Original subtitles

- Let's go! [Bell dings]

- This was my dream, having the restaurant,

and the whole thing was turning into a nightmare.

- [Screams]

- Something was released here.

- It was nasty. It was dark.

- [Speaking foreign language]

- Something was coming.

[Metronome ticks]

- [Speaking foreign language]

- My heart was hammering in my chest.

Thud! - [Screams]

- Boom, boom, boom.

- I don't want to be here.

- It felt like that I wasn't alone.

- [Gasps]

- You just don't know what's coming next.

- [Screams]

- [Screams]

Ayudeme!

- [Screams] - Ayudeme!

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

[Bells chiming]

- We wanted to start a small business,

and I was always really interested

in cooking and creating food.

- Well, I think we might have found

our monteleone's restaurant.

- I think you're right.

- I was pretty good on the business aspect side of it,

so we figured it might be

a very good business opportunity for us.

[Hammer pounding]

- There was a lot of work to do,

and so we started doing the demolition.

[Hammer pounding]

In my mind, I kind of had the vision

exactly what I wanted to do with the property.

As we were doing the demolition,

I noticed that something was stuck in the wall.

- Huh.

- It was a porcelain figurine of the virgin Mary.

You could tell it was deliberately put there

by someone for sure.

So I loosened up the plaster around it...

And pulled it out of the wall.

It was strange,

but at the same time,

i... i wanted to keep it.

I thought she could watch over us.

One afternoon,

I had left to go pick up some material,

and just left a worker.

His name was Carlos.

- [Speaking Spanish]

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Hello?

- [Speaks Spanish]

Hello?

- Hello?

[Eerie music swelling]

♪ ♪

[Dramatic music]

- [Screams]

[Sighs]

- I saw Carlos.

He looked kind of flushed,

pale-looking.

He was really shook up,

and you could tell it was something serious.

- What happened?

- [Speaks Spanish]

- What? Something happened in there?

- I don't understand Spanish very well,

and he doesn't know how to speak English,

so we're both... [Chuckles]

You know, trying to communicate.

- I don't understand.

- No tiene ojos.

- You got something in your eye?

- No, alli.

- Laura, Laura, Laura, come here.

- So I called my wife, Laura. Said I don't understand...

- I don't understand what he's saying.

- Quite what he's trying to tell me.

- [Cries] Señora.

- ¿Que pasa?

¿Que Paso?

- [Speaks Spanish]

- No, no. He says he saw a ghost.

- No, no. Carlos, Carlos.

It's okay. - Let him calm down.

- I didn't want to tell him that I didn't believe him.

- It stayed in the back of my mind,

but I was just too busy to worry about it

at the time.

[Upbeat music]

[All cheer]

- We are open!

- Opening day was June 11, 2001.

- We were very nervous

not being in the business before,

but we were very excited.

- Cheese!

[Camera shutter clicks]

[Dishes clatter]

- Welcome to monteleone's.

For two? Follow me, please.

- Laura was taking care of the people up front,

and I was in the kitchen taking care of the cooking.

- Let's go!

Let's get them out.

There we go. Hustle out.

Good. Great, great.

- It was very busy when I first started.

I really enjoyed working there.

- I had my mother-in-law there,

Laura's mom.

Everybody calls her Mrs. B.

- How the linguine, Mrs. B?

- Good.

- It's good?

Let's see that sauce.

Oh, that's perfect.

Now, I'll take that with me.

- Little by little,

I got more used to the kitchen

and his recipes.

[Bell dings]

- Two up. Let's go.

- The wheel was full of orders.

- Let's get those other entrees.

- The restaurant was very popular,

and it was a hit.

[Phone ringing]

- Hello?

- The police are on the phone,

and they said, "is this Gary?"

- Yes.

- And he explained

that they believed there's an intruder

in the restaurant,

and I needed to get down there right away

to open up.

[Alarm ringing]

- You guys the owners?

- Yes, we are.

- Would you please open up the door?

- Yeah, sure.

Honey, you go wait by the car.

Go wait by the car.

[Alarm ringing]

- There was no sign of broken entry

or forced entry when we got there.

[Alarm ringing]

- Here, I'll shut the alarm off.

- It wasn't the door sensor.

It was motion sensors inside the building.

[Keypad beeping]

[Alarm stops]

- I'll get the lights.

Nope. No lights.

- Sir, do me a favor.

Go back to your car, please.

Thank you.

- Me and Laura, we were very shook up and nervous

and were wondering,

"well, did they break things up inside

or what's going on?"

And, "this is no great way to start,

you know, when you just open a business."

- There's no one inside.

Must be some fault in the alarm or something, all right?

- Okay. - Have a good night.

Take care. - Thank you, officer.

- After the police had left,

myself and Laura, we went into the building

just to take another look around.

- It's okay.

- That's weird.

- And then we noticed a strange thing.

The virgin Mary that was on the mantle

was turned facing the wall

instead of facing the building.

- Are you sure?

- I put her there myself.

Let's go have a look around.

- Okay, get that flashlight.

- Gary and I decided, "you know what?

"Let's take one more look.

See... make absolutely sure there's nothing here."

He went one way. I went the other way.

[Dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- We checked all the doors in the stockrooms

just to make sure nobody was hiding.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- There was no sign of vandalism.

Everything was intact

just as we had left it the night before.

It just didn't make any sense.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

- [Whispers] Laura.

- As we're looking through,

I hear my name whispered,

and I thought, "well, maybe it was Gary."

So I keep looking.

- [Whispers] Laura.

- Gary?

- And I hear my name again.

It's very strange.

It didn't really sound like Gary's voice,

but it was more of a whisper,

so I thought possibly it could be Gary.

[Creaking noise]

[Eerie music swelling]

♪ ♪

- [Yells, gasps]

[Both sigh]

- Come on.

Did you see anything?

- Did you call my name?

- [Whispers] No.

- And I told her, "no, I didn't call for you."

- [Breathing heavily]

Thud! [Screams]

- What was that?

- And then all of a sudden

we had heard a real hard-like pounding

against the wall.

[Dramatic music]

[Loud pounding noise]

[Loud pounding noise]

[Both gasp]

- Boom, boom, boom.

[Loud pounding noise]

We were both very shaken up.

We didn't know what was going on.

We were both very scared.

Thud!

- [Whimpers]

[Panting]

- The pounding died down.

Gary and I were frozen in the middle of the room,

heart beating.

Didn't know it could beat that fast.

Frightened.

- [Screams]

- The register's running,

and it's running the report.

- [Screams]

- And then all of a sudden,

it was like somebody had grabbed the tape

coming out of the register

and it was going straight across the room.

- Neither one of us was near the register.

[Register clicking]

- [Screams]

[Screams]

- Whatever it was let go of the tape.

The tape fell to the floor,

and the register stopped running.

No explanation for it whatsoever.

[Haunting music]

♪ ♪

These odd things were happening,

but it wasn't really interfering with the business itself.

In the back of my mind,

I always figured if the business went very well,

that we would expand.

- We were looking at the property next door,

but it was occupied at the time,

but we figured,

"whenever it comes available,

that's what we want to do."

- So we went ahead and purchased the property.

- We were real excited about the expansion.

A bigger area, a little more entertainment,

a bar area, a little bit of dancing maybe.

- In the corner,

there was, like, a room within a room.

There was no door or anything to get in there.

So I decided to get a hammer.

And I started making a hole in the wall.

[Hammer pounding]

And I was hammering and hammering,

and the plaster was falling down,

and as I took a section, it made a hole.

And I stuck my head kind of in the hole...

- [Gasps]

- And I could see a face.

A little bit startled,

but didn't quite know what it was.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

And I pulled this picture frame out...

And the face was the virgin Mary.

And I was trying to figure out,

why would they put this picture in there

and then build these two walls around it?

I thought, "well, maybe there's something else."

So I started with my hands,

kind of digging through the dirt...

Thud!

And I pull out something.

It was real dusty.

I couldn't quite figure out what it... what it was,

but it looked like some sort of a document.

And then I found another picture of two children,

like a first communion, something like that,

with a candle and a Bible.

Then the last thing I noticed was a piece of marble.

There was no doubt in my mind

that someone deliberately had buried these things.

I didn't want anything to happen to them,

so I took them next door to our restaurant...

And put them in a safe place.

[Door clanks shut]

- As we expanded,

we needed to hire additional help,

so in the kitchen,

we hired Ellie.

She was to be Mrs. B's assistant.

Ellie is Mexican, and she speaks Spanish only.

- [Speaks Spanish]

- [Shivers]

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

[Gasps]

- Mrs. B!

Mrs. B?

- ¿Si?

¿Que Paso?

- Mire.

- I went in there,

and the whole table was splattered with the flour.

- [Speaks Spanish]

- How did this happen?

We were there.

We didn't hear anything.

- What happened? What happened?

- Elizabeth said she just cleaned up,

and then somehow this mess appear.

- I went in to check, and there was flour everywhere.

Well, they were real shook up.

- Okay, tell her not to worry.

It's okay. We'll clean it up.

- One day, I was in the dining room,

and I was cleaning the silverware.

I was by myself.

There was no one there.

And all of a sudden,

I felt kind of eerie.

I don't know.

It just... i felt something.

I had goose bumps all over.

I turned around and there was no one there.

Nothing.

I looked under the table...

And nothing. No one. No one.

- [Screams]

- It seemed like a large hand,

and I could really, really feel the fingers

cutting into my leg.

- You could tell on her face

that... that it shook her up quite a bit.

- What happened?

Are you okay?

- I... i just didn't know what to tell her.

I looked around the area.

There's nothing there.

There was no signs of anything.

I just didn't know what to think.

[Electrical buzzing]

That afternoon at the restaurant,

everything seemed to be calm and going fine.

I asked Mrs. B to make a couple batches

of napoli sauce.

- Well, I took it to the back room,

and I put it against the wall on the table.

And then I went to get my other sauce

and bring it also.

[Pot thuds and clanks]

I heard a crash behind me,

and I walked in there,

and I found the sauce on the floor.

- Gary!

- It didn't look like it had flipped over and fallen.

It was not splattered anywhere.

It was just right there like it had been poured out.

- Gary!

- Mrs. B.

[Dramatic music]

- [Screams]

- It was just smashed on the floor

with a lot of force.

- [Speaks Spanish]

- Whatever it was,

it was aiming right for me.

You just don't know what's coming next.

There was no question in my mind

that the restaurant was haunted.

As Mrs. B and I were walking out of the restaurant,

closing up for the evening,

we walked by the small dining room,

and we could see the light of the one candle burning,

so I went over to blow out the candle.

- Gary.

- Okay, Mrs. B. - I go.

- Mrs. B, it's okay. - I don't want to be here.

Something is wrong. - It's okay. Don't worry.

- Gary!

- It's okay, Mrs. B.

It's okay.

- I don't want to be here.

I got to go.

No. No.

No. I don't want to be here.

- It's okay. - No, no.

- Mrs. B, calm down. - I got to go.

- It's okay. - I got to go.

I got to go.

- Just don't worry.

- Gary!

- It's...

- see?

- I was questioning myself,

if I was actually seeing what I was seeing.

- No.

- But when I looked over and saw Mrs. B,

then I knew I wasn't going crazy.

We were all seeing the same thing.

- Gary!

- Just calm down. It's all right.

- It was unbelievable.

- It's okay. - I don't want to be here.

- Calm down. It's okay.

- I got to go.

- It's okay. - I got to go.

- All Mrs. B wanted to do was get out of there,

but I didn't want to leave with candles lit

in my restaurant.

- I got to go.

- Okay, go fill the sink up with water.

Go, go! - Okay, yeah.

- So I grabbed the candles,

took them to the kitchen,

and put them in the sink with water.

- Here.

- Gary. - Okay.

That's okay. That's okay.

It's okay. It's okay.

- They put everything into the restaurant,

Gary and Laura.

We just have to keep going for them.

- [Crying] - It's okay.

Come on. We'll get you home.

We'll get you home. It's okay.

- It's very hard sometimes, yeah.

I get to the point where I just want to quit,

but it's my daughter.

- [Crying] - It's okay.

No, it's okay. You're okay.

- [Sobbing]

- At the time, I was at a real low.

I wasn't real sure what to do

with all the things that had been happening.

This was my dream, having the restaurant,

and the whole thing was turning into a nightmare.

Everybody had left.

I was going through the kitchen...

You know, checking the gas on the stoves,

turning off the lights...

All the normal things that I usually do

when I close up.

[Eerie tone]

♪ ♪

I started feeling very uneasy

leaving the restaurant that evening.

I knew I was by myself,

but it felt like somebody else was there,

that I wasn't alone.

[Ominous music]

♪ ♪

[Keypad beeping]

I turned around,

grabbed the handle to close the door.

[Dramatic music]

[Dramatic music]

[Pounding on door]

- My heart was hammering in my chest.

I didn't want to be there

a minute longer than I needed to be.

[Pounding on door]

Something paranormal was happening at monteleone's.

- I could see that Gary and Laura

were under a lot of pressure,

and they needed to get away

at least for one night.

- Take care.

Go. Enjoy.

- Ciao, mama. Ciao.

- My mom said she thought she could handle the business

for the evening.

It was just one evening,

so we thought, "perfect. Let's do it."

- Now, of course, I wish we had never left.

[Eerie music]

♪ ♪

[Ghost exhales shakily]

- [Screams]

Mrs. B! - ¿si?

- She came out of there running.

"Mrs. B, there's a man."

And I said, "what do you mean there's a man?"

- I said, "Ellie, we're still closed."

No one could have gotten in there

without us knowing about it.

There was nothing.

We couldn't find anybody.

That evening, we were very busy.

[People chattering]

We had a lot of customers.

[Water bubbling]

I looked at Ellie,

and she's kind of looking around very nervous

with her big eyes.

You could feel some tension in the air.

Something was coming.

[Ghost exhales]

[Ghost exhaling shakily]

- She said, "Mrs. B, can you hear it?"

I said, "no, I can't hear it, Ellie."

[Ghost exhaling shakily]

[Water bubbling]

[Dramatic music]

- [Screaming]

- This is hot, scolding, boiling water.

Ellie just managed to move out of the way in time.

It could have been really terrible.

- [Screaming]

- [Screaming]

- Is everything okay?

- Everything's fine.

Don't worry. - Okay.

- At this point,

we have a restaurant full of people,

and I have a staff in the kitchen

that is scared.

- I went with her, and I held the door ajar.

I was holding it from the outside,

and then all of the sudden,

the door just closed.

I thought she had closed it,

and she thought I had closed it.

[Lock clicks]

[Ghost exhaling shakily]

[Electricity humming]

- [Screams]

- [Screams]

[Gasping]

[Dramatic music]

[Screams]

- [Screaming]

- Mrs. B! Mrs. B!

- She's in the inside,

pulling frantically at the door.

"Mrs. B! Mrs. B!

He's here! He's here!"

- [Speaks Spanish]

- Ellie!

- Ellie keeps screaming inside frantically.

- Mrs. B! Mrs. B!

[Crying]

- She jumped at us,

and she was just hysterical.

She was crying and pale

and just shaking,

her whole body just shakes.

Crea me. Crea me.

- We were all ready to just run out of there.

I called Gary and Laura,

and I told them what had happened.

- After I got off the phone with my mom,

we were frightened as well,

not knowing what was gonna happen next.

- I had a sense of dread.

I knew for sure

that there was something going on

that I had no control over.

We definitely needed some help,

and we had no idea where to get it.

- I think we need to talk to him.

- We waited till everyone left,

'cause we wanted to talk to him.

We wanted to make sure everything was okay.

We didn't want to say anything

in front of any of the other patrons.

- Diana and Robert calamia,

they're regular customers of the restaurant.

- It was a huge sigh of relief

when the calamias asked us what was going on.

I thought possibly

if anybody could help us, it would be them.

- Actually, you know, when we were doing...

- Diana has been a local psychic here in El Paso

for many years.

- Things had taken a darker twist,

and they were just frightened

and they were scared.

It was nasty. It was dark.

- Okay, let's... Let's go back over the details,

and let's be really specific here.

- So I started from when we were doing the construction.

I remembered the photographs and the document

I found in the secret room.

- I have them here.

- Yeah. - Wow.

- That's old. Wow, that's old.

- Yeah.

- When I first saw the certificate

and I read "spiritualist church,"

I thought, "oh, my god.

I can't believe this."

- The plaque here.

1923.

- Wow. You see the altar?

- This little Italian restaurant was sitting on property

that once was a spiritualist church

back in the '20s.

Diana and I looked at each other.

- Look at this.

- And it was then that Diana turned

to Gary and Laura and said...

- Well, now I know what we're dealing with,

and I believe I can help you.

- She explained to me that in this very room

that we were sitting in,

the spiritualists performed seances

to communicate with the dead.

[Metronome ticking]

[Dramatic choral music]

- It's a human nature thing that we want to talk

to our loved ones that have crossed over,

and that was a real core belief of the spiritualist church.

- [Speaking foreign language]

- It's not a wonder Gary's been having problems.

Something was released here.

- [Speaking foreign language]

[Cross pounding]

[Hammer pounding]

- The spiritualists had placed those items into this room

to close the portal,

to seal it.

Gary and Laura needed to return the items,

because they needed to close the door.

- Bless this space with pure light.

- So when they Bury these items together,

it's... the photograph is one lock.

The certificate is another lock.

Another photograph.

[Lock clicks]

Diana told them she believed a cleansing...

They call it a limpia here on the border...

Should be initiated.

- Fill this space with the protection of the light.

And we are thankful that this area is now cleansed

and will remain cleansed for all of eternity.

[People chattering]

- It's good.

Enjoy. - Thank you.

- As soon as we took the objects back

to the other building,

there was a total different feeling.

♪ ♪

- The air just felt so much lighter in there.

It was a happy place.

♪ ♪

- At the beginning, I was definitely a nonbeliever,

but there is definitely, uh...

Definitely things out there that I believe in now

that I never did before.

[Upbeat mariachi music]

♪ ♪

[Haunting music]