Ghost Brothers

THERE'S A NEW TEAM OF PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS

HERE TO ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT GHOST HUNTING...

ARE GHOSTS FOR REAL...

AND...

WHY IS EVERYBODY WHITE?

QUIT PLAYING, MAN!

MY GOD.

IF YOU ARE HERE, PLEASE REVEAL YOURSELF.

I'M DALEN, THE LEADER OF THE GROUP.

WE'RE THREE BEST FRIENDS

WHO ALL HAD PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES AS KIDS.

NOW THAT WE'RE GROWN,

WE'RE NOT AFRAID TO LOOK FOR ANSWERS.

BRO. - I CAN SEE

WHY THEY SAY BLACK FOLKS DON'T DO THIS STUFF.

IT'S HOT, MAN.

YO, THIS IS NOT NO "MAGIC MIKE," DAWG.

I'M JUWAN, AND I'M A GHOST BROTHER.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH US WORKING TOGETHER?

AS EQUALS?

WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN EVERY HORROR MOVIE

WHEN A BROTHER'S BY HIMSELF.

MY NAME IS MARCUS, AND I'M A GHOST BROTHER.

TIME TO POP THE TRUNK ON THESE GHOSTS!

YOU ALL RIGHT?

IT'S JUST WIRES AND COBWEBS, HOMIE.

YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED ON THIS PROPERTY.

OUR MISSION IS TO HIT THE MOST HAUNTED LOCATIONS

IN AMERICA TO PROVE THAT GHOSTS ARE FOR REAL.

WE ARE...

...THE GHOST BROTHERS.

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

- WHAT'S GOING ON, BROTHER? - WHAT'S UP, FELLAS?

WHEN I'M NOT HUNTING GHOSTS, MY DAY JOB

JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE A BARBER.

AND DALEN AND JUWAN KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME

WHEN A NEW CASE POPS UP.

MAN, THIS ONE HERE...

...THIS ONE HAS A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, FELLAS.

- WORD. - YEAH, MAN.

- WHAT DO WE GOT? - THE MAGNOLIA PLANTATION

IN DAIRY, LOUISIANA.

THIS IS THE KICKER.

THE SLAVES, LIKE, THEY WERE PRACTICING VOODOO

TO, LIKE, PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE WHITE MASTERS.

- LIKE, VOODOO DOLLS AND STUFF? - VOODOO, BRO.

THE MAGNOLIA PLANTATION DATES BACK TO THE EARLY 1800s

WHEN IT WAS A COTTON FARM WITH OVER 100 SLAVES.

A RECENT EXCAVATION BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

UNEARTHED A BUNCH OF VOODOO ARTIFACTS

AROUND THE PROPERTY BURIED IN THE LATE 1800s

BY A CONJURER NAMED AUNT AGNES,

A FORMER SLAVE WHO LIVED IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS

UNTIL HER DEATH IN THE 1920s.

I'M BELIEVING THAT AUNT AGNES COULDN'T BE HAPPY

WITH SOMEBODY JUST, LIKE, DIGGING UP THE STUFF

THAT SHE SET TO PROTECT EVERYBODY WITH.

MY AUNTIE WOULDN'T BE HAPPY.

SHOOT, MY AUNTIE DON'T PLAY THEM GAMES.

EVER SINCE THEN, LIKE, IT'S BEEN, LIKE,

CRACKING ON THAT PLANTATION.

WORD.

THERE ARE A TON OF CLAIMS.

PEOPLE REPORT SEEING FULL-BODIED APPARITIONS,

SHADOWS AND HEARING WHISPERS

AND BANGING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT CLAIMS ON THIS PLANTATION, MAN.

- WORD. - I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY

REACH OUT TO THIS GUY NAMED JOE GIBBONS.

WE TALKED TO JOE,

A VISITOR TO THE PLANTATION

WHO HAD AN ENCOUNTER ON THE GROUNDS.

- WHAT? - WHAT?

AND HE'S GONNA MEET US AT THE PROPERTY.

YOU, TOO, JOE.

WE'LL ALSO MEET UP WITH ARCHAEOLOGIST KEN BROWN

AND FIND OUT IF HIS EXCAVATION OF THE PLANTATION

OPENED UP A PANDORA'S BOX TO THE PARANORMAL.

LOUISIANA, RIGHT?

- GOOD OL' LOUISIANA. - GOOD OL' LOUISIANA.

HEY, I WONDER IF WE CAN GET US SOME GUMBO.

YOU KNOW WE GETTING SOME GUMBO.

TIME TO START GHOSTING.

SO, WE'RE HEADED TO THE MAGNOLIA PLANTATION NOW

TO MEET DR. KEN BROWN, MAN,

THE ARCHAEOLOGIST THAT FOUND VOODOO ARTIFACTS.

THE ONLY REFERENCE I KNOW ABOUT VOODOO IS...

THAT'S HOW YOU CURE SYPHILIS.

- WHAT? - WAIT, HOLD UP A SECOND.

I GOT TO ASK, KEN, "HOW DO YOU CURE SYPHILIS?"

WAIT, WHAT?

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO ASK HIM THAT?

THAT'S LIKE EVERY DOCTOR NEEDS TO KNOW TO CURE SYPHILIS.

- ABSOLUTELY. - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING.

DON'T THINK DR. PHIL EXCLUDED.

**** MY GOD.

CLEARLY, WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT VOODOO,

BUT WE DO KNOW ABOUT GHOSTS.

AND I'M PRETTY SURE MESSING AROUND

WITH THEIR VOODOO ARTIFACTS

IS A DAMN GOOD WAY TO MAKE 'EM MAD.

YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME LIKE IN EGYPT WHEN, LIKE,

THESE ARCHAEOLOGISTS START OPENING UP THESE TOMBS AND STUFF

AND RELEASE ALL THESE SPIRITS.

THAT'S HOW -- THAT'S HOW "MUMMY RETURN" STARTED.

THAT'S EXACTLY HOW THAT MOVIE STARTED.

THEN THAT MESSED UP THE WHOLE EGYPT.

THAT WAS A WHOLE DEMON RELEASE.

I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THIS HOUSE.

THAT'S IT RIGHT THERE.

MY GOD.

LOOK AT THOSE QUARTERS.

I SMELL VOODOO IN THERE.

I SMELL IT IN THERE.

THIS PROPERTY GOES WAY BACK TO 1753

WHEN IT WAS PURCHASED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE LE COMTE

AND TURNED INTO A COTTON PLANTATION.

IN 1830, BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED ON THE PROPERTY

AND IT BECAME KNOWN AS MAGNOLIA PLANTATION,

WHERE HUNDREDS OF HIS SLAVE PEOPLE LABORED.

HAVING SURVIVED THE CIVIL WAR,

THE PLANTATION'S MAIN HOUSE,

OVERSEER'S HOME AND SLAVE QUARTERS

HAVE STOOD FOR GENERATIONS.

IF THE SPIRITS OF ANY OF ITS FORMER INHABITANTS

ARE TRAPPED HERE,

I GET THE FEELING THEY PROBABLY STILL AREN'T GETTING ALONG.

I'LL BE DAMNED IF I WALK THESE GROUNDS

BY MYSELF.

HEY, DR. BROWN. HOW'S IT GOING?

HEY. DR. BROWN.

- HOW YOU DOING? - HEY, HOW YOU DOING?

- NICE TO SEE YOU. - IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.

- HOW YOU DOING? - DOING FINE.

YOU'RE OUT HERE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS.

THEY WERE BUILT AROUND THE 1840s.

THIS IS THE ONE THAT YOU ACTUALLY FOUND THE ARTIFACTS IN?

THIS IS ONE OF THREE, BUT THIS IS THE MAIN ONE.

WE LITERALLY EXCAVATED BELOW

INTO THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CABIN.

THAT SOUTH ROOM WAS WHERE THE MIDWIFE WORKED,

AUNT AGNES. - OKAY.

AND SHE WAS ALSO A CONJURER.

SO, TO BE A CONJURER, DOES THAT FALL

UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF VOODOO OR...

YES. IT'S A RELIGION.

DR. BROWN TELLS US THAT AUNT AGNES

HELD A SPECIAL STATUS

AS A RELIGIOUS LEADER IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS.

THE VOODOO CONJURER MADE MEDICINES AND CHARMS

AND BURIED THEM FOR PROTECTION.

PARANORMAL CLAIMS IN AUNT AGNES' CABIN

INCLUDE SHADOW FIGURES AND WHISPERS.

WITH THE EXCAVATING YOU DID,

DO YOU THINK THAT MAY HAVE STIRRED UP SOME ACTIVITY?

IT COULD HAVE.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE HER SPIRIT IS STILL HERE?

THERE ARE TIMES I'VE FELT

LIKE JUST SOMEBODY WAS LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER,

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT A CONJURER DOES.

- OKAY. - SO...

OUR CAMERA LIGHTS START TO GO CRAZY

WHEN WE ASK IF AUNT AGNES IS STILL HERE.

THE AFRICAN AND...

IT'S AUNT AGNES.

AUNT AGNES IS PISSED OFF.

MAN, THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO

IS PISS OFF A VOODOO CONJURER

BEFORE WE EVEN START OUR INVESTIGATION,

SO WE'RE GONNA RESPECT THAT, GIVE HER SOME SPACE,

AND JUST TRY AGAIN TONIGHT.

MUCH OF THIS PROPERTY IS CARED FOR

BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.

SO, WE'RE MEETING UP WITH PARK RANGER DUSTIN...

WE ARE HERE.

...TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PLANTATION'S AREAS

AND CLAIMS.

THE BLACKSMITH OF A PLANTATION,

THEY WERE ALSO, SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS

IN THE COMMUNITY.

DUSTIN TELLS US THAT AT THE BLACKSMITH SHOP,

THERE ARE CLAIMS OF PEOPLE HEARING METAL BANGING

AND DISEMBODIED VOICES.

THE THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS ALL THE FOLKS THAT LIVED HERE.

THE LANGUAGE THEY WOULD'VE BEEN SPEAKING

WAS LOUISIANA FRENCH.

I'M GONNA SAY, "MY NAME IS DALEN," SO THAT'S...

MON NOM EST DALEN.

MON NOM EST DALEN.

EST CORRECT.

IF I WANT TO TALK TO MY WIFE,

HOW DO YOU SAY CHRISTINA IN -- IN...

HOW DO YOU SAY CHRISTINA IN FRENCH?

IS THAT -- IS THAT DUMB TO ASK?

OKAY. OKAY.

THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, IT'S LIKE IT WAS SOMETHING

THAT WAS BORN IN ME.

I CAN GET THIS ON ROSETTA STONE.

THAT WOULD BE COOL, RIGHT?

THAT WOULD BE COOL, MAN.