes, I heard that.

Oh, my [bleep] god.

Whoo. I'm, like, shivering right now.

Me, too. I have goosebumps.

That was crazy loud.

Who just breathed in Jack's ear?

What is your name?

-Whoo. -Can you touch --

Can you move one of these lamps in here, something we can see?

Knock on something.

Can you repeat that? I just saw something move over there.

-What'd you see? -I don't know.

It looked like a white -- Right there.

What the [bleep] is that?

What was it? What do you guys see?

Something is over there.

What are you guys seeing? I totally don't see this.

Because I can see the reflection on the paint.

I can see the reflection of the flame.

Yep, it just covered it again.

Yeah.

Because I can see the reflection on the paint.

I can see the reflection of the flame.

-Yep, it just covered it again. -Oh, my god.

The lights just got blacked out on my camera.

On the left side of my frame,

something just passed through it.

JACK: All right. So we're getting results.

I mean, I didn't see the shadow like you guys did,

but to me, that breath that was in Jack's ear is pretty

clear that something

that we don't understand is here.

There's something here for sure, hands down.

The moment we walked into this room, I was like,

"Oh, [bleep]."

The way the house was described

is that the kitchen would've been in the slave quarters,

and there were seven slaves that were found

when the fire broke out,

so, I mean, it kind of makes sense

if the activity we're getting is a little chaotic

because that's how you would probably feel

if you were in that situation.

All righty.

-Are we feeling spirit board-y? -I am.

We know that there's a room here

where allegedly ceremonies and rituals took place.

I've seen stuff, like, a board, potions.

We don't really know the reason

behind those rituals and ceremonies,

but it's quite possible that a doorway could've been opened

without properly being closed or that they were pulling energy

that was already in this house into that room

and essentially, kind of charging the room

with whoever is already here.

So we're gonna go in there to try to get any communication

that way.

Okay.

Now where do you want to sit?

Well, we should sit close together. Mm-hmm.

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Do you have, like, anything you do to, kind of,

get this started or... -No.

I think you just, like, place some fingers on it

and don't push it.

It's kind of, like, automatic writing. Yeah.

Like, you're actually doing the writing,

but you're just -- You're not thinking about it.

You're just going with what you get -- Okay.

...essentially, so I guess we want to talk to whoever

or whatever is already in this house.

Can you use this board and this planchette

to communicate with us?

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Are there any spirits in the room with us right now?

♪♪

What the?

Can you make that happen again?

♪♪

-That was weird. -Mm-hmm.

Can you use my energy and Jack's energy to push the planchette?

♪♪

♪♪

Oh.

Did that just go out on its own?

Did you accidentally blow that out?

-No. -I got it on camera.

to push the planchette?

♪♪

Oh.

Did that just go out on its own?

Did you accidentally blow that out?

-No. -I got it on camera.

Yep.

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Yeah, that thing shouldn't have gone out.

So either it wants to communicate or it doesn't,

and it's telling us to leave. Yeah.

At this point in the night, I would feel more confident

saying I believe the LaLaurie mansion is haunted.

Not really picking up the portal vibes

but the night is not over.

Well... Should we split up for a little bit

and just go vibe out somewhere alone, like... Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I think at least one of us

has to go back to the secret room

because there was so much activity going on. Yeah.

And especially if one of us is alone or like,

just us and a camera, you know? Yeah.

It also -- I think it could increase the vulnerability,

and in that way, you're kind of connecting more with the people

that actually lived through that torture.

I mean, think about how vulnerable they were.

Yeah.

-Yep, let's go. -Yeah, all right, let's go.

So we decided to shrink our footprint

a little bit and split up the teams,

so we asked our camera guys to sit this one out.

Whoo.

Why'd I get this [bleep] short straw?

One of our producers, Austin,

has extensive knowledge of the paranormal.

That's why I decided to bring him back

into the secret room, just me and him.

Is there anyone in here with us right now?

Oh. You hear that?

I heard, like, a... Hear that?

Like a light knocking.

-Yep. -Yeah.

If there's an entity in here

that'd like itself to be known, come forward.

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Oh, my god.

I'm going to the attic with Elaine

because there has been some experiences up there,

and what we know is that people don't like

to go up there alone.

Hello?

[Bleep] is that?

Is anybody up here?

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No, did you?

Like, actual...

Okay. If you're here, come closer.

I'm not afraid of you.

JACK: Are you the spirit of someone

who used to work on this property?

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Are you an intelligent ghost?

Oh, dude.

Are you a man?

Oh, [bleep], dude. Were you a slave here?

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That was a different spot.

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This is a intelligent interaction with a spirit

up in the secret room that was using knocks to communicate.

I can't explain it and it sure as hell feels paranormal to me.

Okay. I'm going to try something.

I have a device with me, and I'll be able to hear

what you need to say.

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Is that what you heard?

JACK: Are you still in the room with us?

Why don't you come back here and talk to us?

Are you the spirit of someone who died here?

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If you want to communicate with us, knock again.

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I think it left.

Do you want us to leave?

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JACK: Are you still in the room with us?

Do you want us to leave?

We're gonna leave.

Whoo. [Bleep] that.

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Oh, dude, were you hearing those?

We just had another conversation with a ghost through knocks.

-Really? -Yep.

It didn't say anything for awhile,

and then I was like, "Do you want us to leave?"

And it knocked, and we left.

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So what have we learned here tonight?

I think that there is leftover spirits here

from a highly traumatic event,

and I think that the, you know,

what used to be the slave quarters

is where these hauntings are --

At least on this investigation -- Yeah.

...that's where I would determine

the most haunted part of the house is. Yeah.

I don't know how you would live over there. No.

I feel like it would be, like, constant stuff happening to you.

Totally.

Well, we have to review a ton of footage,

and we got to be out of here by tomorrow afternoon,

so we're gonna spend the next few house

combing over this stuff to see if we captured anything.

I'm fully satisfied by this experience.

No one's ever done what we've done.

There is absolutely something here.

Is there a portal here?

I can't determine from this interaction.

However, I think that there is a vast amount of pain

and suffering that did occur here,

and there's some spirits that have been left behind.

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KATRINA: Hi, ladies.

So the next steps are we're going to show Lisa and Carol

the evidence that we captured last night.

This first one I'm going to show you

is in the room with the little crystal pyramids,

and we brought a spirit board in there,

and we had a candle, so focus your attention on the candle.

So watch it -- Oh, and it just goes out for no reason.

-That's crazy. -Watch again.

At one point, we heard... [ knocks ]

...coming from the door to where I thought

someone was on the other side of the door wanting to come in.

It was like -- I mean, it was loud.

-Yeah. -Okay.

And then the candle blew out shortly thereafter.

Okay. That's crazy.

Now this footage is when we were in the secret bedroom upstairs.

-Okay. -So watch in this region.

Something is moving around over there blocking out

that light reflecting off the walls.

See, that's the feeling I get and --

-Like somebody walking. -Yeah.

I get that feeling in my bathroom.

That's why you hear the footsteps, Mom.

-Yeah. -Hmm.

And that's in the secret room?

There's some weirdness in that secret room.

Well, that's where I felt the touch.

-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.

Okay, so this next footage is in the kitchen,

and we have this technology which will 3D map humans,

and something appeared in the chair,

and we couldn't explain it.

This equipment was designed for video games.

It knows not to see a chair and go, "That's a person."

Interesting.

I'll show you how it ends up

somewhat interacting with Katrina.

See how it's mapped Katrina now, this technology?

And then to it's got the both of them.

-There's no way. -Yeah.

No way.

It was very strange and that happened numerous times,

so it was locking onto something that we couldn't see,

but somehow the infrared sensors on it were.

Mm-hmm.

So that explains a lot.

-Yeah. -Unsettled souls.

JACK: Yes, exactly.

...that just need to rest.

Yeah. Yeah, great words.

It feels unsettled, unnatural.

JACK: Is there a portal here?

I can't determine from this interaction.

However, it kind of corroborates a little bit

with the story of the young girl

because the figure that kept appearing

was very small next to Katrina and myself,

so, you know, am I fully confident

stating that that was a child's ghost?

No, but there are some spirits that have been left behind.

Well, I can't thank you guys enough for letting us

come in here and showing us around

and telling us your stories.

I know this was hard work for you guys,

and we appreciate it. -Hey, thank you.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much, guys.

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There's this widely accepted concept in the paranormal that

if you die before your time, if you die tragically,

some of that can get left behind.

Whether that's your consciousness

or something more tangible,

it will keep replaying essentially

being trapped within the walls forever.

At the LaLaurie mansion, I think the spirits of the slaves

that were so brutally tortured

and treated here are still reliving that torture,

and thinking that, that could be someone's eternity

to be trapped even in death is just heartbreaking,

and I hope that if there's any truth to that,

that those spirits can move on and find peace.