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There's reports of a very stern British guard here.

Are you present?

- Oh! - Oh, my God.

On this episode of "Expedition X,"

250 years on from America's bloody founding,

my team investigates Revolutionary War battlefields

said to be haunted by the spirits of those that died,

so a nation could be born.

Let's wake the dead.

How about that?

Joined by a suitably British special guest investigator.

That's what I call making an entrance.

Literally as soon as I said that, she just goes,

"Oh, there's someone here with me."

I'm sorry.

Right back there.

Phil, Heather...

Oh, we got one

...and Jack Osbourne...

Are there any soldiers in here with us?

...wage war with the ghosts...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

...of the Revolution.

What?!

- All right guys, happy birthday! - It's not my birthday.

- Why thank you, Gates. - It's not your birthday either.

Shh, there might be cake.

No, I'm not talking about your birthdays.

- I'm talking about America's. - Ah, the semiquincentennial.

Yes, America's big 250th.

- Party time! - Yeah.

Indeed, but unfortunately, not everybody is celebrating.

I have just been contacted by a guy who owns part

of a Revolutionary War battlefield.

Now, he says that this place has recently been overrun

with paranormal activity.

We're talking everything from apparitions of soldiers

to phantom battle sounds.

The ghosts of the American Revolution.

That's exactly what the owners believe.

And they wonder if all of this disturbing activity

could be tied to America's 250th birthday.

September 1777, Pennsylvania.

More than two years of brutal fighting has transformed

a colonial uprising into a full-blown Revolutionary War,

claiming thousands of lives.

The United States declared its independence

the previous year, but Great Britain refuses

to recognize it.

The British set out to take Philadelphia, the first capital

of the United States.

General George Washington and some 15,000 men

aim to block the British advance.

And on the 11th of September, they collide

with 15,000 Redcoats

under Commander-in-Chief Sir William Howe

in the Battle of Brandywine. What follows is the largest

single-day land battle of the Revolutionary War.

For 11 hours, 30,000 men battle across open fields

as British forces brutally assault

the American right flank.

The worst of the bloodshed comes near Thornbury Farm.

The king's cannons fire grapeshot, tearing through

the colonial soldiers in a hail of viscera.

Men fire until they cannot reload,

then desperately swing muskets like clubs.

Smoke blankets the field so heavily, soldiers are firing

through haze at shapes they can barely see.

The dead and dying are left scattered across the ground.

Brandywine ends in an American defeat

with some 2,000 soldiers killed, wounded or missing.

But while the rebels may have lost the battle,

the war is far from over.

Washington's Continental Army presses on,

keeping the revolution alive all the way until 1781,

when the British finally surrender at Yorktown.

Two years later, in 1783, Great Britain formally

recognizes the independence of the United States,

marking the birth of a new nation.

But that's also when the paranormal reports begin.

Now, as America celebrates the 250th anniversary

of its fight for independence,

witnesses say the disturbing activity is only intensifying.

At Thornbury Farm, eyewitnesses regularly describe

military encampments impossibly rising from the fog,

phantom soldiers charging across the property,

and aggressive entities in the rooms where

horrific battlefield surgeries were once performed.

And all around the property,

the impossible sounds of war are reported.

The thunderous boom of cannon fire,

the blood-curdling battle cries,

and the terrible screams of the dying.

The story goes that America was birthed with a shot heard

'round the world.

But do those bullets and blasts still frighteningly echo on

into the afterlife?

What do you think?

The trauma, the tragedy, that's gonna leave

a paranormal imprint on the land.

Look, I'm not gonna deny that Brandywine is a powerful place,

but maybe that's the point.

It is a famous battlefield, and the long shadow of history

can enter our conscious and unconscious mind

and maybe influence the way we see and experience things.

Well, before the two of you ship off to war

for answers, I do have one other surprise.

I've arranged for a special guest investigator

to join this case.

I think he is the perfect guy

to bridge this British and American mystery.

So get to Philadelphia, and he is gonna meet you

at where else? Independence Hall.

For Heather and Phil, it's a two-hour drive

from New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

the place where America declared its independence in 1776.

Wow. There it is.

Independence Hall.

The Declaration of Independence

and the Constitution were signed right there.

That is an incredible piece of American history.

But also, weren't we supposed to meet

this guest investigator here?

Yeah, he should be here any minute.

Oh.

- No way. - What?

Is that who I think it is? Wow.

Jack Osbourne.

The British are coming. The British are coming.

Good day to you. At ease, gents.

That's what I call making an entrance.

You're not planning on taking the country back, are you?

Not this time, no.

I just heard you needed a token Brit

for this investigation, so I came time-period ready.

OK, did Josh get you up to speed?

He did. Got me well up to speed.

We're investigating the Battle of Brandywine,

and I'm pretty excited about this investigation,

because I've done a few Revolutionary War investigations

in the past, and I always found the fact that I'm a Brit

really drums up some spirits.

Did you guys ever officially acknowledge losing the war?

Britain did acknowledge America's independence in 1783.

- That's where we'll leave it. - Well, I say you lost.

To-may-toes, to-mah-toes.

But today, 250 years later,

America and Brits, we're best buds.

So why not dive into this investigation with you guys?

And just to prove there's peace, I'll even let you guys

march with us. - OK.

In the back, of course.

OK, next stop, Battle of Brandywine?

Next stop, Brandywine.

- Let's march. - OK.

- Forward, gents. - And lady.

Classic Brits.

Nothing says battle like the flute.

From Philadelphia, we travel 30 miles west to Thornbury Farm,

the site of the brutal Battle of Brandywine.

Today, these pastures couldn't be more peaceful.

But on September 11th, 1777,

they were soaked in blood.

The farmland and its many buildings that date

all the way back to that horrific day

are now owned by Randell Spackman.

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

He says he and his family regularly experience

strange activity here,

and he desperately needs answers.

So this is it?

This is the site of the Battle of Brandywine.

Paint us a picture.

The day of the battle was a very hot September 11th.

Over 30,000 troops were here.

There was so much cannon fire,

the smoke and the fog rose up out of the ground.

- It literally was the fog of war. - Wow.

Right here in this field, we have Sandy Hollow,

the actual combat zone,

was the most intense part of the fighting.

The battle was so gruesome, this creek right there

ran red with blood. - Oh, my gosh!

What did they do with all the bodies?

There were mass graves.

The battle was so big, they were all buried close

to where they fell.

So that's a lot of unmarked graves and dead bodies

that are still out there. - Yes.

That's one reason why we have maybe so much activity

on Thornbury Farm.

What are some people experiencing?

When you walk up into the woods, you feel the sense

of oppression, dread. There's voices that we hear.

People have seen a shadow figure

that walks around.

In Sandy Hollow, we have wedge tents that have been seen

coming out of the fog, like the army is still camping

there one more night before they move out.

- Wow. - It's amazing.

So where are the hot spots of reported activity?

We have the Spring House.

It was used to hold prisoners after the Battle of Brandywine.

We know there's a British guard that protects the building

to this day because the American prisoners of war

would have been in that room.

He likes to drain batteries.

- He likes to turn the lights on and off. - Wow.

Then we have the farmhouse built in 1709.

It was used as a surgery hospital during the battle

and had tremendous loss of life there because they were

literally doing the surgeries right there.

- Gosh. - Wow!

One of the most common spirits have been reported in that home

is a one-armed soldier.

And when you go up the stairs, he doesn't let you pass.

People have told us that they've been pushed.

Ooh.

There's no shortage of activity here.

Absolutely, and with the 250th anniversary,

the activity has increased. - Hm.

That's why we need you guys to help figure this out.

Can you send me the coordinates of where some of these

unusual feelings happen out there on the battlefield?

Maybe I can find some evidence to back it up.

Yes, we would love that.

OK, well, Randell, we will do our best,

let you know what we find.

I'm heading out into the battlefield

to the hot spots of strange activity

that Randell shared with me.

Meanwhile, Heather and Jack will start at the Spring House,

where the ghost of a British prison guard has been reported.

Creepy.

This is where they kept colonial prisoners,

that there is an alleged shadow figure or a ghost

of this angry British guard.

Well, let's see if anyone has anything to say here.

While I attempt to contact spirits using my Ovilus,

Jack will use a Mel meter

to detect EMF fluctuations

and sudden changes in temperature, conditions that

are often associated with the presence of a spirit.

Flashlights.

We'll also lay out a series of flashlights,

asking any presence here to communicate

by turning them on or off.

Is anyone here?

You can interact with any of these instruments.

This is a tool that you may not understand,

but change the temperature in here,

it'll equate it to a word.

There's reports of a... very stern British guard here.

Are you present?

See these metal objects on the floor?

I'll ask you yes or no questions,

and if the answer is yes, I want you to touch it.

If you touch it, it'll turn on.

Did you battle in Brandywine?

Eleven?

There's eleven of you in here with us?

Or are you saying that the battle was on

September 11th? That was the battle.

- Yes! - That's weird.

That's weird.

- Creek, shut the front door. - No way.

Shut the front door.

Sandy Hollow Creek ran red with blood.

Is that a sign for us to head to Sandy Hollow?

- Oh! - Oh my God!

2 - Oh my God.

- That was creepy. - Ooh, chills.

That really made me jump.

OK. These are the coordinates.

This is where Randell said there's been consistent reports

of people walking through this area and feeling dark energy.

The question is, is it something explainable?

I think that the most likely thing

that is happening in this spot is

the subconscious mind projecting the bad,

the deaths, the casualties, the fear

that must have been here.

Honestly, the ghost stories, that can start to creep

into your brain and warp your perspective

of what you're actually seeing.

So now that I'm here, I want to figure out what is underneath

my feet right now.

Is there any tangible Revolutionary War-era evidence

that could link the strange activity reported here

with the battle?

Or is it all just in people's imaginations?

My ground-penetrating radar device, or GPR,

is about to let me know.

This thing aims into the ground to detect anomalies.

It could show us things like a trench that was dug here.

Or if we get points of high reflectivity,

that represents metal.

Metal that should not be beneath our feet unless

it was buried by someone, say, 250 years ago.

Let's get scanning.

What do we need to know?

It says swim, but I'm not going for no swim.

Healer.

I do think we need to stop at the farmhouse.

- 100%. That was the field hospital. - Yes.

I'm willing to bet there was an awful lot of people that

didn't make it out of that house alive.

The healers would have been in the farmhouse,

I think we should go there.

OK, I scanned the ground here

so you could see what is underneath our feet.

Oh!

We got hits.

All of these dark red marks,

that is not reflective.

That could mean there is something metal

right here underground.

Which means this could be physical evidence of

the mysterious things reported here

and some very violent history.

Time to dig.

- Oh... wow. - Wow.

It feels very heavy in here.

Where do we start?

There's that apparition of a one-armed soldier

not letting people pass through the stairwell.

Hmm.

I want to put one of the flashlights on the stairs.

We have our cat balls,

so if anything gets close to it, touches it, it'll light up.

If there's a presence, either the flashlight

or the REM pod is gonna be able to detect it.

We've got the audio recorder and we've got the Ovilus.

Are there any soldiers in here with us?

Touch any of the tools in here,

the silver tools that are on the ground.

That's so close to us.

Jack.

So it's very clear that something's here.

Yeah.

Guided by the hits on my GPR scan,

I'm digging where a potential metallic object

was detected beneath the surface.

Oh! Got metal!

What is this?

Oh my gosh!

We got a bayonet! We got a bayonet!

Look at that!

This is physical evidence

buried right where Randell said people feel strange energies.

I mean, this doesn't conclusively tell us

that this place is haunted,

but it tells us this area needs

much more excavation.

Can you tell us your name?

Walk.

You want me to walk to the stairs?

Gateway?

Pushed?

- Whoa! - What are the reports?

People getting pushed on the stairs.

- Yes. - Wow, that's crazy.

Are you the one-armed spirit in the stairwell?

What?!

2 Oh my God! No, no, no, no, no.

I just saw a dark shadow pass the open door

at the top of the stairwell. - And there's no one in there?

There's no one in there.

All right, let's go up.

I don't really see anything.

- Anything? - Nothing.

What did you see up there?

It was this shadow figure close to the ground that looked

like it was crawling, crossing the doorframe.

You know about crawlers, right?

Like, crawlers tend to be associated

with really negative entities.

It's really freaky.

Yeah. I don't like it.

Yeah, neither do I.

Are you the one-armed soldier?

Did you die here?

Come down here.

You don't need to be afraid.

Look, it's clear that activity has died down.

- Yeah. - And it's definitely time to meet Phil.

- So, I say we pack up and go. - All right, let's do it.

That scared the bajesus out of me.

Phil, do you copy?

Yeah, I copy. You are not gonna believe what I found.

- An actual bayonet. - That's insane!

- The whole thing? - Yes.

I can't say for certain if this is a burial site.

Honestly, I could dig up here all night.

Man, we've had quite the evening.

No shortage of evidence going on over here.

And we got the word "creek" on the Ovilus.

Sandy Hollow?

Seems like it's the natural progression of the evening.

Activity was pointing us that way,

so we'll meet you over there. - We'll see you down there.

- Hey. - All right.

So this is it, Sandy Hollow, where the most intense part of

the battle took place and where, by the end of

the battle, this whole area would have been covered

in bodies and blood. - Right.

The creek ran right through here.

And what were the conditions of that battle?

It was foggy and smoky by the end

from all the cannon and muskets.

And what do people see here today?

- Strange, foggy figures. - Right.

And look, there's already a little bit of fog right now.

But for what I want to try, we need a lot more.

- Come help me set up. - OK.

Since witnesses have reported mysterious figures appearing in

the fog at Sandy Hollow during the very same misty conditions

that were present on the day of the battle,

I want to recreate that exact same atmosphere.

We'll fill the area with fog to see if we can summon spirits

back to the battlefield.

Then, we'll set up a specialist camera equipped with

the Specter Detection System, which uses advanced software

to identify any possible anomalies that are invisible

to the naked eye.

Plus, my Ovilus will capture critical words generated

by any spirits present.

- All right, fog machine set up? - Yes.

Fantastic.

This camera will look over the hollow

and this software program will track to see orbs,

potential entities, and any humanoid figures.

- Cool. - And the fog's not gonna be the only trigger here.

Y'all are gonna be one as well.

Are you giving us marching orders?

- Heck yeah, I am. - To play on that,

why don't I play a recording of some marching drums to just

really set the scene? - Even better.

Well, I'm gonna get the FLIR out because people say

mysterious ghostly shapes out here in the fog.

Maybe it's just a deer.

I guess I'll take the American side.

- From up here, head down? - For king and country that way.

- Sounds like a plan. - Go forth.

See you in the middle.

This entire area is just blanketed fog now.

All right, fog's going, program is running.

- Let's see if we get anything. - Let's get marching.

Guess it's time to march.

Eleven.

Nothing yet.

Honestly, kind of mesmerizing.

And look, you almost start to see little figures

that almost look like faces in the fog.

Whoa!

There's Jack.

It's picking up a figure.

Oh my God, it's picking up a figure

right in front of Jack.

2 Ooh, look at that.

Swim?

Troop, look at that.

Troop.

Jack, that you?

- Surprise! - Oh, my God.

Howdy.

Wow, you really came out of nowhere.

- Yeah. - Want to check in with Heather?

Yeah, let's see what her doodad picked up.

Let's do it.

- So, how was it? - It was intense, actually.

I was imagining the chaos and the fear that these guys

must have felt.

Gotta say, we're alone out here.

FLIR picked up nothing.

Well, I got a figure on Specter.

And not only that, my Ovilus was going off.

I got "eleven" again.

- Really? - Yes!

Then I got "troop," which makes sense.

But I got "swim," and that's the second time

I got it tonight.

It says swim, but I'm not going for no Swim.

And I'm trying to figure out what can that mean?

I kinda have a weird idea about that.

OK.

I think the intensity of this investigation has really

reminded me of an investigation I did not long ago

here in Pennsylvania.

You guys ever heard of Fort Mifflin?

- No. - No, what happened there?

So it's a legendary fortress.

This battle that happened there arguably saved what would

become the United States. So think about it.

You've got "creek," you've got "troop," you've got "swim."

There was a huge battle at Fort Mifflin in November.

Fort Mifflin is right on the Delaware River.

They were completely besieged by the British armada.

Guys were trying to get out on rowboats.

- Actual British ships exploded. - Wow.

So there's probably a lot of troops that had to swim across

the Delaware River. - And probably drown.

OK.

So you don't think these words are coincidence?

You're saying you think they're a message?

I think whatever this is,

is telling us to go to Fort Mifflin.

That's clearly where we gotta go next.

- I agree. - OK.

We follow the path of the Revolutionary War.

Next stop, Fort Mifflin.

As the sun rises,

we head to Fort Mifflin in search of answers.

Just 12 days after the defeat at Brandywine,

George Washington sent his troops to defend

the fortress that protects the Delaware River.

And since we're following the history,

I think Heather and Phil need to experience

exactly how they got there.

This would have been horrific.

Middle of winter,

ships firing cannons, muskets blasting.

We're sinking.

Well, this is a period-authentic experience.

If you cannot see the value in that,

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

OK, prepare to bump.

Welcome to Fort Mifflin.

I just need to do one thing.

Right, onward to the fort.

OK.

Wow.

Once we enter the gates of the historic fort,

I introduce Heather and Phil

to Mary Reynolds and Greg O'Brien.

- How's it going? - Going great, welcome back.

Two historians I worked with last time I investigated here,

who have vast knowledge of the terrifying activity

many have experienced.

- So the British had their sights on Philadelphia. - Yes.

They said to take Philadelphia, you gotta take Fort Mifflin.

And what happened during that battle?

It really started on the 10th of October,

and it went on for a month.

For six solid days, 1,000 cannonballs an hour

flew into the fort. - That is a lot of cannonballs.

It is.

Tell me about the culmination of the battle.

What happened in the end?

In the end, the Americans

evacuated the fort.

Early morning, the British would have rowed up

in rowboats to Fort Mifflin and discovered that it was just

strewn with blood and body parts. - Oof.

Although it was technically a loss for the Americans,

it was so costly to the British in time and materiel

that it forced the war to continue.

So the war did not end in 1777 with a British win.

So this fort was absolutely crucial to the birth of America.

The fort is considered

the fort that saved America. - Wow.

We were investigating a farm that sits on the ground

of the Brandywine battle, and it was fairly intense.

The owner of the property seems to think that is intensifying

from the 250-year anniversary.

Has that been the same experience

for you guys at the fort?

Definitely, things have been increasing with all

the reenactment that's happening around the fort.

Even outside down by the river.

Well, what types of activity are we talking about here?

You have full-body shadow figures.

Voices.

Cannon fire on the Delaware.

So what are the key hot spots in Fort Mifflin?

Basically the whole fort, but we have the casemates.

They were bomb shelters.

Casemate 11, which was the original powder magazine,

and where a lot of the casualties happened when

the British warship Vigilant opened fire,

that area is very active.

- Eleven. - Oh, wow, interesting.

We kept getting "eleven" over and over last night.

And if you're telling me it's Casemate 11.

- Sounds like we got to go there. - Yeah.

Please be careful, because we do have some

powerful spirits there. - OK, we will.

- Thank you. - Good to see you, Greg.

We get straight to work, setting up a network of

surveillance cameras throughout the fort to capture any

potential paranormal activity. - Let's do it!

As a trigger object, we hoist the same colors flown

by the brave Americans during the bloody siege,

a flag with 13 stripes,

one for each of the 13 colonies that united

to fight for independence.

We have one more wartime trigger for the spirits,

and it's a figurative and literal one, a cannon.

Let's wake the dead.

Three, two, one.

Whoo-hoo-hoo! How about that?

While Heather and Jack investigate reported activity

within the fort, I head outside to the banks

of the Delaware River.

I want to investigate this phantom cannon fire that

witnesses claim to hear all around Mifflin's perimeter.

OK, look, look, look, right here, right here.

You see this?

There's this little trail

going right into the water there.

So people report hearing phantom cannons out here.

Well, there is an animal that makes the sound of a shotgun,

it's so loud.

That animal? A beaver.

Beavers are known to use their big leathery tail to slap

the water as a kind of territorial warning.

And that can be an incredibly loud noise.

All right.

So my goal here is to use camera traps to at least solve

one piece of the puzzle of Fort Mifflin.

- Casemate number five. - Yep.

Ooh.

It's kind of difficult to breathe.

- Mm-hmm. - Right?

Yep.

Do a little EVP.

This is an EVP session at Fort Mifflin

in Casemate five.

Is there anyone in here with us right now?

Are there any spirits here of soldiers that died

during the siege of Fort Mifflin?

Let us know you're here.

Jack.

- Yeah. - There's a glowing light.

It's got to be something, right?

That's really strange.

What is that?

What is that reflecting from?

It's reflecting from out there.

Yeah, that's so weird. Where's that coming?

It's gotta be coming from out here.

I think it's that window.

- Anything? - I can see a tiny, yeah,

if I go on my tippy toes, through that,

there's like a tree that keeps blowing.

I don't even know what that hole in the wall is.

OK.

That was really weird, the fact that there's like

light kind of bending through a tiny little--

and just projecting on the wall there.

That's weird. When I tell you, I thought

a full-body apparition was about to do manifest right there.

Here's the beach.

I'm gonna try to use the FLIR.

Get this thing calibrated.

Oh, oh, oh. Shh, shh, shh, shh.

Hang on.

That was some big movement back here.

Let's see if I can catch it on the FLIR.

Whatever it was-- oh!

There it is again, there it is again.

Oh my God! Right back there!

Let's go!

2 Where'd it go? Where'd it go?

Something big was moving back here.

Whew, I mean, it would have been right here.

No idea what that was.

But it was big.

Bigger than a beaver, that's for sure.

Whatever it is, may show up on the camera traps.

Hopefully, get some answers.

Jack and I shift our investigation

to Casemate 11, an underground chamber

originally used for ammunition storage

and where shadow figures

and the sounds of battle are reported.

So, during the siege, the Americans actually used

this as a shelter.

There's reports of, like, many, many men

being crammed in here.

- I don't like it. - No.

So, last time I was in here, I did the Estes method

and it was really profound.

Can you make Jack feel like you're close, like--

I feel like someone's behind me now.

I kind of think that's where we should just pick up.

- OK, yeah, absolutely. - All right.

OK.

So, obviously, the Estes method uses sense deprivation.

I like to use two headphones to make sure I cannot hear

anything, and then, of course, a blindfold. - Mm-hmm, OK.

The idea being anything that pops into my mind,

anything I'm feeling as a response

to what you're asking, that I'm influenced

by whatever spirit is around me. - Yes.

I think we leave you in here alone,

so I'm gonna be outside.

I'm gonna be asking questions and listening to you.

We'll see if I'm able to connect with any of

the spirits here. - Let's do it.

OK.

OK, she's now about to be submerged into darkness.

I'm using something called an IFB.

It's essentially hooked up to her microphone...

she's wearing and it allows me to hear her.

She can't hear me though.

All right, if there's anyone in Casemate 11 with Heather,

will you let her know?

Ooh, there's something here.

Literally as soon as I said that, she just goes,

"Oh, there's someone here with me."

Something just tapped my foot.

Did you die in the Battle of Fort Mifflin?

Did you die in a horrific way during the fight?

Alone.

So, you died alone.

Did you die fighting for the Americans?

- Thirsty. - Thirsty.

Did you die of dehydration?

I can see the ships.

You can see the ships. OK.

What's happening with the ships?

- Falcon. - Falcon?

It isn't coming!

Mmm.

No way out.

No one's coming.

Still here.

Why are you still here?

Please leave me alone.

Get out.

Why do you want Heather to get out?

Whoa, Heather's crying.

Are you making Heather cry

or are you channeling through Heather?

No, I can't do it anymore.

Heather?

- You OK? - I'm sorry.

You OK?

Don't be sorry.

What-- what happened?

You just like fully tapped into what they were feeling?

I think so.

Ugh, that was awful. They knew they were gonna die.

They knew they were gonna be alone.

No one is coming to save you.

- Most of them died here. - Yep.

The intensity of it is...

is something I haven't felt before, for sure.

- Wow. - I mean, I've done it all over the world,

but this was different. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - This was very different.

Heather is certain she personally experienced

the terrible pain and suffering

of Fort Mifflin's courageous American defenders.

Some 100 men died here as the fort was pounded

by a terrifying 10,000 British cannonballs.

But it was something she heard, not felt, that would make this

session even more disturbing.

- Falcon. - Falcon?

Falcon.

The HMS Falcon was the name of a British Royal Navy warship

that served during the Revolution,

killing and wounding dozens of Americans.

Was Heather communing with one of the Falcon's victims?

And that wasn't the only evidence that seemed

to directly tie paranormal activity

to the Revolutionary War.

We got a bayonet.

The bayonet Phil recovered from Thornbury Farm was

authenticated as 18th century, exactly like those known to

have been used by American soldiers

at the Battle of Brandywine.

It was found at the very spot where a shadow figure

has been repeatedly sighted.

But not everything was ominous.

Phil's theory for the phantom cannon fire

at Fort Mifflin held up.

As our trail camera later captured a beaver.

But while the sharp slap of a beaver's tail could perhaps

explain the fort's strange sounds, it can't explain this.

Oh my God, right back there!

The thermal signature Phil captured

was far larger than any beaver.

Something big was moving back here.

So what on earth did Phil detect down by the Delaware?

But no evidence was more chilling

than the repeated appearance of the word "eleven."

Eleven?

First heard at Brandywine's Spring House,

then again at Sandy Hollow.

Eleven.

Was this a reference to the terrible battle itself

on September 11, 1777?

Or was it all to lead Heather to Casemate 11,

so she could understand the true cost of America's freedom?

Heather certainly thinks so.

And now, 250 years on from

our patriot ancestors' great sacrifice,

she, Phil, and Jack paid tribute

with the rockets' red glare. - Do the honors.

In celebration of the 250th of America, let it rip.

Hey!

Happy birthday, America. Kudos!

So cool!

And for the record, I do have an American passport.

Nice.