Hellier

What I'm going to do is,

because we don't know what exactly the goblins are,

or whatever is around here,

I'm going to assume to a certain extent it's sort of

elemental in nature or land-based.

So we have candles that represent each one of

Earth, air, fire, water...

We left some tobacco

and burned some candles,

just out of respect for whatever's potentially there,

and let it know, "Listen this is what we're here to do,

we're here to communicate, so if you want to come

and communicate with us, the door is wide open,

and we're inviting that communication."

So Dana did a small ritual

where she burned some candles and she made an offering

of tobacco to these entities or spirits, or whatever

they are, in order to more formally set why we were there

and what we were hoping to get from them.

And if you're interested in communicating with us,

that's what we're here for.

If there is anybody here,

anybody that we can't see right now...

spirits...

I'm not sure who we might be addressing here.

But we are here to learn about you.

We're here documenting.

But in reality, you're the star.

We're here because we were called,

because we want to know more about you,

because we respect you.

And as long as you have good intentions,

we are more than willing to communicate with you.

I think the thing that caught my attention was like...

it sounded like a...

wooden knock.

That was a wooden knock.

Yeah.

That's what I heard that first time.

I heard that too.

From two different directions.

We kept it broad!

Goodness!

Connor's like, "I'm out!"

Almost immediately after

Dana did her ritual,

we were hearing wood knocks that were seemingly

communicating with us,

from both sides of us.

Things were being thrown from the forest at us.

There were a lot of noises that we tried our best

to kind of rule out as natural, animal noises.

But a lot of these things were...

They felt a little too pointed.

And they started a little too quickly after

we had done these intention- setting experiments.

It's the type of phenomenon that we have witnessed before

in bigfoot expeditions.

And we'd done the same kind of those intention-setting things

during bigfoot investigations.

So almost immediately we got the overwhelming

feeling that we were being watched.

And that we had successfully drawn something in.

Can you come out a little closer?

It's okay.

Did you hear that?

Yeah!

- It just did it back. - It did it back?

- It went and went and did it back.

That was really loud.

Really loud.

Wow... it's super dense.

No.

I heard a... it was a little bit more...

croak-ish?

Not like a frog. But in response,

It was kind of a...

And it went up like your whistle did.

Like a mimic kind of.

A little more guttural.

Maybe we don't speak the same language,

maybe we don't understand each other very well,

but I think you can

understand the vibe we're putting out.

- What do you do when Greg Newkirk says,

"It's right behind you."

Stand real still.

Okay, well. That's officially out.

Thank you for being here,

we want to continue talking with you, though.

From there, we moved

to the front porch, and we began setting up

our spirit box experiment, "The Estes Method."

Connor puts on a pair of very noise-cancelling

drummer-headphones,

and he pipes in a spirit box feed.

Now, a spirit box is a controversial device

in ghost hunting,

where it scans through these radio stations

at very high rates of speed.

You are going to get clips of DJ voices, commercials,

talk shows... especially in the AM frequencies.

And so it's normal to hear voices out of them.

But with all the static, with all the noise,

with all the blips and bits of sound,

it's very easy

to hear what you want to hear out of it.

We created this method in order to cut the receiver off

from more anticipated responses,

in the hopes that our conversation...

that he couldn't hear...

Would line up with the responses that he's giving back.

We also put a blindfold on so that there's no

environmental, sensory influence about what

that conversation is.

So that if we do get some compelling responses

back and forth, conversationally,

that is much more interesting than...

potential responses

that we thought we heard through a noisy feed.

It just said "Connor," it sounded like.

Do you know why we're here?

Do you know what we're trying to do?

What brought us here?

- "Do you know what brought us here?"...

"That's me, sir?"

Do you know who Terry R. Wriste is?

Do you know who David Christie is?

Mothman?

I can what?

I have a really important question.

Which might be why...

Careful?

I just clumsily sat down...

- It's like it's got a little bit of a delay on it.

- Sometimes it's just like a short delay.

Oh, shit.

Where... where is...

Where is the coyote?

- To the left? Or to the right?

Over here?

Thank you for the warning.

- Maybe there'll be a coyote tomorrow.

Some people call you a goblin.

Do you like that name?

Are you moving to the cave?

To the cave in the hills?

Are you going to meet us there?

Up in the Flatwoods?

I wasn't taking any of this...

into any sort of...

I couldn't... I had to take it all with a grain of salt.

Anything I was hearing. Because...

All I was trying to do was listen really closely.

And it's something that I have had a lot of practice with.

And something that I know that

a lot of people who watch the Method

and a lot of people who haven't done it themselves

will be skeptical of,

because I would be skeptical of it.

But I know what I heard.

And apparently I was narrating what was

going on, is what they told me

when I took the headphones off.

Which is intriguing.

And it seemed like whoever was there was...

letting us know that...

they're aware of us

and they were right there with us.

Can we talk more about this cave?

Can we talk about the reason that we're here?

Maybe you know more about it than we do.

You know who sent us here?

My camera batteries just died.

Really?

- Did you hear that thump? - Yes.

I'm gonna go grab a fresh one.

He did open the door.

Are we going to find what we're looking for?

While we're here?

Leave it alone?

We can't leave it alone. We were brought here.

Horrible noise.

Why are we here?

We're here for a reason. Why are we here?

Did you bring us here?

Did you want us here?

Do you know anything about the Ink and the Black?

Pattern?

Is there a pattern...

we're missing?

I'm ready. I want to know.

Do we need to use the cipher?

I'm ready.

I am listening to a lot of stuff right now...

Yeah!

I just got cold.

It is cold.

What is... what are you curious about?

We're so ready.