Doctor Who "The Power of the Doctor"

Cyberman invade a train though just where that futuristic train came from or where it was headed just appeared as a random plot point.  As the guards try to gun them down, they regenerate and are now "Cybermenmasters."  Obviously a big hint as to who had that influence on them.  The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) tries to help with Yaz (Mandip Gil) and Dan (John Bishop) who clings on for dear life after he almost zooms into space on that ladder.  She helps the people and fails to rescue a child they transport off the train.  Dan prepares for his date and as he's dropped off the TARDIS he says this is his last time on here.  He was lucky to escape with his life and the Doctor helped him put his life back together.  He wants to live it now and is ready for it.  His house is gone obviously so he's going to stay with his parents.  As Yaz says goodbye to him.

We get to see Ace (Sophie Aldred) and she gets a call from Tegan (Janet Fielding) telling her the Doctor's sent her a note and a mini-Russian doll figure.  Which doesn't resemble a Russian doll at all.  This is after Ace looks at the wall of the museum where a missing painting was hanging.  Gone for maintenance is what the assistant says.  Of course she knows there's more going on.  As well as there being fifteen missing seismologists.  Of course as everyone has said that would become topical with all that soup throwing and crap over paintings in museums.  Well the less said about that the better.  Here we see paintings like The Scream, Girl with a Pearl Earring, with the Master's face as Rasputin plastered all over it!  The Girl With the Pearl Earring was a veritable masterpiece here!  Ha.  

The Doctor chasing after the Cybermasters finds a planet: a cyber converted planet.  Where we saw a long haired figure being taken to the Tsarina at the Summer Palace in St Petersburg.  Him being Rasputin aka The Master (Sacha Dhawan).  Here on the planet she finds the Master's TARDIS ready to take the planet through time and space.  She finds it's hooked up to some energy form known as the Quoronx.  To which the child was chained.  She has to return to the TARDIS when the Cybermasters turn up.  The Doctor is then disturbed by a Dalek hologram, a Dalek betraying his own kind by telling her they plan on destroying the human race again and to meet somewhere for details on this.  Kate (Jemma Redgrave) also asks for help.  Where the Doctor is reunited with Tegan and Ace.  Tegan perturbed the Doctor didn't keep in touch and Ace having a falling out with her version.  Tegan having brought the mini-Russian doll with her.  

That's when they see the new images plastered all over the paintings.  The Master trying to be clever and catches the Doctor's attention.  As well as appearing at some seismology conference in Naples which is where she heads.  Here he's shrunk the audience again and he's arrested and taken back in the TARDIS to UNIT HQ.  Telling Yaz to keep a gun on him.  She likes the new HQ.  Then in conversation with Tegan and Ace, she places her hand on their shoulders and shocks them with a static charge.  She's off on the trail of the Daleks next and in true Thirteen fashion, we jump around from place to place where the action is happening practically all over the world.  

The Master has plans to escape obviously and getting caught and coming away with them was too easily orchestrated.  The little mini-doll is now regenerated as his shrinking process can be reversed and transforms into a Cyberman.  Ashad (Patrick O'Kane) and of course he's a Russian doll so soon enough there's a whole building full of Cybermen.  He releases the Master and shows no mercy in taking out the soldiers.  Letting the Master escape.  The Doctor and Yaz find out the Dalek's plan in Bolivia: to erupt all the volcanoes on Earth.  She gets to see the Dalek in person but it's caught by the others who already knew of its betrayal.  As they exterminate it and get the Doctor to sit in its shell; she signals to Yaz to go.  She takes the TARDIS and lands back on the planet where she rescues Vinder (Jacob Anderson).  

The Doctor is taken to St Petersburg where we see Rasputin Master and he wants to force a regeneration of the Doctor harnessing the energy of the planet.  But not before he does a dance rendition to Boney M's Rasputin.  With a harkback to the timely warning in Flux.  He transforms, regenerates into the Doctor, earring in all.  When did she get that then.  Yaz has to accompany him as he too wants a companion, dressed in the Doctor's clothes.  As he wants to ruin the Doctor's reputation everywhere.  But Yaz leaves him and flies away.  Getting out the Post Its from the book and placing them on the controls of the TARDIS on how to fly it.  She was taking notes then was she.

The Doctor gets to see her past selves, well not all, just One (David Bradley) Five (Peter Davison) Six (Colin Baker) Seven (Sylvester McCoy) Eight (Paul McGann).  Each one wearing a robe but Eight being an individual consciousness doesn't want to dress like that.  Telling her they're "at the edge..."  The Doctor appears as a hologram to Yaz and talks of how if she can see this it means she's no longer alive.  That's what the static shock was for as she implanted into them all.  Kate says she can level the building from the inside and Tegan and Ace need to leave by flying off the roof.  Tegan refuses to leave as it's her fault they're here.  Kate sends her to the basement to unplug the wires in the electrical interface as she'll act as a distraction.  Telling Ashad she has knowledge of everything.  He takes her to be converted and the Doctor appears to Tegan.  Finally being able to unplug the wires Kate is saved from her fate.  

Yaz along with Vinder take the Master back to St Petersburg and wants him to reverse the regeneration.  This he is tricked into doing as the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin) turns up and get him into the chamber where the Cybermaster's regenerative energy is transferred into the chamber and the Doctor returns.  The Daleks set their plan in motion and volcanoes erupt.  However Ace is on the case, as is Graham (Bradley Walsh).  How did he turn up and why he was there isn't really mentioned.  So he's still going round doing what he did with the Doctor.  Not explained at all.  Allowing Ace to set her bombs and destroy the Daleks.  The Doctor moves the cyberplanet to 2022 using the companions on each of the TARDIS consoles (as in Journey's End) and uses the cybermaster's metal to plug the lava flow.  As she repairs Vinder's ship and lets him fly home through the wormhole before it vanishes.  

Now freeing the Quornox energy the Master arrives to zap her with it thus sending her into another regeneration.  Yaz carries her back.  She eventually wakes and Yaz has dropped everyone off in Croydon.  As she begins ere regeneration, the Doctor asks if Yaz wants to go somewhere and have an ice cream, watching Earth with ice cream.  The best view where they have an emotional talk.  As the Doctor goes to regenerate alone and drops Yaz off back home.  She sees Graham and Dan with a map looking for a place.  Here it was Graham's idea to set up a group for companions to share their stories since no one else will believe them.  Attended by Kate, Tegan, Ace, Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford) Jo Grant/Jones (Katy Manning) Ian Chesterton (William Russell).

The centenary episode proved to be good in some aspects and very familiar in other ways.  But not in other ways as The Doctor had less to do this ep and being so easily carted off and captured by the Daleks, the Master.  Not much of her quipping or Sonic use for the last time.  The last time we see Jodi as the Doctor and we don't get to see her much.  She goes off and regenerates like a bright lighthouse and out pops Doctor Ten (David Tennant) who now becomes Doctor Fourteen.  Who can't quite believe it's him again.  If you watch on BBC iPlayer you don't get to see a clip of the forthcoming adventures cos they cut the end credits and start another show.  It was Pointless, all pointless I tell you!  Yeah the next show that begins. 

Ghost Adventures "Lost Souls of Kingman"

Zak et al cross the road and get onto a school bus.  Kingman, Arizona and they head back to school. Lee Williams High School built on top of pioneer ceremony which was a burial ground from 1900-1970 where 60 bodies were bulldozed and forgotten.  Human remains have been coming to the surface.  They're at the graveyard and park on top of it to pick up the students and the students would find and bring in the bones.  Zak has been waiting years to investigate this location.  The building is still in use and that's what he finds unique.  As the spirits of these lost souls who are angry and have taken over the school.  The library Scott Taylor, former student and principal of the school.  A coffin in the library which contains history of the cemetery.  That's the reason why they think its haunted.  A tuba was needed from the school and he could hear brass instruments.  When he left he couldn't hear it, inside he could hear it again.  He's a sceptic and he can't explain why the tuba was playing.

The gravestone commemorates the resting place of those whose graves were desecrated.  Including the Hualapai Tribe.  Then he takes them to the doors where he was leaving and he heard a girl's voice asking him to stay.  He admits he was scared.  Zak not missing out on the opportunity to rib him about being a sceptic not long ago in the library.  A faculty woman says she also had an experience in a spot under the stairs where the door closed and she asked for it to open back there.  The Kingman Superintendent of Schools was also affected.  The lights went out in the teacher's room bathroom.  The door wouldn't open.  Students speak of seeing a man in a bowler hat.  Molly and Reilly, Scott's twin daughters saw something in the locker room.  Heard the toilet flushing, toilet rolls moving and the door slammed on them.  A child's voice is heard in the bathroom.  Doesn't the voice sound like a door creaking.  Britney, another teacher tells them about Poltergeist activity when a chair moved and then it rolled back again.  During an organized stay of the school at night, she had another experience hearing a bloodcurdling scream, that of a small child.  

Known as the bowler hat man whom everyone has seen.  Is the spirit of Clement C Lee - hanged for gunning down his girlfriend in 1905.  Buried in the cemetery and their bodies are still underneath the school.  Zak says there are spirits everywhere where they're walking over someone's body.  They didn't have any identification of them.  Zak's jealous of the students as they attend school with spirits and that's "the history class that I wanted to go to."  Zak brings Scott back and plays back the EVPs they have caught.  Billy and Aaron went into the basement using the  ITC device, the Polterpod, and recorders.  Stating they got intelligent responses.  Zak loves teaching paranormal in the classroom.  Wasn't he asked several times about what he would do if he ever stopped investigating and maybe teach years ago.  

In the cage Aaron set two recorders, one voice activated.  Aaron asks who he is?  A response is heard "yeah."  The same voice was heard again.  "Get on the floor" "duck down."  The Ovilus got responses.  "Can You" come through on the Ovilus together.  There are tunnels under the town too and it was a mining town.  Aaron asks if it wants them to stay longer.  "Stay" is heard.  Billy asks if the child's spirit is still here.  "Eleven" and the device said many other responses "aqua ashes July."  3 July 1973 11 firefighters were killed in a propane tank explosion.  The school was named after one of the firemen.  Scott says the 11 was cut from the tank as a memorial to those 11.  Billy put the device on the 11 but nothing else came through.  At the cage "Death Rodger Monument."  Roger was one of the firefighters.  Zak adding it's just another layer adding to the hauntings.

Zak and Jay stay at the building.  Aaron and Billy investigate the girl's locker room.  Aaron says he heard a desk moving in one of the classrooms and a shuffling of shoes, but nothing is seen or heard when they look.  They hear a door slam.  Right where Roger's photo is hanging.  They head to the cafeteria and a voice is heard on the camera's audio.  They say sounds like "don't come in."  A voice comes through saying "help us."  Before Aaron hears a voice say "treasure" or is it "present" and then "they're free."  Then a woman's voice says "old one."  Heading to the sport's field.  They have cameras everywhere.  Billy catches a dark shadow walking at the top but doesn't notice at the time as the LCD screen on his camera is too small.  Appearing where the bodies are still buried under the field.  But was it an actual shadow figure?  

Zak enters the bathroom and when they come back out Jay hears a noise.  Zak says they want to learn about what happens when they die and this is a good place to learn, at a school.  Zak reaches out to the man wearing the bowler hat.  A bang is heard.  A light anomaly comes towards him in response to his request.  Zak finds the poster saying "we don't need ghosts we have physics" and calls it "cute."  A man's voice is heard on the boom mic.  Something like "come here sit down??"  Then a locker opens.  They're the only ones in the building.  In the science room, there are books on the desk, they say are piled up in a funny way.  Strange glowing anomalies are caught when Zak is setting up his camera.  He places a recorder on the books and places two balls which will light up when touched.  They light up on cue.  They don't light up again but he feels the spirit's energy still there and he is cold.  The balls only light up when they're touched.  

They head back to where they heard the man's voice and use the Polterpod where the room still contains the earth.  They call it a portal.  A name comes through on the Polterpod.  Jay feels something rush him and Zak hands him the Polterpod.  "Diller Ties Tyes"?  Could it be Lee??  Have to listen again on headphones or something similar.  Is this where you come?  Answer: "Yeah."  Based on their evidence Zak concludes it is an active portal.  

Ghost Adventures "Los Feliz Murder House Part 2"

In the attic where the bang was heard.  Zak asks what's here and for it to use their energy.  They're here to help anyone who's lost and asks to come upstairs.  He asks why Harold killed his wife and wants him to speak.  Billy captures an anomaly near Aaron who shoos it away on the XLS.  A light anomaly too.  Zak and Kevin both cough.  They're inhaling the spirit.  The ball anomaly moves weirdly.  Spirit energy leaves Aaron's body.  Zak leaves the attic after feeling uncomfortable.  He has chest pains and a pointy anomaly enters him.  Aaron says he sounded like an angry, old woman.  Aaron also smells perfume.  Zak bleeds but there's no cut on his hand.  Aaron says they're the only ones who will talk to it like this.  Recorder captures a screaming growl.  A man replies "fuck you."  Probably confirming the EVP from last week where I heard similar.  Kevin leaves.  An invocation ceremony is going to be conducted by Jay.  Which will make the whole place dangerous to everyone.  It gets colder.

The recorder starts playing in Zak's pocket.  A female scream is heard and Aaron is "zoned out."  The recorder catches "Aaron."  Even before he gets affected.  Jay opens the first gate and Aaron smells firewood.  The second gate is open and Billy feels back pain as soon as Jay pings the bell.  The atmosphere changes and a loud bang is heard.  I also heard a moan.  An anomaly follows Aaron as he goes upstairs.  Billy feels dizzy and Zak catches a mist leaving the circle towards him.  Again as soon as Jay hits the bell.  Billy is affected with anger and Zak asks if Harold was affected with something dark and by reading Dante's Inferno.  Billy heads upstairs and shouts at Harold.  Calling him a coward he killed himself.  He provokes him.  Something gets thrown and a rock lands in the centre of the circle.  An apport : an object from the doorway of another dimension.  Is also hot on the thermal.  As Billy invokes Harold. 

Zak adds they've come back and he can't end their investigations based on the emotions he felt.  When he cried and felt Lillian's sadness.  Believing she's there and contacting him.  Billy also felt something evil and took him over.  The same force that "may" have possessed Harold.  On the same hill as The House On Haunted Hill.  Frank Lloyd Wright when he built it also mentioned that.  He wants to take it to the next level.  Trying to get answers showing Harold was possessed with evil.  Richard Layle psychic medium.  He says he was woken by a leopard man.  Leaving Dante's book open.  Demon Orsa is a leopard demon: a trickster.  Making people think they're a king or a monster.  Canto 1 in Dante's Inferno.  The first demon he meets is a leopard demon.  It wasn't financial difficulties affecting Harold but evil.  They did the ceremony using an ancient ritual adapted to this house.  Richard says the gates are still open.

Richard is a Satanist and psychic medium and Zak wants to see how the house reacts to him and how he's affected.  Bill Chappell has create goggles.  He wants to do this.  The independent company used, show a 3D rep of the first floor using the liDAR and Slam tech seeing the map in real time.  Catching whatever is there.  Laser scanning tech.  Billy, Zak and Richard will take part in the experiment.  Wearing goggles designed as a sensory deprivation experiment causing sight and hearing to close into an alpha state and connecting to other users.  Richard does the same as Kevin and enters the house alone.  Richard uses ritual items and speaks in ritualistic terminology.  Billy is worried about carrying out the experiment.  A light anomaly comes out of the mirror.  

Richard rings the bell and light anomalies come out of the floor where they conducted their own ritual.  Zak feels his mind is going through the house and he can only see Richard.  He sees someone behind Richard with horns.  Richard asks who's behind him.  Zak imitates Richard's movements without knowing what he's doing.  He was told to stand up by something.  Anomalies behind Richard and he grabs the back of his head.  The full spectrum camera captures a black shadow in front of Richard.  Billy says he had to stop and hears heavy breathing downstairs and tapping on his chair.  Zak sees a young woman crying.  A lucid vision which he knows is the woman he felt emotional over.  He tries to protect her.  She was crying and had curly, brown hair.  As she was being chased by Richard.  Thus channelling Harold when he was attacking Judy.  He believes he was protecting her sister from Harold.  Richard felt threatened that someone was coming upstairs to kill him.  

The lydar team come in to scan the house.  Richard lies down where Harold killed his wife and feeling the moment where he killed himself.  Aaron follows Zak into the room and Zak sees he's got blood on his face.  Richard says he saw the cops during their experiment.  Aaron bumped the chair and went to Zak and was going to drag Zak out of the room.  Billy mentions the chair was also making noises.  Cops actually turn up.  That's when Judy ran away and called the police.  Who had a light when they came.  They leave the house and the lydar team find a "ghost chair."  Zak refers to as a "phantom chair."  Showing them what a real chair would look like.  There's no chair inside the same room of the house.  Comparing the two scans, there is no chair.  Zak said they all sat on the chair and was making noises.  They carry out a third scan.  There isn't any chair in the third scan.  Did Harold start being drawn into the occult by reading Dante's Divine Comedy, was he the fourth person joining their experiment and was this is the fourth chair he sat in during their experiment?

Lots going on and plenty to ponder over.  Especially the dark evil that can possess someone and cause them to do evil things.  As well as being open to such actions.  This was a creepy ep! 

Ghost Adventures "Los Feliz Murder House Part 1"

Zak wanted to investigate Los Feliz, California, the site of a murder/suicide which people in LA know about.  They've been afraid of what will happen and it's mysterious why the house has been abandoned as there is something dark inside.  Somebody took over the body of the man who killed his wife, tried to kill his daughter and then killed himself.   He wanted to investigate here for decades.  The house has been shut.  It's been purchased but they are having problems and his workers refuse to enter the house.  Zak feels chilled just being there.  People have passed the road and looked at "the house on haunted hill above it."

6th December 1959, Dr Harold Perelson killed his wife, Lillian with a hammer and then struck his daughter, Judy with the same hammer.  Her younger sister saw her father and he told her to go to bed as it's a nightmare.  Judy was still alive and ran to a neighbour's house for help.  Dr Perelson was dead when the police arrived, after taking pills.  Dante's Divine Comedy was found near his body.  Some claimed he was possessed by evil.  Neighbours, Chris and Don revealed what it's like living next door from them.  Before the house was gutted everyone said this has a bad aura.  His daughter's room has a cage over the door to a balcony of her room only.  Judy was abused and kept in the bedroom as a prisoner.  They knew the former owner of the house below, her best friend.  Rudy Enriquez passed away a few years ago.  His family bought the house and he never lived here.  He came at night to feed the cat and after the cat died, it was stuffed and it was in the bath window.  A bin had old lady's shoes in it.  "A strange vampire type man."  Zak asks what was in the house causing him to do these things.

Since then there have been many owners of the house and no one moved in.  Stacey hosts a podcast, the doctor tried to kill his family showing he was in debt and institutionalized at a hospital.  He was reading The Divine Comedy.  An obsession with the afterlife.  This borders on demonic in Zak's opinion.  She says there is a curse on the ground when California was owned by Spain.  This was given to Jose Feliz and then to whose Don Antonio's niece, Petronela was meant to have gotten the land but didn't get it so she cursed it.  Griffith J Griffith shot his wife.  The original builders of the house only lived here for a short while.  A family member's son got sick and was told by the doctor the house was making his son ill.  The Manson murders took place nearby.  The actual house used in the House on Haunted Hill. Filmed in 1959 and was being filmed whilst the  Perelson's were still here.

Billy catches a photo of what resembled a skeleton hand.  Zak felt something cold energizing the air around them.  He felt a charge.  Jay says he couldn't talk and felt a heart flutter, anxiety and his heart was going to flip.  With shortness of breath.  Aaron is eager to enter.  They could be walking into danger.  Zak says if the devil lives here and is existing in this house with a curse and then he wants him to let them open the door and come in.  They feel the ground shake under their feet.  He feels something blow on his neck.  He asks why he was reading Dante's Divine Comedy and Divine Inferno.  They want to go upstairs where they heard a noise.  They lose track of time and think it's been five minutes but actually an hour.  They obsess over the flashlight and Zak has a smell of sulphur and is hit by the wind again on the back of his neck.  The curtains don't move though.  

The dark energy has affected them physically and mentally.  And they need to carry on with the next step of the investigation.  Zak reads from the Divine Comedy.  Dante in the seventh circle entering the woods of suicide.  The vic was transformed into trees.  Dante breaks a branch of one tree and speaks.  Zak's confused and irritable since he's been in here.  There's something on the stairs.  As he feels the same thing again from the back of the neck.  One hour 27 minutes as though the stairs lead to a dimension he doesn't want to go into.  Zak wants Billy to do an EVP session.  Zak feels ice cold air again.  Billy loses track of where he is.  He asks what he's doing.  Aaron gets irritated and goes upstairs mocking Billy and his cold air comment.  Proves they're not in a proper state of mind.  Jay tells Zak he tried to kick him.  Aaron doesn't know why he's upstairs.

The heavy energy stops them from doing an investigation.  Aaron feels his neck was grabbed.  Billy says he heard a growl.  Aaron leaves and Zak calls him back otherwise he's running away.  Zak says nothing will kill him.  A full sentence is heard on the Polterpod.  "They're using my...real good."  Sounds like there's a missing word and almost sounds like Aaron.  4.1 4.2 on the Trifield.  Zak wants it to talk into the recorder on the chair and asks why Harold did it?   He apologizes to Lillian for having to leave this world at the hands of her husband.  Zak coughs through his respirator.  He feels like something was swallowed by him.  A noise comes from behind the wall.  Something was thrown like a stick.  "I'm gonna f*ck you hear me," or "know what I mean" is captured on the recorder.  Zak cries.  He feels sad.  Aaron suggests they leave and come back with a plan.  Zak refers to the house as a  containment chamber for the souls of vics, killers, why so energized and concealed in this place.  He can't answer.  It's ironic that this haunted house is on top of the hill and then you have the actual house on a haunted hill.  

Zak is ready to go all the way as they won't have this opportunity again.  He wants to open the doors to their dimension but he's willing to risk it.  Kevin Frazier co-host of ET.  Not again!  He joins them investigating.  He talks to a friend of his and said someone went in and they couldn't snap her out of the affect it had on her.  Kevin enters the house without them.  He wants the door locked.  He hears footsteps.  Caught on the X cam.  Sounds like a growl.  He's afraid to go up the stairs and then feels the same as Zak did.  He feels a weight on his back.  Something paranormal is happening around the stairs.  Aaron tells them he had a vision of Billy jumping from the upstairs window.  Billy catches a figure with  the XLS laying on the ground like it jumped out and landed there.  

Using a directional mic Zak asks questions.  Something tells Kevin to go up.  Zak wants Harold to speak.  As well as anything else in the house demanding it to do something.  A figure appears near the chair when Zak tells Harold to speak through the recorder.  A bang is heard upstairs.  An EVP comes through after he tells Harold to admit what happened.  These sounds were captured before the figure appeared.  Zak explains they're going to not conclude this investigation now.  

But they couldn't show it in one go on TV darn it. 

Ghost Adventures "Nightmare at the Roxie"

Los Angeles near to the Cecil Hotel and they're here to investigate the mysterious circumstances where a woman slashed her wrists in the Roxie and without the audience realizing.   Christmas Eve 1954 and no one has been able to identify her.  Behind the doors people are afraid to walk into cos of the threats and dangers they experience from not being able to go in.  Zak asks some men from the public if they've been inside it.  One says he's heard of people dying in there.  One of the first things he heard about.  Such as people going in and not coming out.  In 1943  a man Harry Metzger had died in his chair so they couldn't buy their tickets.  

Built 1931 and closed in 1989 and hasn't been used since.  He loves these investigations when the buildings are sealed with the secrets of the past with the lost souls who want to contact them.  He goes through the facts of the woman's death and wants viewers to help them becoming detectives themselves.  A row of seats, a Canadian dollar bill and phone number of cafe receipt were found.  So whose number was it?  After the last show at 5am she was found with both wrists deeply slashed and blood flowed down several rows.  Also found a double edged razor blade she used.  No sound, no one noticed this woman, what were they doing.  They don't know what to expect.  They want to open the "huge gift" they've been given.  "Maybe even from the Devil himself."

Jake takes them inside.  He doesn't feel alone in some parts.  The seal is broken on the theatre and Zak feels as entering into another dimension.  They stand where she slit her wrists.  Why a theatre, not a toilet or somewhere else?  Aaron hears footsteps.  Zak feels there's evil around.  Jake hears footsteps all the time.  He heard a disembodied voice in the toilet saying "hello."  He says he heard the same voice as on the Polterpod "evil."  Was it "evil" or "evening."  She doesn't sound American.  Maybe Brit or speaking through her nose.  Zak gives Jake a recorder to speak with the spirit to give himself closure.  Zak wants the woman to say hello or do something to get their attention.  A voice says something like "...did/hid it"???

Jake takes them to where the hanging suicide occurred.  They don't like it there.  Zak feels exhausted and can hardly stand.  Zak asks if you feel this and a voice comes through on the Polterpod saying "I feel it."  Aaron and Billy investigate the basement and Aaron loses it with the pigeon.  Inside there are more.  Zak says this investigation will be really tense, one of the most intense they've ever done.  He says that a lot.  He feels the effects into the second day.  Billy plays some evidence from the day before.  From the Polterpod, in the hallway and it said "feel it."  They call it an intelligent spirit as it's relating to what Zak said.  Then "Yeah" and this was elongated over several frequencies.  Then a female voice over many frequencies.  "...chance I can help you..."  Also is that another voice under it or interference.  Billy says the final EVP says "Bagans."  I hear "bag it."  There's two voices aren't there, one sounds like "Bagans" and the other sounds like "bag it" too.  Zak adds that when a spirit calls them by name it can lead to a possession.

Billy uses the Paranormal Puck and it says "beside."  Zak feels something in his ribcage and feels cold and numb.  The meter went off.  There was some noise from the stage.  That affected the thermal camera.  It sounded like something rattled the doors.  Billy types on the Paranormal Puck, "memories" comes through as Zak say she has someone to talk to and asks why she did this and what her name is.  They play the audio from the movie *Crossed Swords (1954) he has to ask what it was called.  Bad memory ha.  A ghost light is inside the circle :a lightbulb with a loosely connected DC current.  The audio couldn't be played during the episode due to licensing.  Zak feels like he wanted to cry.  Billysays she said "can" when Zak asks if she can touch the lightbulb.  The lightbulb doesn't get screwed in.  A voice comes through the walkie.  Zak tells her they care about her and her pain.  Something appears on the thermal, an anomaly.  "What is your name."  "Miss" Miss What? "V."  Damn so close and yet no name!

Stand in the centre of the circle.  He saw an anomaly that floated towards the circle.  A black one similar to the one in the Ghost Adventures Housecalls ep. 6  Then he captures it trying to manifest as a stick figure.  They coe to some stairs and he catches a stick figure on the stairs.  Was it recoiling in pain or was it getting high injecting itself.  Zak feels a pain on his right arm as though he's jabbed.  Then reveals a red mark like a syringe mark there.  Zak asks if he got attacked and how the bruise got there?  A voice replies "yes I did."   Zak tells it that it helped him.  Then starts saying "reverse, reverse demand for all doorways, any dimension to be opened to cross into the here and now into this place right now."  Zak feels he's in the basement though he hasn't been there and sends Jay down there.  Where he hears a noise and finds a syringe.  Corresponding to his attack and his connection to the basement.  I didn't hear a crash as Jay says.

An anomaly moves next to Billy as he feels something and then a few more are seen.  Like the dramatic Hitchcock music when the anomalies are shown.  Aaron and Zak argue for no reason.  Billy shushes them and hears a noise.  They freeze and leave to the tension.  Zak asks what three things he just said, Billy says "walk into this realm, walk into this room, walk into our bodies."  Zak dances some crazy seventies dance movement.  Billy says he's channelling spirits here , one does drugs and Zak feels like someone else, his attachment.  That's all he wants to do at this moment.  An X-cam catches an anomaly manifest and vanishes.  A voice comes though .  Will add later when clearer.  A piece of wood falls or is thrown on the stairs.  Zak calls it intelligent Poltergeist activity.  They believe it's the same spirit again on the stairs.

Zak concludes this and their evidence makes this place an area for paranormal research and also for clues into the "hardened questions of our afterlife."  Now stepping into Nick's current area of research re the afterlife in Death Walker.  

*Crossed Swords starred Errol Flynn and Gina Lollobrigida a swashbuckler about a man who fights the medieval law in Italy which states he needs to get married.  This must've had plenty of loud music for her slashing her wrists to be drowned out.  Was she seated alone?  Just added this as it's one which involved swords and thus lots of slashing too.  Did she intend to do it, did she decide whilst watching, though that wouldn't explain the razor blades.  What of the number from the cafe.  Was it really suicide, heck if no one noticed anyone could've done it.  Did she meet someone there?  So many unanswered questions.  

Ghost Adventures "Acadia Ranch Sanatorium"

Zak is in Oracle, Arizona on a dead end road - the oracle didn't help him much ha.  Off the beaten track he comes across some guy and a dead end.  Heading to a sanatorium.  He senses it to be a scary investigation in "a very weird and eerie town."  The sun sets on their location and the others are already there.  So why was he d riving alone now when he doesn't usually do that.  Acadia was built in the 1890's as a ranch and boarding house.  So with the onset of TB a new sanatorium in this location was needed for patients.  They usually left after dying.  They were stored in the morgue until they were buried.  There have been reports of attacks by entities here.  No one's here to meet them.  Zak calls John.  A murder's been reported by the tack room that of a little girl.  The energy due to the murder Zak maintains there's no denying the energy oozing from the building.

Kevin tells them the ranch was built and from 1895-1930 it was a TB medical centre.  Previous owners back in 1943 were experiencing activity too so Zak adds there's been decades of activity.  The ranch had beds all around the room.  He shows them the morgue.  Through the kitchen he leads them to a back room.  Zak turns back as Billy and Aaron take EMF readings up to 5.  Zak feels he's being led by something in the centre of that room.  Billy says he looks different.  He feels like they're reclusive and he feels he's walking into their dimension.  There's many spirits here and they have tape over their mouth and they're not being allowed to talk to them.  He's been having the vision of mannequins and he sees one in the corner.

It's contained all the residual feeling, pain.  A child took his father's gun and shot himself.  He was buried on the property.  The list of events that have soaked this structure of vicious events is endless he says.  Jen hates that room and lost her balance, felt sick and as she tried to leave, she felt punched in the back of the head.  He wants her to go back in the room.  She asks why she was attacked last time.  She can feel it here.  Jeff captures something on her shoulder with the XLS as she feels it on her right side.  Zak feels an energy go through him.  A small figure stands on top of Jen and touches her head.  Zak can't go in that room and steps outside.  

Melissa takes them to the maternity shed where women with TB would have their babies.  Zak intimates their fates unknown.  The Tack House where a small child was murdered.  She finds the building is sad.  The babies are buried everywhere behind the building.  She felt contractions when inside and this continued through the night at home.  They say they can have the same feelings others felt here.  They're showing how they felt.  Her pain gives them insight into atrocities of the dark and evil that happened here.  Sometimes locations affect deeply, they connect in a moment in time when they have the same feelings.  He says the difference is the person she connects with died.  Have to be careful cos of other things that lurk in the building that leave you exposed and once you're in that place they grab you and you can't break free.  Something happening on this property that's dark and dangerous.

Billy captures an EVP of something Zak believes is a dominant male spirit keeping the others under control.  I hear things being thrown and hear voices too.  The recorder was left inside the ice box room.  I hear along the lines of "give me your hand...I feel them come for you...a big chunk here and then...I hear them comin...they're after you."   Zak uses the Ovilus and hears "sh, Am Not."  He was connecting it via an intercom as he wanted to speak through it at basecamp.  Jay investigates the cemetery where the little boy is buried.  Jay finds Robert's grave to see if he can make contact.  Nothing is caught.  He gets emotional.  He didn't get back and wasn't seen throughout the rest of the ep.  Zak says they're going to keep talking until they get answers.  Their X camera turns off by itself and then turns on by itself too.  When there's still full battery in it.  

Billy says Zak should go into the morgue.  The Ovilus hasn't changed from the screen.  He says it's like the dominant spirit was speaking to the other spirits telling them not to talk.  How many are here?  "Stay Five."  The laser tracking camera's been set up in the morgue.  Aaron says he's been touched on his shoulder.  Couldn't even listen to the EVP before they speak over it and Zak interrupts saying he can see a man standing there.  Billy says something rushed him.  Billy uses the Polterpod.  Zak speaks to the innocent spirits here.  He apologizes for whatever was being affected them and by the bad spirit.  He wants them to move something.  Footsteps are heard.  Zak tries to communicate with the dominant male spirit.  He asks if he wants to talk to them?  I hear "Listen."  He asks who he is.  "Don" comes through.  When Zak asks if they're allowed to be here does the voice say "limit." 

Zak locks Aaron in the icebox.  Zak says something hit him with a spear and then he turns aggressive.  Zak sees a shadow figure.  A light anomaly is caught disappearing into him.  Aaron does an EVP session and captures a scream.  Billy uses the flashing light balls again which lights up.  When Billy leaves the ball lights up.  Zak is outside and he wants to use his energy and he says everything is clear here.  Like he's crossed too far into their realm.  He says if you looked in the wall and placed plexiglass there and seeing the emotions of pain, screams, crying.

Billy heads back with the XLS.  A figure comes out of the pram.  Karate chopping Billy and vanishes.  Zak says that's the same man.  Aaron can hear them outside and he says the wall shook.  Then sees someone.  The ball lights up.  Zak gets angry when Billy tells him to go into the other room so he can shoot him.  They get angry by the spirit.  Aaron eats as he's starving.  Another light anomaly is caught floating past the table with the ball.  Zak ends by adding there's so much death at every turn, is a sensation that won't leave us.  Maybe it's their duty to help carry this sadness and help set some of the tortured souls free.

Ghost Adventures Special "Devil's Den Special"

 Zak talks of walking on the ground and of the barbed wire fence near him.  He feels violence and torture Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall: "a playground for the deranged or the devil's playground."  AKA The Devil's Den.  A special ep where they enter an abandoned prison.  One of the darkest entities "we've ever faced."  Opened in 1957 where the Hall housed some of LA's most dangerous youths.  From South Central gangs, closed on July 2019.  Suicide and violent deaths between staff and prisoners.  With lost souls imprisoned.  Downey California 2022 marked their most terrible investigation yet.  The guards and inmates don't want to return here, afraid for their lives.  Andy, former gang member explains how they were beaten by guards, teen dying from a chokehold was reported in the papers.  Was sent to his cell and he was upset so started banging on his door.  He opened the door and was punched in the chest from the guard.  In the CD building he has his cell and he refuses to go in there.  Terrified of what is in there.  He changes his mind.  No one would dare to enter here. 

He finds a chair with his name, or was it someone else's.  Zak: "we're experiencing things we cannot explain."  Jeff tells Billy he saw someone walk past the window in the SHU building which is locked.   'Special Handling Unit' SHU.  They're taken in the building by the guard, Jarett and Jeff explains what he saw.  Jarrett worked there.  The building was for children harming, suicidal, he cut down sheets of potential suicide victims.  His bosses called it 'Devil's Den'.  They saw black shadows in their rooms.  Walter worked in the juvenile hall.  He was seen in the building but it wasn't him.  Jarett believes in ghosts and has seen them since he was little.  The inmates heard voices and spoke in tongues, persuaded to do these things.  Some made pentagrams with their own blood.  Climbing on bed, windows etc.  (See later with Jay.)

In one of the rooms, 10 and 20, were the rooms where he saw devil worshipping by the inmates.  Or it could be vice versa, as Zak says.  He feels something strange in the hallway.  The Trifield metre spikes and the toilet flushes by itself.  The toilets had some mad activity.  He calls these their "downward spiral into total chaos."  Jeff returns inside.  He feels the same heavy weight of this room.  Zak says not to go in there by himself.  Which falls on deaf ears as he heads back in later.  

The Infirmary was the most dangerous and a youth committed suicide there as Walter explains.  Something wonders around like a lost soul.  Room 20 where Jeff was found is where most of the devil worshipping took place.  He felt cold as soon as he got in.  Jarett says the hair on his arms stood up as soon as he walked in.  Zak has a fit of rage as Billy gets spikes of multiple energy.  Zak walks away.  Jarett asks "who's here?" on the spirit box.  Zak feels the wall with his hand, rubbing it up and down.  Is there anything it wants to tell them?  It replies "death."  Zak mentions the children being possessed.  Jeff returns again, found in room 20, which they pass.  Zak smells something rotten as soon sas he opens the door.  Adding Jeff looks like a caged animal.  Zak is taken over by some energy negative and Jay holds him back.  He runs out.  Lauren tells Billy about him and the wall and waving to someone.

Zak surmizes the place feels like it was shut down yesterday and the guards/inmates were afraid of what they're feeling now.  As he says this, his eyes look like he's affected, teary almost.  Accusations of sexual abuse, violence.  Which makes the place different and the negativity is strong.  They speak with Ned, another former inmate with his disturbing experiences with spirits and what he calls demons.  He was here between 2002-2007.  Nothing could have prepared him for what he did here.  A volunteer who doesn't want to identified (though you can still make out her face) tells them she was on the girl's unit.  They wanted to speak and spoke of the guard who watched them in the showers.  They were assaulted.  No one would listen to them and that's why they didn't tell anyone.  She says the guards were possessed and how can their have treated the inmates how they did. 

"This place has taken a part of me and it's something that I can't get back" Ned adds.  In tears.  The paranormal aspect left him with questions.  He was being attacked by dark entities/demons.  Ned needs to enter the building for some form of closure.  He wants to go upstairs but then ends up in room 20.  Zak wonders why here?  Ned is drawn here.  He recalls what happened.  The cell is the 'epicentre' of the activity.  Zak tells him he was guided here and was being affected.  Zak hears a voice down the hall.  Didn't hear it.  As well as seeing something black on the ceiling.  He feels being watched from all around.  Thinks he's been driven crazy.  Upstairs Ned take them to room 13 (yikes) where he was badly affected.  He was told he'd never leave and he was "theirs".  Always feeling dark and cold.  He'd see shadows.  He says there were demons and pure evil.  He prayed a lot.  He'd bang on the door and he wouldn't be helped.  Drawn to the window, he now realizes the church was on that side.

Ned knows he wasn't crazy and many others like him and there were labelled as having mental health problems.  He and a lot of others didn't belong here.  The volunteer is happy this is being broadcast and they now will probably still have nightmares about this place.  Ned "they took my peace from me."  It still affects him.  Others don't have anything to look forward to and not being helped but given medication.  So the staff knew what was happening but they still subjected the inmates to the mental health issues and treatment, many of them didn't even have.  Were they possessed, just didn't care or didn't want to be thought of as insane too.

Zak was deeply disturbed by the events of the previous night.  Aaron stands by the chapel which was Ned's only saviour.  Making him stronger than most due to his faith.  Somewhere to turn to.  When the guards fear the dark entities.  Zak was emotional and he had marks on his left and right shoulder areas.  Being marked with whatever is inhuman.  Changing you forever.  Which is what Ned said.

Night 1 investigation.  Billy found some EVPs.  Ned was crying cos of demons and the recording in the CD ward during the interview with Andy.  "The pain and misery."  "I live here, I did suffer pain."  Jay took photos in the shower room in the SHU building where he catches a dark shadow in one of the showers.  C&D Building and SHU building is their focus on the first night.  Zak saw someone with a flashlight in the building.  A crash is heard.  Zak enters the building with his XLS camera.  Aaron and Billy enter the C&D Building.  Whoever you are and whatever you are he calls them out.  A small figure is seen in the doorway leading him upstairs at least.  He asks why he's here alone - as he usually sends Aaron.  Jarett felt some kid of presence in the stairway.  Zak hears a noise and Jay takes the boom mic in.  Yeah only cos Zak didn't want to be alone.  Zak appears to lose balance or feels he was pushed.

In cell 13 he sits down with the XLS.  Jay goes to the bathroom where he captured the black mass and a tapping is heard, scaring him and causing him to run.  Zak thinks they shouldn't be provoking it and going this far, as an afterthought.  Jay hears a voice in the hallway.  "Here" it sounds like to me.  Then Zak hears the voice too and a tapping is heard from the window behind him.  He's getting dark thoughts in his head.  At 48.08 a breath is heard that Jay says is a growl.  Jay asks if Zak's okay.

Aaron turns on the ITC device and hears a "hello."  A female hello also comes through.  Got a lot of female voices coming through.  Aaron feels like something touched his vest and pulled it up.  Sounds like "you're right" comes through agreeing with Aaron.  Aaron wants the dark energy to talk.  "Hey."  See another female.  Billy asks who was talking and Aaron becomes angry telling him to 'shut up.'  A voice repeats "shut up" too.  Billy becomes angry and makes a fist and wanted to punch Aaron after telling him to shut up.  It's the place making them like that.  Pitting them against each other.  Aaron feels they're surrounded by spirits.  When they leave a black mass hovers by the phone and then hovers above it before disappearing.

At the SHU building they see Jay and Zak at odds with mostly Zak being enraged.  Billy hesitates in going any further.  Jay looks for Zak and he's sitting outside by the wall.  His eyes look strange.  Zak can't recall what happened.  He says he lost time.  After the tapping the room went cold.  Jay says he couldn't move as well.  Jay tells him he's stronger and Zak shouts "it took it from me...it took everything fro me."  That's what Ned said earlier.  Jay tells him to let it go and to let him go.  Billy calls to him and they're disturbed and they don't recognize Aaron and Billy.  Billy says he felt he needed to come here from the other building.  Zak sends them away as he doesn't want to be around them.  

Aaron moves from Billy.  Aaron feels like they're the evil ones and he's the only sane one here.  He's seeing things around him.  Zak says they're okay and next minute something goes inside of him.  Losing track of everything.  On the infrared time lapse camera they capture a moving dark mass, like something rushing past turning a corner.  The third one caught.  Zak calls them to go to cell 20.  On the Polterpod a female comes through.  "It likes you" is what I hear.  There's another female voice underneath this one saying: "stay, say" something like that.  In the room, Billy feels and looks weird and as Zak and Aaron argue over Zak wanting him to get more equipment.  Billy takes the plastic bag and rolls it noose like.  He wanted to strangle Aron with.  A light anomaly is caught.  They spend 30 minutes looking for each other, without knowing each other.  Zak turns up holding a plastic chair.  Probably also why they must've had plenty of riots in the Hall.

Jay tells Zak it wasn't him in the night.  It was real and disturbing.  What happened to them happens every day and making it the Devil's Den.  On the second night they decide what to do.  Their contact told them of the mysterious circumstances  surrounding the demise of the staff.  A female died in the stalls due to an anueryseum.  A guard had a heart attack and paramedics weren't allowed to enter to save him.  Was it the dark entity?  Jarett was traumatized by it.  They answered what caused all this last night.  Tonight they're investigating the infirmary and Jay is left in the J building.  It was the SHU building before the SHU was built.  It's a bad place.  Wouldn't it be safer to have had someone with him.  He really needed two with him.

In the infirmary a motion activated camera detects something after it taps the camera and the camera moves.  A 360 tracker cam will detect motion.  The laser goes off.  Something moved in the hallway.  Something moves and the camera moves round the corner into one of the rooms.  Zak wants to speak with the staffer who brought the planchette into the building.  Aaron rolls a lighted ball down the hallway and it vanishes.  They can't find it and see it in a room.  Thus it would've had to turn the corner by something moving it or picking it up.  An anomaly falls down and touches the ball before making a 90 degree turn.  Zak lies down and doesn't feel well.  The tracker cam moves and follows something into a cell.  Aaron feels something go through him.  

As Zak rolls the recorder down the hallway a light is seen.  They call it a mist.  Aaron feels a head pain and tastes menthol in his mouth.  Using the XLS  Zak captures a figure in the room in one of the cells as though it's in its last moments.  Was this the suicide Vic possibly.  It vanishes and appears again briefly.  Aaron says he feels violated with the spirit waking though.  The first time he's felt like this. The APF Processor is used and Zak asks if it wants to talk to him.  I hear "help" not "yeah."  Zak asks its name.  I hear "I'm Michael" then something else and then "ask him."  Aaron and Billy head to the other side of the building and a woman's voice says "are you Freddy or ready" after Aaron asks what they should do?  

Zak disappears so they head out.  Zak had an experience but wasn't possessed.  He says he's fine.  Felt like he was watching someone die in the cell.  Billy asks if the walkie's on and Zak says why he's trying to say that.  As he's taking away all the attention of Zak being affected.  Yeah cos it's all about you! Jay calls on the walkie!!  Billy heard it in his head Jay's in trouble.  Billy gets worked up and tells Zak to answer him.  Jay is on the ground and he hits something and struggles before asking for help.  One of them affected and not said anything.  Zak doesn't let him back in.  They go inside with the thermal still camera to where Billy and Aaron got the female voice.  There's some sort of a hovering blue figure caught.  Without legs.  

This place forever had a mark on them and the inhuman entities have infested this place.  Their stories will haunt them forever.  Zak says they believe Ned when no one else did.  Adding no one should have to live in darkness and that it will carry on festering here.  

Jay says it's like a prison having its own wall.  "J in the Jay building."  Well he experienced it all right.  In cell 6 he puts the recorder on the floor and using the Ovilus he gets "meet" and asks if it was scary for him in here?  "Yes."  "Hug" comes through and "beat."  Jay captures a light anomaly.  Then hears a crashing sound.  He feels the vibe changing.  Which is how he ended up on the floor silent.  

Coincidence or not but the next morning after this ep aired in the US I had a dream with all of the GAC.  Right down to Billy wearing a T-shirt.  I know he usually does a lot unless it's cold or something whereas the others wear jackets/hoodies a lot.  He was filming and something was affecting Zak.  Then Jay gave me something saying I should try it.  Some sort of liquid and then said it was something like boiled blood and I had to run and rinse my mouth out. Yuk!  Was plenty long but sometimes (funnily enough I remember all my GA/Zak dreams) this one was rather short!  I don't know why I had this dream as I wasn't even thinking of watching the ep as we don't get it in the UK til a week later, so it's pot luck whether I can watch it beforehand.  

Anyhoo just thought I'd add this even if no one's interested.  Since Zak et al were affected in this ep.  I always used to say how Jay doesn't get affected when the others do, most of the time, by anything for some reason.  Then when he was left on his own he was.  I don't know why Zak wanted him to investigate alone re previous night's events.  Since he didn't appear to have any ulterior Zak 'possessed' motives.  Also since they hadn't been in that building before.  But it was uncanny how the messages he got on the Ovilus also led to something dark overtaking him.  No wonder that voice needed hugs.  It's also what Jarett said about the inmates knocking on windows, standing on the bed, banging on the doors.  This is what Jay's pictured to be doing also on camera footage.

What an episode!! 

Ghost Adventures "Old Bullion Plaza School"

 

Zak mentions an old mining town of Miami Arizona, there to investigate the school of the title and what happened there over the years.  1860's silver was discovered leading to Miami, Arizona being built.  Bullion Plaza in 1923 was set up for for Mexican and Apache children showing segregation was still rife.  Students were beaten if they spoke in their native language.  Tom tells him the building is haunted - why else would you be there, dude!  A museum is in the school building now and he tells him of one documented death.  A man was already dead between the second and first floor.  No cause of death.  A lot of mystery surrounds the school and a lot of activity.  Zak carries out a visual exercise for the viewers to imagine the school in operation.  Zak introduces himself to the building.  I don't hear the talking maybe the camera didn't capture it.  I've listened over and also I just heard a knock.  

He conducts an EVP session by the stairs.  Some voices are captured.  First voice says "up over there." ??  Possibly telling Zak where he is.  Second EVP: "Alright"??  After the "yes" which sounds like a different voice; it says something like "what the f*ck are you doing here?"  Or something along those lines.  Tom tells them about a girl on the stairs he saw her and she giggled when he's been here.  Zak feels a cold breeze.  Zak does some singing to the little girl "I like to play with toys, I brought my boys..." sounds a bit rude doesn't it!! Ha.  Aaron tries a rap OMG!  On the top floor.  Tom has an arrangement with them that they don't come to his office after dark and he doesn't cross the room to the other side.  He's sensitive and at his age he can do without the hassle.  "Who's here in the hallway?"  Zak asks and he gets a gruff scream on the recorder.  The voice also says "...and a murder."  Was this the old man referring to himself?

Aaron hears a girl on the stairs, didn't hear anything.  But strangely Aaron hears it as if that song had an effect.  The sensor downstairs went off.  Zak feels something by the door.  Like a child telling him something bad happened.  Tom says someone else picked up the same energy in the closet.  Zak feels sad as though he was one of the children brutalized in the closet.  

Billy and Aaron go down to the basement talking with a paranormal investigator.  As Zak talks to another woman, a kindergarten teacher, Iris.  She was possessed in the video by a child she thinks.  The 'child' was channelling through her.  She gets emotional when recalling what happened to them.  Rita tells them of how she's always weary there.  She believes that bad things have happened to children.  Iris mentions they were brought down to the basement and were forced to do things and killed.  Zak wonders if their spirits are trapped here.  Rita mentions a paedophile teacher who used to harm children.  She caught a shadow figure and it turned up in the photo.  She shows them a photo of three children they caught.  

You know they actually look like they have faces and are surrounded by other faces too.Aaron says they look like they're shackled.  Jay gets scratched on his body near his neck.  The basement resident doesn't want them here investigating.  

Zak and Aaron stay in the main building and Jay and Billy go down to the basement.  Aaron asks for the 'girl' to reappear.  Zak sees a child-like doll and they don't know how it got there.  The motion infra red tracker cam detects something.  Zak gets a figure on the XLS.  A black rectangle appears and blocks out the figure.  To me it looked like when something bad is censored and you're not meant to see it, it's blanked out.  That's what happened here.  The figure touches Aaron.  Using the Trifield meter, Zak sees if the electromagnet energy is high.   On the second floor a female voice is caught on the spirit box.  Saying something like "are you finding a book?" ??  But they're not actually there when it happens.

Zak locks Aaron in the closet with the chair.  The way Zak says Aaron "voluntarily" enters the closet. Though he doesn't get anything inside.  He gets another voice on the spirit device.  Zak investigates the other side of the building alone.  He recites the Spanish alphabet as he recalls it.  On the static cam he captures a drawer opening by itself.  Maybe a spirit, maybe a Poltergeist? 

Billy feels something touched him in the head.  Jay asks him the same thing.  They hear a bang.  Jay captures an anomaly that looks like it's running from him as it goes round the corner.  Could it be a child getting back at being harmed.  They hear a moaning.  A rattling sound is heard.  They ask if something's trying to scare them.  Some planks of wood.  Billy says to knock something off the table.  They hear a metallic scratchy sound like a door.  It's like a small entrance to a concealed boiler/pipes room.  Wonder what went on in there?  Reminded me of the little room in the basement of the Monroe House in Paranormal Lockdown where Nick found those buried bones.  

The anomaly that Billy captures looks like a small person manifesting, landing on the floor and then scurrying away.  A child??  

Billy provokes and tells it to do something to Jay.  Then he feels angry.  Jay feels like something crawls on his face.  He also provokes saying he's not scared of it.  Something metallic is thrown at Jay.  

Zak calls it a "prolific investigation" of their career.  The walls have the pain of the children still etched there.  "A testament to those innocent souls who loved and died here."  A poignant episode.

Ghost Adventures "Henderson Hell House"

Zak et al don't travel far when they are called in by a family in dire need of help as their house is haunted by some form of evil entity.  I was going to say malignant so I guess that would be right in some ways.  The activity was first noticed on the security camera when they see a paper move across the floor.  They tried to find how it got there and could've moved in that way, but found no logical, reasonable explanations.  Their daughter, Katie, then notices what they describe as a light moving across the kitchen ceiling, her reaction is caught on the security camera, but not the entity on the camera itself.  Her mother, Tara doesn't see it.  But all the family are affected, including Tara herself as there's some form of white misty entity captured on the security camera in her bedroom.  Thus adding credibility to the light seen by Katie.  Tara also tells Zak of something static touching her, you know it's there on your lap. 

Most affected by the activity is her husband, BJ, who has been possessed by it in all their opinions.  It singled him out and he hasn't been himself at times.  Leaving the house trying to escape, he injured himself falling from the roof of a house.  The activity got so bad that after they dropped Katie off at their parents, he stopped the car and physically grabbed something he describes as "lizard-like" from his arm and threw out the car window.  They both witnessed a nearby tree shaking violently, as though it went into the tree.  There was also a recording Tara had of him in the shower where he was behaving erratically.  Not shown on camera as Tara asked for it not to be shown.  It must definitely want him out and wants Tara and Katie.  As most evil entities want the women, using any means to drive the men away.  When they prepare their cameras to "slate nerve" a bag drops behind Billy.  Seems he was 'marked' from the start.  However they don't know if this activity was paranormal or not.

Zak brings in a psychic medium who has been there before and tells them of seeing something in the corner of the room.  Something half man and half not, but evil too.  When they use the SLS they find a figure in the living room going from the sofa to the floor.  Tara also tells them of bringing in some people to hep but they made the activity worse, using pig's blood and carrying out their own ritual.  Which Zak says is dangerous and isn't the right thing to do.

In their investigation they also find something in the room and on more security footage from the family, they see the clothes moving on the rail and a small, dark figure brushing past them, which only Katie notices.  Man that was some form of creepy imp-like thing.  Whenever I see something like that it reminds me of that little 'man' creature-like black entity that went after Aaron when he was up in the deck by himself at Hails Bar Marina & Dam ep.  There was also a small entity that was around him too in another ep.  Maybe not a time to mention this but whenever some entities turn up like this I'm always reminded of it.

During their investigation, Billy hears some talking coming from the kitchen.  I didn't, will have to listen again.  See below.  Also he then hears a noise and when Zak checks outside there's nothing there.  Getting some words on the Paranormal Puck.  Such as "Jesus Christ.  And "Get" comes up.  "Reveal" comes up.  Zak asks where the portal is?  "Living" comes through.  Living room and that's where the people carried out the ritual opening the portal.  Zak says "this is compelling" if you listen carefully you can hear a man's voice, sounds good through the headphones if you can use them, it's clearer.  Almost sounds like Zak even.  I have to say but he's not talking on the Walkie.  Sounds like "sit" ??  Not surprised Billy was targeted as he goes in there alone first and Zak says he's the only living body it can possess.  When they are in the kitchen and Zak tells them to brace themselves they see the Walkie light go off on the counter, when it's not even being used.  

Zak does a session on the Polterpod and gets a name "Andy" coming through.  He asks if he was killed here, did he die here or was buried here?  I want to know why he went there with those questions as they aren't the obvious ones that come to mind.  I would've asked who Andy is, why he's here.  My Q on Twitter:  Also they didn't ask who Andy is/was? How he's connected to the house? OK I know there's lots of Qs but since it was the only name they got. Whether he lived here?  Did he know the family etc.  Zak asks if anyone was killed here?  Replies "don't know."  The same voice then tells Zak he's a liar.   I've said this before, but what I wanna know is his line of questioning with whether anyone was killed/buried there?  I hear "sleep" not "sweet" after Zak asks if he knows the little girl's name; cos it then ends session to go sleep?  Or she sleeps in her room.  Kinda weird.On my TV I heard 'Tara' when he asks who it's after, then with headphones I hear "gear up."  

I also hear something to do with light.  Which would make sense since that's what Katie described she saw and after the vice seems to say "Gear up" in my opinion. it ends the session with "goodbye."  As if to say you're getting nothing more from me.  Now do your work.  Zak has to lie down afterwards as he feels weak.  Then goes into the bedroom to investigate more.  Billy seems to be affected a lot.  When he returns home he was followed and says his mistake was not using Palo salto before he left the location.  He was stalked as he saw something in the garden but didn't pay attention to it.  Then he saw something in his office.  He was trying to light the palo santo but it wouldn't light and then with the lighter he brought it close to his face, compelled to do so and got third degree burns. 
Jay saged the house and they said that after they left the activity actually ceased.  Not surprising the sageing must have worked, but more eerily it followed Billy!    This would've been more detailed but right now I don't have an ep as a point of reference to go through some of the voice captures and evidence.  Typing from memory.  I blame Jay's hair it was distracting! ha.  

Sanditon Series 2 Episode 6

The series 2 finale comes full circle in that it opened with the blood stained sheets of Sidney's bed being removed and this opens with his trunk of belongings coming home.  Wherein lies a letter for Tom (Kris Marshall) about the interloper in Georgiana's (Crystal Clarke) life vying for her fortune.  Clearly this letter was meant to have been sent out warning the Parker's of who was after her wealth and challenging her to her fortune.  Though he obviously didn't get round to send it down.  Tom takes Sidney's cygnet ring and Arthur (Turlough Convery) his hip flask as momentos of his memory.  As well as Sidney's playing cards as Tom couldn't win him at Vingt-et-Un.  This will prove to be handy towards the end of the episode when matters are resolved with Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones).  Tom at Arthur's behest challenges Lennox to a game of Vingt-et-Un and uses his £100 debt as well as the amount owed to the shopkeepers.  In a turn of events Tom finally wins, using Sidney's cards.  Could his luck be turning with his two brother's good fortune shining on him.  Or will he falter and make more mistakes next series as he intends to further the fate of Sanditon.

Sidney's letter also states that Tom shouldn't feel guilty for his part in his having to marry someone he didn't love to save him from debt.  Thus obviously we don't really get to see much of any guilt or regret on Tom's part, or even having taken away his brother's and Charlotte's (Rose Williams) happiness.  As for the guilt well he'll feel that way now especially Sidney not being here contributed to his death.  Though largely they will attribute that burden to Georgiana's suitor.  Who is revealed to be Charles (Alexander Vlahos) as I was saying since episode 2.  Anyhow Sidney also encourages his brother to take risks much like Arthur does and says.  As life is for taking risks.  Warning he is without scruples and will stop at nothing to steal her inheritance.  Sending shockwaves through the Parker's.  This as Georgiana packs in readiness to escape with him.

The Parker's arrive in the nick and save her from this fate.  As they warn of Charles, who is really her father's nephew, who would stop at nothing including using the most vilest racism to extol her right to inherit.  He failed in his lawsuit due to Sidney.  Charles tries to convince her to leave in a last ditched attempt by using the excuse of failing to see what she was really like until now.  How worthy she is and begs her to leave them behind.  She however wakes up to his gormless charms and refuses to go.  How could she trust him anyway.  He said the same thing when he wanted to paint her by saying he wants to see her true worth and what makes her tick.  That was a lie, but hoping she would believe he was sincere.  Arthur telling him that they are honest and sincere even though Charles calls them "preposterous."  

With a cue to series 3 Mary (Kate Ashfield) tells her that Sidney found out Georgiana's mother's still alive and was searching for her five years ago.  She gives Georgiana her mother's necklace.  Obviously forming an integral story.  Georgiana proposes to Arthur (I must've missed that).  However he's resigned to the resolve that he's not for marriage but they will remain true and firm friends.  But he is genuinely sorry that he introduced her to Charles and put so much misguided faith in him.  

Esther (Charlotte Spencer) is finally revealed as sane as just as Dr Fuchs says she can't be helped.  Clara (Lucy Sacofsky) reveals Edward's (Jack Fox) actions and true intentions, showing them the laudanum he's been using and confesses she can't go through with his plan.  As she smashes the glass and Esther doesn't want Lady Denham (Anne Reid) to punish her as she's Edward's victim too.  Clara realizes she can't be a mother to George and hands him over to Esther as he'll be in good hands.  As for Edward's punishment Lady Denham says the army will be a greater punishment for him or rather she will have to think one up.  He decided he'd rather face the army instead.  But Lennox strips him of his stripes and he returns to mete his punishment.  Which will be slow and painful.  Like he cares, he'll have a roof over his head at least and food in his belly.

Alison (Rosie Graham) realizes her true love for Fraser (Frank Blake) but fears she's too late as the company have departed for India.  Before leaving, he left a gift for her with the Parker's.  Telling her not to open it until he's gone.  But on Georgiana's and Charlotte's advice she opens it and finds a flower on the page of one of his poems.  Charlotte says he loves her and that's his gesture showing this.  However he's at the house as he resigned his commission.  They marry in true Jane Austen style.  Or rather Jane and Mr Bingley and Lizze and Mr Darcy style in Pride and Prejudice.

Charlotte however doesn't have the same good fortune as Colbourne (Alex Lloyd-Hughes) wants her to not breathe a word of what they spoke to anyone.  Which she already blabbed to Georgina and Alison.  Her hopes being dashed after that kiss.  Seems Colbourne is indifferent to his feelings for Charlotte and once again she's left broken hearted.  As Leo (Flora Mitchell) runs away.  They find her at the camp as she asks Lennox if he's her father.  Of course he says no as the only decent thing he's done in his life to save her from heartbreak.  What sort of father would he make.  Just like Clara wouldn't make a good mother in her words.  Colbourne is relieved he didn't tell her as Lennox tells him he's her father.  Also saying that he's not worthy of Charlotte's love as he'll do the same thing to her as he did to Lucy.

Thus his turn of heart and events as he rejects Charlotte.  In a scene akin to Pride and Prejudice where Lizzie objects to Darcy's first proposal.  As she told Augusta (Eloise Webb) she also tells him of her own anguish and loss of love.  That he's been though the same and it's time he got over it, as she has done and start over.  He only has excuses and nothing else as like Tom, he's not even willing to risk it and see how things work out.  He also apologizes twice for taking advantage of her as her employer (wouldn't catch Rochester doing that to Jane Eyre!)  Of course it's his not-so subtle way of pushing her away especially after what Lennox told him.  He must be contemptuously flawed in his personality and character to take anything Lennox says at face value.  Considering Lennox is no judge of character at all himself and hardly a pillar of society after his actions with Lucy.  That was a let down.  Charlotte has had enough of being taken for granted by yet another man who can't follow through on his feelings.  So she actually says "enough!"  As he leaves.  Not a very impromptu Darcy moment.

Mrs Wheatley tells him he'll regret this but obviously that'll have to wait for now.  As Colbourne packs up house and picks up sticks taking Leo and Augusta away with him.  Can't show his face in Sanditon anymore but wasn't he aware Charlotte wouldn't be staying here anyway.  As she introduces her fiance, Ralph to the Parker's, two months on.  Of course before leaving he makes a last ditch attempt based on Augusta's pleas to being Charlotte back for them, having fired her.  She refuses since she says they did take advantage of the situation and overstepped the line.  It shouldn't have happened.  So just doing what her father wanted in marrying Ralph.  Also she appears to have taken a leaf from Sidney's playbook in marrying not for love but convenience.  In his case monetary and in her case having someone as safe as Ralph; at least she won't get her heart broken.

Bring on series 3!

Sanditon Series 2 Episode 3

The company practices shooting and across the distance the noise is heard by Colbourne (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) along with his horse, who happened to be named Hannibal.  As for the gunfire another plot point symbolizing Colbourne being hounded by Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones) even if not actually physically in person.  Lennox still kind of reaches out to annoy him with the army's exercises, even if inadvertently.  Alison (Rosie Graham) is excited by Carter (Maxim Ayes) again and his poetry, though it's not really his of course.  She's not enamoured with intellect but rather the dashing looks of Carter.  She's not much impressed with Fraser (Frank Blake) having a book of poetry and having it with him in battle.  But rather that Carter is the one with the poetic nature, he hasn't a clue but that won't stop the two of them from being in love.  She thinks Charlotte (Rose Williams) will be equally impressed by Lennox and a soldier will be right for her too.  Charlotte still isn't over Sidney and it would be too easy for her to get over him, also since he left her for money - that of another woman and that sort of heartbreak would be hard for her to overcome so easily and quickly.  As seen from the previous episode when she tells Augusta (Eloise Webb) about having a love of her own, who sadly passed.

Not many scenes for Colbourne and you can't help but think that the new characters haven't had a chance to develop and given enough screen time to actually get to know them in depth.  With only six episodes, everything is rushed and no time to take in what's going on at a leisurely pace.  

Meanwhile the Midsummer fair of Sanditon (more like Midsommer Fair ha) where Tom (Kris Marshall) is in a panic over the elephant he had booked not turning up.  Cue Arthur (Turlough Convery) coming to his rescue as he can get a cow that moos.  Lennox and his balloon is booked instead.  Where Charlotte volunteers to be the first to take a ride.  Of course there's trouble when the ropes aren't so easily held onto by the soldiers.  Arthur coming to the rescue.  Giving Lennox a chance to further rub in his animosity towards Colbourne by telling her he stole away Lucy, the love of Lennox's life and proceeded to further add animosity towards him, hoping she'll follow suit.

Mary (Kate Ashfield) is still on the lookout for a husband for Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) and one who isn't after a fortune.  As well as knowing that Charlotte isn't over Sidney and having to put up with the useless business acquisitions and decisions of Tom.  Georgina doesn't suffer fools lightly and the Rev Hankin (Kevin Eldon) isn't helping much thinking that Georgiana will be familiar with elephants.  As she replies she had five, rather flippantly.  Still developing the story of Charles (Alexander Vlahos) and Georgiana as love interests and the chemistry is there.  Yet you can't help but think that something isn't quite right.  As Lady Denham (Anne Reid) is also up in her face over the sugar boycott Georgiana supports since her fortune was a result of sugar.  As Charles shows her a sketch of her and she's not very impressed.  Which is put down to him not knowing her from within, which he hopes to do so.  She's not impressed and conveys this to Arthur.

As the birth of Clara's (Lucy Sacofsky) baby is anticipated, Esther (Charlotte Spencer) feels she and Edward (Jack Fox) are behind this and are plotting against her.  However Clara is adamant she's as much as victim of Edward, as Esther was.  Esther being more concerned with not being able to have a baby herself and yet Clara who doesn't really deserve to, is the one having one.  Esther isn't very well either after she's been to the midwife and as the baby is on its way, she doesn't want Clara giving birth on the stairs and needs to make it upstairs.  Especially since she tells Clara, it was conceived on the floor.  Edward also owes his commission to the army and hasn't paid it yet.  Hoping for a handout from Lady Denham no doubt. Seeing the baby as the golden goose and the answer to his money woes.

Lennox pops up everywhere Charlotte goes like a bad penny and still undermines her against Colbourne.  As Fraser is employed as a dog's body by Lennox in his quest to pick flowers for Charlotte and where he chances upon Alison too.  Leo (Flora Mitchell) vanished and in finding her she comes across Colbourne trying to calm his horse, of course she takes the lead in doing this for him.  More silent exchanges and looks between them.  The pair get caught in the rain and sheltering under a tree is where they find Leo.  A scene almost reminiscent of Sense and Sensibility, where Mariana went out looking for Willoughby's house and got caught in the shower, having to be rescued by Colonel Brandon.  But here the only rescuing is that of Leo, where at a picnic later Colbourne also turns up as they pick flowers and name them.  Charlotte finding out that Augusta's mother was the twin sister of his wife Lucy.  Colbourne giving Charlotte some cornflowers, her favourite.

Just thought that Lucy and her sister dying also being a twin was rather ironic to say the least.  As well as asking which one outlived the other as that wouldn't have been easy on Colbourne if Augusta's mother survived her.  How did Colbourne cope with the memories of seeing his wife with another woman's face.  Though it appears they both lost their mothers at an early age. 

With trouble brewing with the store keeper's unpaid debts, Tom is persuaded to partake in yet another gambling reverie with Lennox where he proceeds to loose yet more money, becoming further indebted. Charlotte having received two posies wonders which one is the more worthy potential suitor and who is the cad.  Though it appears Tom's too easily persuaded into this hence the persuasion reference, okay it wasn't but still...probably was with Charlotte and Lennox.

Sanditon Series 2 Episode 2

Yikes Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones) galloping on his horse at the beach does a beeline for Charlotte (Rose Williams).  The man just can't leave her alone.  Where she has to apologize for her rant on not wanting to marry and would rather work.  At a time when obviously anything a woman does was frowned upon.  He also goes on to practically malign her good character especially as he doesn't know anything about her.  Which wasn't really any different to her extolling the virtues of employment really.  He says she'll get an invite.  This to the company's/regiement's dinner.  

Arthur (Turlough Convery) tells Georgina (Crystal Clarke) Sidney was in Antigua at her behest and this leaves her intrigued, but I would've thought a little guilty at what happened to him.  Though she doesn't show any such feelings and is more puzzled at her own predicament in finding this out, selfishly.  Cue Charles (Alex Vlahos) and his scene with Arthur in which he just seems to ingratiate himself.  Putting on airs and graces of being the arrogant, put upon artists.  More so since Arthur is at times gullible and sees a possible friend in everyone, however this isn't a harsh criticism just that he's very approachable.  As opposed to Tom (Kris Marshall) who just drives people apart and potty at his less than informed decisions.  Easily gullible in that respect too.  Whereas Arthur appears to have more of a head for business than Tom.  Charles sketches Arthur on the beach and says he would be deemed very artistic-y in Paris.  As said a chance to get in with the crowd, particularly Georgiana.

Charlotte is frowned upon when she enters Heyrick Park through the front door as she should be using the servant's entrance from now on.  She's met by the housekeeper, Mrs Wheatley (Flo Wilson).  On her first day there she's also late and Mrs Wheatley proceeds to tell her she's part of a wager on how long she'll last (was this is a subtle reference to The Sound of Music, sans bet as the governesses who were driven away by the Von Trapp children.)  As Augusta's first words are to this effect as she doesn't need a governess.  Charlotte says that her bet is safe as she has a resolve to stay and once her mind is made up she very rarely changes it.  Well wait til she meets her employer Colborne (Ben Lloyd Hughes).  Who introduces Augusta (Eloise Webb) and his daughter, Leonora/Leo (Flora Mitchell).  Not an easy task as he also seems distanced from them too.  He only wants her to convert Leo to a lady and for Augusta to be prepared for marriage.  As women shouldn't be working let alone having an education, thinking for themselves being up above their station.  Augusta who appears to be on the same wavelength as her uncle taunts Rose for being single and embroiders 'spinster' making sure to point it out to Charlotte.  Charlotte tells her about Sidney and being loved, but he died.  Making Augusta endear to her a little more. 

Alison (Rosie Graham) has cast her sights and net firmly on Captain Carter (Maxim Ays) and obsequiously treats Captain Fraser (Frank Blake) like a leper.  Being enamoured of the one she feels is more handsome and brave.  Georgiana accompanies her to their camp as the soldiers engage in swordplay and Carter admits he isn't as intellectually gifted as Fraser.  Thus requiring his help in procuring Alison's advances with a touch of poetry, which Fraser helps him with.  A veritable Cyrano de Bergerac scenario.

Meanwhile Tom ignores Arthur's request of building a Theatre Royal but he's more interested in a permanent barracks.  Like what possible attraction could they have, let alone a money making idea.  Tom proceeds to show Lennox around the town and Arthur senses the flaws in him whereas Tom whole heartedly accepts him for who he is.  No alarm bells ringing for him, not when money bells ring instead.  Lennox senses Tom's hastiness and eagerness in wanting the barracks to go ahead and also his gullible nature which he will use to his advantage.  Not like Sidney is there to rescue him.  

Edward (Jack Fox) tries to show Lady Denham (Anne Reid)that he's a changed man but Esther (Charlotte Spencer) can see through the charade suggesting he should go drown himself.  Many references to water and drowning in this, especially since Alison will also almost meet that fate in an episode.  Was that some kind of Mill on the Floss moment.  Whilst in church, Ester is accosted by the Rev Hankins (Kevin Eldon) who makes snide comments about her and children.  Though his sister, Beatrice (Sandy McDade) knows what Charlotte is going through and suggests a midwife who may be able to help her with her baby predicament as she has with other women.  

At the dinner, an opportunity for Charles to make a spectacle of himself in the hopes of winning Georgina over, showing his typical artist demeanour.  As he proceeds to toast Napoleon to the chagrin of Lennox.  Who is persuaded by  Lady Denham to ignore him as he's an artist.  Maybe that should be in inverted commas as it's a very big clue to his actual deceptive nature.  By trying to show Georgiana he's not a consummate bore, he tires to worm his way into her affections, as he senses that's what she's interested in.  As Arthur places their name cards together at the dinner table seating arrangements.  Lennox tries to impress Charlotte but she's not falling for any of it least of which his reaction of disdain when she tells him she's a governess for Colbourne.  It's as if someone's walked over Lennox's grave when he hears that!  Alison getting to sit next to Fraser where she does get more banter than she would have with Carter.  

The cliffhanger of the ep is Clara (Lily Sacofsky) turning up, a very pregnant Clara, allegedly the father being Edward.  Of course this is off played with Esther who desperately wants a child but can't and here's Clara who has it all, except Esther's wealth.