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so far, the men that have lived in this house are all dead.

Those spirits of the people who died there

could be in this house.

We've got to go really deep into the roots of the story

within this family.

That's the bullet hole.

That was really tough for her, but --

I need to go outside.

That bullet has energy to it.

Michael, can you see us? [ oscillating static ]

aaron: Whoa!

Holy god, that sounded like him.

You can see by the reactions on their faces...

Billy: Yeah. ...It worked.

Zak: We have seen things that defy explanation,

experiencing the best...

God, that was awesome!

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!

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."

so, why do you guys always wear black?

It's kind of -- it's all I own.

I like to accent it once in a while with some color.

Zak: Hi, guys. All: Hey, zak.

"hi, zak." in stereo. [ laughs ]

so, what I want to do is I want to start digging into

some of our deeper investigations,

ones that we help families.

Kind of a de-briefing for all of us

to go through what we felt.

Yeah. One of them is very tough for me.

One of them, I had tears going down my face

within the first hour of us arriving,

and it gets real serious sometimes,

and it gets real hard for us.

Which one are we watching?

Crisis in oakdale. Aaron: Oh, wow.

This was a tough one.

Zak: This is gonna be an investigation

that is gonna be really troubling for all of us.

It's extremely sad, it's very emotional,

and we're gonna be dealing with a grieving family

from a very recent death.

This may be the hardest investigation I have ever faced.

Not only are we going here to help her,

but we're also going to protect her

by figuring out what is inside her house that is so sinister.

Zak: This private home in oakdale, california,

has something dark happening inside.

It seems that every man who has lived in this house

has died an untimely death --

most recently, the homeowner's son.

Some of these investigations, we show up and they're more fun.

Some of them, they're just historic haunted location

where we're going and trying to get evidence.

And then you have these,

where you're walking in and a family

just lost somebody weeks ago, trying to help them with closure

by documenting evidence of their loved one

who's been trying to contact them.

I mean, this is tough to do.

And empathetically, we feel it.

Yeah.

Zak: Hi, karon. How you doing?

Okay. Been better. Okay.

I'd like you to just start off and tell me about the tragedy

that occurred a little over a month ago.

I had a 27-year-old son who was autistic, very high-functioning.

This last June, he decided to see his father for father's day,

and his father took him out

and taught him how to load and fire a gun.

A short while after, michael went over to my father's house

and took an antique .38.

And then michael came home and went in the bathroom

and shot his self in the head.

This is a coping mechanism for her.

This was her way to help find closure

and just a remedy for her pain.

This was a method, and we were there to support her,

support his spirit.

While she's sitting her talking to us,

he's there, spirit of him is there, listening to this.

It probably helps, when we do investigate,

connect everything together.

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karon: A week to the day after his passing,

I was sitting right here.

I had not been able to go into michael's room,

but something just, I felt, guided me to his room.

And in the bottom of his clothes hamper,

I found two letters from him.

Apparently, he'd been planning this for a while.

In the letters, he blamed his father,

and a person that I don't care to name

had apparently molested him when he was 8 years old.

We didn't know about it, and he wrote it all out in this letter.

I want my son to rest in peace.

That was the most painful thing

I have ever read in my entire life.

Zak: When she handed me this letter... Aaron: Oh, yeah.

And it was his handwriting,

describing why he took his own life,

knowing that I am the only one who's read that was a big thing.

And to hear those details is something

that I'll never tell anybody, ever.

I'll hold that with me here,

but I think it was important for me to read that letter

to understand why

and to understand his emotion and tone while he wrote that.

And that was gonna help me better try to make contact

with him while we're there.

Karon: Michael -- he only watched three tv shows,

and one was "ghost adventures,"

because I watched it and he would watch it with me.

Zak: Michael, if you're here, we're here.

You watched us on television.

We're here for you, we're here for your mother,

we're here for your family,

and please help your mother out and just let her feel,

let her know that you can move on now, with peace.

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I feel that our emotional energies,

at that point, joining together,

and then also being linked together with her son

through him being a fan of us, I think this, right here,

was the most important part to connect with him.

To bring him, to manifest him

and to see the emotion of not only her but me

and somebody that he could recognize.

Zak: You believe that he's still here?

Karon: I feel energy.

Do you think that there's something here,

something else, before your son took his life?

Yes. There's been doors opening and closing.

There's been people being touched here.

This is our job as investigators, to dig deeper,

to ask these questions that may be tough,

but we need to know the back-story behind this.

So far, the men that have lived in this house are all dead.

What do you mean?

I bought this house 23 years ago.

It was two years old. It had been lived in for one year.

There was a young man in his late 20s.

He was killed in an accident on the colorado river.

I had a fiancé for eight and a half years

who moved into my house.

13 years ago, we found him strangled.

The police ruled it a suicide.

And he was living here at the time?

Mm-hmm. Okay.

We need to know if there's been a lingering curse

within the family.

We need to know if there's been a generational demon

that's been attached to them.

I don't know if they're just strange coincidences.

I don't know if it has something to do with me.

I've thought that a lot of times,

but I had always hoped it would never affect my kids.

Why would it have something to do with you?

My mother's death was ruled a suicide, as well.

Those spirits of the people who died there,

or even who are related to them, died somewhere else,

could be in this house and affect him,

but now he's there with them,

and how confused are those spirits compared to him?

So it becomes this chaotic mess where, over time,

a spirit becomes something darker than it is supposed to.

And how do we know what these other spirits --

if they also are coaxing him to do what he did,

you know, just to get him, this generational thing

that just keeps happening over and over again.

And that's why most people that see this and hear this,

they just see, "oh, he committed suicide. He's stuck."

but we've got to go really deep

into the roots of the story within this family.

Zak: Another detail karon shared with me off-camera

is that her grandmother was confined to an insane asylum

for speaking with the dead.

Do you have any requests of anybody you want to talk to,

or somebody that we can bring here?

I was kind of hoping for a psychic or a medium.

Okay.

Karon decides to show me michael's ashes.

But, before I see them, I feel that it's necessary

to make something very clear to her as the circumstances

and emotions are so delicate and sensitive.

I don't make any guarantees.

Okay?

But what I do make is a promise and a commitment

to you and your family that I'm gonna stay here,

be here, and share the emotion that you have,

in the hopes of reaching out to the spirit of your son,

who you believe is still here,

and hopefully, he can move on with peace.

The scary thought, though, is if this is,

like, a generational demon

or something negative affecting this family,

who's not to say it's gonna keep doing it, you know?

And us learning this, like,

it might have something that has a hold of the family,

which is even scarier.

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karon hasn't been able to go into the bathroom

where michael ended his life just over a month ago,

but has suggested we go together.

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this was the most disturbing part.

This was bad.

Her taking us to the bathroom where he took his life.

You see the brown?

Zak: Yeah.

See right here?

His head was here, and the back of his head was here,

and it ran that way.

So this whole brown outline of his body,

and his head was here.

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that's the bullet hole.

And I think, when I pointed out the bullet hole in the wall...

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that was really tough for her, but...

I need to go outside.

...I just made the decision,

I think, that that bullet needed to be...

Aaron: Which is a good point. ...Removed from the wall...

Billy: I agree. ...Because that bullet has energy to it.

Absolutely.

And I think that what's done has already been done.

And I think that the physical reminders

of that violent event...

Billy: Removed. ...Should be removed and just...

For sure. ...Fill the house with this,

with loving photos and flowers and love.

Right.

Zak: We immediately start the process

of removing the bullet from the wall.

This is so difficult, but I will do whatever I can.

We finally locate the slug.

Hopefully, this will bring karon some peace.

If you're struggling with depression,

if you're struggling with any type of darkness at all,

just, you know, know that, you know, you're not alone

and a lot of other people have gone through this

and there's help for you,

and just know that these things can pass,

so if you don't have anybody to talk to,

here's a number that you can talk to somebody.

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zak: We now meet karon's friends,

who visited the home just one week after michael's death.

Deanna, a psychic, details numerous dark experiences

she had while here and after she left.

Is there something else in the house?

Family has talked about things being in the house,

occurrences happening.

Did you ever feel something, though,

that was darker or evil here?

Yeah, I definitely felt something darker.

Like, the whole time I was here,

I could feel something grabbing my side,

like it was trying to, maybe, attach to me or something.

Demonic? Yeah.

Now it's time to really focus on is michael there?

Is his spirit there? Right.

You know, meeting with some of their friends here.

It's important to know what other spirits

might be there besides michael.

Is there something holding him there or tormenting him?

Do you think it's here? Deanna: Yeah.

But I think it might follow the family, I'm not sure,

'cause they're grieving so bad and --

it's feeding off of that. Yeah.

Yeah.

All right. Thank you both.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Thank you.

I think all the interviews that we have

are important for the diagnosis.

We're getting information from them. Zak: Yeah, 100%.

We always get a little bit piece --

but it's my job, too, when I interview them personally,

to see how genuine these interviews are.

And what I was being told here was very compelling

in that there were underlying spiritual experiences

going on while michael was alive and even,

you know, himself was dealing with some of this.

Zak: Evidence of a sinister energy

surrounding this family is mounting,

confirming the presence of darkness in this house.

Karon's daughter, jessica,

describes her troubling observations

when they first moved in.

Zak: There's something else in this house that you have felt?

Jessica: Yeah, I've felt a lot of things.

There's definitely people.

We came. They were already here.

Okay.

As long as I haven't got to to up there, I can manage.

Is it the scene of where it occurred

is what bothers you the most?

I can't get past, like, the sixth stair.

It feels like, you know, when you jump in cold water

and your lungs...

I get that, and I can't breathe.

Zak: I wanted this whole family to help,

but I didn't want to push them to do anything

that made them uncomfortable.

I know that, already,

they're not in their normal everyday life at this point,

because they're dealing with a loss, with grieving.

You know, I just went through grieving of my father,

and that was about a year, you know,

but the first three months were --

you're just not yourself.

It's a really weird feeling.

So I didn't want to push them too hard.

And they're re-living it, talking it.

And it's a little more intense, too. Yeah.

Zak: Jessica decides she wants to try and head up the stairs

in memory of her brother, but as she reaches the top,

she is overpowered by pain and sadness.

I can't go in there, I can tell you that much.

It hurts.

Once I got to the top of those stairs

is the first time I felt something.

I couldn't breathe. Billy: Exactly.

Something was squeezing my chest there,

and it debilitated me.

I didn't know what this was,

but other people are experiencing it.

Billy, you experienced it.

Yeah, I experienced it, too, same spot.

Zak: Jessica's sister, alicia, describes multiple experiences

she had both before and after this most recent tragedy.

Was there an influx of activity here after your brother's death?

Oh, absolutely.

And what type of activity?

You could just feel him when you'd walk in the door.

It was just this electric kind of energy.

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the family friend who cleaned the bathroom

where michael had shot himself --

he had been talking to my brother,

you know, "why did you do this?"

he was close to my brother. He was angry with him.

He had cleaner on the counter when he was cleaning.

He witnessed it fly off the counter.

He did? Mm-hmm.

Poltergeist activity --

that means "I want your attention."

right. Knock something off.

"I'm here. I need your attention.

Please look at me. Please notice me."

how many times when we're investigating, at first,

it might not feel it, it might not be as dark,

but the deeper we get, we start drawing out information.

Right.

Then that dark energy starts making its presence known

and starts, I think, trying to stop us.

Right.

Did michael ever complain about ghosts or spirits?

His way of complaining was a little bit different.

Yeah.

But he would say things like,

"I need to get out of this house.

I can't stay here anymore. I need to get out."

and he could never really --

couldn't detail the experiences.

Exactly.

Do you believe that it was because he was being

influenced by something unseen...

I do. ...Of a spirit or force?

I do, I really do. Okay.

And do you think this spirit or force

could be something dark that is attached to your mother

and has influenced your other relatives?

Yes. Yes.

Again, I've never said this to her,

but when we lived in a different house in hayward,

there were ghosts there.

I saw them myself.

So activity has been around your family

since you were little.

It's been around as long as I can remember.

Remember, this was like a curve ball.

Like, there was ghosts at the other house.

But what does that tell you?

So, like, that's when we were leaning towards

generational demon, possibly.

Exactly.

Possibly a generational demon, or just strong attachments...

Yeah. ...You know, of something.

You think it affects the men in your family... Yes.

...In a more negative way?

Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely.

I don't know how to explain what happened to don.

And when don lived here,

did he ever complain of spirits or anything?

Don wasn't that kind of guy, but I noticed a lot,

when he would be in this house, he would get very angry.

So this would just be a sudden change of rage?

Sudden.

And if he lived there for 10 years,

he's probably haunting that house,

'cause that's a house he liked.

When I was about 15,

and I had turned the tv off for the night,

when I rolled back towards my tv,

there was a face in the tv.

You saw a face in your tv?

I saw a face in my tv.

Was it off? It was off. It had been off.

What did the face look like?

He had black eyes. In your television?

And I screamed. In this house?

In this house.

That's not good.

Now this is now spinning the investigation into...

What's attacking this family?

...Is the family being influenced by evil?

Is the family being influenced by these generational demons

that have affected previous family members

that also, coincidentally, committed suicide?

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zak: As we investigate this residence,

jay and dakota will be in the backyard

monitoring a live nerve center.

Michael, this is zak from the tv show

"ghost adventures" that you used to watch.

We're with your grieving family,

who claims that activity in the house has really picked up.

Soon, I'm gonna bring your mother and your sister inside.

Then I'm gonna bring a man that has a gift.

He can see you visually.

Does this all sound okay with you?

[ clears throat ] what's going on?

Heart rate just went out of control.

Remember, I said this happened here earlier.

Yeah.

Ooh.

This is where I started getting a little bit of anxiety

and something was coming at,

and I feel that it was one of the darker energies.

I didn't feel like it was the son or anything like that.

I felt it was something totally different.

And that's when it amped and we started getting all this stuff.

Well, we got this.

Zak: Michael, I know you know what this is.

You've seen us use it on our show before.

Remember?

[ tap ]

what was that?

That was pretty loud, dude. What was that?

It was right over here on the table.

Zak: All of a sudden, as I'm addressing michael,

we all hear a loud noise on this table,

but there's no camera aiming in that direction

to see if something moves.

I mean, what seems so simple,

maybe, to our viewers of a loud noise coming

just -- this was right, 12 feet, in front of us.

It's really loud. Yeah.

I mean, something on that table was hit or moved.

Zak: Were you trying to move something on the table?

What was that noise?

Can you do it again?

Oh.

It was loud.

Oh.

Oh, god, my stomach hurts.

Oh. Billy: Did you hear that?

Oh. I thought it was upstairs.

That was weird.

[ exhales deeply ]

is it the same thing that hit you, zak, over there, probably?

Oh, yeah, didn't you feel like you felt sick earlier?

When you first came in?

Felt dizzy, he said.

Oh.

Do you think that michael would do something like this

to make us feel bad?

I think it's the other spirits,

maybe trying to stop us from helping him.

Yeah, michael wouldn't be trying to make you feel bad.

Or we could also be feeling the pain...

True. ...That michael is feeling...

That's true. ...And be interpreting it differently.

It was a tough investigation because of that.

I mean, just imagine going into a room with a bad person

and a good person, and you got ear plugs in,

you've got a blindfold on, and you're just feeling around.

And then you're near the really bad killer person,

and you're, like, "oh, this might be the good person".

You've got to use your emotions, your abilities,

your sensitivities, to determine what this is.

Zak: Being inside this house, you never know

when an energy of emotions will suddenly debilitate you.

And, as aaron continues to become emotional...

Oh, god, that was crazy.

Zak: ...I start to feel a sharp pain in my stomach...

Ow, ow!

...At the same exact time that an ice-cold air mass hits us.

Billy: Holy [bleep]! What?

Feel that cold air right here.

Aaron: Think my camera's freezing.

Michael, is this you here, walked up on us?

Crazy how we all three were together.

I'm getting hurt, the energy goes up.

Next minute, someone else, energy goes up.

It uses our energy to actually amp this.

Well, you felt it. And zak felt it.

The cold air was a manifestation. Oh, sure.

It was a spirit in front of us.

It was manifesting, and it was leaving the air extremely cold.

Zak: We immediately begin setting up

the live-talking evp device

to see if this is, indeed, michael or a different spirit.

And, as we are doing this,

the back door unexplainably opens by itself.

[ indistinct chatter ]

[ door hinges creaking ]

what was -- [bleep].

Guys, guys, guys, the door's opening by itself back here.

Oh, my god.

Aaron: Guys, this was shut. Yeah, no, that just opened.

Yeah, we just witnessed it open up by itself.

Oh, my god, dude.

So, at this point, the door did open.

We were unable to determine

whether or not, maybe, a little breeze of wind did that.

But we were able to look at the curtains

and look at other things at that time,

to say even the plastic on the tent there,

to see there wasn't any strong winds.

I remember there wasn't a storm. It wasn't windy or anything.

Billy: No.

Second-time poltergeists. You know what I'm saying?

So, something actually turned the handle to open it.

It had to.

Zak: Here is an earlier shot of billy

making sure this door is completely shut.

Were you able to get anything on camera from out there?

Jay: Well, this camera, I mean, you can't see the door,

but I don't think you can actually see past this thing.

Zak: Because all of this activity,

I turn on the spirit box,

and, as I do, we receive this chilling response.

[ oscillating static, indistinct voice ]

did it say, "I need your help"?

Aaron: Yeah. It said, "need your help."

I mean, you've got to remember, if michael is there, he sees us.

He knows that he's watched our episodes of "ghost adventures."

he wants to get our attention.

-All: Yeah. -You know?

It's like someone stalking, maybe, an earthquake collapse,

and you're just there for days and days

screaming "help" and "help" and "help,"

but, finally, you hear a voice that you recognize.

And the more excited we get, or the more spooked,

it uses that energy to do things.

Zak: This is an extremely emotional response,

and because of that,

it is time for us to invite michael's mother and sister

into the investigation.

As I begin making my way up the stairs

to try to capture michael's voice,

I'm not prepared for the emotional event

that is about to occur.

Michael, can you see us?

[ oscillating static ]

[ indistinct voice ]

aaron: Whoa! "say something."

what?

It was michael.

What, karon? Oh, god, I've got chills.

Mi-- oh! Oh.

Aaron: Bringing them in here was amazing.

Family recognized the voice as michael's voice,

and you can see by the reactions on their faces

that this was a very, very important moment,

if not the most important moment in the entire investigation.

It worked. This worked.

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zak: In oakdale, california, we just heard a voice

that sounded like karon's deceased son, michael.

Aaron: Whoa!

Immediately after this voice,

I feel something grab me on my rear end,

and I have no idea that, earlier,

the family asked michael to do this to me.

Something touched me back here.

We asked him to do that. Oh, my god.

What?

When we were outside.

What?

We specifically asked michael to touch you.

On your butt.

Billy: See, it was like a happy moment for them

because they got their validation.

He is there. He does hear us.

When that happened, I actually, like, felt a great deal

of satisfaction that he's there listening.

And then you have three elements there.

You have us getting the evidence,

experiencing his spirit directly -- me.

You have the reaction from his mother

and his sister validating it's him.

And then you have michael, who's there.

That's a triangle of energy

that I believe has connected to him.

Zak: As I turn the spirit box back on,

another emotional response comes through.

Michael, can you give them a message?

[ indistinct voice ] "mom."

"mom!" he said, "mom!" oh!

He said, "mom".

That's what it sounded like. I heard "mom".

Oh, baby, you're doing good.

Aaron: That's right -- "mom".

God, this -- was incredible.

Chills, just an emotional...

Aaron: Oh, hoo.

I think that was him, but, like, I just want to throw out,

you have to be careful, too, 'cause if it is something dark,

they're gonna try to be something to comfort you...

Yeah. ...And then trick the mother into thinking --

but I think this was... I think it was, too, though.

...Because they heard his voice, the butt grab was a joke.

And "mom" -- it all tied in.

I think in this case, though, we're all like,

"oh, we've got to the careful. It could be this".

I think at this point, love is stronger than...

Yeah. I agree.

Zak: It is now time to invite world-renowned psychic medium

and our good friend, chris fleming,

into the investigation to try to help the family

as well as the spirit of michael.

It's like I can't sit still.

Zak: Yeah, there's a lot of high anxiety in there.

It just hits you. Yeah.

By doing this, it's calming me, you know?

By playing with my fingers and my hands.

I like how he shows up now.

We got the little closure with the son,

but now he's coming in to explain

what else is in the room... More details.

...And then we go in there and try to get rid of the evil.

You know? -Yeah.

He's just right on.

So he picks up on a man and a woman,

and he has no idea that her fiancé committed suicide

and that her grandmother committed suicide.

He just called out both of them.

Right. If it's who he was sensing.

Zak: This is chris fleming.

Hi, chris. I'm karon.

Karon, nice to meet you. Mom.

You okay?

[ exhales ]

there's a lot of sorry, "I am sorry" coming through.

I'll show you.

Okay. I'm ready.

I want to see.

It was a powerful moment.

You can just see the relief that she has.

He says, "I'll prove to you that I'm okay".

Okay.

He's also saying, "I thought about it for a while".

Zak: He thought about what for a while?

Taking his life?

Let me ask you this. Who's the man?

There was a man just -- is there someone else who passed away?

Did his father pass away?

Did someone pass away that is male?

'cause there's a male in this house, too.

Yes. Another male that lived in this house.

Zak: Karon's fiancé, who lived in this house,

also committed suicide,

but some claim that he was murdered.

Do you remember right when chris fleming arrived,

that he said that he was having visions in the car?

On his way there. Before he had any information.

Chris says that a lot.

He has a good connection with kind of foreseeing

or having things come to him

even before he gets to the place.

We all begin hearing noises or footsteps coming from upstairs.

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it sounds like footsteps.

Aaron: It's hardwood floor, it'd be the bathroom

because it was all carpet, you know what I'm saying?

It was carpeted hallway.

That is a good point.

You do hear a hard surface,

and the only hard surface up there is the bathroom.

Zak: Karon and I think that it's a good idea at this point

for chris to read her son's suicide letter

so he can connect with the energy that's infused within it.

It really hit him. Billy: Yeah.

Him reading this letter really, really got to chris.

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zak: Michael, someone is here

that can see you a lot better than we can.

He read your letter just like I did.

I'm gonna bring him towards your room.

[ exhales sharply ]

he just came out of the wall right behind you,

in between you and I, and he went back in.

Aaron: This is where chris started sensing the boy,

the son, right?

Coming out of the wall,

in the same spot where the family told us

that that's always where michael would stand.

Yeah, he didn't know any of that coming into it.

He didn't know anything! Any details.

Zero. He didn't know anything.

That's what we do. We don't tell them anything.

No! That's why we bring them in.

It makes it amazing every time.

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zak: As we investigate a house in northern california,

chris sees michael come out of this wall

just behind the railing seen here.

Billy: And that's where michael would always stand,

at the top of the stairs, right there.

Chris says that he sees his spirit coming out of the wall.

Remember that because, later, when I have the sls camera,

I document something to give him a lot of credence to that.

That's right.

Zak: As chris is standing in the exact spot

where michael took his own life just over a month ago,

he begins to channel michael's final thoughts

before he pulled the trigger.

He was shaking before, contemplating thinking about it,

something he's thought of,

but now he's in that moment where he's making a decision.

And he's saying, "forgive me, forgive me.

I don't know who I am anymore."

and he keeps thinking of this weight,

this thing that he's dealt with, that he can't get past it.

But then he's saying, "forgive me,"

because he knows, "I'm not a bad kid.

This isn't me.

I want to know who I really am,

and I'm not this, so I don't want this anymore."

and then he says, "forgive me".

It's like he's talking to someone else.

Like he's talking to god, or who he's talking to,

he's saying, "forgive me."

that's got to be hard to do.

This was hard for me, being in there.

Like, and just for chris to open himself up to that,

for the family to hear those words.

Right.

"she's helping me bring peace to myself,

to know that I am more than just this.

This was just an experience for me."

it's as if she's reminding and telling him

that you must let go of this, and you must elevate

so you won't be trapped here.

Poor guy.

Michael, I hope we helped you there, buddy.

Me, too. Oh, I'm sure we did.

I hope we helped you.

That was the man.

Zak: Chris now begins to detect a darker male presence.

Could this be karon's fiancé that chris detected earlier?

There's a man in this house, too.

Yes. Another male that lived in this house.

Male's not good. Male wants him to stay here.

So, this began to be very clear for chris,

and you can see without hesitation he's picking this up.

And that's probably the malevolent/big poltergeist

sometimes, you know.

Like, "get out of my house," pushing stuff.

He's the one making the negativity happen, for sure.

Zak: As chris tries to get a clear image

of this darker male spirit, he heads into michael's bedroom,

at which time I begin documenting

a large figure behind him.

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zak: There's somebody in the closet.

Chris: Yeah.

There's somebody standing right next to you in the closet.

They small or large?

It's a large figure.

He knows who I am.

Zak: What's interesting is that we are looking at this figure,

and at first we're like,

"is it possibly matrixing something in the background".

But the reason why we decided

that this was an interesting piece of evidence

is that it lifted its arm up

in a gesture almost towards chris.

That, to me, was really interesting.

Yeah.

Something's coming up my legs.

My legs are feeling --

it's making itself known. Sit over here. Come over here.

Hey, zak? Zak, come on in here.

Huh?

I want you to come forward. I sense you.

If something comes through, allow it to come through.

Okay, I'm gonna communicate with it.

Who is this? Make yourself known.

I demand that you make yourself known.

I'm aware of your presence to her, your attachment.

Come forward.

Thank god he's here to help them and the family at the same time

because, if he didn't come,

maybe we wouldn't have got that closure for him.

Yeah, I think his abilities helped us reach the depth

that we wanted to reach with the communication.

Sometimes, it seems like it's directed on who you should call,

what person to bring in. Oh, yeah.

You know, maybe you're guided to do that,

that chris was the right fit for that.

Oh, he was the perfect fit.

Zak: As chris takes karon and her daughter

outside and continues to assist them,

I begin capturing another figure in the exact same spot

where chris saw michael's spirit come out of the wall earlier.

And it is now that I remember the family told me

this was michael's favorite spot to stand.

He would talk to the family

from right in the middle of that hallway, looking down.

With chris, billy, dakota, and the family out front,

jay and myself at nerve center,

and aaron, seen here, entering the downstairs bathroom,

watch very closely what happens to this front door

that's been open for over 15 minutes.

Zak: Here's the biggest piece of evidence of the night.

Look at that. Aaron goes into the bathroom.

That door that's been open for 15 minutes shuts by itself.

There's no wind at all.

If there was wind outside, it would have pushed the door open.

Right, it would have come in. Not shut it.

Well, and it's happened twice in there.

This is twice now. Twice.

Yeah, this is twice. Two different doors, no wind.

Zak: Did somebody just come up, open, and close this door?

No. No, we've been out front this entire time,

for at least five or 10 minutes.

That door just opened and closed,

we just saw it at nerve center.

Oh!

None of you guys came in up here?

No, we've all been right here.

That is very common here.

Zak: Could this be the aggressive male spirit

telling us to stay out of the house?

The last little bit... Billy: Final push.

...Shut with force.

It's going slow, it's going slow, and then slam.

Then, get out. Like it picks up speed.

That door slammed at the end. That was intent.

It got the door going, and then it was -- urgh!

Yeah.

Who was outside, that they were shutting the door on?

Chris.

Was it the dark male spirit that chris just picked up on?

Zak: As we go back inside to investigate the door,

we hear something upstairs.

What?

Aaron: What was that?

[ clicking ]

that was upstairs.

Billy: There's nobody up there.

Zak: As we head up there to investigate,

aaron and billy are both hit by a negative force of energy

that topples them over like dominoes.

Should we try spirit sweep? Billy: Dude.

[bleep].

Aaron: Holy [bleep]!

I feel like my hand's in a vice right now.

If that dark spirit did shut the door on us,

then it moves up the stairs and affects you and drops you.

Aaron and me -- the both of us.

You said, "what's wrong with you guys?"

that's an interesting chain of events

that I never really picked up on before.

Now you know why this show is so important for us to do.

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zak: At this oakdale, california, residence,

billy and aaron are overwhelmed by a dark energy.

Zak: Bill? Billy: Hold on.

I'm about to pass out, man. I'm not kidding.

Bill? Aaron?

Aaron!

That was intense, and you were on the floor.

Aaron: I couldn't get up.

I've learned, when that happens to you, get out of the location.

Go outside and get some fresh air

because it's not gonna get better.

We now decide to bring the spirit sweep device

inside the house, and prepare yourselves at home

because we are about to receive some incredible responses.

Billy, talk to us about what the heck you guys got here.

This blew me away. Billy: This was incredible.

We're using the spirit sweep device.

And chris, too -- chris couldn't believe it.

Zak: Who's here? Can you say your name?

[ indistinct voice ]

"he heard me."

we hear you.

He's telling us "it hurts when it --"

the last word, we can't make out. Can you?

Who's here? Can you say your name?

They're full sentences that comes with this device.

And it just sounds like in an echo.

It's almost like you're making a direct connection

into the spirit world,

and they're sending full sentences to you.

But was that michael? "it hurts when I..."

somebody in pain, we know that.

Listen to that.

Crystal clear. Yeah.

-Aaron: The same voice. -Same voice.

Zak: Now this spirit comes through and says, "one time."

we hear you.

As I ask who we are talking to,

we receive this incredible response.

I'm human.

So, is michael using the electromagnetic spectrum

within this device to now talk freely?

Can I say this, that device was set exactly on the floor

where we recovered the bullet.

Right. I don't know if you realize that.

Zak: Billy moves the spirit sweep to the top of the stairs

where he claims he felt something squeezing his throat.

Does the the man want to cross over?

[ indistinct voice ]

"the dimensions will be respected." did you hear that?

"the dimensions will be respected".

Zak: What do you make of that?

"dimensions disrespected."

wow! Seven syllables in the same voice.

What do you make of that? "dimensions disrespected."

maybe they don't like the fact

that we're trying to tune into their world.

We're disrespecting the dimensions.

"stay in your lane." that's a good point.

And the aggressive one definitely wants us gone.

What was your fiancé's name?

Dylan.

Was he mean? Did he have a temper?

He had a temper, but he also had a big heart.

Okay. When he was in this house,

did he have any bouts of unexplained rage?

Yeah.

Zak: For no reason whatsoever, as we are all downstairs

and closing out this investigation,

I lunge at aaron's camera

and literally throw it to the ground.

Aaron: Oh, god.

Zak: Are you okay?

You getting angry? Hmm?

Are you getting angry? Yeah, I did for a minute.

I know. I can feel it, man.

This is the first bit of rage that I got.

And it was weird, and he knew that it jumped in me,

and I went over there and literally grabbed aaron's camera

and slammed it to the ground.

Aaron: It's probably the darkest energy there's

desperate way to get everybody out, thinking,

"oh, he's gonna flip out, and just everyone's gonna leave."

I know you enough to know your energy.

I'm just gonna stand over here.

Billy: He's fired up.

Yeah. Zak: Yeah, I can feel it, too.

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as we depart with a cleansing to the spirits here...

These prayers are for you.

...We won't ever forget the pain that will last forever.

Billy: I hope that we brought closure and helped this family,

and to michael so that he was able to cross over...

Aaron: I think we did. ...And go to where he needs to

and not be stuck.

And all family need that. You need to stay positive.

We did what we could.

Emotionally, it took a lot out of us.

Going in there, and doing what we do

and trying to communicate with it,

and trying to combat it,

that's putting us on the front line

for something that's extremely dangerous, as well.

So our tears turned to caution in the end,

and I hope they're doing well.

Me, too.

And on that, I think we should follow up with them.