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times have laws the
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retreat to ritual mattel.
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Each other that the Fallen are in
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a better place. We tell each other,
1:42
people see them again. We
1:44
lean on those still standing for
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spraying for comfort. And
1:49
these rituals. The. Ceremonies
1:52
they are for those left behind
1:54
them for. Us but.
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I've learned that. Other. In
2:00
other cultures different my own
2:02
Michigan Midwest and since ability
2:04
it's they have. Much
2:06
different. It
2:11
all the practices of lot of
2:13
do with those two here. To
2:17
do with leaving the departed to
2:19
the place they need. Some.
2:24
Very money. To
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help her love want to pay the tools. Or
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does will catch me up. Some
2:32
people believe the instruction book. How
2:36
to defeat the various months they will
2:38
certainly encounter. And
2:51
sometimes I wonder for those I've
2:53
lost, I wonder. When
2:56
they do, all of us supports
2:58
the grieving me. save our embrace
3:00
for the living. What
3:03
happens if he didn't
3:05
leave? No. H. D.
4:00
Now some of us are bound
4:02
by Judy to help, others to
4:04
answer the call in the middle
4:06
of the night. But.
4:09
What happens when that call that that
4:11
cry for help. Lead
4:14
of beyond the veil. Space.
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My name is Danny Cope
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C O P and I'm
4:27
from Covington, Kentucky. I've
4:30
been a police officer all my laws.
4:34
Are talking about Old Booth Hospital Booth
4:36
is is a very old building the
4:38
dates back to the turn of the
4:40
century. It was near
4:43
Christmas on. No winner of Nineteen
4:45
eighty. When. This started.
4:48
They. Had decommission the hospital,
4:50
there was no longer being
4:52
used as a hospital and
4:54
everything had been stripped down.
4:57
They were in the process
4:59
of demolishing the inside and
5:01
turning it into a old
5:03
folks home for people of
5:05
means. They. Had
5:07
a security company guarding the
5:10
facility. There was no electricity,
5:12
the security guard would carry
5:14
a coleman lantern and a
5:16
slice light and they have
5:18
a little kerosene heater that
5:20
they used to keep yourself
5:23
warm. Worth. Maybe
5:26
three or even four times
5:28
a night they would call
5:30
covering them police department and
5:32
complain of noises. It sounded
5:34
like someone in the building.
5:37
It's a freebie building so kind
5:39
of understandable that these guys would
5:41
get yourselves freaked out. so we
5:44
weren't surprised by it. but it
5:46
got to be a very bad
5:48
annoyance. We were of busy police
5:51
department we didn't have the time
5:53
to set and now hold your
5:55
hand so we would walk in
5:58
and listen to their stories. For
6:00
a minute or two and and say
6:02
well as they comes back call us
6:04
back and then we'd leave an urn.
6:06
Sadly, they really did call his bag
6:08
over and over and over again. and
6:11
until a big game though. Point is
6:13
something. Had album. And
6:16
our role farm which is when they
6:18
tell you your assignments of the night
6:20
and give you information what you're supposed
6:22
to be on the lookout for. all
6:24
those songs for the sergeant. Call me
6:26
off to the side and said when
6:29
this card starts Carling denied do something,
6:31
hit him in the head. He
6:33
was being facetious, but a amount of
6:36
the sincerity was thrown in there. He
6:38
wanted to cause to stop. So
6:42
when the first call came that night
6:44
it was late maybe ten o'clock and
6:46
I went in. I said talk to
6:48
this guy for law Been trying to
6:51
calm him down. What? He
6:53
says he was hearing was a
6:55
shuffling as sounded like giggling and
6:57
running across the floor above him.
7:01
Spend about ten most with him. And.
7:06
Nothing happened. We haven't heard any sounds
7:08
so after a few minutes I left
7:10
seem again. I was confident that I'd
7:13
calmed him down this time. It
7:17
was our zola. He called again and
7:19
I was back and this time I
7:22
was a little bit rude. Love But
7:24
this has gotta stop. We don't have
7:26
the manpower to keep come in here.
7:29
Well. About an hour later,
7:31
somewhere shortly after midnight. A
7:34
neighbor across the street. Called.
7:37
The dispatcher and told them that
7:39
there was something wrong with the
7:42
security guard cities in his car
7:44
and a is gonna hold the
7:46
sir will and is just sitting
7:48
there staring out the window. So.
7:52
They despise me again. Sure enough, he
7:54
was in his car. He's got
7:56
a grip on the steering wheel both hands as
7:58
novels or right. I tap
8:01
on the window and aegis he can
8:03
totally ignored me a tab foreigners still
8:05
ignore me so I bengal there are
8:07
other night and he jumped and he
8:10
cracked his window about two inches and
8:12
he said i will go back in
8:14
there and you can make me. I
8:17
said are, but calm down
8:20
What's the problem? Ministers cries?
8:23
So. I had are just better
8:25
Call the security company dispatcher I
8:28
am splendid or guard is a
8:30
had a nervous breakdown or something
8:32
w affected they needed to come
8:35
and get him and bring another
8:37
guard. The. Man as
8:39
a Broad was an older solo. More
8:42
mature and I thought what things are
8:44
gonna be all right now. And
8:47
he went in and apologize for
8:50
of the other fellows problems. He
8:52
says I won't bother your. It
8:58
was twenty minutes till he was calling.
9:01
They send me back again. I walked
9:03
in. a man was waiting for me
9:05
at the front door holding his coleman
9:07
lantern. He says look I
9:09
promise I wouldn't call but I had
9:11
to. You need to hear this. Can
9:13
you sit down with may have a
9:15
cup of coffee? Spend ten minutes here.
9:19
I want of standing about twenty or twenty five
9:21
minutes and there was a. And
9:24
then I heard it. It
9:27
was someone running across the
9:29
floor and very plainly giggling
9:31
directly above us and he
9:33
said there that's what we're
9:36
hearing So said us, go
9:38
find it. So
9:41
we got up and we walked to
9:43
the back of the buildings and know
9:45
he was his coleman lantern me with
9:47
my flashlight and the very back of
9:49
the building was to elevators. Price
9:52
of those go to the top and work our way down.
9:55
So therefore we did. We went to the to
9:57
floor. And
9:59
as the. They're open on the fifth
10:01
floor. It open to a fully
10:03
loaded room. Brightest. To
10:06
be. In the middle this room
10:08
stood an old woman. Probably.
10:12
Eighty Nine. Ninety Years
10:14
Old. She. Was
10:16
wearing a blue bath robe
10:18
like a hospital type bathrobe.
10:21
She had her back turned to the
10:23
elevator. She's looking up at a clock
10:25
on the walls. the all round school
10:27
house type clock. And
10:30
it was started to thirteen. As
10:33
look to the guard he looked at me I
10:35
said what we found our noise. I'm
10:38
assuming she has walked away from
10:41
Garrett's three nursing home which is
10:43
only a block and a half
10:45
from Booth Hospital. We
10:48
walked from the elevator straight to
10:50
those lady and as we got
10:52
there she turned around. See
10:55
was what I would call a sweet
10:57
old lady. She reminded me a great
10:59
deal of my great grandmother. When she
11:02
smiled she's very sweet logic see look
11:04
me in the eyes she's last this
11:06
great missed tackle have a laugh and
11:08
then stopped and later hand on my
11:11
chest were my heart would be. and
11:14
her face just went totally blank
11:17
shed no expression know smile of
11:19
round know muslim. She
11:22
shook her head the summer with. Then
11:25
last drop for him and took off
11:27
running towards the exit door. She
11:30
went through the door where the stairs were. She
11:34
opened the door and walked through as. An
11:37
ice as well as yet or
11:39
before she hurt herself. So we
11:41
started after her and I opened
11:43
the door not really looking, but
11:45
thankfully the guard was saying a
11:47
lot more attention than I was
11:50
as I stepped through the door,
11:52
he grabbed me by my gun
11:54
belgian jerk me back inside the
11:56
room and I realized that the
11:58
concrete steps were gone. They
12:00
have already been demolished and they were
12:02
in a pile. In. The
12:05
basement. At
12:08
that point I knew this poor
12:10
old lady was lying down there
12:12
dead. so we were running for
12:14
the elevator. I'd call for backup.
12:17
Days and me an ambulance. In
12:20
the hopes of maybe she was so live. We.
12:24
Got on the elevator and to
12:26
get always a basement the elevator
12:28
door open on the the basement
12:30
it was all dark returned to
12:32
our right ran to where the
12:34
stairs came into the basement. Concrete
12:37
everywhere, covered in dust
12:39
and debris and dirt.
12:42
With no sign of it having
12:45
been disturbed, there was no body.
12:47
No. Blood. No
12:49
sign of anybody had been there.
12:52
I looked straight up with my
12:54
flashlight. Is like broad daylight when
12:56
you use the big flashlights know.
12:58
Stairs was no pipes, nothing she
13:00
could be hanging on. I
13:03
call for a canine unit. My sergeant
13:05
shows up. The. Dog
13:08
those in looking for. She was
13:10
nowhere to be sound. I.
13:13
Did have the dispatcher call a nursing
13:16
home and make sure they were missing
13:18
any and they weren't. After
13:21
about forty five minutes of searching,
13:23
we determined as she was no
13:25
longer there. We.
13:27
Started walking back across the basement
13:29
floor. my sergeants asking me for
13:32
an explanation. I'm trying to tell
13:34
him what happened. We. Realize
13:36
that we were standing outside of
13:38
a door that had frosted glass
13:40
window in it. And in the
13:42
frosted glass window was the word
13:44
Morgue. I. Said well maybe season
13:47
here. Then
13:49
opened the door and stepped through.
13:51
There was nobody there, but there
13:53
was a freezer there. Is
13:56
love says type freezer and what
13:58
they would do. They put a
14:01
body in and layer shop over
14:03
the top of on put another
14:05
body than another shelves and they
14:07
would hold about. Seven. Or
14:09
eight bodies in this one freezer.
14:12
time. I
14:14
open the door to this freezer.
14:16
When I did a shelf collapsed
14:19
down of the bottom, edges crumbled
14:21
and pieces am. When it did
14:23
we can see another body that
14:26
they had forgotten. She
14:28
was line the the bottom of this
14:30
freezer and it was an elderly woman
14:32
in a blue bathrobe. She.
14:35
Had been there long enough to she'd been
14:38
mummified. There's no
14:40
really say for sure that it was
14:42
the same face, but. I
14:44
take it was. The.
14:47
Close with the same. Am.
14:49
At that point the security guard passes
14:52
out. He falls hits his head.
14:54
Crisis it open we have to send
14:56
him to the hospital. My
14:58
sergeant caused the corner in the corner
15:00
comes and takes charge of this body.
15:04
My Sergeant I stepped outside
15:06
the door from the morgue
15:08
to the outside and the.
15:11
Electric feed for the building was
15:13
right there. and the wires it's
15:16
about the size of your arm
15:18
had been cut into and that's
15:20
why. The guard had
15:22
used coleman lantern. Sergeant.
15:26
Said damage to didn't you tell
15:28
me road the elevator the fifth
15:30
floor my suggests and that the
15:32
two floors lighted yes. He
15:35
said, how can there be There's no electricity
15:37
in the building. And.
15:40
His his son me I had thought
15:42
about it until that moment but there
15:44
should have been no. Lights are suitable
15:46
Know elevator. We.
15:50
While back in and push
15:52
the elevator button and nothing
15:54
happened. Stepped outside looked up
15:56
a defense lawyers All dark,
15:58
no lights. I
16:00
wrote a police report just were
16:03
told it I more color goes
16:05
but. I'll
16:07
have to the a mystery. Four
16:14
years ago I had a major heart
16:16
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16:18
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16:22
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16:24
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Sublease. Article
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On Board Queen Mary. Sue.
18:31
We were. Invited
18:33
as seven Vip guests to spend a
18:35
couple of lights on the Queen Mary.
18:38
It's a hotel. It's a hotel on
18:40
the water. Queen Mary is a ship
18:42
that is also reported to be extremely
18:44
talented. They're all sorts of stories about
18:47
why it's haunted. It was us, It
18:49
was a cruise ship that was recruited
18:51
by the military. It's on to break
18:53
prisoners back and forth. Through
18:56
many from apparently die a horrible
18:58
deaths in the ships. There
19:01
was a terrible accident where the Queen
19:03
Mary that were made a navigational error
19:05
and at literally sliced through a smaller
19:07
ship and killed every one on that
19:10
ship. We
19:13
were talking about potentially making a film set
19:15
on the Queen Mary. During.
19:18
That time the people who own the Queen
19:20
Mary said sure you guys come out, spend
19:22
a few nights on the Queen Mary. And
19:25
soak up the ambulance and we're going
19:28
to send our best tour guides take
19:30
you on an incredible ghost tour of
19:32
of the of the ship. That
19:35
will be night to night one.
19:38
Just relax, have some dinner, enjoy
19:40
yourself. So that night. We.
19:42
Relax and some dinner, enjoy
19:44
ourselves and then. Around one
19:46
in the morning. We
19:49
decided to stick ourselves and on our own
19:51
mode da store. That
20:00
a great amount of difficulty.
20:02
We. Figured
20:04
out how to get down
20:06
into like the engine rooms
20:08
of the ship and we
20:10
walked through all the places
20:12
where they take people on
20:14
go stores. You're just in
20:16
these giant rooms filled with
20:18
shiny black machinery that does
20:20
who knows what's I'm that's
20:22
uncertain at some point in
20:24
his room for filled with
20:27
coal covered man who are
20:29
it's something coal. And empowering
20:31
these machines. We
20:41
want to these rooms and we read
20:44
low plaques and things and and then
20:46
got to the end of it and
20:48
went well let's keep going. So we
20:50
went beyond since the place that you're
20:52
supposed to go. We
20:57
find ourselves in sort of
20:59
like the real engine rooms,
21:01
the ones that are not
21:03
for the public. They're not
21:05
maintained. And we
21:07
kept going and going and going
21:10
and pushing further and further. And
21:12
it was not six. It was
21:14
not well captors. Puddles of water
21:17
everywhere. And as
21:19
as we. Moved
21:21
along. We started this
21:24
year. this incredibly loud
21:26
metallic. He
21:37
so. That we
21:39
thought people must be hearing this up
21:41
in the rooms. It's. We.
21:52
Wanna know? I was? Very.
21:57
Strangely that was. it was a
21:59
Can Roxanne project. It had been
22:01
abandoned and it almost looked like
22:03
they at some point had been
22:06
trying to turn a part of
22:08
the ship into like a food
22:10
courts or something. But they run
22:12
on a money and so they're
22:14
like there's a dry wall everywhere
22:16
and with weird carpeting and but
22:18
what's this? Banging is clearly coming
22:20
from. Here. So
22:25
we we we try to being
22:27
all the way to the end
22:30
of the like a wall and
22:32
we sit here. And
22:34
seal the vibration spanking coming from
22:36
behind. It
22:38
sounded like someone had like at
22:41
Cheyenne. And just real
22:43
size rants and. Us.
22:45
But. We then decided or it let's go
22:47
back and we couldn't find your way back. For.
22:55
Some reason we turned around to
22:57
retrace or stats. we found the
22:59
series of corridors that we couldn't
23:02
remember if we'd come from the
23:04
left or the rides and and
23:06
we were literally lost in the
23:09
bowels of the Queen Mary. And
23:11
now we got your very the
23:13
ship that we really shouldn't have
23:16
been it. I'm pretty sure this
23:18
was like the last level between
23:20
us in the ocean because there
23:23
was water around. Like ocean water.
23:25
Around and this was now. there
23:27
were even catwalks a more despite
23:30
the were boards that were laid
23:32
over. Just detritus.
23:34
And weirdly, there are these
23:37
rights. Led lamps everywhere. And
23:39
again, this banging is now
23:41
even louder. We're
23:48
getting closer to it. Now
23:52
I'm getting really scared. Of
23:56
starting. Something
24:00
is wrong and like an animal,
24:02
all of my instincts are to
24:04
get out of here. It's not.
24:08
Dressing. And
24:11
banging is getting louder. And
24:14
we finally come to a
24:16
kind of a large archway
24:18
that's leading to some other
24:20
room. And there's lights on
24:22
in there, and there's no
24:24
doubt that the banging is
24:26
coming from that room and
24:28
we hear two men talking.
24:35
And I realize that it was gibberish.
24:39
I don't think it was any language
24:41
that I could recognize. It wasn't Or
24:43
matter italiana it was, I couldn't even
24:45
mimic it. Now was just gibberish. So
24:50
we hear the men talking and we entered
24:52
the room and a second we entered the
24:54
room the voices. And
24:57
there's no one in the room. The
25:01
banging continues to figure
25:04
out where. I
25:10
can't explain this. You. It
25:12
it's something. was so wrong
25:15
about that. I
25:17
didn't want to go in there. in
25:20
it was again that ceiling us to
25:22
Harris standing up on the back my
25:24
neck. There's something unsafe happening here. and
25:26
unlike the little girl in the Stanley
25:28
Hotel, this just. About
25:32
twenty feet in the air. There.
25:36
Is. A. Lot.
25:42
Like a replica of
25:44
smirks that strung up.
25:48
With its arms and
25:50
legs splayed out, hanging
25:52
off the ceiling like
25:54
some demented scarecrow or
25:57
something. I
26:00
chose. It is one of the most
26:02
terrifying things that I've ever seen. Know.
26:09
When we got through that room, there
26:11
was an opening on the other side
26:13
that lead us back to a out.
26:16
We. Got out. We. Got back
26:18
into the lobby of the
26:20
hotel. boy would instead of
26:23
release. And
26:25
it was really laid and we are all
26:27
freaked out and exhausted and we all went
26:29
back to our rooms. And
26:32
but that. Cellular.
26:34
Terror feeling was not going
26:36
away for me and I
26:38
went back to my room
26:40
and I felt. Sick
26:42
to my stomach with fear. And
26:45
I try to put on a little
26:47
nice music to calm myself down. Everything
26:50
so. Surreal. Itself I
26:52
saw goes having a nightmare that
26:54
I couldn't wake up from and
26:56
I finally started to settle down
26:58
to go to sleep and. There
27:01
were three. Billows on
27:04
my door. Was
27:08
so suddenly loud and angry
27:10
and violence that I sought
27:12
someone's trying to get in
27:14
here to kill me. And
27:17
it took me. maybe. Thirty
27:20
seconds to finally gather up the courage
27:22
to go to the door and open
27:24
in. And
27:28
of course there was no in there. And
27:33
then a couple minutes later my phone
27:35
started ringing. It was the hotel phone.
27:37
Now my cellphone. And
27:41
every time an answer it I
27:43
would steer static. And
27:46
to finally and plugins on. Soon.
27:50
The morning we all met for breakfast and
27:52
I said hey guys very funny ha this
27:54
is what he saw him on I was
27:56
like i know you were mess with me
27:59
last night and. They said no
28:01
we weren't and I went to the front
28:03
desk and I said do you keep a
28:05
record of of calls that happened between rooms
28:07
and they said they did and I said
28:10
to you tell me someone called me over
28:12
and over again in the middle of a
28:14
night and you tell me where that came
28:16
from and they said there was no record
28:18
of any of any room to room calls
28:21
the night before. So.
28:26
The next night. We are. Brought
28:29
on the official gastar. The
28:33
The Official Ghost Tour. Compared.
28:35
To our. Little private ghost
28:37
or was kids does bone. We
28:39
got to the very end of
28:42
the tour. It was the. Adjacent.
28:45
To the room where we'd heard the
28:47
voices and in fact the tour ended
28:50
in the place where we had finally
28:52
escaped. Where. We had emerged from
28:54
that room and figured out how to get
28:56
back up to the lobby and. The
29:00
guy who was giving the tour
29:02
who was his older gentleman who
29:04
had a really creepy vibe about
29:06
him. I'd been chatting with him
29:08
all night. And I had asked
29:10
him. And
29:12
I said why do you do this
29:15
And he told me the story of
29:17
how when he was a little boy
29:19
his. Parents and brought him
29:21
on the tour of the Queen Mary
29:23
and we were standing in the room
29:25
at the whole of the ship where
29:28
it had sliced through the other boat
29:30
and killed all the people. And
29:33
she said it was in this room. That
29:36
I felt a hand on my shoulder.
29:38
I turn around and there was no one there.
29:43
I said to him. Well has
29:45
anything happened since he had the
29:48
job and said i wish know
29:50
nothing's nothing's happened I keep hoping
29:52
but he said you know it's
29:55
funny. That. You
29:57
should ask me that tonight, because
29:59
actually listening something kind of weird
30:01
did happen. I
30:03
so what is it and he said would you see
30:05
that room over there and he pointed at the room
30:08
where we had been the night before. And
30:11
he said that just got opened up
30:13
for the first time after twenty years
30:15
because they're doing a construction project and
30:18
the a bunch of us heard this
30:20
loud banging coming out of the room
30:22
that we just couldn't explain and loses
30:24
the guy in the hope of what
30:27
actually was going on and that rooms.
30:29
I didn't ask him what the weird
30:31
corpse or an intimate voices. And
30:35
that was the end of it. Thank
30:47
you for seeing another! A Terrifying
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