0:00:00 > 0:00:0313 Bannerman Road is where Sarah Jane Smith lives.
0:00:03 > 0:00:06And it's home to things way beyond your imagination.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10There's an extra-terrestrial super computer in the wall.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13A genetically engineered boy genius in the attic.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17A schoolgirl investigator across the road.
0:00:17 > 0:00:21And a whole universe of adventure right here on the doorstep.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28- Ready?- Always.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38No-one really knows just when Ashen Hill Manor was first built.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42But, through history, there has always been a house here.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46And, so they say, just as long as there's been stone and oak,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49there has always been evil.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56They say it was the reputation of the house
0:00:56 > 0:00:59that attracted the magician Erasmus Darkening.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10He entered the service of the young lord of the manor, the widower,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Lord Marchwood.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Darkening promised that in return for his protection,
0:01:15 > 0:01:21he would replenish the family's fortunes with the secret of making gold from base metal.
0:01:21 > 0:01:27But after two years working in a secret chamber far beneath the house
0:01:27 > 0:01:32Darkening's alchemy had failed to bear one ounce of gold.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39And the people on Marchwood's land were uneasy.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42There were stories of how Darkening came among them at night.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Of how he took away people that never returned
0:01:47 > 0:01:49and that he was not human.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Elizabeth?
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Joseph?
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Elizabeth?! Joseph?!
0:02:10 > 0:02:12My children, where are you?!
0:02:18 > 0:02:22No matter how long, no matter how hard their father searched for them,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25they were never ever seen again.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37My children!
0:02:37 > 0:02:38My children!
0:02:41 > 0:02:45And they say he searches still.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48It's a good story, Professor, but I don't believe in ghosts.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Of course you don't. And neither do I. But Ashen Hill Manor
0:02:52 > 0:02:56is reputedly one of the most haunted locations in the UK.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07So let me get this right, if you don't believe in
0:03:07 > 0:03:10ghosts, Sarah Jane, and you don't believe in ghosts, Professor, then...
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- What are we doing here? - To see if we're right.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16To find out scientifically one way or the other.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20In that case, I'm delighted you invited me along to cover the story.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22We're set up through here.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Are you are sure about this? I mean...
0:03:24 > 0:03:29- there's are no such things as ghosts, is there?- Clyde, I don't believe you.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32After all the things we've seen, you're scared of ghosts!
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Who said anything about scared?
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Did I mention "scared"? I don't think so.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39Don't worry. I'm sure.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Whatever people may think they've seen at Ashen Hill Manor,
0:03:43 > 0:03:45it has more to do with imagination than the supernatural.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Introductions - Sarah Jane Smith, journalist. My assistant from the
0:04:18 > 0:04:22- Pharos Institute, Toby Silverman. - Hello, Toby.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24This is Rani and Clyde.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29- Sort of Sarah Jane's apprentice. - And I'm carrying the sandwiches.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34- So are you the technical genius? - I don't know about that.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I'm just interested in the quantifiable effects of meta-normal
0:04:36 > 0:04:39energies on the established phenomena.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41We should've brought Luke.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Only he said that people who believed in ghosts
0:04:44 > 0:04:46were still living in the Dark Ages.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Or something like that.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Luke is my son.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Toby is the son of Professor Sir Rupert Silverman.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00The physicist? What does your father think of his son dabbling in the paranormal?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03I ought to get on with putting my monitoring equipment together.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Yes, of course.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10This house has a long history of psychic activity.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Then there are the disappearances.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Disappearances? Nobody said anything about any disappearances.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19No, they didn't.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- There's something else, isn't there? - The Scrivens family,
0:05:22 > 0:05:27who legally still own the house, a mother, a father and two children,
0:05:27 > 0:05:29vanished one night 20 years ago.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32The keys were found still in the doors.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Locked from the inside.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Toby! What on earth are you doing?
0:05:38 > 0:05:43My screwdriver. I just put it down there and it's gone, it's vanished.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- What's that?- EMF meter. Paranormal
0:05:48 > 0:05:53activity causes a fluctuation in the electro-magnetic field.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Save your batteries, Professor.
0:05:55 > 0:06:00The only ghost at work here is the spirit of Sir Isaac Newton.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Gravity. It fell and rolled away.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Come on. Let's have a look around.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19At least we know Lord Marchwood was real.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21I've no doubt he was.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24And his children probably disappeared, too. Perhaps
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Lord Marchwood did spend the rest of his life looking for his children.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31But the afterlife? I doubt it.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34Ah, it's so sad how this house has fallen into disrepair.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37It must have been quite wonderful.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Professor Rivers couldn't have picked
0:06:39 > 0:06:41a creepier place for a ghost hunt.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43It's felt like someone's been watching me since we got here.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45It's psychological, you know this place is
0:06:45 > 0:06:50supposed to be haunted and your imagination starts to work overtime.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52No wonder Luke wanted to stay at home.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57I could get bored of jumping at my own shadow pretty fast.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59What about the disappearances?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01An entire family vanishes into thin air.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Whether or not you believe in ghosts, that's just sinister.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08I've seen so many strange things in my life, wonderful and frightening,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11yet all of it had a scientific explanation of some kind.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14The trouble with ghosts is that there simply isn't any
0:07:14 > 0:07:17scientific basis for them to exist.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19BELL TOLLS
0:07:19 > 0:07:22What's that? Dinner time?
0:07:22 > 0:07:23I didn't see any bell tower.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26That's because there isn't one.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29BELL CONTINUES RINGING
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Miss Smith?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Didn't you hear it? The bell. The church bell.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45What bell?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52There's no bell tower,
0:07:52 > 0:07:54there's nothing.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57But why did we hear something like Quasimodo on a joy ride
0:07:57 > 0:07:59and Professor Rivers and Toby heard nothing?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01It doesn't make sense.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05I'm telling you, I don't care whether Sarah Jane believes in ghosts or not,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09there's something seriously freaky about that place. GROWLING
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Let's check up here.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31"The History Of Ashen Hill Manor."
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Perfect.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Look at this place, it's beautiful.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Yeah, I bet Castle Dracula looked OK on a sunny day too.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Look.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Doesn't look like it's been used years.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Well, that would be because everyone just disappears.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Are you scared?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Clyde Langer, scared?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35I've taken on just about every creep in the universe right.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- I ain't afraid of no ghost. - Good. Come on, then.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Oh, it smells like cucumber farts in here.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50It's just old and damp.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52It must have been wonderful here years ago.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55A picnic by the fountain. Taking the boat out on the lake.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59If you like to paddle.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04WATER RUNS
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Who turned that on?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER - Who's there?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Is there someone out here messing with us?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Cos we're not falling for it, OK? DOOR OPENS
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- I'm not hearing this. - WALTZ MUSIC
0:10:26 > 0:10:29You don't believe that? Wait till you see this.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Wet footprints?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37RADIO BROADCAST CRACKLES
0:10:42 > 0:10:46CHILD SOBS
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Hello?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51What are you doing?
0:10:51 > 0:10:54If it's a ghost, it can't hurt us. It's already dead.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Besides, listen to her.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58CHILD'S SOBS CONTINUE
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Hello?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Are we feeling freaked yet?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27What's wrong?
0:11:28 > 0:11:32I think what you experienced was a stone tape manifestation.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Some of us are a bit new to this kind of thing, you might need to explain.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39It's the theory that events can be recorded
0:11:39 > 0:11:40on physical matter, normally stone,
0:11:40 > 0:11:44and then, under certain circumstances, they get played back.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48It's the most convincing explanation for most so-called hauntings.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52The house is built on a giant slab of granite bedrock, which research
0:11:52 > 0:11:56suggests is a great conductor of these psychic recordings.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00There are stories about the Grey Lady that walks the castle rampart,
0:12:00 > 0:12:04or sometimes a legion of Roman centurions marching along a road.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Only people only ever see them from the knee up.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Because the Roman Roads were lower?
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Exactly.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14I heard about this castle where some lord was murdered
0:12:14 > 0:12:18by his jealous brother. He lopped of his head and every Hallowe'en,
0:12:18 > 0:12:19it rolls down the castle steps.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23The man in the mirror, he didn't look like any sort of recording.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25If it was a disembodied spirit,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28let's hope he shows up again tonight.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32It's after eight and it's gone dark. It's time to begin the experiment.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35If I could have everybody's mobile phones, please.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- What for?- Mobiles can interfere with our equipment.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41We can keep in touch throughout the house with walkie-talkies.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44I'd like to speak to Luke first. And Clyde and Rani should
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- call their parents.- Of course.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50We'll be in the control hub running final checks. Toby.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Hi, Mum. Everything's cool.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Just bedding down for the night in the old haunted house.
0:12:58 > 0:13:04I haven't seen any ghosts yet but I reckon they're on a skeleton staff.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07And yes, we've had dinner, we had ghoul-lash.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11The EMF network?
0:13:11 > 0:13:14All meters through the house operating and on-line.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16- Thermostats?- Operating and on-line.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Video cameras?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Toby?
0:13:27 > 0:13:28Sorry. For a moment...
0:13:28 > 0:13:30I thought I saw...
0:13:30 > 0:13:32You saw what?
0:13:34 > 0:13:38- Oh, nothing. All cams are fine.- Good.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Oh, no.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Hang on, nursery cam's on the blink.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Mm-hm, I'll go and check it.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Apparently Luke's been driving Dad round the bend all afternoon.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01What? Luke's your dad's star pupil.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04He's probably just secretly planning your wedding.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Ugh. Not any more. Dad taught him to play chess today.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09And Luke beat him six times before he went home.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Oh, I bet he had your father in pieces.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14I closed this book. I know I did.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Is there a draught in here?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Someone tell me the window is open.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- Please.- It isn't.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Must be a draught coming down the chimney.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26That's him! That's the man from the pavilion.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28- That's Erasmus Darkening. - The magician?
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I bet he made a mean balloon giraffe at kids' parties.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59That's better, Professor.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05- Oh. The camera doesn't do you any favours.- I heard that.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Where is the Professor?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Something seriously freaky just happened.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Which I'm sure has a rational explanation.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13She's in the nursery. Won't be long.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- Happy with the positioning, Toby? - Right on target.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Miss Smith wants to talk to you.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I'll be down in a minute.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29MOBILE PLAYS LULLABY
0:15:38 > 0:15:41I refuse to believe that book was opened by any ghost,
0:15:41 > 0:15:45and certainly not the ghost of a supposedly evil magician from the 17th century.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Well, something opened it, Sarah Jane.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49And there wasn't any breeze, we'd have felt it.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51That was definitely the man in the pavilion.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Oh! Wow! Look at that!
0:15:56 > 0:16:01- What is it?- EMF readings throughout the house are spiking.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Something's happening.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11SHE SCREAMS
0:16:15 > 0:16:18- What happened?- Where did she go?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20She's vanished.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Come on! Better check the landing.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49Professor Rivers didn't strike me as the kind that plays hide and seek.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51'Hello? Hello?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54'Is anybody there?'
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Professor? Where are you?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59You had us all worried for a second.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02'Hello? Where am I?
0:17:02 > 0:17:05'Is anybody there? Can anybody help me?'
0:17:07 > 0:17:12- Professor! Celeste! - Wherever Professor Rivers has gone, she can't hear you.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- But where is she?- I don't know. But these readings are like
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- nothing I've ever seen before. - What is that?
0:17:17 > 0:17:20It's like your EMF meter only more useful.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22LULLABY PLAYS
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Who set that off?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Poltergeist activity.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33This room is famous for it.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Or perhaps just a freak mechanical fault.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I just got head-butted by a rocking horse!
0:17:43 > 0:17:47- No, you must've knocked it. - I didn't! I know I didn't!
0:17:49 > 0:17:55The electro-magnetic signature is increasing by five milli-Gauss...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57eight...ten.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59This is astonishing!
0:18:06 > 0:18:09No, this is freaky!
0:18:11 > 0:18:13These readings are going crazy.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18(CHILD'S VOICE) # Ring a-ring o' roses, a pocketful of posies... #
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- We have to get out of here. - # A-tissue! A-tissue... # - This is amazing!
0:18:21 > 0:18:22Look!
0:18:25 > 0:18:26Come on, now!
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- It's locked!- It can't be. - The energy in here is building!
0:18:31 > 0:18:33I don't want to be in here when it peaks.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37- # A pocketful of rosies... # - Come on!- # A-tissue...
0:18:37 > 0:18:39# We all fall down! #
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Still say there's no such thing as the paranormal then?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49I only wish the Professor were here to see it... And my father.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Your watch. Did it pick up something alien?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- The readings were confused.- Alien?
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Now, that's more like it.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58- Aliens, I can handle.- We have to track down the source of whatever
0:18:58 > 0:19:01is happening here, we have to stop it and get Professor Rivers back.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- And how do we do that? - We do what we always do.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07We look for clues.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10My readings are different now. Still energy signatures that I don't
0:19:10 > 0:19:15recognise...neither human nor alien, but less intense, almost dormant.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18The EMF readings have gone back to normal as well.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Those readings in the nursery were completely unnatural.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Unnatural, but not supernatural.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25There's an energy source in this house.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28If we can locate that, we'll be on our way to finding the Professor.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- So we split up yeah? - Oh, I don't think so, Rani.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Professor Rivers managed to disappear in the blink of an eye.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37- The same thing may have been happening here for centuries.- Yeah.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41But it's a big house, and we don't know how much time we might have.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44All right, but don't take any unnecessary risks.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Hey, there's nothing to worry about,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50- we all know Luke is the loose cannon in the gang. - I'll check through the house.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Yes, have a look around, but be careful.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03OK. The study.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Always a good place for clues.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08This place doesn't look like it's been touched since the last people disappeared.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13Yeah. Just be careful. Around here I wouldn't be surprised if there really
0:20:13 > 0:20:15was a skeleton in the cupboard.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Oh, jumping at shadows, now.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33CHILD'S VOICE: Please, you must leave here.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39You're Lord Marchwood's children. But you can't be.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43- We want our father.- Your father?
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- He keeps us from him.- Who does? - You must leave the house
0:20:46 > 0:20:48before he comes for you, all of you.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Who? Who will come? Was it you that opened the book?
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Were you trying to warn us about Erasmus Darkening?
0:20:55 > 0:20:58He will take you all, you will never leave.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Don't go. I want to help you!
0:21:12 > 0:21:14FAINT GROWLING
0:21:20 > 0:21:21Clyde, look at this. Someone was
0:21:21 > 0:21:24researching the house and the people that disappeared.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27It didn't do them much good, did it? They still all disappeared.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Look, this list goes all the way back to 1655,
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Lord Marchwood and his children.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35And your friend Erasmus Darkening.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42I am unable to find any historical records of Erasmus Darkening.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45But Marchwood's household accounts prove he existed.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49Stories that Darkening was responsible for disappearances
0:21:49 > 0:21:52from local villages are impossible to substantiate.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Perhaps the answer lies in the secret passage.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59- Did you say secret passage?- Mm-hm.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03As in whoever wrote that went looking down it and maybe never came back.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05We should show this to Sarah Jane.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09- Oh, no, wait, wait, wait.- What is it?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11It's a list of the secret passages.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Well, guess what?
0:22:13 > 0:22:15There's one in Toby's control room.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Hello? Is there anybody out here?
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Whoever you are, I'm not here to hurt you. I promise.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Save yourself, my lady! Get thee to the Netherworld!
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Hello?
0:22:50 > 0:22:55When me and Luke were being held prisoner by those nutty Gorgon nuns
0:22:55 > 0:23:00he got us out by opening a secret passageway.
0:23:00 > 0:23:07It's just a question of finding a panel or something to press.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Hey presto!
0:23:12 > 0:23:15I think we've hit a brick wall.
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Now that's magic.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- It looks pretty dark down there. - Yeah.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Never leave home without one.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Especially if you're going somewhere with Sarah Jane Smith. You coming?
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Well, someone's got to hold your hand haven't they? Go on.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Couldn't you have brought a bigger torch?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55What and spoil the look of my jacket?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58I'm not just an action hero, you know. I am a style icon.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Yeah. Yeah.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03- Whoa!- Very Spiderman!
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Come on.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13- It's all right, Toby. It's only me. - Are you all right, Miss Smith?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I'm not sure.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Well, they do exist, Miss Smith.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21And we could be on the verge of something so enormous here.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Is that why you're so jumpy?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Oh, I'm not jumpy, I'm excited.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32This could be the scientific discovery of all time.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35The ultimate question answered.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Is there life after death?
0:24:37 > 0:24:41And that would mean you could prove yourself to your father?
0:24:41 > 0:24:45I'm presuming that he doesn't approve of your area of research.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Science has a very short-sighted view of the paranormal.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52- For a good reason.- There is nothing scientific about ignoring phenomena
0:24:52 > 0:24:56just because it doesn't fit in with your view of the universe, Miss Smith.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Toby, my view of the universe is very detailed
0:24:59 > 0:25:03and I understand humanity's need to believe in some sort of afterlife,
0:25:03 > 0:25:08but whatever is happening here, ghosts do not exist.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15- Well, I have those EMF readings for you.- Darkening!
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Where?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21He's gone.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Are you sure you don't believe in ghosts?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Look at this place.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43I take it all back.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Everything else... that was not creepy.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47This place,
0:25:47 > 0:25:51this is creepy. This is Creepsville, Transylvania.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Look at this stuff.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58This is Hogwarts Tim Burton Style.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02It's Harry Potter Has A Close Shave Off Sweeney Todd.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Clyde, do you know where we are?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Well, it isn't Santa's workshop.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11According to the legend, Erasmus Darkening spent two years
0:26:11 > 0:26:15working in a secret chamber beneath Ashen Hill Manor. This is it.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18It's all for real.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20He hasn't been around in a while.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Maybe this is the reason for whatever's going on here.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- If this part of the legend is true. - Then maybe he really did make those
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- two kids disappear. - And Professor Rivers?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Rani, this guy lived hundreds of years ago.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36And I know what I saw in the pavilion. It was him. Darkening.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Well, I have to admit it,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41I've seen some weird stuff,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44but there's weird and then there's...
0:26:47 > 0:26:49..this place.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51What was I saying again?
0:26:52 > 0:26:56It's like electronics but from hundreds of years ago.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58And it's still working.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03- MAN LAUGHS SPOOKILY - Who's there?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Welcome to my dominion.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09My halls of granite.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13You crossed my threshold of your own free will and now by my will,
0:27:13 > 0:27:16you shall stay.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20For all eternity.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Release us from this purgatory.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32Whatever is going on in this house is far more dangerous than a haunting.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Get down!
0:27:34 > 0:27:38- What was that? - The poltergeist activity.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- I think it's following us! - It doesn't matter what you shut out,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44you never know what you're locking yourself in with.
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