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Thought we told you boys to get out of town.

There ain't gonna be no problems, is there?

I think I deserve a --

-academy award? -Yeah!

Like, an oscar nod or something?

Zak: This is where the mysterious subterranean man

known as the swamper once lived.

This was great.

He was stealing or from all the mines.

You would get shot just for

looking at someone the wrong way back then.

Kind of want out. Zak!

Did he lock you in there?

Yeah, he locked me in and left.

No, I didn't.

Zak: We have seen things that defy explanation,

experiencing the best...

God, that was awesome, dude. That was so awesome.

...And worst...

These dolls are gonna [bleep] take our souls.

...Of the places between worlds.

I want the portals of this forest wide open.

Zak: Now it's time to look back.

One of my scariest nightmares that we are about to relive.

For the first time ever,

I'm inviting you, the audience, into my inner sanctum.

Together, we will pull back the curtain

on the biggest, scariest, and funniest moments

from our investigations.

I'm zak bagans,

and this is "ghost adventures: Screaming room."

what is this? Cowboy hat.

Yeah. You won't ever wear --

oh, billy's got one on. [ laughs ]

we're ready to watch "the tombstone."

oh! Yeah, we've been waiting for this episode.

You won't even let me guess?

I guess I missed the memo. I don't know.

You didn't call jay and tell him to wear his cowboy hat, too?

I bring my cowboy hat every single episode, hoping.

It's okay. I like when jay wears his hair.

There he goes again! Damn it! [ laughs ]

so, what are we watching tonight?

-"tombstone"! -"tombstone"!

"return to tombstone" is

probably one of my top five favorite intros.

Why was it so fun?

Because we got to be like we were in the wild west movie.

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[ bird calls ]

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and let me tell you something, everybody at home.

We don't plan any of this stuff.

I thought of this like a couple hours

before we did this.

Can I say one thing?

I'm the best-looking cowboy there.

I think we're a tough-looking group.

Hey, there, boys. Good to see you again.

Thought we told you boys to get out of town.

Only ghost around here is about to be you.

Is this a joke, marshall?

So, look, I just came up with this.

I told everybody what to say.

We literally grabbed these re-enactors.

And you know what? It turned out pretty damn good!

[ laughter ] I think I deserve a --

academy award? Yeah!

Billy: Like, an oscar nod or something?

There ain't gonna be no problems, is there?

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man: There's not gonna be a problem.

Zak: That's what I thought.

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I don't know about you,

but "tombstone" is one of my favorite movies.

So to actually act it out and be there in tombstone...

Yeah, but you know what?

Acting it out there in tombstone in the streets... Yeah.

Even though we are acting this out,

it felt really, really real.

It did. That was the cool part about it.

Like, we weren't really acting.

Zak: We were first called to this iconic location in 2009

to investigate hauntings at the famous bird cage theater.

The bird cage theater, in my opinion,

is one of the most incredible western mining-town locations

that we've ever investigated.

And it has so many artifacts that are original

from the time period.

This time around, our investigation is focused on

a saloon just down the street called big nose kate's.

Why do you think they called her big nose kate?

She probably had a big nose. Really?

Oh. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It makes sense.

That's a good point.

She's probably nice. [ laughs ]

zak: But before we begin that investigation,

we need to stop by the bird cage theater

out of respect for our old friend leroy colomy,

who tragically lost his life in a most ironic way.

Zak: This is a little bit of a sad moment.

It is. Mm-hmm.

Zak: Leroy was in our original bird cage theater episode.

He was a great character.

He was a great guy.

And he was one of the gunslingers out in the street

that did the -- re-enactors and the gunfight stuff.

Yeah, he was a classic character in figure of "tombstone."

but this just goes to show you that the days of, what,

the lawless wild west and "tombstone" are over?

They're not.

I saw the news about leroy.

Are we able to talk about that at all?

No, because they're still under investigation, a lot of it.

I mean, it was still fresh. Like, it just happened.

Yeah, it just happened. Wow, you guys.

I kind of forgot that that was that recent that leroy died.

He was shot and killed. Yeah.

We just are waiting for it to all go to trial.

So we don't really talk about it too much.

It was a sad thing.

This was a friend of his, and he was really emotional

when I tried to talk to him about leroy.

This was really sad. This really upset me.

There is a piece of evidence

that I want to talk about right now because we missed it.

And it was when aaron crawled underneath a black maria,

the stagecoach that hauled all the dead bodies

off to boot hill cemetery.

Oh, my god, that is a classic scene...

Aaron: [ laughing ] god. ...The black maria.

Damn, I want to buy that so bad.

Holy [bleep].

Oh, my god. Something just grabbed my [bleep] shirt.

Zak: Look closely at the red arrow.

Just as aaron feels a tug on his shirt,

a white, mist-like apparition moves away from him.

It even has, like -- it looks like an arm or something.

Wonder what it was.

Wonder what it was? It was an apparition.

Because this is the return to tombstone,

we're gonna interview a bunch of different people this time

and see what their experiences have been

since we've been here last.

Zak: First up is longtime bird cage theater employee

darba jo butler,

who apparently was in the first "tombstone" episode.

Do y'all remember when I fell down the stairs, or no?

No.

That's when you were doing a reenactment for us

when we were here five years ago, that happened.

Correct.

That is actual footage of her falling down the stairs,

feeling something push her, and I didn't even know that.

Zak: What happened?

Well, leroy was at the top, and I said, "leroy."

when I got to the bottom, he said, "I didn't touch you."

I said, "no, but somebody caught me."

really? Mm-hmm.

Not a scratch on me.

You felt somebody help, like, catch you at the bottom?

Holding me right down here at the end of the stairs.

So, do you think somebody saved you on the way down?

Oh, absolutely. Uh-huh.

I've got a lot of friends in this building.

That could have been a deadly fall.

So it's like our return to tombstone

is just all about updates at this point and revelations.

Zak: The many spirits who inhabit the bird cage theater

often interact with its employees.

I was quite a skeptic when I first started here.

Zak: But years of photo evidence and the voices he often hears

have convinced tour guide dean dougherty

that the place is indeed haunted,

especially since his most recent experience with physical touch.

I had a microphone, and I was talking to a roomful of people.

Something, from behind me,

grabbed me on my left shoulder right here.

Well, ladies, that were working here asked me,

"what happened there?

You, like, turned really white as a sheet there for a minute."

zak: I love the way this guy talks.

He's great. Yeah, he's cool.

[ southern accent ] "well, I was quite a skeptic there, but"...

[ normal voice ] he's great. I ain't making fun of him.

I love his accent.

Nobody, please, from tombstone, come after me.

What you're saying is absolute truth,

because I was here and I experienced it, as well.

I just felt something touch me in this area here.

Zak: Have you ever felt any touch here?

Every day for the last three years.

So, this is an interesting interview.

I mean, when I have to prepare to interview a woman

about being...

All: Touched. Right.

In those areas that are very private.

But it happened to me, as well.

Zak: Patricia kolsky has been guiding ghost tours

at the bird cage for the last three years.

And while her interactions with the spirits here are abundant,

a more recent experience she had was definitely a first

and eerily similar to mine.

Honestly, I had just got done telling somebody

that there is probably nothing they can do

that will surprise me anymore, and boy, was I wrong.

I was in a long skirt that day.

A hand was on the inside of the skirt,

and it went all the way up my leg.

In the five years between our visits,

not much has changed here at the bird cage theater.

For that matter, not much has changed here

since the late 1800s.

And that's why this location is so intriguing.

Going here to the bird cage theater,

there's just the wild west,

these mining towns, these buildings.

I just love being in them.

-Yeah. -Me, too.

It takes all my anxiety away, all my stress.

I just -- I love being there.

That's the original mirror, still there, from the 1800s.

It hasn't moved.

You can look through the same mirrors that have been

hanging here since 1881.

And look through.

And instead of seeing your own reflection,

you may see one of these spirits that were down here

playing poker in the late 1800s,

looking in the same exact mirror that you can look into.

Was it the first time we went there, we played poker?

Yes. Yeah.

That was the most amazing experience, to sit there.

Zak: As paranormal investigators,

we strive to walk in the footsteps of the spirits

we hope to contact,

which is much easier to do in a place like this,

it's just a whole other world, and yes, we're wearing costume,

but you know what?

I like being a part of the environment.

And wearing that, I did feel more a part of it.

Well, you look familiar to the spirits. What's it called?

Cosplay? When you become the character.

Us wearing that, the spirits -- we look familiar to them.

It kind of helps you connect with the energy there.

Well, I could be wearing a handkerchief

that one of the opposing gangs doesn't like.

I mean, you think about current gangs and colors.

I mean, it was just like that.

Something about these towns is these guys were so tough.

Death couldn't even take their spirits.

There was a saying that leroy used to say.

I'll let him say it. Leroy, say what you used to say.

This is a town too tough to die. Yeah.

Or too tough to die in.

Rest in peace, leroy. Rest in peace, my friend.

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okay, right now, we're heading to our second location

that we're gonna be investigating here

in our return to tombstone.

This location, we never investigated

when we were here five years ago, billy.

This place is called big nose kate's.

There's a connection with big nose kate's

and the bird cage theater.

These were the only two bars in tombstone

to survive the fire of 1882.

Whenever I visit these places, you know,

what's really weird is I get really sad

because I want to go back in time so bad

that I'm just -- I'm in those buildings,

and I'm imagining all the people from the other life

and just knowing that they're all dead

and how we're here for just the limited time

and then we're just gone.

Like, that whole era of time, they're all gone.

All of them are dead.

Do you think you've, maybe, had a past life?

100 percent. Absolutely.

Zak: In may of that year,

a fire ripped through downtown tombstone,

destroying a large portion of the business district.

Incredibly, the bird cage theater survived the blaze,

as well as the entire bar area of the grand hotel --

at that time, the most opulent building in tombstone

and the place where the clanton mclaury gang

stayed the night before they met their fate at the o.K. Corral.

This spot is where big nose kate's saloon

currently stands.

My closest way of of being able to transport back in time

to be living in that era is to be doing what we're doing

to make contact with the people that lived in that time.

I love it. The closest to time travel you can get.

And that's what escapes me from the reality of now

and this present day that I didn't choose to be born in.

I belong back back in the day. I don't belong in this time.

Zak: When the grand hotel was in operation,

I was a guy they nicknamed the swamper.

He was, like, a strange, like, subterranean-dwelling man.

This place has a spiral staircase

that goes down into a basement.

The place that he actually lived

is apparently still down in the basement, okay?

Now, the reason why this place has called us

is because many people

have experienced hauntings down where he lived.

This was great. Such a cool story.

Wasn't there, like, a hole in the ground

or a well or something?

Yeah, the original well.

He was stealing ore from all the mines.

He dug down his own little hole and would sneak in there --

yeah, the swamper, right? Yeah, the swamper.

He'd steal the ore.

So smart. [ laughs ] right?

That's a good thing to try.

Right now, I'm standing in the actual place

where the swamper lived.

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zak: What was up with this guy, the swamper?

Like, this is just really weird.

It was his private domain.

No one entered his domain but himself.

So when he was doing his own diggings,

no one paid attention to him.

So nobody knew that he was digging into the silver mines?

No, not until he didn't show up for work for a few days.

They thought maybe he was ill or something, went looking for him,

and that's when they discovered his diggings.

Hey, the guy that played the swamper,

do you remember where we found him?

No.

We were, like, getting a drink or something in town

after the shoot or whatever.

And we saw him, and we go, "hey, ask that guy."

he's, like, perfect look. He was just a local, I think.

So, was the swamper extracting silver ore

out of the mine shafts?

Legend has it that he was.

Do we know how the swamper died?

There was many, many theories on it,

some that said that he left town.

Others says that the miners kind of permanently took care of him.

Some say that the miners killed him... Mm-hmm.

...In one of his own mine tunnels?

Yes.

Just about two weeks ago, I was walking down the hallway.

Somebody walked up and grabbed me

by the back of my vest and pulled me backwards.

Here's one of these guys. He is a real tough guy here.

And this guy, even, was scared [bleep] from what he felt.

Didn't you leave me alone down here?

-Probably. [ laughs ] -god.

Zak: With our initial investigation complete,

we get ready to lockdown at big nose kate's.

Unfortunately, an unforeseen development changes our plans.

We're just getting ready to investigate big nose kate's,

and just as we're getting ready to get locked in...

Aaron: Right. ...Somebody has a heart attack.

And I don't know if he died or not.

But it's that kind of a weird intervention... Very weird.

...Of interrupting, interfering.

How many times has that happened to us? All the time.

Oh, right. This part is crazy.

Zak: At this time, we decide to change plans

and begin our lockdown at the bird cage theater.

But spirits, especially here, tend not to follow plans.

Right now, billy and patricia, that we interviewed yesterday,

are back in the office,

and apparently, something happened to patricia

and some crazy activity's going on.

So we're having delays, at this time, starting our lockdown.

Now she's all razzled by something that just happened.

Zak: So, what's going on?

I mean, we interviewed you guys yesterday,

and, like, what's going on?

Patricia: I don't know what the spirits were trying to get across,

whether they were angry.

They made sounds, would not stop touching me, which is weird

'cause I usually only get maybe one or two.

Where did you get touched, patricia?

They -- really?

Yeah.

I mean, come on. You die. You cross over as a spirit.

You got the invisible cloak on.

You're no cowboy. [ laughs ] what are you saying?

[ laughter ]

use your imagination.

Everybody in this room knows that this place

is insanely haunted.

And so can you help us out tonight?

Mm-hmm.

What if -- actually, I got another idea.

What if we took ashley?

Ashley is our still photographer.

And during investigation nights, she'll hang out and help us

set up nerve center, everything like that.

So if she's getting touched

and things are happening around her right now,

why would I let her leave the location?

Billy: Right. Jay: It makes sense.

That'd be like fishing and having a really good lure

and catch a fish and then throw it back in the box.

Keep using the lure, you know? Zak: Right, exactly.

We've never really asked ash to come into a lockdown

before, ever, or investigate.

And I just want to see if we can --

'cause she was doing a reenactment with a dress,

and I think she still has the dress.

Zak: So, ashley, what I want to do is

have you put on a floozy dress, too, go in here with her,

and I want to see if you can get groped, too.

Okay. [ laughs ]

"a floozy dress." "a floozy dress." [ laughs ]

that's the technical term -- floozy dress.

Tombstone episode, you guys just put on cowboy hats.

Hell yeah!

You should have wore a floozy dress.

[ laughter ]

you know, it's it's a little early for my floozy dress.

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zak: Just as we are getting ready to start

our second investigation at the bird cage theater,

our audio/video tech jay wasley begins hearing loud,

disembodied voices coming from inside.

You hear, like, some singing or moaning?

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[ tapping ]

this was exciting. We're like, "holy [bleep]."

zak: Oh, I think we debunked this. Yeah.

But at first, it was like, "oh, my god."

it sounded like screaming.

Billy: It was moaning.

Oh, god, it was moaning.

It sounded like, I don't know, people having sex.

Which is kind of funny when you find out what it is.

What am I listening to? Your mic?

My mic. It's right there on the stage.

You can see it right there.

Okay, hold on.

Zak: As aaron and I head off to investigate these voices,

we make a surprising discovery.

Aaron: What is it?

It was a bar next door -- somebody singing. Karaoke!

Karaoke. [ laughs ] oh, my god.

It was some girl singing karaoke.

If you're watching this right now, sorry that

we mistaken your singing for the worst horrible wailing

and crying that we've ever heard.

Zak: So what we think is the spirit of someone

dying in the bird cage theater

is actually just a horrible karaoke singer.

♪♪

actually, when we were on this shoot,

I think we went to a bar

and I tried doing karaoke of "the man in black" --

johnny cash.

And halfway through it, I got so embarrassed.

You just set the microphone down and walked away. [ laughs ]

I don't remember that.

♪ I got a friend ♪

then I was like, "damn, I sound better in my shower."

showers and cars are the best place to sing.

Everyone sounds good. [ laughs ]

it was horrible.

♪♪

zak: Okay, right now, we're getting ready

to start our investigation officially,

our second investigation five years later

at the bird cage theater.

And with this investigation,

we brought with us some experiments.

What am I doing? [ billy laughs ]

jay: We ran the music through the victrola.

Played saloon music through the victrola.

I don't even remember that.

Zak: This first experiment, we have two ladies

that are going to be our trigger object.

One is patricia, who works here,

who gets touched here all the time

and last night got groped.

Ashley, you work for us, as our still photographer.

We are going to use this old victrola,

and we actually have the victrola set up

to some old, 1800s-style saloon music.

So we're gonna see if this can connect

with the spirits in here.

Patricia: Okay, everyone, I don't normally do this,

but tonight is your night.

You get to do whatever you want, and no one's gonna yell at you.

Okay, so, this is interesting here.

This isn't the first time that we've used other people

to try to elicit bait.

There's no rules. [ chuckles ]

absolutely none. I may be here tonight.

I know I said I wasn't gonna be, but here I am.

And you get to do whatever you want.

I even brought you a gift.

New friend. She's been paid. She's new.

She just got hired on, and...

She's been paid for tonight, so she's yours.

Have fun.

Sorry.

Zak: Okay, I'm gonna play the music.

Ashley, if you get uncomfortable...

Zak: It's time to play the old saloon music

and just observe through our structured light sensor camera,

our thermal camera, our full-spectrum camera,

which I will be taking still photos with,

and our night-vision cameras.

[ saloon music plays ]

zak: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

-What do you see? -Holy [bleep].

At this moment, I remember seeing an anomaly

flying through the air over there...

Billy: Yes. ...With my own eyes.

And I got so damn excited about it.

Did you guys not see that? See what?

There was a ball of light.

[bleep]. Damn it! I was on still.

Zak: Right now, I'm angry

because through the viewfinder of the full-spectrum camera,

I see a huge light anomaly floating towards the ladies,

and in a panic, I start snapping photos

because the camera is set to still mode.

And I tried rolling video on it,

but it took it took a still of it.

But I thought I was on video with it.

It took a couple stills, right?

Yeah, I remember a couple of spots. Like a sequence of stills?

Zak: Thankfully, though, my quick fingers are able

to capture four solid frames of this anomaly.

In this first photo, you can see the anomaly

at the top of the screen just above the ladies.

It was an orb of light flying around.

Seeing with my own eyes. Jay: There it is, yeah.

Zak: Then, in the second photo,

it appears to shoot downwards towards patricia.

After this,

in the moment where I wasn't able to capture the anomaly,

patricia appears to have some type of reaction to something.

And in this third photo,

you can see that the anomaly has changed shape.

You can see it traveling there.

It's like -- changes its size.

You've got big. And then it went down.

And here is the final still image

in which I was able to capture the anomaly.

We debunk this as not being any type of flying insect

because the anomaly isn't visible

on any of the other devices,

including our night-vision cameras.

It is only visible in the ultraviolet spectrum of light,

which we cannot see with our own eyes.

This is making me really want to go back here. I know.

I know some you guys don't like return episodes,

but I do 'cause this story,

it just adds another chapter to the story, the book.

In some locations, there's just so much you can do.

It's just one visit isn't enough.

I have to go back here.

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just a message to everybody.

You know, we're all brothers here.

So what you see us do is brotherly.

But jay has the softest hair. [ laughter ]

every now and then... Aaron: Dude, stop!

It's like if you feel stressed or you got anxiety or something,

I like to pet him.

It's nice. Thank you.

You don't know where his hair's been.

Zak: If you don't go and talk to these girls,

this cowboy over here is going to.

If I was you, I'd hurry up.

You notice how our stature changes

when we have the outfit on?

Like, the shoulders come out.

And we did back-to-back outfits

'cause we did goldfield, right?

[ music stops ]

yeah, that was weird. Oh, the music stopped.

That thing was on loop on a playlist.

It shouldn't have stopped, and it just stopped.

Zak: You like what I brought you?

You want me to take them away?

You like me being around them?

So tell us what you were just saying.

While you were talking about being touched

is when I saw that ball of light. Mm-hmm.

Zak: Patricia tells me that when the ball of light

was hovering above them, she was discussing

how she has been touched here by a spirit.

The ball of light was really interesting to me.

Yeah, just to see it travel and change shape.

Yeah. It's really cool.

Would have been great if you had it on video.

[ laughs ]

do you want to go back there

with her by yourself first?

If she's okay with it.

For a few minutes. Yeah, I don't care.

We're gonna leave.

We're gonna go outside and watch you.

Patricia: Okay. Okay?

And just let you two be in here by yourselves...

Okay. ...And see what happens.

This is the best part. Yeah, right here.

Zak: Do you remember this? Yeah.

Her hair! I forgot about that!

Aaron: Oh, that's right!

I still think about this.

Want to have some fun?

You can come closer.

She's acting a little weird.

How did her hair just -- I know. I just saw that, too.

Patricia?

Yeah?

When you were standing against that wall,

we saw a little piece of your hair

fly up way up to the left.

I thought that was just me. I felt that, too.

I thought I was caught on something.

Oh, what?

So, right there, you see her actually going -- lookit.

The problem is, is that we couldn't see

the right side of her to see if her right arm --

we do. We have another camera, though.

Zak: We are going to sync up this camera angle and zoom in

to where you can see the other half of patricia's torso.

At the same exact moment that her hair gets flipped this way,

her right arm is holding on to the cabinet.

It is only once she notices the ghost playing with her hair

that she touches her hair here, causing it to bunch upwards.

Look, it's not even -- she's holding down.

That's insane!

It almost looks like someone

just went like that on the back of her hair.

That is why we need to do a return here for a third time.

I'm serious, you guys.

-I'm down. -I'm serious.

Watching this again is making me want to go back

for a third time. 100 percent.

-Aaron, you ready? -I'm ready.

Zak: To make things even creepier,

our full-spectrum camera, which is now running on video

back in the main stage room,

captures something unsettling yet profound.

Whoa, look at that.

Billy: Yeah, that dark shadow passes.

That's in the casino area.

Damn. This is a really good investigation.

I told you, we got crazy evidence.

Zak: A dark shadow figure can be seen passing

in front of the dice table

as if it is walking from left to right.

And once again, this visual evidence

is only seen through the purple ultraviolet-light spectrum.

Did you feel anything hit your hair?

I thought I did, but I didn't know if it was just me

or if I caught it on something.

Right, 'cause it was laying there.

We just saw it go up, you know,

like someone grabbed it and pushed it. Mm.

I felt something. I just didn't know what it was.

I didn't want to react to something if it was nothing.

Right.

To have the other camera angle validate

that she didn't do that. What her other hand was doing, yeah.

She was down on the post with her hand.

Like, that is...

Without that, though, I would have been very suspect.

But the fact that we had that other camera angle proves it.

That seals the deal. It's not her.

There's somebody in here tonight who's not normally here

because they don't do that to me.

They don't make me sick.

I had to hold on

to something the whole time I was on the backstage.

I couldn't move around. They don't do that to me, ever.

I've never felt like that in this building, ever.

You can see she's genuinely being affected.

I mean, we picked it apart

as best as we could to try to debunk it,

but thankfully, that other camera angle

validated that for us.

Zak: It is now time for aaron and I

to head inside by ourselves in order to call the spirit out.

Zak: You ready? Aaron: Ready.

♪♪

now it's just me and aaron. You remember us.

You should.

Is someone up here?

Aaron, there's a different feeling in here.

I like cowboy zak more than I do, like, regular zak.

Yeah, me too.

[ laughs ]

♪♪

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that evidence right there proves... Without a doubt.

...That they are being touched,

and not only women are being touched,

but I'll never forget that in this region here,

I was touched.

I bet you were. I know you.

Like a loving touch, or like an aggressive touch?

It was just a very, very --

like a pitter-pat or friendly?

If you must know, I actually enjoyed it. Wow.

Billy and jay: I'll drink to that.

We need to go back and find out what spirit did that.

I don't care what spirit did that.

Whoa!

No, I'm just saying -- I'm just saying, too.

I'm just saying that it felt good.

It didn't hurt.

Aaron, now I know why he wants to go back.

[ laughs ] zak: Okay, billy. All right, billy.

I wasn't aroused by it. Right.

But it felt good. Right.

So we should go back. But it didn't feel bad.

All right, all right.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

You want to investigate that one alone?

Whoa! [ billy laughs ]

zak: As aaron and I begin our solo investigation

of the bird cage theater,

what was familiar to us five years ago starts to fade away.

Zak: Aaron, there's a different feeling in here.

Aaron: Yeah, dude.

It's a different smell.

Are you ready to talk this time?

Billy: Zak, you look like inspector gadget right there.

[ laughter ]

from the back.

[ aaron hums "inspector gadget" theme song ]

wow, bill.

This is a tag zak episode.

You look like an inspector.

Or darkwing duck. Don't cosign on that, aaron!

You look like darkwing duck.

[ laughing ] like a detective noir film.

-Darkwing duck! -Remember that?

Dick tracy.

[ laughs ] yes.

♪♪

aaron: Whatever spirits are in here,

we're gonna turn on a device that allows you to talk to us.

We need you to communicate big-time and give us answers,

all right?

Whoa, did you hear that? Zak: I did.

Those footsteps downstairs. Right, right.

We need you to communicate big-time and give us answers,

all right?

Those footsteps downstairs. Right, right.

Zak: Aaron and I immediately head downstairs

into the poker room to conduct an evp burst session

to see if we can contact

the spirit that we just heard walking down there.

These are some of the rooms where the ladies of the night

would do their business.

And these rooms are screwed shut.

When we did the first episode there,

we didn't really get into these rooms.

We're not -- we weren't allowed to go inside.

That's down in the basement, right?

So, these rooms are where the people would hanky-panky.

Aaron: Right. Wait, what's that mean?

That they would do the stuff.

They would...

They would hold hands?

They would go within each other.

[ laughs ]

sex! It's where they'd have sex.

Zak: Can I hire you?

♪♪

what's your name there, darlin'?

How much is it gonna cost me to have a good time?

Can I hire you?

[ indistinct mumbling ]

aaron: Whoa, whoa, rewind that.

Zak: We capture a class a evp,

which, to us, sounds like a male spirit,

telling us that he's trying to hear.

I really love that

of when the rooms are sealed off, they're undisturbed.

But you can still stick your hand in there

for a recorder or something.

Oh, that's right. They're blocked out.

Yeah, but this was a really good voice,

billy, listen to this.

Can I hire you?

Zak: What's interesting is that at the same exact time

we capture this class a evp

is also when this light anomaly passes near the recorder.

Is this spirit trying to explain that he can see us talking

but cannot hear our words?

This spirit voice may validate that there is

a frequency barrier between the living and the dead.

That happens a lot.

I love that -- when you get the two, three things

all happening together. Right.

Or the environment changes around the recorder.

Spirit boxes will tap.

You see an anomaly shoot into the spirit box.

Yeah, that happens all the time.

And then a voice comes through. So cool.

Aaron and I now head over to investigate big nose kate's,

formerly known as the grand hotel of tombstone.

While jay and billy hang back at nerve center

to monitor the now vacant bird cage theater,

aaron and I immediately venture downstairs into the basement

where a secret room is located behind the current gift shop.

And I really like this, like, when you go

to these old towns like this.

I love when they have like preserved, secret time chambers.

Oh, yeah.

Like they do here, you go beyond this protective paneling.

And it's like -- that's where the swamper's area was.

Yeah, it's like this area has not been touched.

It's like an archeological room.

Zak: This is where the mysterious subterranean man

known as the swamper once lived.

It is said he suddenly vanished into one of his mine tunnels,

and his body was never found.

People have been pushed here, hair has been pulled.

All kinds of glass is moving, and we're gonna go downstairs

and see if we can communicate with the swamper

and see if he's responsible.

Go figure. The swamper lives in a desert.

I don't get it.

This is the gift-shop area.

And soon you're gonna see where you go through this threshold,

and there's an untouched area from like 150 years ago.

Oh, yeah, right.

This is a creepy staircase to go down.

Oh, right now, I got a baseline temperature

at 63 degrees fahrenheit.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Aaron: What? Hold on, hold on.

Zak: Right now, I'm seeing

what appears to be a figure directly in front of me.

Do you see that, aaron? Look.

Doesn't that look like a person standing right in front of me?

Oh, yeah.

Was it something there? What was that?

Yeah, it's called a mannequin.

Oh. [ laughter ]

see, jay thought it was something.

Here's the reason. It's so dark.

You don't see that. Right.

We'll see nothing.

Zak: Oh, wait a minute. It's just a display.

I didn't realize the debunk stamp was so new.

Yeah.

♪♪

that is where this is a completely different world

beyond those bars.

♪♪

aaron: Dude, I'm getting chills. I'm getting body chills bad.

You are? Yeah, I'm feeling something.

Are you swamper?

♪♪

♪♪

hey, remember that time you had a --

you had a dungeon in your basement,

and it looked like a bookcase, but then you opened it

and it's like...

Yeah, that dungeon's what caused all the bad stuff,

and that's what unleashed all hell in that house

and what caused me to move out.

Did anything ever happen to the people

that moved in there after you?

Yeah, they tore the dungeon out.

Zak: Got 60 degrees.

Temperature dropped three degrees.

Okay.

There's figures on my left. Looks like he's doing the --

like he's dancing.

Aaron: Oh, yeah, I see that.

Up and down, like in the room,

like, almost, like, scaring us away

or, like, you know when you shoo away an animal?

Can you stop doing that?

Just stop.

♪♪

can you jump down off of there?

♪♪

and it's gone.

Billy: Did they let you guys go in there?

Zak: Oh, yeah. Yeah? Let me guess.

Did aaron have to go in there by himself?

No. I went in there.

No, you put me in there.

I think I -- I think I went in.

I think I was the one who got all the awesome evidence.

I don't remember. It was a long time.

You want to take bets right now?

20 bucks that I go inside that room.

I don't remember. I'm trying to remember. I'll take that bet.

20 bucks? 20 bucks.

No, you got to shake on it.

Shake on it. Okay. $20.

Aaron's gonna go in alone. I agree.

Why would you guys bet against me that I wouldn't go?

That's how betting goes.

You bet against the guys that are betting.

You know what I mean? Yeah, there's no betting if we all agree.

♪♪

zak: Lookit. Aaron: What?

Soon as I get up to his cage, it just stopped working.

What?

And look at the temperature. It went down to 59 degrees.

59!

It was about a four-degree temperature --

four- or five-degree temperature drop.

Why did it just shut off like that? Lookit.

Temperature's going down to 58 now.

There's something going on.

There's something right here, dude.

It's protecting his area. Yeah.

♪♪

hey, aaron? Yeah?

I want you to go in here.

Go inside?

Yeah, I want you to go inside there.

Oh! [ laughter ]

yeah! Make it rain!

I could have swore I went in there.

Zak: Go!

Dude, it just feels weird, like I shouldn't.

Get in there.

I just feel like I shouldn't do it.

Oh, god.

Don't fall in that hole.

Dude, I'm shaking.

I don't even know why I'm shaking right now.

Okay, ready?

Oh, man. Zak, this is really uneasy, bro.

Zak: I honestly thought I went in there. Well...

Wait, aren't technically in there, though?

Just on the other side of the bars.

I mean, there's still a chance you could take a step in there.

Zak: Listen.

[ tapping ]

somebody's walking.

Zak, this is really uneasy, bro.

Shut up! Shut up!

Listen.

I feel like that's one of the scariest things

when it's totally quiet, you know the building's empty,

oh, yeah. You hear, like, distinguished footsteps.

Did he lock you in there, aaron?

Yeah. He locked me in and left.

No, I didn't. The bars are shut, I think, right?

Yeah, the bars are shut. I didn't lock you in.

Zak: Somebody's walking.

Aaron: Dude, don't leave me.

Hey, someone's walking upstairs.

I'm gonna go see if it's that guy.

Okay?

Zak: Hello?

Who's upstairs?

All right, I just got left down here alone with...

Whoa, it smells like dirty sock.

[ laughs ]

you with me, swamper?

[ all groaning, laughing ]

swamper. Got swamp socks.

Swamper's probably right up on your head right there.

[ laughter ] god.

Would you like this silver?

[ thud ]

zak: Hello?

♪♪

is someone back here?

♪♪

kind of want out.

♪♪

zak!

♪♪

zak: As the sun begins to rise over tombstone,

our investigation comes to an end.

The evidence gathered at the bird cage theater

and big nose kate's supports what we already knew --

that this town is most definitely haunted.

Wouldn't that be amazing, though,

if we could truly see spirits?

Oh, I'd love that.

Like, just like a pair of goggles, like 13 ghosts.

So cool. It'll be in there in the future.

I mean, we've seen them, but they're very rare.

I don't know. Maybe it's good that we don't see them.

Do you feel like they would literally be everywhere?

I do. Yeah.

Go to the grocery store...

I believe that spirits do move on.

Aside from all the jokes and laughs that we had here,

I work with my three brothers, literally.

The thing that we leave with is the imprint in our mind

of not only what we experienced there,

but the evidence that we collected.

That is the drug. That is what we go after.

That's the thrill.

That evidence right there helps me cope with the fear

that I have of death, that there is something else...

That makes sense. Definitely.

...After this life.

And you never know where you're gonna capture evidence of it.