Dead Voices

And now, in a breaking story, two sisters,

Emily and Sara Rodriguez, were reported missing

while filming a documentary about spiritual mediums.

College administrators and local authorities

are combing through their social media pages

for clues as to their disappearance.

But at the moment, no one knows

what happened to the two sisters.

We reached out to Paul Shipman,

one of the mediums the girls interviewed.

Here's what he had to say.

How do you know Emily and Sara?

I first met Emily and Sara when they contacted me

to come over and do a reading in their house.

Can you describe what you do for a living?

Well, what I really do for a living

is I use my gift to help people.

Can you tell us about your gift?

Me seeing things,

it may be a gift, but it's also a curse.

And for me to convey my readings

to people and have them react,

whether it be positive or negative,

it's really the hardest part of what I do,

and I see a lot of tragedy.

All right, Lucas, you owe me one.

Hey, what are you doin'?

Just needed to go for a walk.

- You all right? - Mm-hmm.

What about you?

I'm good.

- Okay. - I'm good.

- Good. - I'm really good, actually.

Mm-hmm.

Wait, what are you doing?

Sara, this has been the best three years of my life.

What do you say?

Lucas.

You're always gonna be gone.

I'm always gonna be worried about you.

Oh, shit.

- What are you saying? - I can't.

I can't be a military wife.

It isn't me.

I'd be miserable.

I'm sorry.

All right.

Hi, I'm Emily.

This is my college final.

Dude, what the hell?

What are you doing?

The little intro.

You know how important this is to me.

Oh my god, okay.

Whatever.

Hey, I'm Emily.

And I'm her sister, Sara.

Emily's documentary project is about...

It's about spiritual mediums,

so I've titled it Dead Voices.

Not creepy at all.

Mediumship is the practice

of mediating communication between spirits

of the dead and of living people.

Practitioners are known as mediums.

I lost my ex-boyfriend Lucas

a little over a year ago to the war in Iraq.

He was in Special Forces.

Right, his body was never found, but his death was assumed

after other men in his platoon were found dead.

I wanna find out what happened to Lucas

by getting into contact with him or someone he was with.

Yeah, and I agreed to help as long as I get to film it.

We've been reaching out to try to find

a legit medium that can help us...

Yeah, we posted ads on the web,

social media, no luck so far.

Oh, oh, okay, that should be good for now.

Are you gonna quit cutting me off

or is this how it's gonna be for the whole shoot?

Cutting you off?

What do you mean?

I'm just finishing your sentence.

Shut up.

Okay, sisters' fun time over.

Okay.

Hey, um, you okay?

It's been kinda quiet.

Did you take your meds today?

Oh my god.

Get out of my room.

Mm, this explains a lot.

Gotta call Dr. Feelgood, oh my god.

I literally just ran out.

Don't keep tabs on me.

I can handle my stuff.

Yeah, we can all see that.

Why do you have the camera on?

Um, this project

is due in a week, Sara, okay?

The project is happening fast.

The camera stays on.

Shut up.

Well, I kinda wanted to do that, you know,

thing where we interview each other

and ask questions about things and bubble gum, cherry pop.

You're not listening at all, so what are you lookin' at?

Oh!

Okay, he kinda looks cool.

Yeah, I feel really good about him.

Okay, well, do you want me to call him?

Yeah, all his testimonials say

he's the best medium in California.

All right, we'll give him a shot,

but let's go on this first, yeah?

Yeah?

Okay, fine.

Okay, good.

All right, hey, so what do you want me to ask you?

Why my sister is an idiot.

Okay, dang.

Um, all right, why don't you talk

about Lucas a little bit more?

- Why? - I don't know.

Maybe because he is the reason we're doing the project.

You're right.

Yeah, I'm always pretty much right, so...

I think our government should

take better care of our troops.

I mean, how the hell do you lose someone's body like that?

Wow, straight for the jugular.

I should have taken better care of him, too.

Sometimes I wish I could go back.

I have to find out what happened to him.

You broke up with him for the right reasons.

I don't know if I did.

I think Taylor would disagree, strongly.

Holy shit, that must be him!

Coming!

Hi!

Hi, I'm Paul.

- Sara. - Is your mom or dad home?

Oh, we called you.

This is Emily.

Hi.

Wait a minute, are you recording this?

No, no, yeah, no, no, we're not, yeah.

Okay, well, then what's with the camera?

We're part-time models.

Hey guys, we are with the world-famous medium.

Understand, can we maybe just stop...

Oh, well, you should follow us.

Our handle's @deadvoicesmovie.

I just put you on our story.

Okay, you lost me at story, so.

Oh, sorry.

Okay, fine, whatever, can we begin?

Sure!

I must rest my eyes to connect to the other side.

In case anyone wants to follow.

I feel...

I feel a presence.

Sorry!

God, what did I miss?

Shh.

This, this presence

or figure,

it wants me to warn you both.

Do you understand?

No.

No.

He or she, it...

It keeps screaming, "Don't let them go.

"Don't let them go."

Do you understand?

We got no idea what you're talkin' about.

Are you okay?

Don't, don't, don't go, don't go!

- Hey! - Ah!

I need to leave.

What?

No, wait!

Uh.

Oh my god.

Okay, you know what?

That's the last time we're calling

someone off a random website.

What do you think he was talking about?

Come on, you don't think that guy was legit, do you?

Uh, what?

I almost pissed my pants 'cause of that.

Oh, please, that was

the most generic psychic show I've ever seen.

I don't know, I felt something.

Well, he's gone, so let's find someone else.

Em?

You're freaking kidding me?

Emily!

I'm gonna break your stupid camera.

Okay, hey, you ready?