Ghost Adventures "Fear In Flagstaff"

Zak: "we walk the same ground from generations before, sharing the same air.  What if what we see through our eyes is just an illusion and the reality are the chills that we receive when we cross paths with those who have lived before."

In Flagstaff, Arizona he can feel those who came before and wonders who's watching them as they look for them.  An old place, with an old building and you look up to it and the building knows you have an ability to connect with the other spirit dimension and the sound is deafening.  That's what's happening at the Flagstaff Arizona Hotel.  In 1912 Henry Rockmark, an upstanding person checked into the hotel in October 1912.  He drew his gun and fired at something no one could see.  He didn't know what haunted him and he was enraged and panicked.  Sheriff called in and he continued with this behaviour and he fired at the sheriff and he was shot dead.  That haunting is still within the hotel and is seen by staff and guests.

The Weatherford Hotel needs help.  Sam Green and Henry Taylor have opened the hotel since 1975 and aren't aware of the shooting of Henry Rockmark.  Henry says it's scary to listen to it but in history it is interesting.  Guests haven't wanted to stay after they've checked out.  They've had feelings and seen figures.  Someone who worked for them felt there was a ghost and a bad ghost.  The bad one named Algernon.  Their dog, Mona, was terrified by something in the basement and Sam believes she died by the stress from the building.  Manager Drew saw unexplained activity at the bar.  A bottle fell off the shelf by itself.  Henry bought the place and the ads advertizing for weekly rates.  He's interrupted and prevented from finishing his story by the fall of a crew member.  He collapses and hits his head on a chair.  Gavin is afraid.  What happened to the ads Drew was talking about???!!!  That's what I want to know.  Why was he prevented from continuing his story on how Henry bought the place?!

Investigating the basement Zak uses the Polterpod and Billy interrupts him with the EMF readings.  Zak gets light headed by the door, where Gavin collapsed.  Well the Polterpod session is gone too.  Zak provokes the bad spirit, Algernon.  Aaron's Go Pro stops recording when Billy says his name.  Flowers For Algernon came to my mind for no reason.  Nothing was caught on the digital recorder.  Zak gets an image of a man breathing erratically.  Jay gets a stabbing pain in his stomach and Jay gets a red spot behind his ear and feels burning.  Which gets longer and redder.  He has spikes around him.  Where Jay was standing black marks can be seen on the wall like burning, which weren't there before.  The EMF keeps spiking and Jay looks out of it.  Zak says they've never seen Jay like that before.  It's always Jay who gets affected in some way.  Zak says "Henry wants to kill Jay."  Why did he say that about the hotel owner or the deceased Henry?

Chelsea, their daughter, takes them upstairs.  Room 42 she finds scary and she lived here until she was ten.  She felt a spirit telling them not to come in the hallway and she had a vision of someone killing themselves in the hallway.  A woman fell out of the window and was going through a divorce and she fell from her balcony in Room 59.  In Room 54 the most active room was turned into a maid's closet.  Susan Johnson, historian and author.  In the 1940's a couple came for their honeymoon in were given room 54 and were not seen for days.  The bride was found laid on the bed in her wedding gown and groom was in a chair by the bed with a gun in his hand.  They deemed it a murder/suicide.  Room 59 where the woman fell to her death.  They don't understand the power they're dealing with and they could be in danger.   Billy shows them evidence from trap cams.  In the hallways they see an anomaly and also one goes for the camera lens.  Same as when Gavin was operating the camera.  

In 1897 the hotel was established.  A noise is heard upstairs.  Someone is walking around.  A woman's high pitched voice is heard.  Aaron hears a woman saying hello.  Zak captures a woman on the thermal by the lamp in the room where they heard the woman.  Aaron says she looks like she's got flamingo legs.  

Aaron uses the Polterpod and says Algernon again and a voice comes through saying "evil."  Aaron says a black shadow flies over his head.  "Kids...that's her".  A light anomaly goes into the Polterpod.  I hear "kissed" not kids.  Why would kids come through?  Billy uses the XLS and they hear a laugh.  A figure stands on the chair next to the lamp on the other side of the bed.  

Then a figure shows up on the chair and looks to be firing a gun with his left hand.  

Zak goes into a trance and says "I love you, I love you, I love you too."  He felt nirvana and ecstasy and he wanted to have sex.  Billy says he's channelling.  Zak just wants to enjoy it and not explain it.  That's why I said I heard kiss come through before!  Makes sense now!

In Room 54 outside they hear a bell, I didn't hear it.  Aaron opens the door but looks like something pulls it open.  Two anomalies come from the hallway one enters and one goes towards them.  The motion balls light up.  Using the Ovilus Large Threshold Mop. comes through.  When Zak asks to say something in this room.  A mop in the corner is seen and he leaves it standing.  When at nerve centre the mop falls.  Zak wants someone to go into the basement by themselves and Zak has four throws and ends up going.  Something falls from somewhere.  He calls them back and says he can't go to that room from earlier.  Aaron calls on Algernon again and something falls inside, a screen that was standing up earlier.  Using the Polterpod asking who he is?  "Marcus" comes through.  Zak wonders of Algernon is Marcus and was he named this by the person who saw him.  He didn't sound evil though.   

Ghost Adventures "Lockdown In Lancaster"

 Lancaster, California where the prison complex Mira Loma opened 1945.  So much violence and blood.  First ones to investigate here.  Was also an an immigration centre, TB centre, juvenile facility.  80 years of suffering here includes accidents, TB, riots and the lingering energy of those murdered inside.  Suicides, electrocution and locked away from the world.  All this has left the energy 'complicated'.  Entered by many gates and had to use golf karts.  All risidual and pain, fear and death is awaiting for them to do what it needs to do.  An interviewee, Clark Nichols, a former guard.  Barracks 23 aka The Hole.  He's afraid of a certain building, the George barracks.  Weird noises came from the inmates housing and no one wanted to be there.  At this building they don't know what to expect.  It's freezing cold inside.  Lauren's heart is racing and she still wants to stay.  She goes into cell 9 the one with the most activity.  Billy closes the door but she can't get out.  As though someone or thing is holding it.  Zak confronts the entity and he felt his heart stop.

Monica joins them, a former employee.  Saying something dark is in G Barracks.  Inside she says you'd feel a dark presence and hear moving.  When she checked everyone was asleep.  She feels anxious and she can't breathe.  A former employee tells them of another dark building.  Many entities can find somewhere to live.  Kitchen mess hall is active with noises and doors opening by themselves.  He sees a dark shadow.  The EMF spikes.  The basement where Aaron feels like being choked.  Bloody handprints can be seen on the wall.  What was that black mass like a large figure behind Zak on the wall and there's a stick figure where Aaron was standing.  Which Jeff doesn't say it's there, but instead he gets angry.  He also got affected at the juvenile facility special ep Devil's Den. Then a figure stands between Jeff and Aaron. If you can see the black mass behind them against the wall and how it seems to be moving and they're not shadows.

The above two photos shows a stick figure on the left behind Zak that Jeff didn't tell them about.

Jay gets affected in the cafeteria and is marked.  Something is around Zak as he asks Jay what's wrong? and he backs away from him.  He doesn't like what he's feeling.  Jay feels it and doesn't like it.  Zak says he doesn't want to attack Jay.  

Aaron feels something grabs his shirt and spider webs were on him.  Zak doesn't lock him in and pinky  promises.  Aaron feels like he's tasting fish and Thousand Island sauce.

Investigating building 22.  In Building 23 some sounds are heard.  A light anomaly lights up the motion sensor balls and the IR light goes out.  They hear banging sounds in what appears to be medium security.  Billy thinks it was a locker.  The Mess Hall where a light anomaly is caught on the X-cam.  The EMF pegs as it's freezing cold.  A figure stands between Billy and Aaron on the thermal camera. 

The camera doesn't pick up shadows.  The figure shows up when the EMF pegged.  Zak feels a breath on the back of his neck and Aaron says he heard Zak call him "a little bitch."  

In the cafeteria he feels drained of energy.  They sit on the seat allowing a spirit and one pulls out the stool and sits there.  A figure comes through and moves the seat out for itself.  On the Polterpod a voice comes through "alright" and then a scream, didn't that sound like Aaron??  Then something is thrown.  A voice says "I'm back of, or I'm Baccus??"  Then "this is Willie" comes through.  "I bit a man" comes through after Zak asks what he did?   

Zak locks Jay inside G Barracks.  Before that he tells him he needs to suffer and be in pain.  So he asks if he wants to get pepper sprayed or eating the world's hottest gummi bear.  Pepper spray would've been better since it wouldn't affect your insides.  Cell 9 EVP session with Jay.  Voices come through.  A spirit says "we love you."  "I'm choking my friend."  Seems Jay was accepted after the distress from the gummi bear.  Cell 5 asks what he should know spending the night here.  A voice comes through "you get up or out??" and then some screaming. 

The investigation gave them the most remarkable evidence ever captured.  The investigation will go down in history according to Zak.  

Ghost Adventures "Hotel Barclay"

Downtown LA again where they investigated the iconic evil hotel in the whole of the US, the Hotel Cecil, but now at the Hotel Barclay and he wasn't aware of "the older, wicked brother."   Named the Van Nuys originally it was built in 1896 for the wealthy and changed its name to the Barclay in 1929 leading to a darker era.  It's almost abandoned today.  Haunted by dark entities a result of a serial killer, a murderer who dismembered a woman along the lines of the Black Dahlia murder.  Mostly 13 deaths and other suicides too.  Most of the information they wanted was from witnesses Star Garcia was to speak with them and she turns up late.  Zak says the interview is important.  

James Bartlett, author, journalist and he was at the Hotel Cecil.  James says there's violent crimes here for some reason.  The three hotels are in a triangle, he calls them "the suicide hotels."  One man left a note for his wife who he divorced saying that as he's roasting in hell cos of what she's done and killed himself with cyanide.  Zak describes himself as a sensitive and he feels this residual energy at a high level.  Have been 'Jack the Ripper' style killings, cutting off arms and legs.  Vergi Lee Griffin in 1944, killed by Otto Stephen Wilson and was discharged from the army.  Picked up a woman at the bar, had drinks and he murdered her.   Cut her from top to bottom and then did the same somewhere else.  Zak wants to know why this happens in this area here and doesn't happen in other hotels they've investigated.

The Skid Row Slasher killed eleven and nine others in eight weeks.  Over 40 males and all drunks.  The seventh vic found at the Barclay.  Salt around the corpse, his shoes removed and the killer may have even drank his blood.  3 February 1975, Vaughn Orrin Greenwood sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty.  Room 528.  Star Garcia turns up three hours late.  Lived in room 320 with her boyfriend in 2017 and didn't want to enter it again.  No one was in there just a few people.  On the third floor just her and one couple on the far end and no one else.  The building was completely empty.  She experienced it on her floor.  He was dead for a week right next door to her, three feet from where she lived.  One died in front of the bathroom.  Her boyfriend lived at the hotel for 14 years.  He felt the building wanted him to come back in and after he left he knew the building was crazy.  Star said a ghost threw the platters off the wall and they lived with the ghost rather then the ghost living with them

15th March 1972 a fire broke out on the top floor.  Fires still continue today.  Ronald said it happened four times around 2-4 o'clock in the morning.  No witnesses to describe how the fires began.  Zak asks if the building could be purging itself by compelling others to start the fires.  Sirens go off as a fire starts across the street.  People dressed as Ghost Busters turn up.  A resident asks who they are?  Began their investigation upstairs but the lift doesn't work, as in the Hotel Cecil.  Tragic events here too, waiter Charles Gamble was crushed between the lift and third floor landing.  1901 the janitor watched the lift up the shaft and the weight crushed him.  See Zak in Jerome Grand Hotel ep where he could've met the same fate in that life and had to be dragged out.   Investigate room 320 and the room doesn't open and it's abandoned too.  The stairs are locked too.  He says the vibe here is worse than the Hotel Cecil.

Billy and Aaron investigate the basement and he and Jay go to the third floor to Star's floor and room.  He says they come in peace and just want to study the people here.  Leaves the recorder on.  He can feel the presence and pain of the people who lived here.  A banging is heard.  They see something move in the window.  In the basement, which is very large.  Aaron asks if those mirrors could talk and later on, one kind of does.  They try to speak with Virgie.  The Trifield spikes when Billy speaks to Virgie if she's there and Billy feels pain under his ribs.  They leave.  Zak feels sick too.  Left motion activated game cameras on second and third floors and a time lapse camera.  At 3.24 am they capture a black mass which rises up towards the ceiling.  In the mirror there is something in the mirror in the third photo.  Looks like a dismembered body.  Well Aaron, the mirror talked.  

Looks like a torso without a head

At 3.20 a man comes out and tries to open room 320 and he acts funny like something is after him.  They say just like Elisa Lam in the Hotel Cecil.  The motion ball lights up. 

On the second floor and the temperature is freezing.   The ball lights up on command.  Aaron's spirit box "need to talk" comes through.  Question if it could be Virgie.  "See those workers Aggie"??  "It's not" when Zak says he thinks he heard murder.  "You're right" as Aaron replies maybe it's not Virgie.  Billy takes the Polterpod to the black mass room. "In they go" is what I hear and sounds parrot fashion, like a parrot repeating itself.  A piece of wood is thrown behind them.  An anomaly comes from the door frame.  Billy says they walked into the room and Billy opened the closet and wonders if it happened here.  Aaron asks if she died here "chopped liver" is heard but doesn't sound it.  Then "you're in trouble" comes through.  Billy feels something on his forearm.  'Closet' comes through on the Ovilus.  Then footsteps are heard.  

Zak uses the XLS.  Aaron and Jay in the basement.  The R2600 synthesizer which produces different frequencies, three different frequencies going at the same time like infra sound.   Responses come through.  Does it say her name is Anne?  Then a spirit asks Aaron if he's "ready."  "Here"??  I don't hear "hate him."  Aaron then feels pain.  Zak goes to 320 again.  First the stick figure lays on the ground, then crawls up the wall before heading to Billy.  'Begin Near' on the Paranormal Puck 2.  It touches his hand.  Class A EVP  "door's not open or door's off"???  A light anomaly vanishes into the door handle.  Zak says they received good evidence of poltergeist activity, intelligent responses and a very dark entity.  

This article is a very good potted history: 

https://la.curbed.com/2017/10/20/16476232/hotel-barclay-history-downtown

Death Walker 3.5 "Carrie Blast Furnace"

 Pittsburgh Steel City has more than 300 steel related businesses.  Pennsylvania was the hub of import/export of iron/steel in the US.  In 1910 more than 60 per cent production of steel took place here.  After World War II the industry declined and there was a crisis in 1974.  In 1979-82 workers lost jobs and industries closed.  Today most were torn down or renovated but the Carrie Furnace still is around.  The two furnaces numbers 6 and 7 built were in 1907 and ran until 1978.  Over 15k steel workers and known for the amount of iron and steel production.  Steel workers still are around today but not here.  Mistakes and accidents still occur on sites today.  Even if they did back then, the public would overlook them and without the safety protocols and procedures today, they had to do what they had to in the early days.  Hot steel burns and once covered a worker's body, would 'cook' them to death.  Also carbon monoxide poisoning would suffocate them.  A National Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation exits and many paranormal activity documented today at the furnace is by them.  Paranormal investigators and tourists have seen this activity.  Nick uses new equipment built by Steve Haltay, an engineer.   Nick wants to see what extent the spirit can manipulate emotions, conscious and relay messages and give answers and why this place is still being haunted.

Two furnaces in 1907-1978 were the best of the day.  Risk of injury and death was high.  The Stockhouse were shadow figures and apparitions have been seen.  The Stovedeck where many chains rattle.  The locker room with feelings of being sick.  The cast house where people have heard voices. Much power here and people that he knows and trusts have experienced the paranormal.  One saw full body apparitions.  The first night they investigated and one saw a shadow figure appeared.  The Corporation have conducted investigations here and have seen and caught evidence.  And the electricity and force stays.  The presence of the men and women who worked here.  Saw a man with a hardhat and he vanished.  

Traumatic and sudden deaths on the site thus much activity.  Some residual.  As they worked so much here and they know the place.  Casthouse number 6 was where the furnace was opened and iron was taken out.  Sulphur fumes and temperature can reach 400 degrees.  Working 12 hour shits for 6 days a week.  In later years they got regular hours due to the unions.  People would slip and fall in.  Material sticks to the sides of the furnace and slips and forces the plug open and molten iron squirts out.  Which happened in the 1920's and 34 people died.  Furnaces are powered by gas.  Furnaces had to be opened and closed by hand.  In the early years had to be in a gang and if not out in time, needed to be rescued.  Gas level indicators worn today but it's still dangerous. The Stockhouse here materials have been removed.  Many investigators felt something move past them.  His dogs were afraid of that end of the site.  

Nick starts his investigation in the furnace.  Where people died in the gaps/large trenches.  He can feel the energy.   He asks for a name?  He fell into the area "yeah."  "Smith" is what I heard.  He can tell what happened to him "yeah."  He tripped and fell.  No one wants to grab Nick's hand or they can't.  A voice says "no...too hard."  That's what I said: that they can't.  He died "accident...no shit."  

Steve Haltay's new equipment: a highly skilled paranormal engineer.  He uses the Tesla coil again.  As well as the The FM Chaos Box and the ITC device.  "I touch it" I heard come though when it's switched on.  "We here."  They can see him from the other side.  His name is "Nick."  "Ghost" comes through; "a little bit."  He ask if they think they're ghosts?  Jim is here?  "Yes."  He's doing "good."  He's working on "the machines."  Was involved in an accident "oh yeah."  "You're a man" when Nick asks how they see him.  "Fell through."  

He uses the Chaos Box.  They're here with him.  "Yeah."  "Edward."  They work all day and night and they come to the locker room but as a spirit they come back not knowing they died to get their belongings.  So much energy and emotion in the room.  Try to use his energy and pass through him.    "Brain injury".  "Hurt.  "Brain...help."  "Heart."  "Dead...cry."  Nick asks how they know they're dead?  But nothing comes through.

"That's them."  He asks if they can seem them from the other side?  "There's no way out."  I heard a "yes" in response to his question of whether they can see them.  The Stockroom where solid figures have been seen.  He asks if he died right here..."yes...I did."  He feels an eerie presence there.  He can pick up on their emotions.  No reply to what it's like on the other side.  A noise is heard.  Justin says something ran by.  Nick uses the lasers.  Something breaks the lasers, a figure walks through it but not seen on camera.  Justin doesn't see it either but hears it.  "Heat" when Nick asks how hot it gets in here.  What happens when you die, did it say "end."??  It asks "are you dead?"  Nick asks what they see?  Nick comes through.  He's standing right there.  They don't answer as to what it's like on the other side, or wherever they are.  Some sort of sound is heard again, could be residual from working there.

He felt like he walked with the souls who risked their lives to build America's foundation.  The steel stood the test of time through world events.  Communicating with spirits shows energy of people can manifest even in the afterlife to tell their stories, telling them what they went through.  His investigation can document the history of the workers here. 

Ghost Adventures "Lake of Death"

Lake Mead, Las Vegas, where bodies were found, such as at Boulder Beach.  Lake Mead built in 1936 is the biggest reservoir in the US.  Accidental deaths occurred here and is also a good location for murders and the lake drying up by global warming revealing more secrets.  Zak talks of a recurring nightmare and falling off a ship in deep water and drowning.  He asks why he had that dream and his fear of deep, dark water.  He wrote about this in his first book Dark World.  The waterline shows the lake was all underwater, the land is visibly more clearer to the eye.  Life looks like its been sucked out of the lake and blood is receding.  Why is the Lake so deadly?  

Dennis McBride, a former Director of the Nevada State Museum, writer and historian.  He says the earth is a sentient being reacting when you do bad to it.  The government knew the waters were going to rise and flood and have an impact on an entire population when the lake rose by the Hoover Damn.  Dr Travis Heggie: Lake Mead "is the Lake of death".  He's seen 2,000 deaths not to mention the workers who died.  Homicides, suicides, accidents and the Lake is cursed at unheard of levels.  Six deaths so far and they're only getting deaths from this lake due to it being Las Vegas and the mob.  He wouldn't be surprised if a month from now they'd get more bodies here.  He feels he can hear bodies crying at night.

Many have died here, the recreationists, Native Americans, all lived here and are buried here and a ghost town of St Thomas was flooded by the Dam.  The spirits of those residents could still be on the shores.  They took this land and they cry out for the land and their suffering.  He's also a member of the National Park Service member.  He mentions shapeshifters.  That we already know of.  Didn't mention the dispatcher's name.  She and her husband fwork for NPS and would hear reports of shapeshifting creatures at the Lake.  Could have been humans morphing into coyotes.  [See the Ghost Hunters Hoover Dam episode and wonder if Zak got the idea to investigate Lake Mead from there as they investigated  the damn and mentioned the levels in Lake Mead dropping and bodies being found.] Similar to a skinwalker, which we all know about.  Confirmed the existence of shapeshifters.  

Zak talks of twins, Ryan and River.  Hemenway Harbour where there were a large number of drownings.  He feels like being on Mars, hearing voices and feeling energies.  They can hear coyotes howling.  The twins got words from spirits telling them which way to go and this was before the body that was found in the barrel with GS wounds.  They ere swarmed by coyotes and they think they wanted them away from that area.  One coyote didn't seen normal and it looked disappointed at not being able to grab them.  

Billy gets activity on the EMF when he mentions the names of people who died there.  17th November a suicidal woman threatened to kill her son and she killed him in the car by driving it over.  Zak calls the lake "a cemetery, a tomb, a crypt."  Water submerged the sacred land of the native Americans and the town.  A barrel was found with a body and he was murdered.  At the shore he feels the air getting heavier and is intent on keeping secrets.  They felt like they were getting attacked.  He's convinced they're on cursed land.  Dr Heather Leigh believes portal might be located.  The railroad tunnels used when the dam was being constructed.  She could see shadows and a construction worker with a hard hat.  Many men died where they claimed to have died of pneumonia but they actually died of carbon monoxide poisoning.  Hikers were exploring in 1988 and discovered a body.  So the energy could've opened up a portal.  They thought the dam was set up like Satan's throne.  People conducted satanic rituals there.

Zak and Jay investigate the rail tunnels and Billy and Aaron investigate the Government Wash area.  Boulder Dam railroad tunnels, fences open.  A light is seen in the distance.  They travel on a dirt path via motorbike.   They arrive at the first of five tunnels.  Zak is scared of the tunnel.  Zak's camera drains as soon as they enter Tunnel 1.  A scream is heard but kind of sounds more like a coyote than a man, or maybe a shapeshifter.  Zak notices a black hole on the ceiling the Lydar doesn't pick up.  A figure is mapped as if it manifested out of the hole.  It then shifts on all fours as though it's flying.  Must be a shapeshifter.  It's a very tall figure.  Zak demos the figure's actions.

There was a light seen.  Jay sees a light and then a person was standing in the middle of the tunnel. There's a storage container.  I just asked what was there like a dark figure.  Zak uses the DASANC device filtering out the static sweeps and just leaves a spirit voice.  No responses.  Zak sees something in the tunnel looks like a shadow figure.  Which is what I saw later on with a light shining.  Then a head about it as if carrying a lantern. That's what I saw and what the Dr Leigh said about a construction worker.  It's like his head is reflecting as a shadow on the rocks.  

This one above is where it looks like a construction worker with a hat and also carrying a light.

Billy analyzes what they captured.  The XLS figure. and the dark shadow figure.  Zak asks if the shapeshifters are demons and Billy thinks perhaps the men disturbed something in the rocks when they were constructing the dam.  Reports more men died from unreported Carbon monoxide poisoning.  As well as suicides at the dam.  Zak calls this a "nuclear energy" for these deaths.  He used his IR binoculars when he captured the figure.  

The Wash where drownings and deaths have occurred.  Their infrared lights go out and flash beforehand.  A light manifests out of the ground as Billy feels tingly on his head.  At Gypsum Wash Aaron and Billy use the Polterpod.  Another light is being manipulated.  They use the paranormal puck in the sand and hear a man's voice.  "Ready."  "Yes"??  Fick??  Sounds like Eddie not Ben.  Or Freddy??  Aaron says he feels sad before he was hyper and now he doesn't feel that way.  At the launch ramp two bodies were found.  They're going to investigate the ramp and where the water used to be.  Aaron asks what's wrong with land "Reap Before Time" comes through on the Ovilus.  Zak thinks it means the consequences of submerging sacred land.

"July Ninety Cloud."  Billy looks up the date Lake Mead drowning and he wonders how the Ovilus could say that about a body that wasn't found on that date.  "Slain Truth Unholy" they were murdered or slain by something unholy.  "Find Mother Dispose" find their mother whose body was disposed here.  Billy feels the spirits are queuing up to talk to them.  They hear a scream of a high pitch noise.  

They need to investigate the last three tunnels, the largest and scariest.  Zak takes Billy back there with him.  He sends Jay and Aaron and Lauren to Devil's Cove. 13th May 1939 a man was living in a hut at Devil's Cove.  He was reported to NPS as he was chanting at an alter near his hut.  Fishermen asked him to go fishing with them.  He tried to kill one of them and was possessed and took a knife and tried to stab them on the boat.  He was shot and killed there.  There were symbols and markings around his hut so he was worshipping something dark.  He was speaking in tongues in the boat.  Zak asks if he was setting up an alter in order to conjure the shapeshifters.  Devil's Cove on satellite resembles the devil.  Zak says there is tainted blood flowing in the veins of the hosts he was worshipping.

Jay and Aaron were meant to get there by helicopter but they don't arrive by helicopter as the pilot refuses to fly to Devil's Cove.  They travel by ATVs and guides.  They couldn't find another helicopter.  I said it looks like there's a storm brewing.  They try to work out how to get there.  There's overgrown bushes and trees.  They hear something that sounds like water. I didn't hear it.  They leave trap cams on the land.  Lauren captures a light in the side ahead of them.  They're surrounded by fox holes.  They're lost and don't make it to the Cove.  Aaron gets angry and they use an hour trying to get out.  Another light is captured.   Jay says they have to find their cameras as well.  Aaron says he heard Jay chanting.  He conducts a conjuring ceremony to see what the hut man was connecting with.  He sits in the circle and they capture what looks like a figure on the XLS sitting outside of the circle but unable to enter.  The Trifield also detects results.  Blue anomaly on the Polaroid.  

Zak and Billy take off-road bikes to Tunnels 3, 4 and 5.  They hear more screaming.  Tunnel 3 leads Zak to get some pain going through his rib cage.  A male voice says "I don't hear or care"??  Zak tells them to connect to their centres and reveal their identities.  The voice comes through and says "I'm here."  "Come again"??  Billy says all he can hear in his head is '5, 5,5,5,5'.  So that was a forewarning, foreshadowing of what was to come in Tunnel 5.  At Tunnel 4 a voice says "come on."  A knocking sound is heard like someone chipping away at the rocks.  A deep voice comes through.  Didn't that sound like Aaron "gotta go"???  A 13.2 Miligause spike Zak is hit and he feels being hit in the chest with a sledgehammer.  When Billy uses the device on 33 Hertz.  Zak can't breathe.  A ticking is heard.  A ball of mist goes around him and into his chest.  Was there some light anomaly on the ceiling too??  When Zak runs away.  He shows the anomaly coming down where he was attacked.  Was it what I saw the other way on the ceiling.  Zak said he found a frequency it didn't like at 33.  Billy uses the tone generator again.

Zak doesn't want to go back in there.  I saw that too before he asks what was that?  Billy starts mumbling and is out of sorts.  That's the 5's in his head from earlier.  He says "frequency 5, 5."  Zak asks what Billy was doing.  He asks if they've finished.  He doesn't know what's happening.  Then creeps up on Zak causing him to stumble back.  Billy asks if the experiment is over.  Billy panics as Zak gave it permission to enter their bodies and Zak wants them out of there.  Zak says he wants to close and remove itself from their space.  Zak uses the Lydar scanner leaving Billy outside.  

They analyze the hovermap and see something resembling a creature with a rib cage. 

An animal on all fours with a horn.  The figure on the shapeshifters on the wall in Tunnel 1??  Zak says that's what touched him taking his energy to visually show itself at the cost of what they went through.

Death Walker 3.4 "High School of the Dead"

To understand the haunting plaguing this location of Defiance Junior High School and to reveal reasons why.  This building was named after Fort Defiance and constructed in 1794 by General Anthony Wayne as a defence against British soldiers.   He ordered troops to destroy Native American villages and other surrounding towns were flooded in 1913.  The High School building was demolished and the building of today built in 1918.  1891 saw a janitor , John Moll murdered in mysterious circumstances after he reported the Principal CW Butler in a compromising position with a teacher.  After the claims he was hiding at a friend's house.  Yet his body was found on the tracks.  His legs were nearly severed and throat slit as well as being stabbed twice in the chest.  His death was declared a suicide.  He was murdered and this was stated by many, including friends, family and the coroner.  Students have talked about the paranormal activity whilst at school.  Being watched, voices are heard and shadow figures.  As well as full bodied apparitions during the classes.  Could be John's anger towards the town and maybe he is lashing out.  

Talking to former students who had experiences.  After gym class and he went back to the locker room and felt cold chills.  He felt he was being stared at.  People have seen lights in the windows and had feelings in the basement.  Another one was in gym class and she heard voices.  She saw a woman in the hallway walking back and forth.  All their experiences were mostly during gym class or in the gym.  In the school band and went to put his instrument away and a music stand fell.  Austin Maynard, a paranormal investigator looked into the location and history.  A murder, a suicide and football players dying on the field.  They wanted to clean the building and they've seen shadow figures.  Three girls went to the third floor and were chased out.  He's seen apparitions in the gym and an entity called 'The Principal'.  He controls the building.  As well as arson being involved.  A crawl space in the basement was where John lived.  

Nick uses the Tesla coil on the third floor.  He uses the #X10 device.  He wants the spirits to use the energy to manifest.  A voice is heard, I heard a "ooh ooh."  Which was rather noisy.  But a lot of voices came through.  "Stay together."  Nick feels dizzy by the stairs.  Austin stating people felt sick.  A banging sound is heard and Nick says it was a locker.  But they're locked.  Could be residual or actually happened.  He thinks whatever made the sound ran down to the second floor.  Did somebody die here? "Yes."  Nick hears a whisper behind him.  He has goosebumps through his body.  I also hear "Nick" here.  "It was me" when he asks if he was standing there.  "John" I didn't hear that.  "Man."  "Dead."  A scream comes through.  

Boiler room in the basement and his crawl space.  Also the subject of a Destination Fear ep.  Nick feels goosebumps again.  Footsteps can be heard.  So he's been haunting this school for what over 200 years.  A loud bang is heard again.  Nick climbs into his crawl space and the energy gets stronger.  Footsteps are heard again and a noise in the crawl space itself.  Nick says someone's walking behind Justin who steps onto the ladder.  Nick felt the negative presence surrounding him.  Another noise is heard and Nick says it was something hitting a pipe and walking again.  Nick uses an experiment to find who the spirits are using a laser and turns on the device so a static sound will be stopped if something comes into the laser.  Devised by KD Stafford and Austin.  Nick sees a face move in front of him.  

"See him"??  "Was that you?"  "Yeah."  "Shock."  The laser breaks and the noise stops.  The light flashed or seems to.  "You did that."  A whistling sound is heard.  "Behind him...is there a problem?"  "By you."  "See a fire, man or fireman"?? "Huge fire."  "He died."  Nick felt sick and threw him off balance.  He thinks there's a dark, lingering presence and connecting with their energies.  He goes to the part near the other locker room.  Using another experiment with the laser and the ITC experiment to document who The Principal is.  In the locker room light frequencies energy move with him follow him.   He wants John to follow him or anyone else.  He wants John to move through the smoke and light and take his hand.  He feels weird in the space.  He hears a voice come through, didn't hear it.  Another banging is heard was there a shadow on the left?? when the camera shows the view by the wall.

He uses another experiment using the Ghost Helmet.  To try and see what can connect with his energy.  He hears talking.  "Nick" is heard.  "Violence."  "Ghost."  Did "Frank" come through?  "Necessary."  His is drained and feels like he crossed into another realm and allowed him to spiritually connect to the other side.  He heads to the gym to see if he can connect with the shadow figure.  "Problem...issue...send a message...can't do it...suicide stuff...suicide..."  Downstairs to where the dark energy is lingering and tries to make contact before sunrise.  "Dead...yes...find him??"  New insight into this place.  Nick says John remains and hopes his voice can be heard from beyond.  A fire, lost soul, still need help.  He feels emotions lingering and he questions what the negative energy is and he shows Austin and will return to the school hoping to solve the negative presence.  Energy of the past becomes restless, so communication is important to remain in a positive environment.  This journey is important to him to uncover more evidence of what happens after death and in the afterlife.  

Death Walker 3.3 "Hospital on the Haunted Hill"

In the City of Williamson, flows the Tug River in the southern region of West Virginia.  The blood feud between the Hatfield's and the McCoy's who between them suffered 13 deaths til 1891.  It wasn't until 2003 when they both signed a truce officially ending the feud. The original hospital was destroyed by a fire.  The four story hospital served the Tug Valley area for 60 years.  The ER was in the basement. In winter 1956 a passenger train was derailed and all 23 injured were at the hospital.  In July 1962, Moses Blackburn argued with his wife and he shot the policeman at the scene in the head.  The other officers captured and took him to the hospital to treat the gunshot wound in his arm.  Blackburn leapt out of the window but he didn't die then.  It was said he was plagued by nightmares of someone after him.  He died later by drowning in his own fluids.  Closed in 1988.  Was used as offices and storage.  Tanya Webb purchased as co-owner.  People mentioned hearing disembodied voices and apparitions.

A nurse who worked and died here and is seen by employees and construction workers.  A floating nurse is seen in the basement area.  The PD has responded to calls.  People report lights turning on and off and seeing shadow figures.  A tour guide became ill in 2018 in the room.  Nick's investigation takes place on 3rd March 2022 the 90th anniversary of when it was opened.  Tanya was born in the hospital in 1973 and lost two grandparents here she never met.  The Mayor - a Hatfield - spoke of everything being installed new.  He was born here too.  Some people visiting are drawn to the third floor and she feels the presence of children.  Thousands of deaths during its time as a hospital.  From shadow figures, hearing voices, legs touched and piano music playing.  

Nick feels someone touch him on his back and felt he bumped into someone.  The Mayor lost an uncle here and the hospital is a landmark and a benchmark too.  A full bodied apparition was seen on the fourth floor.  As well as intelligent spirits being here.  The basement is where they heard doors closing and feel a presence.  "The nurse that never clocked out" and has spoken with patients.  Tanya felt drawn here in the hopes of meeting her grandparents she never met.  She wants answers for this.  Her maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother, Sally Webb and why she has a connection to this place.  

Nick asks if they know who Tanya is?  I heard "Sally" come through.  "Thank you."  "I met them...free..."  "Killed" comes through and "evil" after Nick asks what happened when they came to the hospital.  Did the kill have anything to do with the gunman??  "It says "Thomas" and then "Sally comes through."  "Tired...patient..." "patient" sounded like "beaten."  Nick talks of the cycle of life again in the hospital.  He's intrigued with communicating with spirits from the unknown.  He talks of the stories where people have cut off limbs of patients and thrown them in the incinerator room and he has a creepy feeling there.  Why do that?  Just to get rid of them?  He uses the thermal.  He feels pressure and gets a headache.  He feels the intensity and emotions of the people who came through the ER.  "Can you see me" I hear.  "It hurts...yes" when he asks if they know they're dead.  "Sally" comes through again.  

"Yeah" after asking if they can give him a message from the other side.  "He pushed me" after he asks about the man jumping out of the window.  Claims were made Blackburn saw something after him or he was pushed.  "Evil" comes through again.  So does "ancient."  Nick mentions the importance of investigating the hospital during the day as it was in operation 24 hours.  He feels the energy in the area during the day.  "Break" comes through.  He asks if Sally's energy is here now and whether that happens after you pass.  He wants answers from the other side.  "Enter...yeah" is a doctor here.  "Nick's here."  "Dave"?? when Nick asks what his name is.  Are these your files?  "Maybe."  

He uses the motion sensor which plays music when moved and uses lasers.  The upper floors of the hospital something triggered the device and a dark figure is seen in the lasers.  He has more questions than answers.  Many people entered with emotions and thousands died and the energy still lingers.  Nick asks if human consciousness after death still have the energy to manifest into the reality they are living in.  He thanks them for letting him investigate.  For the children, the happiness, sadness and the iconic place for the town to remember.  Everything that took to keep the hospital running.  Tanya is emotional after hearing her name and her grandmother was in the hospital for a week before she passed.  An emotional episode especially for Tanya.

Death Walker 3.2 "Haunted Western Block"

Once the Western Block Company in Rockport, New York, one of the last stops along the Eerie canal. Formerly housed the Western Block Company, the largest manufacturer of block and tackle used in shipping et all.  Also made equipment for the military during World War II.  The men who built Eerie Canal were mostly Irish and it was dangerous work blasting rock.  The canal was completed in 1825. Was constructed for people and goods transport and there was rampant disease due to the canal, such as cholera and many workers lost lives due to disease, being drowned or buried under rubble or from dangerous use of dynamite.  Dead workers could be haunting the facility due to construction and development in the area.  Former workers can be seen and the hotel burned down in 1841 as well as having a fire and police department.  They used the tunnels under the property for transporting alcohol under prohibition.  Frank caught an unexplained shadow woman in a room, whether the figures are spirits of workers or others haunting for various reasons.  The owner talks of different companies on site.

Over an 100 estimated deaths.  Little Italy was on the other side and had the Mafia connections and she took over the property in August 2015.  An arts and cultural centre.  Tenants speak of weird events taking place.  Fire in the back of the building and other fires and people have been injured and died.  They used to use child labour with them falling into machinery and dying.  The Eerie canal used children where they would put dynamite in the stone as they thought they could get away faster than adults, which wasn't the case.  Frank investigated in 2020 and got many shadows, hear noises, footsteps.  A shadow in the classroom caught on security camera and Frank saw it looking through the doorway.  A woman in dark period dress.  probably Mary, one of the Director's sister's.  He was standing in front of a window and he was shoved into the window and broke the window with his backside.  Entities have also been channelled and went through them. A member of the group was giving the history on the place and was taken over and then started laughing at him.  Investigate putting the stories together.

Nick begins in the classroom with the figure of the woman.  He uses Andy's Box to capture voices.  Akin to the Geobox, but it's much clearer as there's no static.  He asks to be connected with the energy and wants the shadow figure to manifest.  In 200 years he mentions the residual energy being set free and that's what people are probably seeing.  He asks if it can hear his voice and a voice comes through "Yeah...okay."  "This" when he asks where it is?  "I should be able" I hear after he asks if he can connect with his body using his energy and "yes."  "Look at me...run"  "Yeah" when he asks if he heard it?  I heard a banging sound also somewhere.  "She's dead...right..."  

Something is thrown and they move and he then reviews it and he sees a hand by his side.  The static camera shows a transparent-like arm reaching out behind him.  He calls it "alien-like and the hand more spirit like."  When he says "Holy shit" and goes towards the sound was he being saved from the hand grabbing him, in my opinion, or was it trying to distract him.  It's such a mystery.  I kind of think it was the former ie saving him possibly from its touch.  Then if it did touch him then who knows what that could have led to, maybe he wasn't meant to find out or not right now, at least.  

The second pic is my own filter.

"She doesn't like that..." He sees a shadow.  "She said thrown...sixty thrown..." what's sixty??  He asks if their energy was used to pick the object and throw it.  He wants to experience that altered state of consciousness humans can feel, the emotions or a form of energy beyond their reality and they can hear him as they are responding, coming through.  

Hey Nick doesn't spend the night here alone now, is that not happening this season then.  He asks if someone's standing here?  A woman speaks, can hear her vocal tone.  Nick feels pushed from behind.  There appears to be some shadow under the phone and then some sort of an orb fly under it.  "Frank" comes through.  "Fire...water" comes through which Nick says scared him.  He felt a jolt go through his body.  Another noise is heard.  They were sent through a 360 circle in the older side of the building.  He can still feel the energy from the spirits.

Video to specialist to analyze.  He looked at the two angles and there's nothing in one shot, the one Justin was filming and then it was in the static camera capture.  They film in 4k did that have something to do with it.  The analyst took the same moment in time and put it side by side and it resembles something that Nick could've held with his hand.  He works in post production and he teaches "everything we see is just reflective light."  He sees there's a colour difference in the hand "specular reflection of light."  Or could be a different colour.  The lit up areas stay the same as it moved through the space.  A different material, might be it reflects light or could be a different colour thus reflecting light differently.  Sharpening is added to one corner and it can be seen even more clearer.  

He used green cos the human eyes see more green and used in night vision.  It can be seen clearer and there's a light reflecting in one area only.  He thought it could be hair but it would've flicked away but the shot is stable and mounted on a tripod.  Hair wouldn't have two points of light.  Not hair, not a reflection, not a bug.  Nick sees a shadow on the pillar behind the hand.   Nick's shadow is on the ground and the hand's shadow corresponds to his.  It's not dust as it doesn't cast a shadow.  Nick wonders why one camera captures it and not on the other.  He can't figure it out as they're similar cameras.  Maybe they weren't supposed to capture it at all.  Especially with that noise distraction.  It's not a camera glitch.  As Nick says he wouldn't have known about the arm if that object sound wasn't heard.  See distraction or causing him to investigate further.  

Nick doesn't know if it's residual, intelligence or something coming through from another reality and this is the best evidence he has ever captured.  Having movement.  He thinks it's reaching in and pulling back out.  With different texture and quality on the hand bits.  Nick says this proves something that validates his investigation and he can take it further.  More questions and want to learn what he captured.  He contacts Tim who has been doing UFO and paranormal investigation for more than 20 years with his father.  He says it's something he can't explain.  It looks like an alien arm with three fingers.  People have told him what they've been through and is it going to happen again.  They see long arms, big heads, thin bodies.  Looks similar to the hand he captured.  

Nick hasn't seen anything like this and had to take it to experts.  Something breaking into their reality, an inter-dimensional being.  Kind of reminds me of that transparent, naked figure captured in Ghost Stalkers at the Old Taylor Memorial Hospital. 

Death Walker 3.1 "Entity House New York"

This episode filmed at a family home in Cattaraugus County, New York, where homeowner Daniela encounters supernatural forces in the home during the night and day.  She carried out research to see why her home was so active. She found a paratrooper in the US Army lived and died in the house in the 1980's.  He was said to be a good man.  There wasn't anything bad about him.  Nick says ghost haunt a location for their own reasons such as murders remaining unsolved, violent deaths etc.  He thinks the entity might be demanding something from her or it's something that isn't human or has manifested into something else overtime.  Or following them home and being attached to someone in the home.  This entity has also gone after the man after he began renovating the upstairs of the house.  Nick wants to see if he can document and make contact with what is there and why her childrens' dreams are being invaded.  He asked paranormal researcher and author Mason Winfield to examine the land around the property.  With help from Melanie and Daniel Klaes watching the monitors.  

Daniela says the activity began when there was heavy equipment on the property and removed small trees and brush.  She had nightmares and vivid dreams, as did her children.  They see a well dressed man.  Doors are open, they hear music and people going up and down the stairs.  She believes it's an old property owner.  She has done research and nothing much is revealed.  She feels lightheaded and the spirits cause exhaustion when they appear.  

Mason says the land wasn't surrounded by the glaciers, the site is mysterious.  There's plenty of folklore in the county but around the property there's nothing and no one wants to talk.  They're in a legendary zone and no one knows about the things in the woods.  Geomancer Linda Ellson, a Feng Sui expert mentioned  "Predecessor energy" at the site that could be manifesting.  Also there's a 100 foot well near the property and the house could be on a "void line."  The house is on a straight line between two cemeteries.  Something could've happened here but they can't say what for sure.  Mason wonders if someone has an enemy and they cut to the man of the house and he came face to face with an old man.  He doesn't like being there and he has heard, seen and felt things there that he doesn't like and isn't normal to him.  He's being watched.  The audio on the boom mic goes awry and they haven't had that going on before.  Nick finds it hard to breath and they leave the room.

When Nick is speaking with Phillip inside and the camera goes haywire and he feels a pain coming into his chest area.  Also Nick grabs the SLS sorry it's not what he called it and that figure was on the stairs, showing something was around.  He should've used that outside too or a thermal imaging camera.  There were plenty of orbs/light anomalies coming through the house clearly seen.  (I know you're not meant to put too much weight on them in this show, but they could be seen.)

The same noises were heard in the basement and also in the usual coming through on the Geoport of "sin" when Nick asks "who are you?"  That was heard three times in all three places.  As well as Nick's name coming up and also Justin's when they were in the basement.  I didn't see that head pop out in the corner of the basement or was it a different camera angle, would've been good if they actually reviewed and showed it.  Wanted to see that or wasn't it captured on camera.  As well as "who is she" coming up. 

There was a lot of voices coming through and unfortunately for some reason whilst I was recording it cut out after 15 minutes and I didn't even know!  Thanks whoever 'Sin' you were or whatever dark entity that was since there was stuff I wanted to listen to again and no I don't have Discovery either.  Outside much the same was coming through with Nick's name again and there was something about getting hurt in an accident.  Getting hurt also came through inside.  Then everything went quiet and no sounds could be heard, that was eerie and creepy too.  A silence all over the land as though something was around and everything just stood silent in its tracks.

The offering at the end by the Native American elder with the tobacco saying that the ancestors were content with the land and how life was being lived there.  Nick said she should live there as it's her house now and there was no definite answer to what was actually causing the hauntings.

Strike "Troubled Blood" Episode 4

Strike (Tom Burke) finds that Margot saw Steve for six weeks and Robin (Holiday Grainger) says that DI Talbot found Steve was associated with the death of a married woman, named Joanne.  She died from swallowing industrial weed killer but as she had marks around her neck, someone could have forced her to drink it.  DI George wonders why her death was ruled a suicide and Robin can only answer it was due to her being abused by her husband.  Strike believes Steve was associated with Julie's death too.  Steve Douthwaite changed his name to Steve Jacks after Margot went missing.  Robin adds the workers at Dr Gupta's office thought Steve sent Margot chocolates as she also tried to hide them from everyone.  Gloria saw them in her office and they weren't opened and wonders if Steve could've tainted them with drugs.  As happens to Strike later on, when he also receives a mysterious box of chocolates for Christmas.  They talk to the staff at the office as Steve was there as a guest so someone invited him.

Janice (Anna Calder-Marshall) says Steve was handsome Everyone thought he killed Joanna and at the party he was drunk.  Irene (Carol Macready) adds Steve was a flirt.  Margot threw the chocolate box in the bin but would later take things out and keep them.  Robin questions Saul (Jonas Armstrong) why he has charged dinners to the firm and he replies Strike rehired him on the case. Carl visited Janice as he's working on a book.  Margot left the children with a nanny and Leda was having an affair.  Robin warns Strike that Carl is setting him up and Strike lashes out at him.  Leda took him to the recording studio at seven, but Rokeby didn't want to see him and called him an "accident."  Pat (Ruth Sheen) drops off some mail to Strike and that's when he eats the chocolate, getting ill in the process.  Saul sends Robin a dick pic and then begs her not to tell Strike.  Who finds Steve under the alias of Steve Diamond.

They run a guest house and Steve's wife, Donna (Tracy Wiles) listens to their conversation with him.  When Carl exposed Steve he was afraid and didn't go on the run until after Julie's death.  Apparently the killer has killed six vics.  Saul grabs Robin as a joke and she has a knife in her hand.  She fires him and Pat adds if she attacked him she'd swear it was self defence.  In Janice's flat, Strike calls Beth who claims to be Athorn's (Dayo Koleosho) social worker.  Janice spikes Strike's tea.  She saw Steve killing Julie and then she held her head under water.  Janice poisoned Irene for fifty years.  Janice even poisoned her own son and he told Margot that his mum's drinks made him ill.  Margot didn't want anyone to eat the poisoned chocolate and he adds how he got sick after eating some too.    She also poisoned Margot's doughnut.  Janice buried Margot in the Samhain's flat in the ottoman/chest used as a table.  Janice suffocated Margot with a pillow.

Janice also sent her daughter a locket so that she would drop her snooping.  Strike informs Anna (Sophie Ward) they solved her mother's murder.  Robin finalizes the divorce with Matthew (Kerr Logan) before Sarah has her baby.  They hug as he was there for her when she needed him.  Strike gives Robin a balloon and buys her perfume.  They hug and she kisses him on the cheek.  Nothing more romantic than this as viewers were hoping for them to get together.  Again that'd be hasty and some of us don't expect this to happen.  Seems it will spoil the dynamic of the show and their character interaction.  Seems this was also stretched out much more than needed to be with some scenes that definitely could have been missed or not included at all. 

Strike "Troubled Blood" Episode 3

Strike (Tom Burke) is told by Brian (Billy Boyle) that Mollie was everything to him and can't believe Dennis Creed (Kenneth Cranham) killed her.  He also suspects that he killed Margot and Kara too.  However Robin (Holliday Grainger) tells him Kara was killed by Ricci.  Brian says no one will know what happened to his daughter, Louise and with Creed in prison there's no way to find out.  Creed was writing his memoirs and a guard at the prison gave him info on Margot.  Brian wrote to Creed and he wrote a letter back, he's into games.  His letter reads in the first sentence of each line: "your daughter cried for her mummy before she died."  Strike would be able to speak with Creed as he's well known and he pays them to see what happened to his daughter.  Robin agrees to help him and offers to work in her spare time without taking his money.  Strike warns her that Creed won't help.  Robin wants to help at least one of them and can't put this behind her.  After everything she's been through of course she won't let it go.

At the pub, Strike shows her evidence of photos Pat (Ruth Sheen) gave him.  Lucy calls him to say his aunt probably won't last til Christmas.  Strike looks through his photos and gets an email invite from Johnny Rokesby.  As Strike feeds a homeless man, Pat tells him she called the council about the curry found outside.  He doesn't tell her and gets Sam (Jack Greenlees) to call Paul.  Robin asks Izzy (Christina Cole) to see of she can see a prisoner at Broadmoor.  Strike is called by Beth who tells him Samhain said Margot was killed by Nico Ricci.  Robin cooks for Max's dinner party and her brother is coming too.  Strike tells Robin of the phone box and she says there was a delivery van that was speeding in the area but kept the driver quiet so as to avoid police.  Creed wasn't in the van.  Also Strike says it didn't fit Creed's MO as he would spike his victim's drinks.  

Strike reviews Ruby's interview from 1975 and she was near the phonebox and saw two women together and she thought they had been drinking by their behaviour.  Robin looks at the article and says it was a woman and her daughter but Strike adds it was the other way round as Fiona was taller.  It could have been Margot and Creed, as Creed would've been shorter than her, but it is unlikely.  Paul agrees to talk with Strike.  Johnny calls Strike and he opens up that he has cancer so time is running out.  Heck not another one dying.  Strike tells him to leave him alone.  Strike drinks and talks about being a soldier and gets into an altercation with Robin's brother's girlfriend, Courtney (Maia Tamrakar).  Robin tries to diffuse the situation, but Johnny begins talking about rape and Strike apologizes to Robin and leaves.  She calls him out on it and he apologizes but it isn't what she wants to hear.  Next morning he's at the office with Lucy.  They both head to Cornwall and run into flooded streets.  Finally making a breakthrough in a boat.

Robin calls and offers sympathy for Joan's passing and Creed will only speak with Strike.  He agrees.  Anna knows her father tried to find Margot and she's run out of money to pay him more.  He agrees to lower his rate.  As Robin meets with Matthew and only wants her parents' deposit back for the house.  As she later meets Brian with Strike, he tells them about Creed.  He was into Aleistair Crowley and he attended satanic rituals with women.  The notebook mentions Schmidt explaining all.  As they play with Tarot cards Robin picks the Lovers card and conceals it from Strike. Strike meets with Creed who thinks men like him are necessary in society and they get onto the subject of Crowley.  Brian tried to get to Creed using star signs.  Strike tells him his doctors don't believe Creed is sane and he talks of poisoning women.  As well as saying his client is Margot's daughter.  Creed wants to return to Belmarsh and write his book.  He admits to killing Louise after he saw her in her uniform and he took her necklace.

Strike doesn't believe Creed killed Margot or Louise and Creed mentions M54 where Louise's body will be found.  Which he and Robin try to work out.  Strike discovers it's a star in the Saggitarius constellation.  Robin thinks Louise could've been at the Archer Hotel and Strike speaks with George Layborn who talks of a skeleton being found.  Strikes recalls Creed mentioning being born under the 13th sign.  Robin informs him of Schmidt finding a 13th sign under the 14th star system.  This means peoples' stars change and Stephen Douthwaite would become Capricorn and the notebook says Capricorn killed Julie B.  She was a holiday rep at Baxton's.  She was found in the pool and Steve worked there but left afterwards.  Robin surmizes he killed Margot and then his girlfriend was found dead.  

Lots of jumping around in this episode with coming up with theories that some prove viable and others don't.  Strike and his moment with the homeless man stands out as does his getting drunk.  It just speaks othois character and fouling things up at the dinner party.  Deeply hurt by Joan's passing as well as Johnny revealing his diagnosis.  Yet he doesn't have anything but coldness towards Johnny.  Trying to keep churning out who really killed Margot to the end!

Strike "Troubled Blood" Episode 2

Episode 2 builds up on Margo's (Abigail Lawrie) disappearance and again with lots of flashbacks shows how her receptionist, Gloria (Jessica Impiazzi) was dating the man, Luca (Jacob James Beswick) whose father, Nico Ricci (Andy de la Tour) was a criminal as Strike (Tom Burke) notices the ring the man was wearing in the snuff video provided by his police friend.  Where they suspect the woman being assaulted half naked and wearing a blindfold could be Margot. That man being Nico.  Who they find out was in a nursing home and Robin (Holliday Grainger) pays him a visit.  Where Luca spots her and finds her in his room and she puts on a cockney accent claiming she was here to see another patient and paid him a visit too.  Obviously she can't wait to get out of there recalling her attack from series 1, but also since no way does Luca send out good vibes.  He and his father being as misogynistic as they come and even worse.  However the victim is ruled out as not being Margot as she didn't have a scar across her body.  She was Kara, as Robin feels the need to leave flowers at her workplace since she knows that Nico will never be brought to justice for her murder and probably countless others.

Margo it seems worked as some sort of a 'bunny' girl at a club where she met various men and pursued a so-called affair with one of them, a photographer, Steve (Jack Morris) who says that nothing happened, between them.  Strike and Robin also visit one of her former patient's family, The Athorns, the father who was accused of being Margot's killer.  Where his wife likes to do jigsaw puzzles on top of a large chest in the living room.  Whom Robin tries to build a rapport with for information.  Although they may be putting the two of them in danger from the Riccis. Two of Margot's nurses, Janice (Anna Caulder-Marshall - Tom Burke's real mother) and Irene are also interviewed and tell them about Margot and her visitors to the surgery.  Robin donning her same disguise as Venetia Hall again adds some interest to keep the episode going.

Margot's footage from the Christmas party filmed by a fellow colleague, Dr Gupta (Madhav Sharma) is alluded to many times.  As well as Strike visiting his aunt and uncle quite a bit now that she only has not long to live due to her cancer.  Then the scenes with Strike's hired PI, Saul (Jonas Armstrong) who pus his foot in it, left, right and centre and with Robin all the time.  As she takes him off the case he's working on and he says only Strike can do that.  But she reminds him she's a partner here.  He seems to want a 'thing' with her.  Again he too comes across as sexist and many scenes in this series all allude to the so-called 'weakness' of women as opposed to the men.  Margot who was all for feminism in such a time shows how things haven't changed at all no matter how times may have changed.

Strike "Troubled Blood" Part 1

Return of Strike after a few years absence.  Only worth watching for Tom Burke whom I haven't seen since 2019 with his appearance on stage in Rosmersholm. Though good in places it does become predictable who the actual suspect is by the time part 4 is concluded.  Along the way we still get the longing looks between Strike (Tom Burke) and Robin (Holiday Grainger) but as he later reveals she's his best friend and he doesn't want to f*ck it up cos that's what he'll do.  Well, based on his past romantic encounters he's probably right.  

This one kicks off with Strike in Falmouth, visiting his adoptive parents, Ted (Ian Radford) and Joan (Linda Bassett) as she is dying and has possibly a few days/weeks to live.  He's approached by Annie (Sophie Ward) the daughter of a missing GP, Margot (Abigail Lawrie) who vanished 50 years ago.  The main suspect Dennis Creed (Kenneth Cranham) a serial abductor/killer.  With various flashbacks the story is pieced together and Strike agrees to take on the case as obviously it has brought home some memories to him about what his adoptive mother is going through and also how he did have real feelings for his birth mother, Leda.  The office has had a revamp and more open planned with Strike taking on a PA, Pat (Ruth Sheen) and his two PI assistants, Saul (Jonas Armstrong) and Sam (Jack Greenlees).

The detective who initially investigated the case was himself looked at as crackpot with his theories and was replaced by another whose son is on the force and a friend of Strike's.  Margot disappeared after being on her way to meet her friend, Oonagh (Finola Flanigan).  Witnesses saying they spotted a white van, a woman sees two women having an altercation and the pub was accessible by foot.  He does tell Annie that the case is very cold and there's no guarantee they will get to solve it.  but this is Strike of course he and Robin will solve it.  Apparently Margot was a feminist and also caring.  She and Oonagh started out as hostesses/waitresses at a club frequented by men and here she catches the eye of Peter.  An artist and apparently they were meant to have had an affair and he painted her nude.  She was supposed to be his muse.  One night as they argue Oonagh comes to her rescue but he threatens them that if she reveals anything about him, he'll come after them.  Thus an obvious suspect.

This is based on the fifth book Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) and with all the controversy with her opinions and views this becomes more of a take it or leave it series.  Most will recall some of the books are topical and political commentary is contained within, this however has been toned down here.  Perhaps more so for a wider TV audience. 

Annie wants this investigation kept from her father who was interviewed but wasn't a suspect.  Her colleague, Dr Gupta has some home movies of the Christmas party from 1974 and other footage.  With info from their friend, DI George Layborn (Samuel Oatley) they begin their investigation and footage on an 8 reel comes to light which is disturbing to say the least and they don't know if it was Margo who was being attacked by three men.  One of them branding a knife and wearing a ring which Strike recognizes from the party footage.  

Strike is back and forth visiting his step mother and also Lucy (Sarah Sweeney).  His sister, loves them as real parents whereas Strike has a soft spot for his own mother, Leda).  It's Robin's birthday but he doesn't recall or know and sets off to buy her perfume, tho Carnal isn't one he'd go for.  Not with them teetering on the bring of lust, er, romance I mean.  So he buys her flowers instead.  Also Matthew (Kerr Logan) wants to rush through the divorce.  Family crawls out of the woodwork here, as his brother Al Rokeby also shows up wanting him to come down for the Christmas do and his father wants him there.  Now he wants to acknowledge his existence.