Portals to Hell

Were we communicating with somebody earlier?

Can you do that again by setting off our equipment

or turning on a flashlight?

Hey! Are you **** kidding me?

- Man: My god. - Oh, my **** god.

is this place a portal to hell?

that's bones.

serious?

he believes that you're demonic...

...So this should really piss you off.

this is day one of our

iron island museum investigation

here in buffalo, new york,

I believe this place is called iron island

because it's totally surrounded by train tracks.

Yeah. So it's kind of like its own little island.

I'm kind of intrigued about this museum.

I think just because this building's had

so many different faces. Yeah, for sure.

The information that we have -- yeah.

It's, you know, built in the early 1880s,

then it was a church until about 1940.

Mm-hmm. And then it was a funeral home. Yeah.

And now it's a museum. It's had a few evolutions.

And the current owners, marge and linda,

have had some really weird experiences

since they've taken over.

It's a lot of residual stuff.

So you'd hear sounds.

there's been a lot of shadows being seen,

movement of objects like furniture.

Linda's mom, marge, is terrified.

She believes that there is a demonic presence there.

I guess she had a really harrowing experience...

- Mm-hmm. - ...Where she saw something.

And they've had other investigators

come in these last few years

that have also had negative experiences,

including people thinking that there's some portals there.

so let's go check out some portals.

Let's check it out.

snowy.

- Definitely a little different. - Yeah.

- From when it was built. - Yeah.

There are a lot of things that could be causing

the hauntings, from things

that have occurred in the building

to the fact that this place was a church,

it was a funeral parlor.

Like, it's had a lot of significant spiritual faces,

if you will.

So there's something to be said about that.

Let's do this.

it's ominous, though. That's the feeling.

That's that's what I'm vibing on right now.

- Hi. - I'm marge.

I'm jack. Nice to meet you, marge.

Nice to meet you. How you doing?

Hi, I'm linda. Hi. Jack. Nice to meet you.

- Hi. Katrina. - Come on in.

Thanks for coming out to iron island.

Oh, thanks for having us. Jack: Yeah.

well, we started a small storefront down the street

with the museum back in 1998,

and we just figured we'd have a neighborhood museum.

And then the funeral director who owned this funeral home

at the time liked what we were doing,

and he called me up out of the blue

and asked if we would accept the building.

He was going to donate it to us.

And I was like, wow, you know, no one does that.

- Yes, really. - So we moved down here

in August of 2000.

And so we've been here ever since.

And we promote the neighborhood, the railroad,

the military, everything that surrounds us.

And hauntings started happening to different people

that would come in, or different volunteers that would come in.

It took us almost like seven years

before we finally said something to each other. Hmm.

- Jack: Hmm. - Really?

- Yeah. - So you guys were all

having these experiences, but never talked

to each other about it. Exactly.

Do you think that some of these spirits are people who,

their bodies were here during -- that being a funeral home?

I do. We have the records of a lot of people

who were waked out of here.

A lot of them were children.

What is it that you guys have experienced

or other people have experienced

make you think that something negative is here?

Linda: The shadow man, and some dark voices

we picked up that tell us to get out.

One day I was in here, and I looked to my right.

There was a very tall figure of a man all in black.

And his eyes were like glowing coals.

I couldn't make out any other features on his face,

but just from his eyes I could tell he was angry.

I was quite frightened.

We've heard a lot of reports that there's portals here.

I remember there was a psychic here,

and they're the ones that said

there were two portals in this building.

What do you guys think it is?

What do you think is happening?

And why, ultimately?

Well, I was hoping you guys would tell us why.

linda: I do think if people come in here

with the wrong intentions, it brings out some negative

and dark that might be in here just hiding away someplace.

Katrina: So, like attracts like.

Attracts it. Exactly. That's my feeling. Okay.

So can we get a tour of the museum,

start feeling out the space? Linda: Okay.

when we first started thinking the building was haunted,

we had a group in here, they were down from toronto,

and there were two psychic women with them.

In this room, they kept telling us that there was

a little boy here who was six years old.

- Katrina: Yeah. - And his name is tommy.

So the original funeral director left an entire box of records

from people who died from 1958 to 1969.

We ended up finding a little boy named tommy

that had died at the age of six.

Oh, so you actually know who tommy is?

We know who tommy is. This is tommy.

And he was waked in this room in this communion outfit.

So we started calling this the kids' room

because they started picking up different things

with the children in here.

Why would they come here? Because they were waked here,

do you think, or... I think they come here

because they come here to play. Mm.

I think this is a place they feel comfortable and protected.

And, you know, a lot of people don't like

to talk about children that have passed away.

But my feeling is that they they, um,

they were living. Yeah.

And people need to know that they were around.

Yeah.

And if there is something dark here, evil here,

I certainly don't want it bothering the kids.

So is that kind of your main mission in all of this?

Yes. Oh, yes, definitely.

But another thing that happens in here,

there was a group of our friends who were in this room,

and they were investigating,

and there was a ball laying on the floor,

and the ball starts moving by itself.

No one's around it and it moves. Katrina: Hmm.

And we were able to pick it up on our surveillance camera.

- Oh, well. - So it's pretty cool.

I think we should go into the military room now

and talk about that. Okay. Okay, great.

when we took over the building,

there were 24 cremator remains left in the basement.

Hmm.

We wrote down the names and dates of death

and found there were seven veterans in our basement

and they are all displayed right here.

They were world war I, world war ii, vietnam. Jeez.

We have in the past picked up gunfire in this room.

- Interesting. - We've heard

marching around the chairs

like it's marches in a circle around you.

Another thing that has happened in this room,

we were here one night.

We had a friend come over

and we were sitting around in these chairs.

And she said to us, "the whole back of the room just lit up."

and none of us saw it. It was pitch black in here.

And we were like, "what do you mean, it lit up?"

she goes, "it just lit up."

so we went to our surveillance camera.

At the time she said that, you see a white blob.

so that was pretty cool. We do have that also.

- Okay. So, um... - Chapel room?

Want to go up to the chapel room? Let's go to the chapel.

marge: This is where I was kneeling

when I saw that little girl in the hallway.

She was right over there beyond the door.

I could make out her plaid skirt and her shoes and socks,

but I couldn't make out her features.

She had her hands behind her back.

I thought she had a knife or something behind her back

and was gonna come at me.

I thought she was gonna kill me.

Jack: Marge, I think, is gifted.

I think she has some kind of psychic ability,

mediumship, what have you,

because she seems to have had a great deal of experiences

witnessing full-body apparitions.

There was a very tall figure of a man, and his eyes