So my name is Ty Gowan and I've been
part of haunt me for 10 years now.
I'm one of the original members and I lean
more heavily towards the tech side of things.
But that looks like a night tonight I
would say is definitely based around
capturing evidence with electronic
devices that we can then translate to
our viewers from home as evidence.
So whether that be a numerical value
of a different electromagnetic energy
reading that we pick up in an area
that shouldn't have any electricity,
that's an anomaly that we can point
at as kind of a discrepancy that
could be a haunting.
Other things like that include
like Ash had mentioned the.
This method has a lot of
tech to make that happen,
but I also like the fact that the group
balances tacked with metaphysics,
and that really is what you're going
to see the access method is in.
In general,
it's one part technology and then
it really has that human element
that needs to go somewhere else to
make it happen and make it work.
There's a lot that happens with
paranormal investigation that can
be dismissed as your brain trying
to find patterns,
but what the cool thing about
the S method is,
is that it takes one person
and it blinds and.
Defends them while the other people
ask questions so that the person who's
blind and deafened isn't being led
to answer in this particular way.
And what happens with that is when
you're under you're listening
to very fast repetition of radio
stations, which is a lot of
white noise. And I believe that
something happens in your brain
that makes you open up a little
bit more to the other side and
start to hear. Levels of noises
and vocalizations underneath
what that radio noise is.
It's fascinating to me how bizarre
it works and how accurate it can be.
Sometimes when you come out of the S method,
you have no idea what has happened,
you've just been a mouthpiece
for a certain amount of time.
But when it lands and you can
take the blindfold off and you see
your group astonished that they
have a new lead that you can then
explore for the rest of the night,
that's what makes it really key.
This method is incredibly disorienting.
For the person that is the mouthpiece,
you're getting overwhelmed by sound
bits that make no sense whatsoever,
and your role is specifically just to
repeat anything that sounds anomalous.
So when you come out of it,
it's a very stark realization that you
are in fact still in a haunted house.
Haunt me has a tradition of understanding
that when we spend one night in the location,
it's not fair for us to call
it haunted or not.
It is one moment in a vast
history of a places existence.
And so with that what we decided
that when we were going around
Maine and we were ranking haunted
places on a 1 to 10 rating,
we wanted to take into account the fact
that people who come here time after time.
For the amount of people who have
been in the location,
their evidence is important too.
So we give it a pre rating and then
when we go in and we spend our one
night we give it a post rating,
a haunt me rating and average those two
together so that we are honoring the
history of a place as well as including
ourselves in our investigation in that.
So that's where the average rating
comes from here at the mill.
We rated it a four last time
because it has so many stories,
but a lot of what happens here
seems to happen on the periphery.
You can capture evidence here pretty easily,
like we've been doing tonight.
We've been hearing quite a few things
going on just away from our machines.
So there is something happening here,
but the way to rank it up our rating
is when we start to make that human
connection with someone who's passed on
and we can start to tell their story.
And while that doesn't always happen here,
if it did it would definitely be a
way for us to increase our ranking.
Because we're making that human
connection with someone that we can't see.
Yeah.
So getting back into the rating system,
we are in the vassalboro mills.
Hello.
Captain.
Captain, if that's you,
can you please? Come on down.
You know how the lights work. We've
gone through this before. Thanks, Anna.
If you can please approach us,
that'd be great. Anna's coming to you
just in case you don't feel comfortable.
So that would be the captain's type of ammo.
If you're asking about the captain,
that is what kind of happens
when you bring them up.
Did the door slam up there, Anna?
There you have it.
I guess I don't need to
explain the captain too much.
Um, yeah. So that is very
typical of the Vassalboro mill.
So Anna's going to go check on
who closed this in down here. Umm.
She OK?
Hello.
Carol was asking if it's windy up there.
It doesn't seem that way, OK.
I just really wanted to make
sure that nobody locked us in.
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah.
It's all about this place so hard
without any evidence of improvement.
I mean, that's pretty indicative of
the captain behavior though, right?
Yeah, so she asked the question and I
feel like these guys might be leading
the investigation a little bit.
You know, they're new,
new people from having an experience
with the entity that the owner
of the mill calls the captain.
We've actually interacted with
him a couple times before.
In just up the street is
the middle agent house,
so it was the foreman who ran this mill.
His family would live over
there for a period of time,
much like the White House.
And so I'm not sure where
the captain comes from,
but we were warned to be very,
very respectful with this entity
when we were over there doing
our investigation before we
had come here in our season,
and he tends to spend time.
Over there in the basement.
And so Ray actually told us that in
recent years he's been moving between
basements and that's where we are now.
So that brought me.
To believe,
perhaps.
You know that could be a moment,
but we'll definitely have to ask more
questions later to to figure that out.
However,
he has a tendency of being grumpy and not
playing along or wanting to be chastised,
so that's definitely something
you want to keep in mind as you're
being very respectful with a
named entity means that he might.
I don't want to be doom and gloom,
but like you might wanna just be
cautious and being very respectful
what we're talking about.
The military agent basement.
There's an alcove and there's
a little table in there where
paranormal groups that go investigate
leave little offerings like little
nips of whiskey and rum,
a little sailboats and tobacco
are over there.
And when we did that a few years ago,
we left something and we got amazing
Colin response with a lot of our
equipment that was able to make the episode.
However, we didn't bring any of
that tonight because I didn't know.
I didn't see this or foresee this coming,
which is probably why it's happening.
But.
Aligning that entity with a person
in life has not happened yet
because regardless of the amount
of groups that have come through,
no one's gotten a name.
So that's why Ray referred
to him as the captain,
because people have gathered images
and have gotten EVP recordings
of what sounds like,
and I'm not going to say out there
really what sounds like an older sailor,
and I think that that is just
how he received his name.
However,
ray.
He also warns that not to provoke
him or taunt him because raise
had groups that have investigated
the mileage in the house before
call him a few days later saying
that they've had problems in their
houses and raise told them that,
you know,
have a discussion and send the captain back.
So all that sounds crazy.
But also a door just slammed
upstairs and there's no
one there, so that's
what we do. Door out. Our
door out, our egg,
our only exit. Slam clothes,
and Anna was good enough to go
check to make sure the captain
didn't also locked the door.
Be locked in. Yeah,
I think that's fair, yeah.