28 Days Haunted

Once we go in here, we're never going to be the same.

Look at the cabinets!

Oh, man, I don't feel too good right now.

This feels like a warning.

- Something's happening, dude. - What was that?

Guys, this is gonna get real.

What was that?

Did you hear that? I just saw a full-out shadow.

Is somebody out there?

That is moving on its ******* own.

Destroy them! Vanquish them!

Jereme! Are you hearing that?

Do not let me stop!

I just saw something come into the room. It flew right here into the middle.

It's like all I have to do is just keep putting my brave face on.

I'm tapping out. I'm done.

- You good? - I saw her death.

Get her.

He said, "Get her."

-What the ****? -

-You all right? -No!

Oh, my God! This is not a ******* joke.

- What the hell was that? - Jesus.

Oh, shit!

Off of me!

Guys!

Goddamn it! You stay back!

Ed and Lorraine Warren

are the most famous paranormal investigators in history.

Some of their 10,000 cases

were adapted into the biggest horror movies of all time.

When the Warrens looked at the body of their work,

they discovered that in their cases,

it took 28 days to fully pierce the veil between the living and the dead.

They called it the 28-day cycle,

and they wanted to see if this potentially groundbreaking discovery

held true with other investigators.

But the Warrens passed before they could prove it.

So their paranormal research society, NESPR,

now run by their son-in-law, Tony Spera,

is ready to put the 28-day cycle to the test.

Three teams of investigators will spend the next 28 days

in some of America's most haunted, but rarely investigated, locations.

They'll be monitored at all times.

And since the Warrens believed isolation was a key to the cycle,

the teams won't have any contact to the outside

or prior knowledge about where they'll be staying.

If the cycle can be proven…

-Jereme! -Brandy, get down there!

Something's happening, dude.

…it will completely change the way future investigations are conducted.

-What the ****? I'm done. -Hold up.

The three teams, one in Denver, Colorado,

another in Madison, North Carolina…

and a third in Preston, Connecticut,

are each headed to their haunted locations.

These three places were chosen because of their dark histories

and increasingly aggressive hauntings.

If the investigators can find a way to persevere

and withstand the full 28 days,

it is believed the barrier between the living and dead

will become virtually non-existent,

and the secrets of the location will come flooding out.

I'm a little nervous, because I have no idea where we're going.

Not being able to see is kind of an added layer of stress for us.

I don't know about you guys.

It's strange, because it's actually-- I feel like they know we're coming.

NESPR's Tony Spera has investigated

thousands of his own cases,

but he's brought in paranormal expert and journalist Aaron Sagers

to witness the experiment and help set the protocols and methods of research.

When Tony called me about this, it was something I wanted to be a part of.

If we can prove the existence of this 28-day cycle, it'd be a game changer.

You simply could not conduct a paranormal investigation moving forward

without citing this experiment.

And it would have a profound impact on how we approach the paranormal.

Man.

There's, like, a really heavy feeling.

It's pulling my stomach, which usually indicates that there's a male that's here.

So pulling from your stomach, it means male?

-What about female? -My head.

It's definitely got a story to tell. I can feel that from out here.

Yeah.

Jereme, I think that we're in way more than what we bargained for.

I do feel like something very tragic has happened here. Yeah.

See, I was afraid of that.

I am definitely feeling a lot of energy right now.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

I keep getting a woman at the top of the stairs,

along with two little kids who keep giggling around the woman.

You've got to be kidding me right now.

- Oh, crap. - Oh, my God.

This is a dry goods store.

A lot of energy coming.

Wow.

The energy coming off this property is pretty intense.

There's an oppressive energy going on. I don't know what it is yet, but…

Whew!

Lead the way.

Wow.

Immediate energy. Do you feel it? Yeah, I definitely feel it.

Oh, my gosh. That's heavy.

-Ooh, my heart just started. -Yep.

Yeah, mine too.

All right, let's go upstairs. Check that out.

-God, I feel like-- - It's really bad here.

Soon as you get up the stairs, you feel it.

I can't shake it.

Paranormal investigators Shane Pittman and Ray Cozzi

have had decades of success connecting to spirits

using sensory deprivation equipment to mimic psychic abilities.

But Amy Parks is a natural sensitive.

She's helped thousands of families speak to their deceased loved ones,

and even aided in several police investigations.

My name is Shane Pittman. I'm a paranormal investigator.

I've been investigating strange and unusual claims for over 16 years.

Anything that cannot be readily explained with science, that's where I come in.

I left my wife and four kids in Georgia to be a part of this.

I've not been away from my family this long,

on top of not being able to communicate with them at all.

That is going to be very difficult.

But as a paranormal investigator, this is unprecedented.

Normally, you're invited to places, but it's for shorter periods of time.

But for 28 days, you never get an opportunity like this.

You see that? Light's flickering here already.

- Is it? - Yup.

My name is Ray Cozzi,

and I've been investigating professionally with Shane for over ten years.

Shane's a natural-born leader and a great wingman to have in any haunted location.

If I can survive this, it'd be the biggest accomplishment of my entire career.

I wanna prove to my wife and my five kids that this isn't just some hobby for me.

I take investigating the paranormal very seriously.

Look at that. It started flickering again.

-It's not flickering. -There's something about--

There it goes again.

My name's Amy Parks. I am a sensitive and a paranormal investigator.

A sensitive covers a broad range of things.

It's not just, "I can see dead people," or "I can read your future."

Like, I consider a sensitive more of an energy reader.

With my abilities as a sensitive, I am much more prone to spiritual attacks.

Being here for, you know, such a long period of time

and having potentially dark forces trying to overtake me,

I mean, that can be really dangerous.

I have no idea if I'm going to be able to last 28 days.

- - Wait, shh.

-Did you hear that thump? -I did.

It was like footsteps, wasn't it?

Yeah, but we were both doing this.

-But it wasn't here. -It was…

- - Listen.

Come here.

Inside your room.

Holy shit. It's a "click, click."

Like just something being hit.

That's creepy as shit.

I'm definitely 100% sure something happened here.

-Like, right here? - This area and over here,

because when I stand over here, the energy is heavier, so…

Are you feeling that?

I feel, like, something and like someone died here.

Like something traumatic happened here.

I'm getting a vision of a woman with blood dripping down her face.

As if she got hit but she had, like, blood coming down her face.

Recent hauntings at Lumber Baron Inn

have been rapidly increasing.

The ghosts of several women, distressed or sometimes disfigured,

are seen roaming the hallways of the second floor.

These upstairs rooms are where we need to start tonight's investigation.

-Oh, my God, you've got to be kidding me. -Holy shit. Are you shitting me right now?

Oh, my God. My heart just sank in my chest right now.

No way in hell.

Is this a funeral home?

They put us in a freaking funeral home.

Sensitive Brandy Miller and demonologist Jereme Leonard

have been exploring Madison Dry Goods

and have come upon an unusual feature on the property on the second floor:

a small display, commemorating the store's history from nearly a century ago

when it was the town's funeral parlor.

You want to check downstairs and see what's there?

Yeah.

My name is Jereme Leonard, and by day, I'm a professional firefighter.

By night, I am a demonologist.

A demonologist is someone who studies religious texts and theology

on the works of demonic activity,

and how that relates into the physical world.

There's a lot of activity that happens in here.

I feel a lot of items that are moved, shifted.

My name is Brandy Marie. I am a fifth-generation psychic medium.

It does go with my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother,

and then my great-great-grandmother.

And then my daughter is also a psychic medium.

The woman at the top of the stairs, she's following us around right now.

Participating in this experiment is very important to me,

but I do have to admit I'm really scared that it could be too much.

Dark energies are typically not what I mess with.

Jereme's more experienced in it, so I'm gonna rely on him to protect me.

There's the little kids.

These are the kids I saw when I was outside.

Something very tragic happened to these kids.

I think they were murdered.