Paranormal investigation is a passion of mine,
will always be a passion of mine.
I decided to get back into the field in a much more public way
because there's been a rise in claims,
and I think that's due to the popularity of the field
right now.
And so for me, there was this onus on me to make
sure it stayed on track.
But in order to do that, I need a team.
What is that?
So first off, we have two team leaders under me.
We have Daryl Marston and Kristen Luman.
They're kind of like the mom and dad of the team.
Daryl really is there for logistics--
putting the plan together, making sure everything's
covered, and we have everything we need.
We help every client, and this is what we do.
Kristen Luman is patient with the client.
She digs really deep into what they're thinking,
what they're feeling, and how that applies to the entities
that may be in the house.
Jacob Henry Hyde was a devout Lutheran.
He established the first Lutheran Church in Ohio.
Mustafa is an avid, rabid researcher.
You tell him to look up something,
and he'll look it up, and he'll find
six different things that you weren't even looking for.
She was a German immigrant.
And he connects the dots right along the way,
and that is so important.
We're here in the lighthouse.
Brandon we nicknamed The Alien because he's so good with tech.
So this is an ambisonic microphone.
This is used a lot with VR.
GRANT: Above and beyond that, he's a great investigator.
He knows what he's doing.
He's run teams.
He knows how to attack a location efficiently.
He's not all robot and tech.
He's got a heart.
Richel and Brian are kind of a package deal.
BRIAN: We don't mean to harm you or hurt you.
Are you in here with us?
GRANT: You can send Brian into a house, and he'll go anywhere.
The dirtier, the grimier, the more cobwebs,
the better for him.
I mean, he's served overseas.
He's been through the worst of it.
The stuff that we go through is nothing.
BRIAN: Let's do it.
I'll grab this little battery pack.
Yeah, you carry that little battery pack.
I got everything else.
Don't worry.
GRANT: Richel is brutally honest but also just
wonderfully compassionate.
RICHEL: Like, I'm about to cry.
Like--
But when it comes to the paranormal,
she's a little bit more sensitive.
When she sees things, she has reactions to it.
For her, maybe the paranormal is a little bit louder than maybe
for the rest of us.
So let's learn all about you guys and what got you into this
all in the first place, yeah--
Let's do it.
--and how the heck you ended up here.
Oh God.
How about you, Kristen?
I've been in love with the paranormal
since I was a little girl.
You know, I had the ghost club when I was 11, and--
I loved that.
It's funny, I know, because my friends from grade school write
to me on Facebook and they're like, I cannot believe
you're still doing this.
[LAUGHTER]
Even when I was a little girl, my mom
jokes around that I checked out every book
in the library in my grade school about ghosts.
So I've always been a paranormal investigator I feel like.
I don't feel like there is a certain day that I became one.
In my day job, I'm a hypnotherapist.
I work with the brain, especially
the subconscious mind.
I went to school for psychology, and I
took paranormal psychology, and that's where I actually learned
how the mind can manifest a paranormal experience and also
the difference between a paranormal experience
and what the mind manifests as a paranormal experience.
What is that?
I don't know.
Daryl is one of the co-leaders with myself and Grant,
and he is intimidating when you see him.
You're like, that's somebody I don't want to make mad.
He is one of the kindest people I've ever been around.
I feel like he is sort of the protector of the group.
Oh, heavy hits.
Look at that.
The reason I'm a believer of the paranormal
is I've seen it with my own eyes.
In 2016, I lost my son.
When I was at the hospital a couple hours after he passed
away, I was walking through a hallway,
and I felt somebody run up behind me
and basically grab me on my shoulder.
I swung around.
Nobody's there.
Well, there happened to be a door to the right-hand side.
Lo and behold, I walk right into that same room.
It's where his body was.
That really opened my eyes.
I know my son is out there waiting for me,
and it made we want to pursue this
in a whole different direction.
My name is Daryl.
This is Kristen, and we're here to listen
to whatever you have to say.
I dissect my investigations more now,
and I think about more of the heart
and the soul of the actual spirit
or person we're investigating.
You don't have to be afraid of us.
We're not going to hurt you.
We're only here to talk.
Daryl, of course part of why we picked you was, you know,
that you have this construction experience.
With me being a contractor, knowing how,
you know, housing works and the sounds
and the difference between what's paranormal
and what's not paranormal in a property.
Ooh, had a three and a four down there.
I mean, you bring that to the table, you can rule out a lot.
Our second team there is Brandon Alvis, our tech manager
slash alien.
We got Mustafa Gatollari.
He's our researcher.
What about you, Mustafa?
Oh, the reason why I got into the paranormal
was because my father moved us all into this really
nice big house in New City, New York,
and we got a great deal on it.
You know, it's like the start of every, like, horror movie,
you know?
And our first night when we moved in,
my older brother and I were in our bedroom.
We hear all these noises, and we walk down the stairs,
and we go into the kitchen, and then all
the cabinets and drawers was just opening
and closing by themselves.
I've been there.
And we were just like, ooh, this is awesome.
Like, this is so cool.
And the way I took it is that, like,
there's a communication going on here
and there's something that we can learn,
and that, for me, was why I got hooked into it.
A lot of paranormal investigators
forget about the investigation part of this whole gig,
and it's that it's a mystery.
It's a mystery that you've got to solve.
It's something that you got to unravel.
On the property, there was a cemetery.
It's the stone of Samantha Carnegie
who died of typhoid fever.
Her mother's buried right next to her.
Samantha, if you're out here with us,
can you say something to us please?
What I love about Brandon is that he
is so concerned with methodology first.
This guy understands paranormal tech
and has been dedicated to the field for so long.
Oh, we're getting a temperature spike,
temperature spike.
Look.
I like to call myself a ghost geek.
What I do for my day job is I'm a creative services producer
for a local television station.
Working in television has really aided me
in understanding how to go out and document
a paranormal investigation.
1.10.
All these years I've been doing this,
13 years now, it really stems back
to the death of my brothers.
In 1995, my oldest brother passed away of cancer,
and in 2004 I had another brother commit suicide,
so that kind of sent me on my journey into the unexplained
and trying to possibly prove the existence
of a life after death.
Hopefully throughout all of this journey
I'll have a definite answer.
Has she been in this house before?
I love chatting tech with you.
I think we all do because usually when you get a tech
specialist on the team they just know tech
and they know where to put the equipment,
but they usually don't think bigger than that.
And that's what I appreciate about you
is you look at the investigation as a whole
and using the equipment strategically.
Absolutely, and it's crucial.
You know, we go in to help a client.
We have to make sure that we're documenting everything
that we're doing and hopefully finding
data that can support, you know, what
this client's experiencing.
And then we have Adventure Team over there.
We have Brian Murray, ex-Marine, good debunker,
and Richel Stratton.
I mean you guys have investigated together before.
You're best friends.
Your families are friends.
You guys have a lot of history together, huh?
Yeah, we do.
Yeah.
Do you think that helps in the investigation or it hurts?
Both.
GRANT: Both.
Depends on the mood.
There's a bug in my mouth.
This is the [BLEEP] I got to deal with.
[LAUGHTER]
Swallowing bugs over here.
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Brian, Brian, Brian.
How can I describe him?
He comes across like a tough guy,
but he is the sweetest person ever.
Get off me.
[INAUDIBLE]
Richel.
She's smart, funny, sassy.
Our kids go to the same school.
We live 3 miles apart.
RICHEL: Brian actually talks to my husband every single day.
They get along great.
Her husband, Chris, he was in the Marine Corps
just like I was.
He's a very protective guy.
He feels very confident when I'm with her.
RICHEL: Oh God.
BRIAN: Oh man.
My military experience is an everyday thing for me.
I would go to any area of any place if somebody was in danger
and get them out.
What was that?
As soon as I got between these two door frames got,
like, a stabbing pain in right here.
If I get in over my head, Brian's
going to be right there.
He's not going to leave me.
He's going to get me out of there if I need him.
It's just great knowing that someone has your back 100%.
Are you in here with us?