The Hoard

Oh my god!

10% of all hoarding cases involve extremely

haunted properties.

Rockford, Ohio, March 19th, 2017.

A group of reality show experts set out

to reform a hoarder with several condemned homes.

This is how the ultimately reality show

turned into a deadly nightmare.

Welcome to Extremely Haunted Hoarders.

We're gonna make reality show history.

And we have made quite the alarming discovery.

This is disgusting.

I've never seen so much shit in my life.

This has been a big job but I'm not done yet.

You're gonna clean this fucking shit up right now

or you're going to jail.

Die you fuck!

So we have 48 hours to bring this place up to code.

One, two, three.

Let's get to work.

This is Extremely Haunted Hoarders.

Rockford, Ohio was once a booming Lake Eerie

shipping hub.

Where the industrial East met the sprawling West.

Nowadays, Rockford has fallen on rough times.

Addiction and hoarding are prevalent.

Rockford, Ohio used to be just such a great place.

It slid, its way down.

Just a fucking dump.

Crime rates are high, lots of drug use, crack heads.

People are up to move somewhere else to find a job.

I love this town.

There's a lot to do, there's uh,

lot of chicks in this town and I fucking love it.

I think Donald Trumps gonna make Rockford, Ohio

great again.

We got three basic problems in this place.

Number on, property values.

Number two, drug abuse.

Very very bad drug abuse

and number three is the hoarding.

I know a couple of hoarders, yes.

Everybody in this town is a hoarder.

We have the most hoarders per capita in the US.

Sheila Smyth and Dr. Lance Ebe

have been reforming hoarders across the Rust Belt

for the last three years.

Welcome to Rockford.

Showrunner Sheila Smyth

has rejuvenated hundreds of hoards.

Hi, my name is Sheila Smyth

and I'm a professional organizer

and interior designer specializing

in hoarder decluttering.

Dr. Ebe's patients have a relapse rate

of 94%.

In a peculiar way, the patient that we are treating

is actually the entire town.

Alright, its time to meet our guy.

Meet Murph Evans.

75 years old, born and raised in Rockford.

Breakfast?

Oh well, I had chicken liver for breakfast.

That's a delicacy if you cook it right.

Chicken livers are ripe for giving.

I get it when its on 50% off.

I got to get everything at 50% off.

I'm a 50% man.

Murph Evans has been collecting

antique furniture and cluttering properties

for the last 50 years.

This room here looks pretty bad,

looks like a lot of stuff.

There's art, all of great importance in here

but there are some nice things

if you, if you search.

Every Sunday, the town convenes

at the Rockford auction and Murph Evans is a regular.

This is catnip for hoarders.

When you go in, you don't know what you're gonna find.

The element of surprise that makes auctions

so much fun.

I believe that the entire town

is suffering and is culpable

to some degree, in this illness

and will have to be treated.

It is disorder writ large.

Sold for $300 there.

Number 110 to buy it.

Number 110.

Oh that shotgun at the auction.

That's a beauty.

That's a real treasure.

That's a real wall hanger, that one.

Piece at a time, piece at time from auctions,

that's for sure.

Murph Evans owns at least

three condemned properties, that we know of.

Named after their former owners.

Nobody in the history of reality programs

has ever tackled a hoarder with three properties.

The Gothic and forlorn Lemon house.

The Manjuris house, Victorian haunt on the hill.

The Neiland farmhouse, a former cauliflower ranch.

Murph Evans is a phenomenal hoarder.

Every time he acquires something and runs out of space,

he goes out and finds another house

and this is extraordinary,

this is a highly evolved, very aggressive form

of hoarding.

It appears to have ambition.

You get so many chairs,

you sometimes, got to buy four

to get the one you want.

Typically the hoarder will stay in one place,

like a nest, and cover themselves in filth.

In Murph's case, there are satellite nests.

There is almost an entity that needs to be satisfied

in spite of what I call a typical hoarder's,

you know, behavior, which is to be inert,

stationary, and filth covered.

In Murph's case, he's out going from property

to property, auctions, all sorts of things,

acquiring these pointless pieces of shit, really

and then farming it out to different homes

and this is why I think the town

is in fact the patient,

it is in danger of being taken over

by a viral hoarding disorder.

He cannot let go of anything.

Its a sickness.

The place is a pigsty.

The man is an animal.

Time does run out and energy runs out.

So either you smarten up and clean this shit up

or we're coming back here, we're condemning the place,

you lose everything, alright.

You got that?

Yes, I worry about my teams, for sure.

I mean we'll all be crawling through

a twisted mans mind

and that can get pretty dangerous.

Yeah I think all this reality TV

is just a bunch of bullshit.

Its just all staged and made up

just to entertain the idle people with idle minds.

With the clock ticking before

he loses everything,

Murph Evans agrees to open his door

to our experts in a desperate bid

to save his properties.

The contractor team has arrived in Rockford

to stock up for the job ahead.

Grab some of those knee pads, you're gonna need em.

Derek Jago and the Falcon

and Toledo's greatest house flippers.

Company I represent is the Duke of Hazard.

That's why they call me the Duke.

Mostly I roll around with a guy they call the Falcon.

Name is Tony Fennick, 34 years old.

Yeah I've been working with jack off here

for about five years.

He's a little yappy but uh,

that's what ear plugs are for.

Promises me a promotion every time

but I doubt it.

By the looks of it, I don't know,

between us, I think he's kind of losing it.

He's not so mentally stable.

What the fuck?

See what I mean?

That work for ya?

I would compare Duke to being like a sledgehammer

and I'm more like a chisel.

Hey come on, I know they don't got those

in El Salvador but we got em here.

So I'm Maltese, very proud of it.

Most people don't even know where Malta is.

What nationality do it think the Falcon is?

Do you accept pesos?

I don't know.

Korean?

Try to keep those little legs up to speed,

okay chief?

I take shitholes and make em livable.

That's a nightmare.

I'm the best at what I do.

If you get the Duke, you're getting perfection.

With three homes to clean up,

the contractors must recruit a local day worker.

Holy fuck.

Welcome to the jungle.

My last job?

This is my last job.

My name is Charles Ivey.

I'm born and raised Rockford.

You, come here.

No, no.

You, you want a job?

Yes I do.