Portals to Hell

I need to step off site.

There's something more negative, something more...

- Malevolent in there. - Mm-hmm.

So you believe there is something in there

other than human.

I do.

is this place a portal to hell?

that's bones.

serious?

He believes that you're demonic...

...So this should really piss you off.

alright, katrina, where are we?

We are in mineral wells, texas... Yep.

...And we are going to haunted hill house.

And this place is a good one... Yeah.

...'cause it's, uh, pretty diabolical.

It is diabolical.

This is the first televised investigation of it.

So it's kind of new territory.

Absolutely.

This place has got a really dark, twisted history. Yeah.

Involved prohibition, it was a brothel.

And then some kind of devil worshiping satanic cult

allegedly moved in.

Yeah. So kind of all the things we look for

on our checklist of super duper haunted.

Yeah. And there's weird motives connected to it, too.

So it's -- it's -- it's dark.

Shall we? We shall.

so, mineral wells, like the name would suggest,

they had a lot of mineral wells here.

They what?! I know.

Hard to believe.

But people would come from all over

because they believe

that the water had healing properties.

People spent so much money here

thinking the mineral wells would heal them.

And I wonder if all those people dying

and all that lost hope

actually has something to do

with the paranormal activity here.

Yeah, I agree.

the hill house was actually built in 1840

originally as a residential home

and then became a brothel at the turn of the century,

a speakeasy during prohibition in the '20s,

and then allegedly

a satanic death cult took it over in the 1970s.

And the current owners bought it

to turn it into a bed and breakfast,

and then they realized it's haunted a.F.

Now the only thing they can really do with it

is utilize it in paranormal tourism.

Kathy and sonny, who are the current owners,

don't necessarily want to shut this place down.

It's still very much open.

They're just wondering if it is dangerous for people to come in,

and if so, how dangerous?

Mm.

oh.

ooh. This is ominous.

Yes.

This looks like a horror movie poster.

let's go meet with the owners. Alright.

I mean, it's definitely a scary looking house.

It's not really the most welcoming.

5-0-1.

"welcome to the haunted hill house."

alright. Shall we? Alright.

I guess we shall.

- hello. - Hello.

- Hi, how are you? - Hi!

- How's it going? - Good. How are you?

Awesome. Welcome to the haunted hill house.

Come on in. Thank you. Thank you.

Cool. Thank you.

So this house has gone from a brothel in the 1900s

to a speakeasy during prohibition,

and then allegedly a satanist lived here

in the 1970s.

But let's talk about the present.

How long have you guys owned this place?

About a year and a half now.

How often are people

getting scratched and bit here, presently?

I would say once a week, at least.

How many people have been scratched here now?

We're at 218 scratches.

And do your documentation of all of that?

Not on all of them, but we do have

some photos and documentation. Okay.

Do you believe anything here is demonic?

I do.

Do you believe that

the satanist group that lived here

had something to do with this evil...

Yes. Yes. ...Entity?

Okay.

Okay, so you want to go ahead and had this way... Yeah.

...And we'll show you some -- yeah.

so, this is our carousel room.

and right here is our carousel.

I don't know the exact age or date of it,

but we know it's been here for a long time.

People that have touched this

have suffered headaches and nausea

from messing with that. Huh.

this is also the room where we found

the, um, scratches and the pentagram --

the little pentagrams. And you said those are still here, right?

There are parts of them.

I have polished and tried to get them off

as much as I can,

but you can see a little star thing right there. Yeah.

And there was a whole bunch of them.

I would say, like, 6 to 10 of them all over the floor.

You know, my dad was kind of labeled

a satanist from a lot of people

during the, kind of, satanic panic, 1980s.

And so I've kind of grown up

being on the receiving end of people being like,

"you're a satanist. You're a satanist."

and it's like, well, number one,

they might not be;

number two, if they are, it's their right.

But if they're doing, like, nasty ****

and killing people and doing, kind of,

really crazy diabolical rituals,

that's concerning.

Then we have this room right over here to the left.

Okay.

And that door crack right there,

we caught some awesome evidence,

and I'd like to show you the video... Yeah.

...Where you can see the spirit looking at us

through the crack of the door right... There.

Oh, wow. Watch.

And it goes away.

Out of our investigating,

we found out that that was toby that did that.

And who's toby?

He's one of the negative energies

that was brought here from the family.

Why do you call him toby?

Because his name rings out in this house.

So he says he is on our --

yeah... On our security cam.

We've got a lot of video recordings

where he lets us know what he is.

He says, "I'm a demon.

I'm toby."

so, want to go ahead and show you some more locations. Yeah.

so, this is a location

where most of the people have been scratched at.

We believe that the man that ran the illegal activity here,

the brothel and the gambling, h--

well, we know his name is willie

and we believe that he's the one that does the scratches.

How do you know his name is willie?

Well, we have the death certificates

and everything from him,

um... That he, you know, lived here.

So based off of your paranormal experiences,

this is where everybody tends to get scratched,

this is where the physical stuff happens. That's right.

You've had a lot of willie's name come through... Yes.

...Who, he was believed to be the guy who started

the gambling and the prostitution here.

Right. Okay.

Alright. Alright. You want to head

to the next... Yeah.

...Area? Okay.

Alright, this is our shadowman room.

Come right this way.

we have a shadow man here.

He has appeared a few times in this room.

There's also someone that has been bit on this bed.

Okay.

The thing that is really tough about this case is that...

So much of the stuff that they're telling us

is passed down.

I mean, it's all secondhand conversations.

So I think there's a lot of confusion

with that right now.

I would like him to go and take you guys upstairs.

I do not go up there.

I don't like the feeling up there.

Okay. Alright.

So I guess we go off with you then.

Okay.

if you want, we'll go into joshua's room

and I'll go ahead and tell you that story.

Okay.

So this is joshua's room.

They hid him from society back here

because he was different.

He had an elongated skull, webbed hands, webbed feet.

He was conceived out of a rape.

Willie raped his niece elizabeth.