Death Walker - First Season

My journey has led me around the world to some

of the most haunted locations searching for answers

from the other side.

There's a new controversial theory

that suggests the past, present, and future

exists simultaneously.

If evidence could be documented to support that theory,

it would change the way we perceive ghosts.

I will attempt to communicate with the people who

lived and died in these confined spaces.

Is time even relevant?

Are these spirits trapped in the past?

Why are they compelled to remain tethered to these locations

where they were so harshly treated during their lives?

The answers may be revealed if I open myself

to the spirits at Brushy Mountain

Prison and Madison Seminary.

Join me as I investigate new theories of the unknown.

Well, the structure we're in right now,

the Ohio cottage, was built at the turn of the century

by the Women's Relief Corps, so around 1906.

And the floor we're stepping on, I always like to tell

people this is authentic.

It's over 100 years old.

So you can only imagine the energy

that's walked through this.

What is an unfortunate side effect though is between 1920

and 1940, I do know that some of the most mentally-ill women

were kept up here.

So you have that layer stained.

And just the emotions that people were going

through sitting in these wheelchairs in their beds,

just confined to this space right here,

every day waking up, going to sleep,

redundantly doing the same thing, and all that energy

just accumulating in here till they take their last breath.

240 deaths total.

But I have no doubt, some were up here.

240 is where we stopped.

It could go much farther than that.

All that energy,

resonating the kinetic energy, moving around, everything.

The electricity we put off the conscious thoughts

that's released from our body.

And when we speak using our vocal cords and whatever,

those vibrations disrupting and ripple affecting this place.

Yeah, right.

They stick.

That's going to hold here.

You know, just this little glimpse, it could

have been a moment if you talking,

some 100 years from now catches that.

Is that what we're dealing with here?

Are we dealing with something where it's a bend in time?

Or are we dealing with something where

it's energy from somebody passing away

and it's a tragic death where that's just released here?

Is that the spirit of that individual?

Or is it just this producing our thoughts into this environment?

I mean what is happening exactly here?

Time is not the way we think it is.

And I'm a big believer like yourself.

As humans, we believe time is linear, it's all that.

And we've had a few conversations outside of this.

I am completely with you.

I think it's something we're never going to understand,

but it's--

it's bending in a very odd way.

And I know this sounds deep.

But I think sometimes we're even communicating

with our past selves.

You are a big believer in this too.

You were the one who said it to me.

I'm completely with you on that.

So I don't know how much of the haunting

is created by us or the dead.

After talking with Adam at Madison Seminary,

it had me thinking the way we perceive time is inaccurate.

It's possible that at some of these haunted places,

the past and present overlap.

Our senses are limited, but maybe

by comparing two locations this episode

that both share over 100 years of history, time

will reveal itself to us.

Brushy was built in 1896.

It came about as a result of the coal creek mining wars.

The state leased convicts as like a convict labor

lease system, and it was putting the miners out of work.

So they actually went to war for that.

The original structure was a wooden structure.

And it set the front of it would have sat right about there.

It burned down in the '20s.

And then that's when they built this structure

that you see here.

It's built in the shape of an upside down cross,

and they did that to send a message to the prisoners

that they were unworthy.

The community accepted the cross shape

because they were thinking redemption and stuff like that.

But the state built it upside down to send that message.

It was built Castle-like to present

dominance for the inmates.

Charlie that is in solitary confinement, or the hole.

And, they call him Papaw because he seems to be grumpy.

He communicates, but he's almost very adamant.

He don't want to do it.

He complains a lot.

If you go in there and sit down, that's

24 hours of just pure darkness.

And they would forget and just leave people

in here for God knows how long.

And you got to think that's just so much bad.

If they weren't crazy already, then I'm

sure they probably were when they came out of here.

It's just the feel of it, just seeing it and knowing

that you're standing where so much stuff has happened,

and there's so much history here.

You have kind of a melting pot of all these different emotions

that came here.

And a lot of them died.

None really got out.

- Right? - Right?

I can only imagine what they would

go through sitting in these jail cells thinking about their life

and what's next, and when their time is gone,

what's going to happen.

Is there something happening here where

that energy is left behind?

Have you experienced anything like that?

Yeah.

We have lots of daily experiences.

Sometimes you might be like a continuation of the work

they would have done.

In the laundry room, you'll hear the washers and dryers running.

You'll hear phones ringing, keys clanging.

Just sounds like busy work going on,

especially like around 6 o'clock in the morning like when

they would have been preparing food and stuff, you hear that.

So it's kind of like just a continuation

like they never missed a beat.

Maybe they're all on the other side

looking at us like we're all crazy.

Or maybe they're in their own time

right now back in the past, that we call the past.

And we're in reality right now.

Yeah.

And they hear us, we hear them.

And we just think, each one of us is a ghost.

That's a good theory.

Everybody here had life sentences.

It truly was the end of the line.

Once you come here, you didn't leave.

Madison Seminary built in 1847 is said to be the most haunted

place in Northeast, Ohio.

It served numerous purposes over the years, the original being

educational up until 1891 when it became

a National Relief Corps home for Army nurses from the Civil War.

Its most notable resident until her death

was Elizabeth Styles, a Union spy who

worked for President Lincoln.

In 1962, the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Corrections

took over management, and over the decades changed

functions several times.

Once housing female inmates, and later was also used

for mentally disabled females.

Walking around in these rooms, it's hard to know where

to begin my investigation.

If time is overlapping, is it intelligent?

Does it experience me the same way I experience it?

Stories of the past have become legend.

Maybe only a legend can give me the answers I'm looking for.

So this is the room where you believe

that the lady is buried? - Yes.

This is where ground zero was.

So my girlfriend Rebecca Kirschbaum is a psychic.

We've had Michelle Belanger here as well.

Both of them together came on a read of a woman

that was in distress.

Now it wasn't necessarily saying that she was killed

in this exact spot, but her body may have been brought here

and then taken to the lake.

It's kind of the conclusion we're coming to.

To sort of take it farther, we brought in cadaver dogs.

And three separate units, all independent, each cadaver dog

sat right in this vicinity right here.

Ground penetrating radar detected

anomaly 2 and 1/2 feet down about the size of a football.

They said it would be an item of interest to look at.

So brought in a crew to cut this open.

What was crazy about that is when they

actually got down to the 2 and 1/2 foot mark,

they found nothing.

So yeah, it was like a phantom anomaly.

And they said, in their professional experience they've

never had a hit that was so strong on the ping and nothing

be there.

Was this closed down for a period of time

where it was abandoned?

From 1972 to 1978, we know for a fact,

there was only one person in here, Harry Baldwin,