Haunted State

Previously on Haunted State.

- Purple has a lot of significance in my family.

My mom's favorite color was purple.

It's hard to tell if it's easier or more difficult

when your parents die, expectedly or unexpectedly.

Both of my parents died unexpectedly.

Whoever the male voice is,

do you know one of us?

Holy shit Angela.

That sounded like her dad.

I was born here.

This is the last time we'll be in the house.

So Jim, is this ghost hunting stuff real

or is it bullshit?

Real.

Did you hear it?

I did.

And he said that we needed a code word after he died.

So we did

and I haven't heard it yet.

I actually don't even believe in half of this stuff

but I will if I hear that code word come through

and nobody knows what it is.

I don't even know it.

Can we get a yes?

Jim, are you here?

Somebody said he is,

did you hear that?

I did.

It was a woman.

Grandma?

Is somebody else here?

If anybody's here it's my Grandma Helen.

Is any family of Angela's here?

- Grandma. - Grandma.

- Where is a place that you would be scared to go

where you felt like you maybe would be pushing

yourself a little bit, kind of out of your comfort zone.

Do you have a location?

- Yeah, it's like the location that got me wanting

to kind of investigate and get more involved

with paranormal and that was the Amityville horror house.

I mean, that movie came out and I was all about it.

I didn't sleep for like months.

Yeah.

Get out.

Get out!

- And so I think I would be scared to go there

because I do believe something is there.

Would you go, though?

If I had the opportunity

I would have to make myself go.

I really would.

Do you have a location?

- Yeah, Villisca, lowa, the ax house murders.

Eight people murdered, murderer was never caught.

All that bad energy,

all that negative energy all trapped there.

I would struggle being there, especially over night.

- But for me there's one place here in Wisconsin,

it's known as Summerwind but it's Lamont Mansion.

- Okay. - You guys are aware of that?

- Yeah. - Yup.

- Summerwind Mansion is in Land O'Lakes

at the northern tip of Wisconsin.

The first residential owner was Robert Patterson Lamont,

a wealthy executive who would

become the future secretary

of Commerce under Herbert Hoover.

According to reports, supernatural powers

were claimed to change the shape dimensions

of rooms at will, along with other claims such as

disembodied voices, apparitions, and the ghost

of English explorer Johnathan Carver

is said to haunt the Summerwind Mansion.

Summerwind was thrust into the international spotlight

when a 1980 story in Life magazine featured the house.

In the early 80s, the Summerwind Mansion was abandoned

and in 1988 it was struck by lightning

and burned to the ground.

Even though there isn't much left of the house today

the legend still lives on.

It was active, intelligent interaction.

Dark.

And dark.

- So, that's one location where I know I would really

have to force myself to go to.

I don't know if I ever will go there

but I think it's important that we push ourselves.

That's something I really want to do for season two.

Yup.

We know it's a matter of time

before we're in a situation where something ominous

or dark is around us.

It's not something that happens very often

but we're doing this in the name of science

so we need to be prepared for it.

Our next journey is to the most legendary city

of professional football.

Home of the National Railroad Museum.

We left Captain's Walk

and headed over the Fox River.

In the shadows of the historic Green Bay football stadium

lies the National Railroad Museum.

The origin of the National Railroad Museum

dates back to 1956.

What began as an effort to acquire a single steam

locomotive for a city park has grown into

one of the largest rail museums in the nation.

- I talked to the staff about eyewitness testimonies

around the National Railroad Museum.

- I've been approached several times with customers

they always ask if there's, you know,

if the museums haunted or if this train is haunted.

But there's a great interest.

I mean you hear it at least once or twice a week.

- I was in the back cleaning up after a birthday party

when I saw a shadow walk by numerous times

from left to right.

It not only went past the light and the curtain

but also went through a window that was closed

and you know how heat looks when it's coming off

of a road, kind of distorted?

That's what I saw pass through.

I saw a black figure behind the Big Boy.

- There have been several times when I was looking

through these doors towards the back, towards the Big Boy.

And I would see someone either peek out

or step out from behind and look and then step back.

- It looked like someone was standing there and backed off.

- I would see something dart from behind one pillar

to the next and back and forth.

It was in the middle of the day,

it was about five o'clock.

- Then I heard three taps on the glass of the caboose

as I walked by and there was nobody here but me.

- I walked through the caboose to make sure

that there was no garbage in there or anything

and upon existing the whole window started shaking

and I got really creeped out.

With all the claims of shadow people

I was concerned about what could happen

after the investigation.

There was a time where I thought an entity

had followed me home but I wasn't sure.

So I talked to Loyd about that phenomenon.

Well, I mean if there are apparitions

and they're conscious, that's the whole definition

of an apparition, technically they could,

you know, follow you home, if they liked you.

I suppose.

What can attach to you is your own fears and experiences

and dwelling on those, not necessarily

the conscious entity so much.

With that, we begin our investigation

aboard the Eisenhower Locomotive.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower A4 locomotive

was built in 1937 in Doncaster, England.

After World War II, the steam engine was named

the Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946

to honor his work as a supreme allied commander in Europe.

The Eisenhower was then given to the American people

as a gift of gratitude from Great Britain in 1964.

In 2012, the National Railroad Museum

in Green Bay, Wisconsin, loaned the locomotive

to the National Railroad Museum in York, England

to undergo cosmetic restoration.

During its two year stint in England

railroad buffs became captivated

by the bright green engine

and offered the American museum

as much as one million dollars to purchase the Eisenhower.

However, the museum declined.

Since the Dwight D. Eisenhower has returned to Green Bay

the National Railroad Museum has completed restoration work

on the London and Northeastern railroad cars

1591 and 1592.

These two passenger cars were converted for use

on the two trains that were assigned

to Eisenhower while in England.

The 1591 car was restored to look as it did post war

when it was donated to the museum.

The 1592 is now complete with armor plating

and it looks as it did during the war.

Now, I have not really been in this car

Did you hear that?

Hello? - No.

I picked that up.

Did you hear that, is that you?

All right, let's let them in here.

Okay, sorry, Anne.

Come in here, guys.

Two voices.

We heard the first one but the second one we didn't.

This is a crystal clear and intelligent EVP.

Wait a second.

Can we figure out what this shadow is?

I think it's just the camera.

- Is it? - Yeah.

You can try to go up higher.