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[Zak] Nestled deep in the heart

of a remote plantation in Malaysia,

sits a mansion shrouded in mystery and murder.

Built in the late 1800s by the Ramsden family,

the vast home features 99 doors,

giving it the name "The 99-Door Mansion."

But the local shamans will tell you,

there's another door, the 100th door,

invisible to the naked eye.

It is a dangerous portal that appears only at midnight

to those who know how to open it,

allowing demons to move in and out of our world.

Such dark spiritual energy was established here

following a brutal unsolved murder

that occurred inside this house in 1948.

I'm sending my film crew there to meet with a shaman

who has previously summoned entities

through the 100th door.

And he's bringing a former victim back with him

to confront the evil spirits that may still reside here,

waiting to do the bidding of those

who practice black magic.

Across every ocean...

[man 1] It is not so secure or safe to get there.

...lurking deep within the darkness,

evil forces are preying upon the living.

[man 2] Exorcisms are on the rise in Mexico.

[Zak] I am sending a camera crew across the globe

to document these events.

I am Zach Bagans, and this is Destinations of the Damned.

My crew travels to Kuala Lumpur,

the capital of Malaysia.

They're exhausted by the travel,

but determined to explore this exotic place

and its culture

in search of clues to reveal what's behind the stories

of the powerful portal awaiting them

at their destination.

It's a long drive across the country

without rest from the airport

to the Malaysian island state of Penang.

The sunsets and the bustling city of George Town,

Penang State Capital, comes to life

as my crew meets up with a historian and translator

outside of a local night market

where he tells us the terrifying story

of the brutal unsolved murder

that occurred at The 99-Door Mansion in 1948.

The mansion sits on a 55-acre plot of land.

It was built somewhere around the early 1840s

and was called the Caledonia House at that time

and was built for the Ramsdens,

one of the wealthiest English family

in Malaysia at that time in 1948.

The son of the Ramsdens

was brutally murdered in the mansion.

He was shot twice at the back of his head.

[gunshots]

After John Saint Maur was brutally murdered in that house,

the whole mansion has been deemed haunted.

In general, Malaysians do believe in spiritual beings

that are lost, that have not travelled back

to where they're supposed to,

that are still trapped in our realm of the world.

[Zak] The next day sees the crew ready to leave the comforts

of George Town behind

and set off towards The 99-Door Mansion.

Previously a sugar cane and rubber tree plantation,

the new owners of the vast fields

around the now abandoned mansion

have converted it into a palm oil estate for harvesting.

The building itself has remained empty

ever since the horrific murder eight decades ago,

but workers are still in its fields

and have stories of ghosts and apparitions to share.

As my crew arrives at the location,

they meet with a husband and wife

who visited the mansion eight years ago

with the help of Shaman Khairul.

He performed an exorcism here on the woman

who does not wish to be identified.

Shaman Khairul believes that The 99-Door Mansion

contains a portal, which he calls the 100th Door.

This portal is well known to the region's shamans,

both good and bad, and they come here to use the portal

to summon both protective spirits

and demons into our world to do their bidding.

Eight years ago, Khairul believes

the woman was possessed by a demon

that her husband's former wife had summoned

through this very portal to attack her.

But the portal works both ways,

so back then Khairul brought her here to perform an exorcism

and to return this dark entity back through the portal

from which it came.

The 100th Door is a theoretical

in the black shaman books.

It will open the 100th Door,

one door that will call a bad entity.

[Zak] The woman is returning here now

to see if this evil entity is still present

and whether she is strong enough to confront it.

As soon as she reaches the mansion,

she is immediately affected.

[man speaking Malay]

Is that okay?

Uh, okay?

-Are you okay? -[speaking Malay]

[eerie music playing]

[eerie music intensifies]

[Khairul speaking Malay]

[Zak] Shaman Khairul orders the demon to leave.

[speaking Malay]

[woman coughs]

-[man speaking] -[coughing continues]

This is basically what she was afraid of.

She contemplated coming here again after nine years

because this house has a holding on her.

[woman groans]

[producer] Can you tell us what happened when you were here last?

[man speaking Malay]

So the wife was not happy about that,

so she started sending black magic towards her

and to make sure that she is no longer around.

So, Khairul figured out that

the entire black magic was done in this house.

In order to get rid of it,

they had to come back to this house.

[speaking Malay]

[woman groans]

[Chris] Immediately after she was cured by Khairul,

she somehow developed the third eye.

She can feel, she can sense,

and she can see the paranormals.

Just be nice and just ask for permission.

So it will leave us alone.

One of you can come, but be close to us.

[Zak] Shaman Khairul and his assistant Eddy enter the mansion

with one of our camera operators to make sure it is safe

before the rest of the crew goes inside.

Eddy uses salt to purify the space

as Khairul offers blessings.

Okay, I think it's clear for us to go in now

after the blessing.

So, this staircase specifically...

as John Saint Maur was walking up these stairs,

four shots were fired upon him.

Two shots hit right center on his head...

...and two shots missed.

And these are said to be the bullet holes.

So, right here, the body of the deceased was found

top part of the body here and his legs down there.

[Zak] No one knows the reason John Saint Maur Ramsden

was killed by his own shotgun on that night.

[gunshot]

[Zak] While his wife and daughter

are thought to have survived the ordeal,

it is believed by many locals that the trauma of the event

may have reverberated throughout their lives,

drawing them back here in the afterlife

as the spirits of a white family,

father, daughter and mother

are said to be seen here by shamans and workers alike.

[Khairul] They've always seen when they turn

into this walkway,

they always see an entity standing there,

a male, a female and a child.

They just walk right there and they disappear.

[Zak] This one act of violence

not only pierced a man's body and the walls of this home,

but it is said to have shattered the barrier

between reality and some greater unknown

that my crew hopes to make contact with.

Over the years, most of these rooms

were used for rituals, black magic.

So, there were blood stains on the ground.

I'm not very sure whether it was blood stains

from human sacrifices or animal sacrifices.

Sometimes they will use sacrifice.

And a long time ago, they will use human being as sacrifice.

So they can use that to hurt people.

Maybe they want to kill them

or maybe they don't want them to live happily.

[Chris] For me, this area

has the strongest energy in the entire house.

According to Khairul, all the main rituals

take place in this room.

Over the years, a lot of people

have broken into the farm,

broken into the house to perform rituals.

Those that practice black magic.

They come here in this room, they sit in this room

and they practice the voodoo.

As you can see...

Just with this candle,

just one candle and that person,

sits here overnight to test your willpower and your courage.

[Zak] What do these dark magic practitioners

hope to call through here

and what might already be trapped inside the magic?

Shaman Khairul believes the entities inside the estate

are growing restless as they are discussed.

And as the hour draws closer to midnight

when the 100th door opens,

he decides it is time for the woman to re-enter

the place where she experienced so much intense activity

and claims her third eye opened.

[speaking Malay]

[speaking English]

[woman retching]

[Chris speaking Malay]

-[speaking Malay] -[woman] Mmm.

She wants to fight her fear.

She'll try and do it.

[speaking Malay]

[speaking Malay]

[speaking English] She's not feeling anything yet, as of yet.

[speaking Malay]

[Zak] The couple explores the familiar space,

sensing nothing as they pass through one door after another,

drawing closer perhaps to that one special door,

the 100th door, still calling out to her.

Five person in a size of me holding her

cannot make her move,

but she can easily throw us away.

[woman growling]

[Zak] It's as if the entities within the house

were always lying in wait, drawing her up, up,

closer to the room where the most intense rituals

are said to occur.

-[speaking Malay] -[woman] Mmm.

[stick knocking]

[speaking English]

So I use this stick to knock on the floor

to call upon them.

[speaking Malay]

Her body now has been taken over

by an entity that is here right now.

[Khairul speaking Malay]

[both speaking Malay]

[man speaking]

[woman speaking]

[coughing]

So she was speaking Malay,

but it's not the normal Malay that she was speaking.

She was speaking the palace Malay.

People who are from the lineage of the sultans

speak that Malay.

[speaking English]

[Khairul speaking Malay]

[in English] They're trying to call the entity to possess her

so that she can confront

and the husband can confront the entity.

[speaking Malay]

[woman speaking indistinctly]

[coughing]

[speaking Malay]

[in English] Again, she spoke in a different language.

Uh, it wasn't Malay.

It's a bit foreign to all of us.

We've never heard that language before.

-[speaking Malay] -[in Malay]

[in English] She has no clue of what she just said.

[speaking Malay]

[in English] Do you think that there are good and bad in this house?

Sometimes good tries to protect.

[Khairul] Ten years ago when I did the case of this couple,

at first when we come here,

I don't know this place. So I don't know the route.

So when we come near to this house,

there's an entity standing up beside the road,

telling us where to go.

Also they point us where the bad shaman

calling the ghost to fight in this couple.

So some of the ghosts that go inside her

is only a good ghost that want to be free from this house.

So that is what we're doing. And what we see over there

is a red candle. So if we want to touch it,

we have to burn the candle. Then they will come.

I can light it, but it will call all the bad entity.

[speaking Malay]

[Zak] But outside the house,

yet still on the estate property,

the woman finds herself suddenly overcome

and apparently unable to stand.

[coughing]

[woman mumbling]

[coughing continues]

[Khairul speaking Malay]

[woman speaking]

[Khairul speaking]

[Khairul speaking]

[Khairul speaking]

[coughing]

[woman speaking]

Okay, so the language that the lady spoke in the upper level

that we could not identify the language,

we just found out from one of the local crew.

It is native to Bali.

It's spoken in the Bali palace.

It's not Indian. It's not a common language.

Nobody speaks that language anymore, not even in Bali.

[producer] Can you ask her if she knows that language?

She has no clue what she spoke.

[speaking Malay]

[husband speaking Malay]

[Chris in English] There was somewhere that I read...

So, that's the closest we've got so far.

-Thank you. -[sighs] Okay.

[Khairul speaking other language]

[woman speaking other language]

[Khairul speaking]

[Zak in English] It shows how genuinely fearful

Shaman Khairul is of the energy inside this house tonight,

that he has chosen not to light a candle upstairs

because he believes it could put my crew and the woman

in a potentially fatal situation.

For now, we will leave the house in peace.

Next, the crew travels to the other side of the world,

where a different kind of gateway lies.

And this one is in plain, terrifying sight.

There's a ghost town in Chile's Atacama Desert

that is so feared, no one speaks about it.

Within this town lies a cemetery

that is said to contain a vampiric entity

that feeds upon the souls of the dead

through their exposed graves,

graves that have been desecrated

to the point that the crosses themselves

have turned black as night.

Many believe when you enter this town,

your soul transcends to another dimension,

while your body suffers the punishment.

Surrounding this netherworld are strange, giant symbols

created to be viewed from the sky,

and hundreds of mysterious pits

dug deep in the desert floor.

My film crew is heading to the edge of the world

to find out what's possessed this cursed cemetery.

My crew arrives in Iquique, Chile,

a tough port city pinned between

the desert mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

They meet up with a psychic medium,

a Ufologist,

and a paranormal investigator

who have taken the ultimate risk

by entering the forbidden La Noria Cemetery at night.

They claim they've suffered attacks

and even possessions there.

[demonic sounds]

[Zak] But, being investigators,

they say it's worth the risk to their own lives

to experience this otherworldly activity,

exposing to the world that something very supernatural

is occurring in one of the most hostile places on earth.

[Walter speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] La Noria is a former mining town

in the Atacama Desert,

the driest desert in the world.

The town was built around the mining of saltpeter,

a valuable mineral that's used in gunpowder

that fueled wars around the world.

But, a different kind of battle took place in this region

when a bloody workers' strike among the area's miners in 1907

led to the massacre of 2,000 people,

including women and children

who had traveled from the local mining towns like La Noria

to organize in Iquique,

in what became known as the Santa Maria School massacre.

It is said some of the victims,

including miners, their wives and even children

who were killed by the Chilean army,

are buried at La Noria Cemetery.

Maybe that's why local medium Cony

tells my crew she's seen the spirit of a woman and her children

in the cemetery at La Noria.

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Cony has a terrifying warning for my crew.

She fears for their safety going into La Noria unprepared.

[speaking Spanish]

[speaking English]

[Zak] The worry stems from La Noria's most dangerous being.

In South American culture,

there is a vampire entity

that resides in and around the Andes mountains,

known as a pishtaco.

This legend was first referenced

in 1574 by a priest named Cristóbal de Molina.

This cannibalistic vampire feeds on the fat and flesh of the dead,

which makes sense why so many graves

are exposed here in this hellish ground.

Pre-dating the pishtaco vampire

is another figure located just miles from La Noria,

near the eastern slope of the Cerro Unita hill,

that is the largest humanoid geoglyph on the planet.

Researchers estimate that the mysterious figure

was created sometime between 800 and 1400 A.D.

The legends of Lake Titicaca claim this geoglyph

may be connected to the Andean deity, Tunupa,

the god of thunder and lightning.

[thunder rumbling]

[Zak] It may also represent a shaman

with the power to invoke spirits.

According to Luis, the Ufologist,

others believe the Atacama Giant represents an alien being

that visited Earth in the ancient past.

And if that's true,

what made this extraterrestrial visit La Noria

600 to 1200 years ago?

Is it because it's a doorway to another dimension?

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] This field of study believes

that the region's ancient human inhabitants

coexisted with these alien beings

and left a record of this contact

carved into the desert floor.

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Even with modern technology,

the time and effort required to create

something of such enormous scale would be impressive.

But, for an ancient civilization to accomplish such a feat

is nearly beyond comprehension.

Is it possible this was achieved

through the assistance of more advanced entities

with the benefit of an aerial perspective?

In addition to the thousands of geoglyphs in this region,

there was another unexplained discovery here

that many still claim was extraterrestrial.

In the late 1990s,

a collector hunting in the ruins near La Noria's church

discovered a tiny, mummified skeleton,

about six inches long.

It had ten ribs on each side instead of the normal 12,

and an elongated skull with enlarged eye sockets.

This tiny skeleton, referred to as the Atacama Alien,

and nicknamed Ata,

is no longer in Chile.

It's believed to now belong to a private collection in Spain.

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] No human, even fetuses or newborns

should have a skeleton like this.

[Pablo speaking Spanish]

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] As my camera crew and the whole team

inch closer and closer to La Noria,

there's a very odd vibe in the van.

No one is talking.

Faces are as grim as the gravestones.

Everyone seems to be in some type of trance.

There is fear of re-exposure to the entity.

We are told the vampire's name, pishtaco,

comes from the Quechua word "pishtay",

meaning to behead,

slit throat or cut into pieces.

Cony claims she and her team members

have seen the vampire being.

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] As the team gets closer,

the road grows rougher and daylight is fading.

It seems only natural to want to turn back.

Yet, the pull of curiosity,

or even the vampire itself,

drives them in.

The cemetery itself almost looks like a trap.

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] How can any soul here rest

when the ground itself is constantly overturned and disrupted?

It is believed the pishtaco vampire resides underground,

entering La Noria through these mysterious pits.

And as darkness begins to fall,

everyone starts feeling

that whatever feeds upon these soul is soon to arrive.

A security guard approaches,

who is assigned to confirm the identities of everyone

before they proceed further into La Noria.

And at that time, he informs them

that he and a fellow guard just saw something in the sky

near the cemetery over the hill.

[Pablo] He saw some lights.

Like, very big, bright lights,

on the last peak of the hill there.

-No, no. No. -[Pablo] No?

It couldn't be a plane.

[speaking Spanish]

[in English] And then behind that, there was a smaller one.

And he went all the way to the left.

[security guard speaks Spanish]

[Pablo speaking Spanish]

[speaking Spanish]

[in English] Yeah, he feels it.

[Zak] So, we have this interdimensional place

existing in our material world

in the Atacama Desert,

with mysterious lights in the sky,

the discovery of a tiny, deformed skeleton

and a subterranean vampiric being

trying to lure people into the underworld.

So as the investigators finalize preparations,

it's no surprise that one member of their team

is having second thoughts again

about entering the cemetery.

[Claudio speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Claudio, the urban explorer

who's only been here during the day,

shares his past experience at La Noria.

[Claudio speaking Spanish]

[Pablo in English]

[speaking Spanish]

[Claudio speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] My crew is about to enter the cemetery at La Noria

even though everyone is warning them to stay away.

Before crossing the threshold of the main gate

into the cemetery.

Cony has her team and my crew pause,

to ask for protection against the dark forces

lurking inside these stone walls.

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] The investigators also ask the spirits

for permission as they enter.

[speaking Spanish]

[crew responding in Spanish]

[Cony speaking]

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Cony in English]

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Matson speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Could this child have been a victim of the massacre?

Their body brought back to be buried

where their family lived and worked in the mines?

It really disturbs me to see

this child's remain exposed, desecrated,

and not properly buried.

Why is no one giving these lost souls

the proper burials they deserve?

What are they fearing?

Aside from looters,

is something else exhuming these bodies?

As my crew moves on, they are shocked by the number of skeletons,

bone fragments and skulls lying everywhere.

Even leather shoes, as if no one cares for their consecration.

It is emotional.

It is terrifying.

If something truly dark and powerful exists in this desert,

it must reside here.

[Matson speaking Spanish]

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Some uncovered graves

show the remains still fully clothed,

preserved by the extreme dryness of the Atacama Desert.

And over it all, a heavy energy

that weighs on my crew and the investigators.

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Until a presence makes itself forcefully known

in the moment.

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[soft growl]

[Cony speaking]

[Zak in English] Cony hears what she believes to be a growl,

and it's audible to several other members of the team

and my crew as well.

[Matson speaking Spanish]

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] My crew immediately tries to debunk

this growl as an animal,

but it's hard to determine if that's the cause,

because the Atacama Desert is so arid

that most parts can't even sustain plant or animal life.

The group is undeterred,

and decides to split off into two groups to cover more ground.

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Cony takes Claudio

to the area of the cemetery where her partner was hypnotized.

[Luis speaking Spanish]

-[Pablo speaking Spanish] -[speaking Spanish]

[Pablo speaking]

[speaking Spanish]

-[Cony speaking] -[Pablo] Si.

[Pablo in English]

[Zak] Everyone becomes highly concerned

when Pablo, our translator,

who is not a paranormal investigator,

begins complaining about chest pains.

This could be a further warning,

aside from the growl that everyone just heard,

and this is not something to ignore.

One of the team members points out

his chest pains have occurred at the grave of Joseph Dixon,

a wealthy Englishman who is said to be a victim of witchcraft.

Was this entity trying to cause him to have a heart attack

to get another soul trapped in La Noria?

The attacks may intensify, as Christian, Luis and Walter

focus their attention on the grave of Joseph Dixon.

His grave has been repeatedly desecrated,

perhaps as a form of ritual,

intended to draw forth those negative energies.

Walter begins using a specialized LiDar-sensing camera

to see if they can capture an image of the entity.

[speaking Spanish]

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Walter speaking Spanish]

[Luis speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Walter is claiming he just captured

a figure rising from one of the graves behind Luis.

And upon reviewing his footage,

it does appear clearly for just a moment,

and never maps again.

Coincidentally, at the same time,

Claudio feels something around him,

which Cony feels is the same dark force.

Claudio later describes it

as feeling like wearing a heavy backpack,

pulling him down as if into the ground.

[speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] Cony makes the critical decision

to vacate the cemetery immediately.

And in that process, she begins to complain of severe pain.

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[Zak in English] She then notices

something is wrong with Claudio again,

and immediately begins conducting

a cleansing ceremony on him,

so he does not take this attachment home with him.

[Cony speaking Spanish]

[man 1] Bye, La Noria.

[man 2 chuckles] Bye, La Noria.