Harland Manor

It's the entrance to the basement.

Oh God...

Ma'am?

Ma'am!

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

Shut up, please.

Yeah, but, Zeke, are we there yet?

- Are we there yet? - What?

Hey, Zeke, by the way,

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?

How's Harland Manor?

It's a dream.

I mean, I had goosebumps last night.

Here, I want you to check this out.

Now that you're all awake before we do walk through light.

White bound seen your cat, Miguel.

Look here when I pull the card away.

Oh yeah, right there.

Holy shit.

Was there anything down that hall?

No.

- Did you have to be running a sound test at the same time

on any of the Spirit Boxes?

Yeah, of course.

The WAV files are on the desktop,

I separated as much as I could.

Holy shit.

Damn, it's female, female for sure.

Yeah, I think so.

Whatever that is is back tomorrow night.

- This place, they must've seen some serious dysfunction.

Therefore, so will we.

We'll get on one for sure.

This is perfect finale episode, friends.

Great work, Zeke.

I'm just real fuckin' tired

or carsick from these assholes sticking me

with the back again.

You wanted to be one of the guys.

I'm the token girl for the show.

Yeah, you mean the pretty face and body.

So what's happening on the boyfriend?

I can't talk now,

I'm in a van with a bunch of smelly guys.

Got it.

Well call me tonight.

You need to have someone to talk to about all this.

Sounds good.

Love you, Jax.

Love you

All right so, are we there yet?

We are there.

There it is.

Holy shit.

This must've been beautiful.

- And at one point it was, that was a long time ago.

- Can you start by telling us a little history

about the place, specific timeline, that sort of thing?

- The manor itself was built in the early 20th Century

in 1917 to be specific.

Original railing was a Samuel Harland, psychologist,

a surgeon.

And the mayor was a boarding school for wayward girls.

24 Samuel died of consumption oddly,

after being a Tito for most of his life,

the school then went to his younger brother, Thomas,

who was a physician.

And he kept the school running?

- He did, but Thomas Harland was of questionable ethics.

He expanded his horizons on his long-term vision

to own his own hospital,

specifically for women with medical and mental conditions.

It's admirable, I suppose.

Thomas also perform abortions.

Abortions?

Yes.

It had to be kept quite secret back in the day

as you can imagine.

His true vision was to construct

a medical wing onto the original manor

that was to be used for women's solely.

A women's hospital.

- That's right now he treat their psychological,

and physical needs, like I said.

Thomas began to raise money

to build the hospital, but didn't get enough.

'Til one day, a private investor, well-to-do gentlemen known

in public and social circles fell into his lap.

After five long summers, he laid the final brick in '41.

Do you know the name of the donor?

It was an anonymous type.

It was never revealed,

but as it turns out he had a mistress who had fallen

into a delicate situation.

Pregnant.

Yes, that's right.

He was married and he needed his mistress

to have an abortion secretly here,

so the story goes.

- No wonder he wanted his name kept in the shadows.

And that's why he put up the money,

a favor to the man who saved his marriage.

Or blackmail, whatever feeds the beast.

Oh indeed, Thomas actually treated a lot of young girls

looking for all sorts of conditions on the upper floors,

but he didn't stop doing abortions.

He just moved those to the basement.

And then down there he continued

to solve rich white men's indiscretions.

- Indiscretions, that's a polite way of putting in.

They named the room "The Abortion Ward."

I mean abortions...

I mean, even though there were kept secret

in that time of American history, from what I've read,

they were quite common.

And working with when would happen,

just in fear of losing their jobs.

- I've heard of places like this in the South.

They called them "birth control clubs."

It was more like a back alley.

There were lots of reasons back then

in Vienna on what mother came to watch.

So I have to say not much has changed.

It was a booming business.

Dr. Thomas and Nurse Adelaide, who also was his wife,

conducted the operations though.

In those days, men were botched,

not bled death on the table.

Excuse me for a second.

- What's wrong? - Are you okay?

It's important to tell us everything, please.

- It's just a horrible story about Thomas and Adelaide.

It gets worse?

They were monsters.

The more money came in, the more evil they became.

Well what'd they do?

- Documented an encounter of a 15 year old girl

being brought in by his father for observation.

After a few months,

they realized that she was pregnant.

Originally, they believed it was the uncle's.

Her uncle?

Yes.

The girl swore that the baby wasn't her uncles,

but she said the baby was...

Was what?

- She said the baby was sent to her from somewhere else.

Dr. Thomas and Nurse Adelaide scheduled her for an abortion

like they promised her father,

but apparently the girl got a hold of a scalpel and

as they were getting ready to strap her down,

she stabbed Adelaide to death.

Where?

The basement.

A little girl, people said she was just by Satan himself.

Running through the hallways covered in blood,

slicing anything that got in her away.

What was her name?

Sarah Garrett.

Thomas found her in the hall in a closet,

same closet they used to put the troubled girls,

it was kind of a punishment.

Must be quite the closet.

He injected her with a lethal dose

of arsenic straight into her veins right there.

Then he shut the door and walked away.

She died a horrible death.

They say he then came back

and took the body down the basement and...

And got rid of it.

And her unborn child.

- Turns out Thomas was sexually abusing a share

of the young girls in his care and he'd killed a few

so they wouldn't talk.

Most of them didn't have any parents to speak of.

He could do whatever he wanted.

They got pregnant by him, now he aborted it himself.

Thankfully, after all that, the law came down

on him and his whole operation.

They were closing in on him, he committed suicide,

just shy of a 60th birthday,

hung himself before they can get him.

Got off easy.

Fuckin' A he did.

- The city came in and shut the place down in 1955.

It went up for auction.

Damn, that's quite the story.

He was a psychopath and she was just as sick.

There is a lot of pain in here.

What happened after the auction?

Well, for the next 20 years or so

numerous people have owned it,

but none longer than a year.

To come to the disturbances,

some wanted to tear down the hospital and use the land.

Others wanted to renovate it and reuse it as a clinic.

None stuck around long enough to do neither.

- So how did you come to be the owner of the place?