- We're in Bisbee, Arizona,
the most haunted town in America.
- [Man] Is it really the most haunted town in America?
- According to me. (laughs)
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- I always tell people that Bisbee was a mining town.
We mostly mined copper.
Copper is a conductor of electricity.
Ghosts are energy.
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That's why I believe it's an active location.
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- [Kenny] There is almost an electric current here
that sometimes I feel, and I see the town on it.
- Every other building was a bar,
and there were brothels.
Of course you're gonna get people that are gonna get
drunk and stupid and shoot each other.
- All these buildings are original.
They not just hold the charm, the hold certain energy
of people that once walked this earth.
So we've done some research here,
and we realized that in the year 1919,
Houdini came to Bisbee, Arizona,
and he perform to the tiny little theater
called the Lyric Theatre.
We found out that that same Saturday night,
he spent the night here at the Copper Queen Room.
This is why we've officially unveiled the Houdini Room.
They say the veil between the living and the dead
is at its thinnest in the month of October.
So in channeling the spirit of Houdini,
I have some very old shackles,
and I'm gonna have Renee do the honors
of shackling my wrists together, as tight as you can.
He is the godfather of magicians, really.
And here I'm a full-time magician doing magic shows
every single weekend, so that to me is really what's just,
like it was fate that I ended up here.
Melt right off my wrists, ladies and gentlemen.
(woman gasps) (person claps)
(man laughs)
- Okay, anybody else like a flashlight?
It's a different town at night than versus the day.
Feel free to take as many photographs as you like.
We have had what we believe are ghosts
photographed on the tour.
I run the Old Bisbee Ghost Tour.
So are you guys ready?
(crowd cheers)
Wow!
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I am one of the tour guides, so I'm the one that guides
the guests around Bisbee and tells them
the ghost stories and the folklore
regarding the ghosts which haunt the buildings.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining me
in The Bisbee Seance Room.
Bisbee is considered one of the most haunted towns
in America, and there is a reason for this.
You're well aware of the copper, gold, and silver
that were extracted from the mines.
What most people do not realize,
that this entire town was built on top
of one of the single largest quartz crystal
mineral deposits anywhere in the world.
And quartz crystal in large quantities
acts as a battery for letting certain energies
come and go as they please.
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- Now, the Grand is the only hotel
where I have heard stories of people running out
in the middle of the night never to return
because of the paranormal activity.
She got scared, went behind the bar to start
cleaning glasses when she felt Jeremiah massaging her back.
My type of ghost. (crowd laughs)
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We try to tie in all the stories
to the history of the buildings.
The other embalming room is in the shop
that's vacant next door.
Coincidence?
I think not. (crowd laughs)
So we don't just tell ghost stories,
we try to kinda link 'em all together like a quilt.
- I think we are so complementary to each other.
You're both getting a haunted history lesson,
but in different venues.
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First spot in our little tour is none other
than the Copper Queen.
There are 52 rooms, 16 different ghosts.
The very first magic trick that was shown to me
was close-up magic, you know.
I saw it right in front of my eyes.
My grandfather was my biggest inspiration in my life.
I just was awestruck, I want to give everyone,
adults and children, that same experience.
(fire pops)
And to this day, when I get upset, I sense his presence.
Either that, or I'm crazy.
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- We decided to research this park,
and what we found out was that this park used to be?
- [Girl] A cemetery!
- Very good!
This used to be the Bisbee Cemetery.
I was kinda always interested in ghosts and ghost stories,
and when I was in college, I took a fairy tale
and folklore class, and we spent a couple weeks
talking about ghost stories and how it's a type of folklore,
and that just led me to collecting ghost stories.
And when I moved to Bisbee, it was just a perfect storm.
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- Hold it up, just like that.
See, he would take the red. (crowd laughing)
What's crazy is where he puts it.
- Oh, my God! (crowd laughing)
- It's perfect, I mean, it's this intimate experience.
I think it's a lost art.
You know, I've been to stage magic shows
and large parlor shows.
Take those three cards and simply put them back
in the middle of your pile.
There's something about a show that's just for 10 people.
By any chance, does anyone have a match
with a piece that they put underneath their leg?
- [Woman] I do.
- Oh, my God! - Oh, my gosh!
- What? - No!
- [Kenny] You know what's amazing?
- [Girl] It's the devil.
- [Kenny] No, it's the first time it actually worked!
(crowd laughs)
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- When a lot of people come up to me and they're like,
well, how can you prove that there's a ghost?
I go, well, how can you prove there's not?
I'm more interested in giving people who visit
Bisbee a good time, something to tell their friends about,
to bring them back to Bisbee.
And Mr. Bone says, I was diagnosed with a hollow weenie.
(crowd laughs) - I'm gonna use that!
- I wanna leave you with the final thoughts.
We're really spirits having a human experience,
not humans having a spiritual experience.
And those deceased are always with us.
Thank you for joining me in The Bisbee Seance Room.
(group applauding)
- Wow! - Wow.
- Ow! - Magic!