Ghost Adventures "Beneath the Bonanza"

                                                 
Another return to Virginia City, Nevada and this time the Bonanza saloon.  Where Zak has a dance and makes Jasmine's day as she meets him there on her birthday.  She'll treasure this episode! The building is 180 years old and the building contains 'The Suicide Table'.  Vince owned the place since 2014 and is the fourth owner.  The previous three all killed themselves.  There was blast at the saloon but the table was saved.  Three card players lost their land, property and committed suicide at the table.  They didn't need to be so graphic in their reconstruction of the deaths at the table especially considering lots of younger viewers watch the show and there was no warning.  At least there wasn't on the uploaded version, not sure about TV.  Readings soar from the Geophone and the EMF.  The residual energy doesn't necessarily have to be from the three previous owners.

Doug mentions the activity in the basement where one of the women felt groped and the other one passed out and needed to be resusitated.  She had a moment as Doug describes it where she was "technically dead."  Zak automatically assuming it could be a demon.  Aaron and Billy enter the basement cos he doesn't want to go in first and the Geophone lights up blue and stops on cue when Billy asks it to.  Heard a woman scream don't know if it came through the device, which Zak says was an EVP or was actually in the building.  Zak finds out about a prostitute named Julia Bulette.  She was murdered near the saloon.  John Millian was accused of her murder but he denied it and only admitted stealing her jewels.  They still hanged him.  Still wonder why people have problems with 'hanged' and 'hang'. Objects are hung, people are hanged!

Heading to the Silver Queen Hotel and speaking with Connie.  He has a go at the shooting machine and gets a turn for $1 instead of $2.  Th miners were in awe with Julia as were the firemen.  They even gave her a fire helmet and a shirt.  Connie thinks that John did kill her.  It could be his spirit affecting women but they didn't make an effort to get to the bottom of this murder mystery throughout the investigation, so much for wanting to know who is haunting there.  Plenty of cold pockets, some orbs/light anomalies and Zak being out of it as if he was taken over and being threatening towards Billy, telling him "to stop doing it.".  Even thinking of killing him at one point.  Aaron thinks he twisted his ankle.  Later they get a voice coming through saying "ankle."  Telling the spirit to get out of him.

Using the Direct Link device to communicate.  When he asks "who is affecting you?" that faint voice sounds like "get out" or "up" but it's not clear.  Aaron asks if Julia is here.  I hear "in this spot" not "he's coming."  When he asks "who's coming" I hear "John." 
Zak: "Did you kill Julia?"
Answer: "Did."
"Who's coming for us?"
Answer: "listen."

The first time Aaron uses the Direct Link a male voice says "ankle." (See above.)  When Aaron feels touched a voice says "take Aaron."  When he asks who touched his back, I don't hear a laugh though it could be but it sounds like "touch my back." 
"Two" in response to how many spirits are here? 

Billy uses the Ovilus 5 and asks the spirit to draw a line towards the lights, a cross is drawn and the line is already begun before he asks.  He asks if it's Julia and the line continues to the green in response to "true."  Jay investigates with Billy and he felt comfortable in the shed but Aaron didn't want to stay with him.  How could it be poltergeist energy, could be anything like a spirit when the knock is heard. When Billy opens the Ovilus it says "bang."  Were the unexplained two bangs gunshots??  Billy's back begins to hurt and the Ovilus says "murder."  Tapping is heard outside the door where Billy is.  At the suicide table he uses the Polterpod and gets "Jesus rising."
Zak says the spiral of cold air will envelop and enter you if you don't move.  He challenges anyone to come and investigate.  Could've done the investigation they intended to conduct as well as the murder.

Belgravia Episode 5

                                                
Things were hotting up this episode as everyone was trying to hide secrets, find them out, stop a wedding, reveal the truth. John (Adam James) gets Turton (Paul Ritter) to search James's office at home and he does whilst all are at dinner.  Under the pretense of searching for a particular vintage of wine which he says they're out of.  He claims his twenty quid but keeps back the details of the clergyman Pope.  Asking for another £20.  Well more fool John for tipping them in pennies when they would rise to the occasion and want more.  He finds out how James was interested in Charles (Jack Bardoe) from an early age, wasn't that well known anyway.  He visits his widow and says that he is here on behalf of Charles.  However he gives himself away as he didn't know that the clergyman passed away last year since Charles would've told him.  She tells him to leave and says she will write to James (Philip Glenister) about his intrusion.

As Lady Brockenhurst (Harriet Walter) Maria (Ella Purnell) and Anne (Tamsin Greig) plan another visit to Charles's office, they are surprised with the arrival of Lady Templemore (Tara Fitzgerald) already seated as she found a note to Lady Brockenhurst from Maria.  She tells Templemore that Maria makes a good companion.  When Anne arrives she wants Maria to leave but she refuses so she changes her mind too.  However Lady Brockenhurst insists she leaves and will have her escorted out.  Maria is in dire straits as she doesn't want to marry John and her mother is planning the wedding and has made an announcement in The Times, which everyone has read.  Later Lady Brockenhurst decides that they should break the news to Charles and to society and he will be accepted and have a better life.  Which Anne will have to discuss with James first.  And Sophia will be forgotten conveniently.  So how can they keep his mother from Charles that would be cruel. 

This followed on from Oliver (Richard Goulding) travelling to Manchester and going to the cotton mill to get info on Charles and a loom worker notices his interest when he asks if the workers are all happy here.  What kind of a cotton mill was that, no dust flying around.  Heck they're dirtier than that.  Think North and South and all the ailments workers suffered from by breathing it all in.  Oliver meets with another two men who tell him that Charles was underhand in the way he purchased the mill from a widow, who broke down and was coerced into selling.  Especially since they were going to buy it.  Obviously they're making this up and Oliver has them write letters so he can show his father.

When Oliver returns James isn't impressed by this and makes his own inquiries.  He asks Charles who doesn't deny anything and he later tells Maria that he didn't want to get in between a father and son and make things worse for them.  She doesn't believe he is capable of such behaviour and neither does Anne and Lady Brockenhurst.  He meets Maria at the bookstore as she sends him a note telling him her mother is sending her to Northumberland so she can make plans for the wedding in December.  Maria hates the very thought of this and everyone knows how much Charles loves Maria and approve of the match.  Anne also tells James about Lady Brockenhurst's idea to reveal Charles's true identity.  That would mean they could never see their grandson again, which is unbearable for them.  Oliver and James argue at the club and he renounces any association with his father with everyone listening to him.  Also Susan (Alice Eve) is piqued and doesn't eat breakfast.  Telling Anne she doesn't know why Oliver has gone to Manchester, again would've thought that would've been apparent.  But still no one got the note it seems.

Anne questions after she receives a note from Jane (Rebecca Callard) Sophia's maid telling her that Ellis (Saskia Reeves) was asking about Charles and she isn't too pleased about that.  As well as questioning her about the fan and why she didn't come to her.  She replies she misplaced it and thought Anne had left it behind and was asking about the hair style for her.  Which Anne states she would've recalled but she tries to make Anne absent minded.  She's far from it but does let ii slide.  Jane has letters from Sophia and other documents which Ellis manages to get from her bag after she sends her on a tour of London.  However she gets Turton to make copies since the actual letters will be missed and they'd know it was her who took them.  She delivers the copies to John but only for him to tell her he wants the originals.  But she's too late as Jane has already shown them to Anne.  Including Sophia's marriage certificate and a letter she kept of hers since she didn't think it her place to burn anything, as Sophia had asked.  John's promise of giving them a £1,00 made her run like the wind!! Ha.

John knows who Charles is now and this puts his inheritance in further jeopardy as he tells this to his father.  As well as discovering who this Captain Brodsworth (Stevee Davies) was.  Surprise, surprise he was an actual clergyman and although he joined the army he could still marry people.  Thus their marriage was legitimate.  So how come Lord Bellasis didn't know this, when he used it just to get his way with Sophia, or did he?  Also Rev Bellasis (James Fleet) begs Lady Brocklehurst for money but she gives him nothing and threatens to change the financial situation straightaway if he asks for any again.

As Maria and Charles show up at Lady Brockenhurst's who is throwing a tea party, attended by Lady Templemore too, she confronts Charles saying they won't be together.  Lady Brockenhurst confides in Maria about who Charles is as long as she doesn't say anything to him yet, but he will be informed soon enough.  SO my only gripe with this ep is how none of them thought to make enquiries of Brodsworth!!  Why would they not find out everything about him, especially since they adopted Charles out to a clergyman too!  Seems some of this was just pieced together last minute, even though it was adapted from the book.  You know those add-ons they do, since they tried to hide everything, why not seek out this Brodsworth to find out what he knows and whether he would spill the beans.

Ghost Adventures 'The Chinatown Poltergeist'

                                                 
Chinatown, off the Las Vegas Strip where a poltergeist was reported at the The Golden Tiki bar.  Artefacts, various shrunken heads, not real and other objects are housed. On 14th January 1995 four masked people came into the bar with menace and shot people.  Three were shot and one was in critical condition.  The bar boasts poltergeist activity where the shooting took place.  When Brandon saw the ashtray move across the table, Zak didn't ask if Brandon, the owner, was just filming or if it happened more than once, cos really who would video an ashtray; unless he was aware of this happening before.  Using the EMF which increases in activity when placed near the ashtray.  The glass was also shattered on the entire table which is shown from the CCTV camera.  However it wasn't that clear when played back.

The booths location is where the robbers shot the people.  The glass was tempered.  A sword is stored there and the machetes removed heads in rituals.  A medicine bag used by shaman is also stored there.  The EMF spikes when he holds it near the bag.  Vinnie Paul passed and his fake shrunken head is there.  (From Pantera and he was at the bar the night before he died.)  Brandon speaks to the shrunken heads when he walks past them after being pushed in the back violently once.  Peter talks about seeing a small girl in the bathroom and he heard a girl laughing and he saw her legs under the door.   Zak unveils his shrunken head at the bar and before the lockdown he is worried about what activity that will cause.  Well I tell ya that shrunken head is not the true size of his ego.  Ha!

Brandon says how something followed him home from here looking like a misty, flowing spectre.  His son started sleepwalking and his wife found him in the hallway.  He said he also saw it at the bar during the interview yesterday.  They speak with Marcia on the phone who was at the table when it smashed.  She felt uncomfortable and the energy changed.  When they are talking to her, something falls to the floor and turns out it's an ashtray.  The Geophone gives off various EMF readings.  Marcia tells them about the flickering lights at her house simultaneously.

During the investiagtion Zak conducts an EVP session.  Nothing is captured.  They hear footsteps on the ceiling where Peter said he heard the same.  As well as catching a black mist.  How come they didn't find anymore information about the shooting from further research.  They hear a whistling sound.  Zak feels something in front of him and then he captures an anomaly from the bar stool heading to the bar.  Aaron uses the spirit box and asks how many spirits are in the bar (yeah of the bottled variety! ha)."A lot of them" could also sound like "eleven."

Aaron: "Who runs this bar"
"He knew it."  Before the male voice comes through a female can be heard under it saying "me."??  Was this in relation to the murders??  Did the owner know about it, knew the masked robbers, did he orchestrate it??
A female spirit comes through on the spirit box and says "talkin' about shit."  I heard it first time!! No really that's what she says!!  A reference to the girl in the loo, well not really.  Or in reference to what they were saying and was coming through.  At that moment Zak feels unbalanced.  Jay doesn't get anything in the bar or the pirate area so didn't get featured much.  The male voice on the recorder sounds like "get the f**king hell out." 

One of the walkie-talkies had been left in the booth and a voice comes through, saying "shoot 'em dead Arlo!"  Or "it's the dead Harlow."
 It's so clear and the seat is also pulled out.  Could someone be trying to hide back there during the shooting fearing for their life??!!  If it was paranormal. When the recorder is played a female voice is heard.  "I come here all the time."  Well I would say the voices had something do with the robbery and shootings at the bar before, when it was the Marker Bar.  But I couldn't find anything about it.  Need a library in Las Vegas for research.
The static device goes off when Aaron asks about the sword.

Belgravia Episode 4

                                             
Another ep which just seemed to be an extension of the last without much really happening.  John (Adam James) just bribing servants for info on Charles (Jack Bardoe) and Turton (Paul Ritter) milking it for all he can get and saying the same to Ellis (Saskia Reeves) even if they have to make things up.  The real stunner was how Anne (Tamsin Greig) didn't get why Ellis went to the Brockehhurst house in search of a fan she'd allegedly lost, when she had the fan with her.  Why would she even trust the servants even if they have been there that long.  It's a wonder the secret was kept so long.  Thought Lady Brockenhurst (Harriet Walter) would've been on the ball with that, but apparently not.  Nope, they head off to Glanville with Oliver (Richard Goulding) Ellis, Turton and Susan (Alice Eve) and still take their problems with them.  Even Oliver still harping on about Charles and why James (Philip Glenister) treats him better than his own son.

Anne even letting it slip to Susan that James knows Charles from before, then quickly adding he knew his father.  Anne thinks Susan would be suited to Glanville and even if she can't bring Speer (Bronagh Gallagher) with her, but instead she could "always get another maid."  Which is what John hears and tells Susan as much.  As predicted Susan is likely pregnant, with Speer saying she should 'get it on' with Oliver quick smart so that no one suspects her affair.  Again Susan trusting Speer when she can get everything she wants from her too via blackmail.  Servants running around betraying their employers for a penny was all too tedious.  As Turton tells John he wants £20 for the info since betraying his master is still "a treasonable offence," even though hanging has been abolished.

Ellis wanting advice on how the maid, Jane (Rebecca Callard) did Lady Brockenhurst's hair at the party as a ruse to try and get her to betray secrets too was a bit stupid on her part.  But Jane cottoned on too late to what she was prying out of her and after Ellis had spoken of knowing Lord Bellasis in Belgium.  Ellis not having seen Charles yet wouldn't have noticed the resemblance of him with Lord Bellasis's portrait painted by Lady Brockenhurst.  Although she has seen Lord Bellasis at the parties.  Let's wait for that penny to drop (whilst she's still getting paid pennies ha!)  Ellis does have notions above her station as I said in ep 1, as she tells the footman she's as good as they are and even any royal.

Maria (Ella Purnell) admits her affection for Charles going sa far as calling him her "lover" and her mother, Lady Templemore (Tara Fitzgerald) is adamant she should marry John as she married her father and they didn't even have a chance to meet.  Maria goes to Charles's office with Lady Brockenhurst and Anne, who invites herself and they chat more about cotton and India.  He wants to get cotton from somewhere that doesn't have slaves as in the US and they both think that's very amiable.  (Though colonization doesn't factor into slavery - that's another story 'ey.)  Anne and Lady Brockenhurst both see Maria as a perfect match for Charles. John pops up too after Susan tells him of this meeting as does Ellis, and doesn't get much out of the trip.  No one is suspicious of how these little things keep happening and just let it continue, with John constantly popping up everywhere.  Especially as they don't have much going on their lives. The Tranchard's still arguing in front of the servants, you'd think there'd be other places for such things, gossip and idle chit chat should be the order of dinner, but nah. 

Lady Templemore finds Maria gave her chaperone the slip and ends up in the park where she sees Charles leaving and asks who he was.  Then Maria putting her foot down and saying she won't marry John and she can't force her to do so.  To which she replies, she'll see what she can do.  What lock her up.  Shades of Sanditon creeping in here.  John's mother telling him where she's hiding what remains of the family silver.  If she doesn't know what a charlatan her son is by now, I don't know what else to say.  You know like father, like son.  Who doesn't get a loan from the loan shark since he won't see a return on his investment for many years and the extortionate interest he charges.  Thus the Rev (James Fleet) gets a little help from his brother the Earl (Tom Wilkinson) though I don't know why he bothered after they attend church and see him giving a sermon on behalf of someone who's been taken ill.  He looked like a laughing stock.  The Rev doesn't tell John about it though.  He's likely going to gamble that money away too.

Ghost Adventures 21.5 "Haunted Hollow Forest"

                                                  
Another one of those creepy Hallowe'en attractions in West Haven, Utah where their investigation took them more to the forest surrounding the attraction than the attraction itself, though they did investigate the church, leaving Aaron there and the towering building and cave with Jay.  Travis told Zak about the grey man, a tall figure.  The land was part of the Ute tribe where untold horrors were carried out, including the Shaman cursing people.  As well as all the energy from the river.  The land being affected by tractors and digging as well after having to put in a levy due to flooding.  Vincent told him about finding little bags from rituals and being affected by whatever is on the land.  He had red marks on his neck after investigating as if something had put its hands around his neck.  They also encountered the grey man, 7-8' tall.  Leaving them unable to move.

Zak asks Billy to move the bag, why didn't he do it himself.  Billy refuses to touch it and then touches it suddenly and then he tries to hand it to Aaron and put it on him.  He then runs away with it and puts it in a part of the forest near the river where they come across it again during the night.  Why not just use a stick and just bury it, instead of leaving it lying around.  Later Billy and Aaron investigate the land and take Polaroids.  Scott, security, tells them of how people were paralyzed.  Zak gives an exposition on land and nature.  Aaron is also affected as he is "zoned out."  The Polaroid shows three light anomalies or energy and Zak goes into his trinity stuff again.  None of the markings appeared in any of the photos.  The one on the right looks like a cloaked figure with a head and raised arms.  And if you squint you may possibly make out a female head, but maybe that'd be too much.
Had the feeling could they be some sort of spirits surrounding Billy from his earlier encounter, what about guardian angels.  Or some spirits from the Ute tribe.  As they don't appear to be menacing, even if there are three??

 

During the investigation, Aaron's ear is affected as Zak says the same happened to him earlier on when interviewing Travis, his hearing was lost in his left ear.  Where have we seen weird forests before and activity with lights, Hoia Baciu in Romania in the Transylvania Special.  As well as the Golden Ghost Town investigation.  That's the one where Zak had that creepy grin on his face that didn't even look like him! (See below).

Jay investigates the attraction where a woman named Veronica has been seen.  He hears knocking and catches a light anomaly.  At 26.09 sounds like a woman screaming or wailing, unless it's wind.  When he investigates the forest, he too films lights which can be debunked as unusual activity since there are no lights in the middle of the forest.  Zak catches thermal anomaly in the woods and hear noises, Aaron hears drums, I didn't.  When they investigate an old structure Zak feels rushed upon from behind and catches heat anomaly on the camera.  SO it came from behind him and instead of running forward, he runs backwards to where it would have been!  One sound described as a pig.  Aaron feels touched.  In the chapel Aaron is left alone and freaks out as he hears walking.

The EVPs first voice: "I'm with you"
Second voice: "can you do that??"  Also sounds like a muffled breath afterwards.  But to catch the voices of children.  Could they be residual?? and I'm not going to go into the 'are they even children' question.

Zak zones out too where Aaron felt the same.  Jay shows him the same lights he captured.  When they play the voices at the end it sounds like the second voice is an echo of the first and something like "I was here..."  Which is completely different to what I said it was from earlier on.  Maybe I'm getting zoned out too! But I'm going with this now!  Ha.

Billy on Twitter said he wanted to move the bag but when he grabbed it he felt aggressive thoughts and wanted it gone completely.

Belgravia Episode 3

                                             
More fall out from Lady Brockenhurst (Harriet Walter) displaying Charles (Jack Bardoe) in public from the party as everyone is bringing it up.  Including Oliver (Richard Goulding) who is really at a miss as to why James (Philip Glenister) is taking so much interest in him too, instead of his own son.  If only he knew he is his nephew he wouldn't feel that way and Anne (Tamsin Greig) really wanted to tell him when he complained about wanting to be a part of the Cubbitt project and not wanting to do it at the same time.  Well it appears Oliver found out James had been accepted by the gent's club but Anne didn't know.  So how did Oliver find out already, unless he was just told that he was lunching there if he visited James at work. 

Lady Brockenhurst goes ahead with her investment, which James regrets as he should've invested in Charles's venture fully so she wouldn't be involved.  Even admitting to Anne that he wanted to tell Charles who he is and that this news should come from him, his grandfather.  Anne stressing they gave him up for this reason and they can't do that now.  Better they should as it will be out soon and then they will be treated with even more contempt and Sophia will indeed be called "a slut" as they keep stressing every ep!  However it appears that John (Adam James) is well on his way to finding out who Charles is as he's intent on bribing the servants into garnering info from them about the Trenchard family secrets and as Anne stated they have many.  With James even giving something away when Ellis (Saskia Reeves) was 'hiding' by the bed.  Oh really Anne you should've sent her out sooner!  Betrayal and deceit for a penny!  Huh Downton servants would never have done this, except Thomas and O'Brien of course.  Ahh a bygone era of TV!

Susan (Alive Eve) finally has her trist with John - the bore, really what did she see in him.  Me thinks it's the jingle jangle of pennies too when he inherits.  That'll be a cold day in hell since Charles will get it all!!  A fitting comeuppance for that side of the family.  As his father, the Reverend (James Fleet) can't stop gambling and racking up debts, they've nothing left to sell and the house is mortgaged to the hilt.  As the Earl (Tom Wilkinson) rightly refuses to pay brother dear now't!  That's why they need to find out more about Charles and why Lady Brockenhurst is investing her coffers.  Since Susan has taken the plunge, how long is it since she becomes pregnant with John's baby after telling Anne she's tried everything and can't have children.  She was a gold digger if ever there was one! Clawing her way up into society probably seeing Oliver as someone she could manipulate and an easy mark.

Charles and Maria (Ella Purnell) take a stroll through the park as they head to different places but in  the same directions, much to the chagrin of her mother's maid acting as chaperone.  All goes well until Charles finds out she's engaged to John bore.  His face as though his heart had been cut out when she told him this but still insisted she would visit his office with Lady Brockenhurst.
Thought this episode dragged a little as all they really did was plenty of exposition on how unreliable the servants are with Speer (Bronagh Gallagher) being easily bought, as was Turton (Paul Ritter).  With Speer having notions of blackmailing Susan later with everything she knows.  Wonder if Ellis will follow suit, remains to be seen since she's disgruntled in her position and doesn't want to be in    service, but was on the ball when she said how women are "stitched up" in how little they can do in the world.

Julian Fellowes has plans for a series 2 in the works.

Ghost Adventures 21.5 "Goodwin Home Invasion"

                                          
This one was personal for the guys at they went back to Aaron's old house he sold to his father. Was gonna say his old haunt but didn't.  (Well I just did.)  As he is being haunted by two spirits at least, based on what visitors to the house have seen.  This included his friend, Rocky, who saw a girl on the cabinet in the kitchen without eyes or  mouth.  And she also touched his leg under the table.  As well as a woman in dark with long dark hair seen by Don's neighbour and some of Aaron's friends.  (Must've been the AG Appreciation Society or something cos those dudes were all bearded too!  Ha.) 

Aaron thinks he brought something back from an investigation and the same thought crossed my mind as he doesn't like to cleanse and just get through it how he can.  I would have liked some background on the house even if it was recently built.  How recent and were there any other owners, what the land was before etc.  Just general routine questions.  Aaron lived here during 2016 which he and Zak say was a dark time he was going through.  He was into many things but not the occult or anything dark.  Maybe it was from something he collected since he liked to bring objects back from the investigations.  They think maybe the witch from Rose Hall in Jamaica. That was in 2011 though.

On the SLS he captures a figure and it looked like it was dancing and then vanishes off the counter.  Zak's face when he says he was feeling sick before the figure appeared.  The Trifield meter moves but is not from the dishwasher or coffeemaker.  Bible phrases also makes the needle move.  They set up cameras when Don was sleeping and it looks like glowing eyes cos it seems like it has a body or something behind it too, especially as Billy said the SLS figure looked like it was on its fours at one point, like an animal.  Though the girl didn't have any eyes, could it have been the woman.  The EVP sounds more a male than a girl when it replies that is doesn't have any eyes.  "Nah."

Did they see anything in the Polaroids, didn't say so guess not.  But he later refers to them as spectrum photos, so?? where he catches another anomaly.  Aaron is drawn upstairs and to a room where he says he used to be afraid to go in.  Voice says "It's me...the figure."  Then an anomaly comes out of the box when the voice comes through again.  "I don't need ya;" is what I hear??  When Aaron says 'behind your back' to Billy, the voice says "Aaron Goodwin" kinda echoy, at the point where the writing on the screen says 'unexplained female voice.'  At 25 mins why does it look to me as though something dark is by the doors downstairs, are they doors or alcoves, when they show the picture in three parts.  Then they show the dark figure on the screen in the kitchen. 

Don returns and is emotional as well as feeling rage.  He thought he should come back and he never cries.  Zak loses energy in the downstairs bedroom.  A voice says "in here" on the recorder.  Then Aaron captures what they say is, "I don't believe you;" to me sounds "I don't belong here."  Since he says if it talks to them then they won't throw it out.  Jay and Billy cleanse the house.  Which Aaron said was okay now on Twitter, but will return if anything else happens.

Ghost Adventures 21.4 "Nightmare in Antelope"

                                           
Another episode focusing on an exorcism and how Leila and her family have been menaced and attacked by a dark entity, possibly demonic.  How she has been attacked in her home, as well as her daughters, Mary and  Mariah having bruises on arms and seeing a black mass in the corner of the room.  Calling on Zak to help.  His "utter" sounded like "udder".  He feels the darkness even before entering Leila's house.  This has followed her here from her old house and this means it was either possibly attached to her or some object.  He refers to "old hag syndrome" when something pushes down on your body.  She doesn't put much into the paranormal.  Eliseo, her husband had witnessed her hair being pulled and something pushing her.  She doesn't remember going into rage, as Zak feels the same later on in the investigation, even wanting to strangle Aaron at one point.  Her eyes have also turned black.  During the interview, the room turns cold and she has to leave.

Zak places a crucifix on the chair and has readings on the geophone, it turns warmer and a voice on the recorder: "nothing will help you."  The Polaroid photo reveals a demonic face with horns, which I saw immediately, especially since from far away it also resembled an upside down face.  Aaron catches "it's so cold" and "hate Bagans" on the spirit box.  Could also be "hate begins"??  Did anything happen to Jay or was it just them three who were affected.  Even Bishop Bryan says the photo looks like a demonic entity.  Leaving cameras behind, they find something goes into the foot of Eliseo and makes him shake.  As well as lots of banging sounds.  Then something in front of the bed, as it appears to fall in front of it from top to bottom under the sheets, which the Bishop says could be bilocation.  His foot movement explains the Bishop, happens when a person has a "demonic infestation but not yet exhibiting demonic oppression."  Leila has also kept objects from her ex's after he shot himself in front of her.

Leila is exorcised and Zak retrieves the box she has in her closet leading to the onslaught of a coughing fit. Inside are some form of ashes but they aren't her ex's.  They are burned in a religious fire and this is the closure that she needed.  He also takes a reading on the geophone and gets spiking outside.  As the box is opened, voices come through "it's found" and "discovered."  I hear "guess you can" when Billy asks if it's trying to make him sick.  Zak thinks she could have gotten a dark attachment when she witnessed her ex take his life.  Why would he even do that in front of her, was he possessed or affected in some way, especially having those ashes.

Belgravia Episode 2

                                         
Onslaught of lots of new characters this ep all lumped in together, some with prospects of extra marital affairs such as Susan (Alice Eve) and John (Adam James) what was the attraction there anyway.  Obviously Charles (Jack Bardoe) and Mariah (Ella Purnell)would hit it off and they come across as more suited to each other.  But with a pyriah of a mother in Lady Templemore (Tara Fitzgerald) looks like she'll pull for their marriage, don't know why since John won't be getting any inheritance by the time this show is done by the looks of things. 

Anne (Tamsin Greig) must regret telling Lady Brockenhiurst (Harriet Walter) about their grandson, it really wasn't the reaction Anne was expecting and she would not keep their secret, she's not that type of woman, she's an aristo and Anne confronting her about revealing the secret in public so her son will be vindicated and not seen as the cad he was, scheming at that and Sophia was the "slut" as Lady Brockenhrst says with relish.  Lots of secrets revealed here too as Anne learns how her husband, James (Philip Glenister) has been in touch with Charles and couldn't stay away from him, using business as a pretext to see him.  But why hide it, at least they could've spent time with him together.  Though he was right in Anne not telling Lady Brockenhurst a she didn't deserve to know with her reaction.  It is she who should be pitted with a son like Bellasis and not Sophia who would be shunned by society, eventually, but ya know, she was a woman and everything so...so men are never wrong and neither are their stuck up society mothers.

Lady Brockenhurst taking on the Duchess of Bedford's tea drinking ideas in her own home too.  As the Trenchard's are invited to the lavish dinner party after Lady Brockenhurst seeks out Charles under the pretext of wanting to invest in his business.  Yeah she knows plenty about cotton.  We get to meet Bellasis's father too, Earl Peregrine Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson) and his side of the family.  With his brother, Rev Stephen Bellasis (James Fleet) Reverand as he was the youngest and that was something to do.  As well as his overbearing nephew, John, who is the heir.  Hoping he'll be put in his place once they find out about Charles, who seems to be a decent bloke.  Also raised by a clergyman who was given a baby to raise with his wife as their own as they were a childless couple.  Although Charles does know about him being adopted.

More gossip downstairs too as Ellis (Saskia Reeves) thinks she could've been a housemaid by now and had staff under her, but really she seems to be wanting to stay in her position for gossip if nothing else, didn't come across as being out of loyalty.  As well as Brockenhurst's butler, Jenkins (Martin Bishop) knowing everything about the family.  Thus he would know what a cad Bellasis was too.  As Anne brings up another relative of the Brockenhurst family who did exactly the same thing and deceived a woman by pretending to marry her.  Again it's all hush hush and swept under the carpet less their name should be dragged through the mud.

Poor Anne seems to be forever needing to forgive her husband and no sooner does she do so she discovers another indiscretion or secret he's been harbouring and going behind her back.  She should have done as the doctor said and taken in Charles as their own, even if Sophia didn't want it that way.  As she bitterly regrets this now.  He was family and surely they could have made up some story about distant relatives.  Of course that's not how the story goes or there wouldn't be any drama.  Ella Purnell was last seen in Wildlike with Bruce Greenwood, by me at least.