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Does anyone want to come and introduce themselves?

[eerie music plays]

Did you just turn that flashlight on?

[beeping]

[Josh] On this episode of "Expedition X,"

Heather saddles up with Jack Osbourne...

Yeehaw!

[Josh]...to explore a Wild West ghost town said to be crawling

with actual ghosts.

[ominous music plays]

Vulture City, Arizona, has a horrifying history.

[Damian] This is the hanging tree.

They had what's called tiptoe hanging.

It was a very slow, very painful death.

[Heather] Holy!

[Jack] That is absolutely insane!

[Josh] Reportedly filled with not just gunslinger spirits,

but things that are even more ancient and evil.

So when you go to a location, you fear the ghosts,

but what happens when the ghosts fear something else?

[Josh] Are Heather and Jack ready to face high noon in hell?

[Heather screams]

[theme music plays]

Jack Osbourne, welcome to the Expedition X team.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a real privilege.

Well, you know, Phil has just had his new baby, so he's out,

and we knew we needed the best in the business,

so we really are so thrilled you're here, man.

Well, thanks for thinking of me.

I might not be as good looking as Phil, but...

Don't sell yourself short, Jack.

But I can be pretty pessimistic and real science-y.

No, please. I need a break from that.

Please. You just do you.

OK, OK.

And I understand that you've not just brought your seasoned

ghost hunting skills here.

You've also brought a case for us to investigate.

[Josh] I have.

So, I get people reaching out to me all the time,

saying, hey, I've got this great location

and there's one place that has stood out to me,

and it's called Vulture City. It's in Arizona.

It's this really old mining town,

and they allegedly are having some pretty wild activity.

Some might say a real shootout between

the living and the dead. - Hmm.

I've actually heard of this place.

This is way out in the desert in Arizona, right?

And it is one of the best preserved ghost towns

in America. Emphasis on ghosts.

Yes, very much so.

[mysterious music plays]

[Josh] It's 1863.

Arizona has just become an official U.S. territory.

And deep in the Sonoran Desert, a prospector named

Henry Wickenburg is searching for gold.

He hasn't found any,

and he's also starving to death.

As the legend goes, he shoots a circling vulture.

[gunshot blasting]

And as he staggers toward his first meal in days,

he discovers that the rocks where it fell

are streaked with gold.

Wickenburg establishes Vulture City on that very spot.

And it becomes Arizona's most productive

gold mine in history.

A reported 340,000 ounces are ripped from the ground,

worth more than a billion dollars today.

[gunshot blasting]

Fortunes rise fast, but so does the body count.

In Vulture City, raids and murders

are terrifyingly common.

- [gunshot blasting] - [scream]

Dozens are hanged for stealing,

while bloody shootouts claim hundreds of lives.

[gunshot blasting]

But the Wild West residents don't just blame the sins

of man for all this bloodshed.

They whisper that darker,

more ancient forces are at work...

that the land itself is cursed.

There are endless tragic accidents.

A deadly flood devastates the town.

There's a diphtheria outbreak that claims the lives

of dozens of children.

No one is immune to the misfortunes,

even Henry Wickenburg.

The town's founder gets swindled out of his fortune

and then out of his life.

His body is discovered in 1905 with a bullet in the head.

In 1923, desperate thieves are picking away at the last

visible gold in Vulture City's mine

when the entire section collapses.

Greed made them dig their own graves.

By the mid-1940s, the depleted mine is shut down

and Vulture City becomes a ghost town.

An apt description since it's reportedly rife with

paranormal activity.

Recent visitors report hearing phantom voices,

and seeing objects hurled by unseen hands.

A porcelain doll is said to be possessed by a demonic spirit.

[eerie music plays]

Some witnesses even claim they've seen

giant shadow figures march through town.

[off key notes play]

Have the horrors of Vulture City's Old West past

gone wild once more?

Or is it something older at work?

Feasting on its victims like a vulture.

Amazing stuff.

You may have hit the paranormal motherlode here, Jack.

- Some might say goldmine. - [Josh] That's right.

Oh, my gosh.

Let me tell you, this city's history is all about

greed and hatred. Those are powerful emotions.

So it's totally possible that those can leave

a paranormal imprint on Vulture City.

The thing that really strikes me is that this land could've

been cursed long before cowboys and their six shooters even

turned up.

All right, so here's the mission.

Why don't you two saddle up and get yourselves

to Vulture City to investigate these claims?

See if you can wrangle some truth out of this

rootin-tootin mystery. - Wow, is he always like this?

- Honestly, usually worse. - Get in on now, get!

Seriously though, Jack, it's an honor.

Thank you, it's good to be here.

[horse snorts]

[western music plays]

I'm having the time of my life.

I know Jack is as well, right Jack?

- Woo! - [laughs]

I have never arrived at a ghost hunt on a horseback.

And my ass is gonna be bruised.

[Heather laughs]

I think if we just head over this wash

we'll see Vulture City. - [Jack] OK.

[western music plays]

[Jack] Oh, wow.

Now I'm about to go up a hill on a horse in the middle

of the Arizona desert.

Whoa.

[Heather] Here we are, Vulture City.

[western chords play]

[Heather] Vulture City ghost town is deep in the Arizona desert,

northwest of Phoenix.

[western chords play]

[Jack] It's just like going back in time.

[horse neighs]

I think Damian should be right up here.

[Jack] The man in black.

[Heather] Damian Harris is an Arizonan historian

and longtime tour guide here at the Ghost Town.

- [Jack] You must be Damian. - Yes, I am.

- Welcome to Vulture City. - [Jack] Thank you.

[Heather] This is incredible.

[Jack] Will you tell us a little bit about the dock history

of Vulture City?

Yes, well, back in the, especially the 1860s,

1870s, there was no law. This was the Wild West.

In 1863, a Prussian prospector

by the name of Henry Wickenburg found gold.

And with gold, that brings greed.

And with greed, it brings murder.

It brings jealousy. It brings hate.

[screams]

[Damian] Matter of fact, stealing gold was the quickest way to end up

on this tree back here. This is the hanging tree.

- This right here? - [Damian] Yes.

They say 18 men were hanged on this tree that we know of.

Mmm, who are some of the people that you know of that were hung?

So the only name that I know of was Juan Ramos.

Juan was kind of an outcast. He wasn't a miner.

He didn't work in any of the stores.

He kind of took a liking to a young girl,

but she didn't reciprocate the feeling.

And so one night,

he decided since "I can't have her, nobody else can,"

he attacked her and murdered her.

But the townspeople caught him right here in the center

of town, and so they took him, they dragged him over here

to the tree, strung him up.

They had what's called tiptoe-hanging.

They put the rope around their neck and hang them up

until they were on their toes.

It was a very slow, very painful death.

- Oh. - Terrific.

- [Damian] Yes. - That's horrible.

That's gonna leave a residual energy

on this space. - Yes.

Why do you think we should focus our energy

during our investigation?

One of the places where there's a lot of activity

reported is the brothel. The piano will play on its own.

- [Jack] Oh. - [off key notes play]

People report objects actually thrown

completely across the room.

And then there's also a lot of reports of people hearing,

like, old music playing. - [Heather] Oh, wow.

A little further away from town,

just to the north of here, is the old schoolhouse.

The schoolhouse has especially a dark history.

It opened in 1881, and in that first year, over 20 children

died from diphtheria. - Oh, that's tragic.

But people to this day will report the sound of children

playing and laughing. - [laughter]

I personally had one of the most scariest experiences

here at the schoolhouse. - What happened?

There's this doll in the schoolhouse.

And I went to pick her up to move her.

And all of a sudden, I became just completely paralyzed.

My vision just went to tunnel-vision.

It was like I was looking through straws.

And I just couldn't move.

The only thing I could do was talk.

And I said to the other people that were here, I said,

"I cannot move. Please come get this doll."

And then they came, they took the doll out of my hands.

As soon as they took the doll out of my hands, I was fine.

[Jack] Interesting.

All right, well, it sounds like we have plenty

to investigate here in Vulture City.

Oh, yes, yeah.

[ominous music plays]

[Heather] As Damian walks off into the sunset, we grab our gear

and set up our command post in one of the historic buildings.

Let's get cracking.

I'm gonna go run cables and cameras.

- You got the monitor set up? - Yeah, copy that.

[Jack] All righty.

[mysterious music plays]

[Heather] Jack covers the town with our surveillance cameras.

- OK, I'm at the hanging tree. - Copy that.

Starting with the hanging tree, where Vulture Cities condemned

spent their grisly final moments.

We also monitor the brothel, said to be home

to phantom music and violent poltergeist activity.

And just outside of town is the schoolhouse,

where people have heard children's voices.

[child laughs]

- [Jack] How's that look? - [Heather] Looks great.

You got the whole room covered.

And Damian claims a haunted doll paralyzed him

when he tried to move it.

[ominous music plays]

That's where Jack heads first.

[Jack] Let's go to school.

[mysterious music plays]

There's the paralyzing doll.

Note to self-- don't carry it out of here.

[mysterious music plays]

I'm going to do this flashlight experiment.

It's kind of like a call-and-response.

You use the flashlights for yes-or-no questions,

you know, turn on for "Yes," do nothing for "No."

Try and get an objective response.

[beeping]

[mysterious music plays]

Because if the REM pod is going off at the same time

as the flashlight, that's not a coincidence.

All righty. My name's Jack.

So are there any children here? Are there any students?

If the answer is yes...

touch the flashlights or touch the red light in the room.

And if it's no, you can just leave it.

You don't need to be scared of us.

We're not here to harm you.

We just want to meet you.

Does anyone want to come and introduce themselves?

Did you just turn that flashlight on?

[eerie music plays]

If you're here, will you turn it off?

[ominous music plays]

That's why you're paying me the big bucks.

OK.

Did you get sick while you were at school?

Do you not like being left in the schoolhouse all alone?

[beeping]

I just felt chills.

Whew.

Crazy chills right now.

[mysterious music plays]

[Heather] This stuff is just here in what could have been

its actual original layout.

It's wild. Look, here's a piano.

- See? - [chords strike]

OK, it works.

[whispering] OK.

I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we use this

replica old-timey gramophone as a trigger object?

It's Bluetooth, so I can play old-timey tunes

and maybe we'll get some activity.

[mysterious music plays]

[normal voice] In addition to the gramophone trigger object,

Alright.

I also roll out a couple of cat balls and a rim pod as

I try to communicate with whatever it is that may be

haunting the brothel.

[beeping]

OK.

This is Heather.

Is there anyone here with me?

If you touch that REM pod, it'll light up.

I'll know you're here.

I have something that may be familiar.

Does this music make you happy?

[old piano music plays]

- [beeping] - [Heather gasps]

- [music stops playing] - [beeping]

OK. You like that song.

There's something in here.

[mysterious music plays]

[Jack] I want you to turn that flashlight on one more time.

Why do you stay here?

Did you die here?

- Why did you... - [beeping]

That's freaky.

OK, so you just made my flashlight go off again.

Do you want me to move the doll?

[intriguing music plays]

All right, so I'm gonna move the doll to near the REM pod.

See if that can draw something in.

So allegedly, Damian was carrying this doll,

and he was paralyzed momentarily.

The only thing he could do was call out for help.

- Oh! - [beeping]

[ominous music plays]

Are you-- are you the spirit that did that to Damian?

Is that why you're lighting up right now?

[beeping]

OK, all right, I'm gonna move the doll.

I'm gonna bring the doll over to the red light.

[mysterious music plays]

Are you inhabiting the doll?

Were you once alive and now you live in the doll?

Or you're attached to the doll?

[beeping]

OK, now make the flashlight turn on.

If you're powerful enough to paralyze someone,

you can turn that flashlight on when I ask you.

[mysterious music plays]

It doesn't get more real than that.

I asked the REM pod to go off, it went off.

I asked the light to go off, it went off.

Did you paralyze Damian because you're angry at him?

[beeping]

Do you feel Damian disrespected you?

[beeping]

It appears, we are getting

intelligent response from whatever is here.

[ominous music plays]

[Heather] Were you murdered?

- [beeping] - Yes.

OK.

- OK, yes. - [piano key plays]

Was that a piano key?

- OK, yes. - [piano key plays]

Did you just play that? Did you just hit a piano key?

[two piano keys play]

- [beeping] - Oh.

Yeah, yeah. So...

did you play the piano in the brothel?

Were you the musician for the people that came in?

Maybe not. You just like the piano music.

Do you want to hear the song again?

- OK. - [beeping]

You want to hear the song again, OK?

[beeping]

OK. Here's your song.

[old piano music plays]

- [beeping] - [object falls]

[Heather screams]

[ominous music plays]

[ominous music plays]

[Heather] OK, this just fell.

[old piano music plays]

- [beeping] - [object falls]

[Heather screams]

It's a picture of Wickenburg, uh...

[mysterious music plays]

Um...

[tense music plays]

Jack, do you copy?

[Josh] Heather, how's it going over there?

Uh, it's insane.

A picture frame slammed to the ground,

and you're not gonna believe this.

The picture was of. I'm Henry Wickenburg.

You want to head my way?

I'll head over to you right now.

Thank you for not paralyzing me.

[mysterious music plays]

- Knock, knock, knock. - [knocks on door]

- [Heather] Hey. - How we doing?

[Heather] We're doing.

So, I scrubbed all the way through, got to the point about

where I thought it happened.

- Ready? - [Jack] Let's do it.

[Heather] I want you to focus on this area.

OK.

That's so insane.

[mysterious music plays]

That is wild. It, like, flies forward.

And then the cat ball is going off.

- I mean, it looks like something just, like... - Flips forward.

Yes, that's what I'm saying.

Wow!

And that's a solid glass window behind it, too.

[Heather] There's no draft.

It looks like something comes up behind it.

[Heather] Yeah.

It's like a smeared blob, yeah.

[Jack] Yeah.

What a great bit of evidence!

I mean, I certainly don't have an explanation for it,

except there was something else in that room with me.

[Jack] This has been quite the active night.

[Heather] Right? The sun's coming up soon.

[Jack] I think my takeaway from being here is we should probably

dig deeper into the history of this place.

[Heather] Yeah, we need to know more about this land.

[Jack] Yeah.

[mysterious music plays]

[rooster crowing]

[Heather] The next morning, Jack and I call Gates

to update him on our very eventful evening.

Hey, Josh, how's it going?

Hey there, how are my favorite ghost rustlers?

There's actually been a ton of activity,

which has been awesome.

Yeah, and much of it confirms what people claim.

Jack had crazy activity in the schoolhouse with

a flashlight experiment, and in the brothel, I saw

a picture of Henry Wickenburg forcibly get knocked over.

OK, Wild West indeed.

Any idea what's causing the chaos?

Well, I'm kind of running with the theory here that there's

more than one entity.

And there's possibly some that aren't even human.

You mean what, demonic?

Maybe, but I don't know.

I had a very weird encounter with a possibly possessed doll.

All right, that's definitely one for the memoir.

But look, I'm really intrigued by this idea of

something non-human.

I've been digging into this legend that the land

under Vulture City was cursed long before the miners

or cowboys arrived.

And I've connected with a local expert who shared

these age-old stories of really disturbing creatures

in the region.

He even claims to have had his own encounter.

And I'm sending him your way now.

Awesome, I'm excited to meet him.

Yeah, that sounds amazing.

All right, well, you are definitely a member

of the "Expedition X" team now, Jack.

Oh, gee whiz, Josh, thanks.

[Heather laughs]

Bye, Gates.

[Josh] Good luck.

[Heather] That afternoon, we meet up with Gates' contact

in the middle of town.

- You must be Shanclen. - Nice to meet you.

Shanclen is a member of the Navajo Nation.

His lineage on this land traces back centuries.

So, what can you tell us about the activity here?

It's ancient.

You have the spirits here in Vulture City, yes.

Normal ghosts of people have died from sickness,

at-work accidents, or just of old age here in Vulture City.

But there's another layer to it.

In our creation stories, we used to have monsters,

beasts that roamed the land.

So, we had warriors that would go out and slay this monsters,

and they had to put those monsters somewhere.

Now, each tribe all had their sacred lands that

they used to put these monsters in.

Vulture City is one of those places.

- No way! - Yeah.

So, unfortunately, when the U.S. government

came and relocated a lot of the Native Americans,

they relocated the guardians, too.

They were no longer allowed to come here.

So the story goes, evil saw this as an opportunity.

"Hey, there's somebody walking this way.

"Let's entice him with this quartz crystal in front of him.

"Let's entice him to start digging up all this evil

that's here." - [Jack] Henry Wickenbug.

[Shanclen] Yes.

When he started digging, when he started doing this

mining stuff, that's when, in a sense, the evil energy

started coming out of Vulture City itself.

So all of these horror stories of violence and murder

and crime, these evil spirits, this evil energy could be

partially to blame? - Yes, 100%.

Those monsters that were slain here mainly are the giants.

So, this is the photo of one of our sand paintings that we have

illustrating Ye'iitsoh, which is

what we call big giant in our tribe.

[Jack] Has anyone ever witnessed those giants here?

[Shanclen] So, on one of the tours, in one of the locations,

there was a table that was covered in a layer of dust.

They all witnessed handprints manifest on this table of dust.

It branched out into an arm and into a body.

And sure enough, it branched out and went into another arm

that led to another hand, into a W form.

And I have this photo. Do you guys want to see it?

- Yes. - I'd love to see that.

- Oh. - No way!

That is wild.

[Shanclen] This image looked exactly like one of our sand paintings.

Ye'iitsoh...

One of our big giants that we have.

[Jack] Did it look like a giant-sized hand,

or was it kind of average human?

It was pretty big hands, like bigger than

the average hand for sure.

So where did those hands appear?

Inside of the bunkhouse.

The bunkhouse is said to be the meeting place of

these spirits.

So the spirits that were here showed this

to-- to the people here of this town.

As a warning?

As a warning that the giants are here.

And so the spirits called for help.

They said, "We're in danger." These deities are the ones that

come and prey on the normal spirits.

So when you go to a location, you fear the ghosts,

but what happens when the ghosts fear something else?

So sometimes, you know, these giants will come

into the town at night,

and they would pick off the spirits.

So when the sun goes down, the spirits all go inside

the buildings to hide.

Do you think we need to be scared?

I would say if any place were to give you fear,

this is the place. It's dangerous.

Please be careful tonight.

- OK. - We will.

[ominous music plays]

[Heather] That night, we head to the bunkhouse,

where Shanclen's disturbing photo was taken.

[Jack] The old mining bunkhouse.

Shanclen said, the spirits are known to

gather here, not to haunt, but to hide from something

far more terrifying.

[Jack] Man, these things, like, hold the heat.

[Heather] OK.

So, I brought glow-in-the-dark

UV dust to see if we can-- - [Jack] OK.

To see if we can capture the same evidence

of the Ye'iitsoh? - [Heather] Why not?

This stuff is super reactive to a black light.

It'll glow.

And if this demon has already shown himself on the desk of

a table, maybe this will trigger him to come back

and we can see it ourselves.

- Ooh. - Oh, yeah.

Estes.

Let's see if we can communicate with anybody here.

OK.

Set up here.

[Heather] If spirits are hiding in here,

I want to try to give them a voice using a special

communication technique known as the Estes method.

- OK. - [Jack] All right.

- You ready? - Ready.

[Heather] Jack will ask questions while I'm blindfolded and wearing

noise-canceling headphones plugged directly

into the spirit box.

I won't be able to hear Jack's questions at all,

staying completely focused on picking out any potential

responses from the other side.

Heather and I are in the bunkhouse right now.

Are there any spirits with us?

"Yes."

- Is Henry here? - [distorted voice]

"Greedy."

Interesting.

Are you saying that Henry was greedy?

- "Evil." - [Jack] Evil.

Henry was evil. Why was Henry evil?

"Gold."

- Gold? - [Heather] "Pretty."

Are you here because you're still looking for gold?

"Gold." "A lot."

Sure.

Wow.

[intriguing music plays]

Henry, are you here with us right now?

"Get out, get out, get out."

Ooh, chills.

Is there anything dangerous here?

Do we need to be worried?

"Evil."

- [Heather] "Sí." - OK, so there's evil here.

Who brought the evil here? Tell us.

Was it when people started digging?

Was it unleashed?

A very, very deep voice, "Yes." Almost a growl.

Wow.

"Help!"

"Monster!"

What monster?

"Juan."

"Juan."

"Juan."

Mmm.

Who's Juan?

It's he someone we need to know about?

"Sí."

[Jack] Yes.

[exhales deeply]

Can you tell us how many people or how many spirits

are in the room with us right now?

[intriguing music plays]

I ca-- there-- there are so many voices.

[eerie music plays]

Do you all hide in the bunkhouse?

A little child's voice saying, "Yeah."

[Jack] Are there a lot of children here?

"Yes."

[mysterious music plays]

[Heather exhales deeply]

"Help!"

[Jack] Are they scared of the giants?

They're-- oh-- ugh-- "We're watching."

- "Angry." - Who's watching?

The giants?

"Here."

[ominous music plays]

"Evil."

Scary.

[ominous music plays]

Should we be concerned?

"Go."

Do you want us to leave?

"Yes."

"Turn off."

"Go away."

"We're done."

[Jack] That was wild.

[Heather sighs]

- You OK? - [Heather] Yeah.

Did any of that make sense to you?

[Jack] There was probably a dozen times where I would ask

a question and instantly you would say something that

would answer the question. Like, there's no mixing it up.

- [sighs] Really? - Yeah.

There's a lot of different voices.

I mean, I can understand what Shanclen was saying now

because he runs the gambit.

From children's voices to women's voices to men's voices.

You said "Juan" and then you said "Sí".

You know what I just remembered?

Juan Ramos is the only name known of someone who was hung

on the hanging tree.

- That's crazy. - Yeah.

[Heather] I mean, I think we got to go over to the tree.

[Jack] I think we should absolutely go over to the tree.

We'll come back and check on this before the end

of the evening. - OK, yeah, that's a great idea.

[mysterious music plays]

[Jack] OK, so we have these awesome light panels,

and the way that these work,

they're essentially like a REM pod.

- [Heather] Nice. - But they're light panels.

- [Heather] OK. - So if anything with an EMF frequency

passes through them, they'll light up.

[Heather] Brilliant.

Jack lays his EMF light panel on the ground where more than

a dozen people were brutally executed.

If Juan Ramos truly let us out here,

then we could be facing off with one of the darkest souls

in Vulture City's history.

While we have these light panels out, I'm also gonna

pull out the XLS. - [Jack] OK.

[Heather] We literally had,

you know, the SC session direct us to this tree.

We're outside of Wickenburg's original cabin.

I think this is as good a place as any to get a hit.

[Jack] Yeah, I agree.

[Jack] Is Juan here?

Juan Ramos, are you here with us?

[Heather] We're here to communicate. We're here to understand.

We were just led to this tree.

If you come over and touch these panels,

we'll know that you're here.

- [ominous chord plays] - [Heather] Ooh!

[Heather] Big old, big old something.

- Really? - Yes.

[Jack] Right when I touched that?

[Heather] Right when you touched the lights.

It looks like it's trying.

It just disappeared.

It looks like it was trying to touch the lights

on hands and knees. - Really?

[Heather] Yes.

[ominous chord plays]

- Oh, boy. - What?

- Oh! - [Heather] You see that?

- You see that? - [Jack] Yeah.

[Heather] That is giant. Oh, my gosh.

[Jack] That is crazy.

[Heather] Does it look like he's holding on to the tree?

[Jack] It does, it looks like he's hanging on...

- [Heather] The limb. - That is absolutely insane.

[mysterious music plays]

[Heather] Are you who led us over here?

[mysterious music plays]

It looks like someone being hanged.

Like he's holding onto his neck.

[Jack] Mm-hmm.

[mysterious music plays]

- [Heather] Did you see that? - Yeah, and just vanished.

- Like, blew off. - [Jack] That was insane.

That was insane.

Was that you, Juan Ramos?

Do we want to leave this panel here?

We've got a camera pointing at it right now.

[Heather] Yeah.

And should we maybe use dowsing rods or something?

- [Heather] Yeah, I think that's a good idea. - [Jack] Yeah.

Because dowsing rods were used all the time in mining.

I can hand this off and do dowsing rods if you want.

- [Jack] Sure. - You want to?

[Jack] Yeah, let's do that.

- [metal clanks] - [Heather] What!

[Jack screams] What was that?

- [Heather] Oh my god. - [Jack] What was that?

In the 1870s, Jacob Waltz, a prospector known as

the Dutchman, arrived in Phoenix with sacks of gold.

Waltz claimed he had discovered a secret mine deep within

Arizona's treacherous Superstition Mountains.

Before his death in 1891, he shared cryptic clues about

its location, but no one has ever found it.

In the centuries since, the search has claimed

the lives of more than 30 treasure hunters,

fueling rumors of a deadly curse.

But when it comes to the legend of the lost Dutchman's mine,

there's a potential plot twist.

You see, some say the mine never existed at all.

They argue that Waltz fabricated the story

to cover up the true source of his wealth,

stolen gold from Vulture City.

I don't know which story is true.

I just know that Jack and Heather better bring me

back some serious nuggets.

That sounded like something was being dragged

across the floor in there.

[metal clanks] - [Heather] What!

[Jack screams] What was that?

Now I'm scared.

I'm, like, freaked out right now.

What are you thinking?

[Heather] I mean, we gotta go check it out, right?

[Jack] Let's get the dowsing rods.

Ooh, I got the shivers coming in here.

[intriguing music plays]

Who made that noise?

[ominous music plays]

You wanna get your dowsing rod going on?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[mysterious music plays]

[Heather deeply exhales]

This is Heather and Jack,

and we are in Henry Wickenburg's cabin.

Is there anyone in here with us?

[Jack] For yes, cross them. For no, separate them.

Henry Wickenburg? Are you here with us?

[Heather] So weird. It feels like they're hitting

against something on the end.

- Really? - Yeah.

Like, I've never really felt that before.

You've got to feel it.

It's like the weirdest thing I've ever felt.

It's like it's...

It's like hitting the tip.

It's like hitting a field, something.

[Jack] Who made that noise in here? Was it Henry?

Do you not want to talk to us because of the Ye'iitsoh?

Are you scared of him?

Or it?

Or that could be what's blocking the communication.

Is the Ye'iitsoh here with us right now?

[footsteps running]

[Jack] Are you on the roof?

That was really weird.

That sounded like something like running on the roof.

[mysterious music plays]

Are you above us right now?

Are you Henry Wickenburg?

A lot of movement.

No clear answer.

[Josh] The team was unaware of it at the time,

but outside, under the hanging tree,

the light panels Jack had set up were activating.

As if whatever powerful force they heard on the roof

continued stomping through the streets of Vulture City.

But there was much more strange evidence that the team mined

in this Wild West ghost town.

In the former brothel Heather had a terrifying encounter.

- [beeping] - [Heather screams]

[Josh] At the time, she believed she was

communicating with the town's founder, Henry Wickenburg.

But after analyzing her recordings,

she discovered an EVP of another name.

Is there anyone here with me?

[EVP] Jack.

[Josh] Heather identifies it as Jack.

At first, she thought it referred to

her investigation partner.

But further research revealed it could be Jack Swilling,

a gunslinger and business partner of Henry Wickenburg.

Swilling was considered a Vulture City fat cat.

It's highly likely he frequented this brothel.

Did he have a grudge against Wickenburg, one strong enough

that it still violently continues a century later?

- [object falls] - [Heather screams]

[Josh] Heather believes there's plenty of proof of human spirits

haunting the town.

Does anyone want to come and introduce themselves?

[Josh] But what about evidence of a more ancient evil,

the forces that are said to curse the land itself?

What happens when the ghost fears something else?

[Josh] While investigating reports of powerful giants, the team left

UV powder on the bunkhouse table to try to catch

a hand imprint which had been documented before.

[Jack] Yeah, I don't think we got anything.

[Heather] I don't either.

[Josh] The powder didn't pan out, but there was another

stunning revelation to come.

On reviewing their IR camera footage

from throughout the town, Heather spotted this strange,

huge shape cast on the exterior of the bunkhouse.

[ominous music plays]

It was captured at the very moment the team was placing

the powder inside,

as if something was watching them.

Heather and Jack do feel increasingly certain that

Vulture City is still in a shootout,

not just with cowboy ghosts, but with things far older,

stranger, and larger.

And speaking of shootout

before Heather and Jack saddled up,

they had their own score to settle.

[western music plays]

This town ain't big enough for the both of us.

[western music plays]

Draw.

[western music plays]

[Heather laughs]

- What do you think? - I'm gonna burn that.

- [Jack] It's a trigger object. - It's gonna trigger me.

[Jack chuckles]