- [Host] There's nothing people like more than being scared.
- Well yeah, I like my
- Aah!
- Oh my God.
- That's why when October swings around,
haunted houses are big business.
(ominous music)
[Host] Bruce Stanton is the owner of Reign of Terror,
an annual haunted house in Thousand Oaks, California.
- We have a perfect environment
to set you up to be scared.
- [Host] But after taking a walkthrough
of the supposedly scary mansion,
I came out less than impressed.
(cackling) - Hi.
So I talked to Bruce one on one about an idea I had
to help his business.
This is 'Nathan For You'.
What is the best press a haunted house can get?
- That it's so scary, someone peed their pants.
- No.
Pee is one thing.
I want your haunted house to be so scary
that someone sues you for being too scary.
- I don't know that we want people to sue us.
- [Host] If the reign of terror was sued
for being too scary, that news would attract thrill seekers
from around the world.
The plan, get customers to sue by making them think
that they're really going to die.
- No, because I think that would be going too far.
- Well, your current approach could get press too.
- Yes.
- By being the world's least scary haunted house.
- Yeah. I don't think that's the approach we want, but.
- Well, that's the approach it seems
like you're currently taking.
- No, we are a scary haunt.
- Reign Of Terror,
where pussies go to relax.
- Oh, okay.
- Or Reign Of Terror,
you're probably gonna die.
- You mean in the haunted house we paint a picture
that their death is imminent.
- [Host] Yes.
- Okay.
- [Host] To scare people enough that they would sue,
I explained to Bruce that we needed to convince customers
they somehow contracted a disease
they're likely to die from.
Bruce reluctantly agreed to let me try it out for a day.
And after a week of preparation, my actors were ready.
It was time for people to enter
the world's scariest haunted house.
Well, thanks for coming to the Reign Of Terror.
- Oh, we excited man.
- Are you excited?
- Yeah, man.
- Now I have to warn you before you go in.
This haunted house is extremely scary.
- I like the sound of that. (laughing)
- Are you sure?
- Yeah. - All right.
Welcome to the Reign Of Terror.
- You first.
- Aah! - Oh!
- Ooh. - Mommy.
- Hey. - Mommy.
- You're my mommy! - Aah!
(laughing)
(chainsaw buzzing) - Aah!
- Aah! - Aah!
(cackling) - Oh!
- Sorry, one sec.
What, who?
(faintly speaking) - Who, her?
- Yeah.
- Sorry, can you come with me for a sec?
Sorry guys.
Were you guys scared in there?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- So sorry.
Did she touch you by any chance?
Or was there a.
- I think she probably touched my neck.
- Mommy! - Aah!
- Like, I usually wear my glasses.
This time I didn't, and I overshot the ground,
and I was supposed to not touch you.
- All right, sorry. - Sorry, I.
- Just can you guys wait in here one sec.
Sorry, one second. - Okay.
What is it called?
- It's called Cline disease, and it's an immune disease.
- Cline Disease?
- Clines disease.
- So, what's the problem?
- She has an autoimmune thing.
She worried when she touched you
she transmitted something to you.
So don't get freaked out or anything,
but I called an ambulance, paramedics just to come
and make sure to look at you.
It's just precautionary.
So just hold tight.
Thank you so much.
- No problem.
- I hope you had a good time at the haunted house.
(laughing)
Sorry about this.
- It's all good.
- I didn't even think twice about her touching me, really.
Cause I thought it was an accident,
but I didn't know she had some kind of
disorder or something.
- So why would they even let her work here though?
Jeez.
It makes no sense.
Cause
- I don't know, the Americans with Disabilities Act?
(dramatic music)
- This is crazy.
- Hey guys. - Hey.
- Where are we going?
- Just in here.
- Do you have any cuts or open sores or anything like that?
- I don't think so.
I don't look back there a lot.
- Okay. (laughing)
- We do not.
Okay, do you mind if I just.
- It was like on this side.
- I mean, we should definitely get her checked out if that's
- [Host] Checked out in what way?
- Like at a hospital with a doctor, for sure, for Clines.
- [Host] Yeah.
(siren wailing)
- To my knowledge, as a disease, it's pretty serious.
Basically, if you've got a cut and you're touched
and you have any sort of open wound or anything that
touch an orifice, your eye, your mouth,
or anything that's open or anything like that,
you can get, yeah.
It can be contracted, so.
- Is this like AIDS?
Is it like
- Well, it is an immune deficiency disease
- You talking about, you know, a step below AIDS.
You know what I mean.
That's no joke.
(dramatic music)
(Moe sighing)
- [Paramedic 1] Hey, Dave?
- Yeah.
- [Paramedic 1] We're gonna go to the East entrance.
They want us to go that way instead of the other side.
- Okay.
- [Host] What's that mean?
- I've never gone to the East entrance, so.
Usually we just go straight into the ambulance bay, so.
I have no idea.
(dramatic music)
- [Moe] Oh, hell no!
- How are we doing?
- I don't know.
How should we be doing? - All right.
- At this time, it's a precautionary measure.
That's all it is.
It's the first stage.
We're gonna have you checked out right here, okay?
- Are you a doctor?
- Are you a doctor? - Yeah.
- I am a doctor, yes.
I need her to come outside with me and we're gonna move on
to another stage where there's more doctors.
- Why are you in this suit?
Is it serious?
- It's for my, okay.
Yes sir, it is serious.
Please.
- No, what is going on?
- She needs to come in first. - We all have this.
- [Paramedic 1] Keep your tone down sir.
- If he's wearing this, we all have it.
- [Paramedic 1] I understand that, sir.
- What is this thing?
- [Paramedic 1] Sir, calm down.
- It's for my safety!
- Why don't we have what he has?
Well, why does he have a biohazard suit?
- Sir.
- Oh hey!
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on!
She's not going nowhere until you explain, man.
What's going on, man?
- [Host] Yeah.
- What's going on?
- [Host] Yeah, What's not going on, man?
- She's not going nowhere, look, she's touching me.
- We're gonna walk right outside.
- I'm infected too!
Let's walk right outside.
- Okay. Just want an explanation.
That's all I'm asking for.
(ominous music)
- All right.
(laughing)
Hope you guys enjoyed the haunted house.
(laughing) (clapping)
- Oh! - You guys enjoy it in there?
- That was different.
- That was different?
- Wow, That was, I was not expecting that.
- Yeah.
- This right here is a lawyer.
- Hello.
- Peter Marx, is it? - Peter, yes.
- Peter Marx.
- Moe.
- Moe, and you are? - I'm Mira.
- Mira.
- So, if you found the haunted house too scary
and you want to press any legal action against
the haunted house,
he can talk to you and see if you have a case.
- We can talk and see.
Under the law you have claims for what we call
intentional infliction of emotional distress,
or even negligent infliction of emotional distress.
I don't want create problems that don't exist.
But if you have those concerns, feel free to call me,
but you don't have to.
It's only if you're comfortable about it, alright.
- [Host] After running several more customers
through my version of the haunted house.
- Hey Mom, it's Jordan.
Actually, I have to go to the hospital.
There was somebody with a disease.
- Now,, I'm not trying to create a lawsuit here.
I just, you have certain rights under California law.
- [Host] I paid Bruce a visit to follow up.
What'd you think?
- Well, I think it's completely impractical
for a haunted house.
- But people were scared.
- Yeah, I don't know.
I couldn't tell.
- We had a lawyer there at the exit that thinks, you know,
some people might have a case.
Peter, do you wanna come in? - Hello.
- Hi, this is Bruce.
- Peter. - Bruce.
- Pleasure. - He runs the haunted house.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure.
- So some of these people have a case, right?
- Well, some of them were a little apprehensive.
And I'm not trying to get you in a lot of trouble.
- But you wanna sue.
- Do I want, I wanna sue for legitimate claims, absolutely.
- And this is a legitimate claim.
- Well, it could be, and we'll see.
- Alright. - Alright.
Thanks so much.
- All right.
Well, I'm glad I, you know, could have helped
and done this for you and, oh.
- Took a good haunted house and
not made it any better.
- Well, I'm trying to get you press.
- Okay.
- [Host] In the end, the scariest thing about
the haunted house was Bruce's terrible manners.
But when someone's rude to you,
you can't take it personally.
You just have to keep going.
Sue Stanford is one of over 6,000 licensed realtors
in LA County.
And in an oversaturated market,
it can be hard to stand out from the crowd.
- We're continually trying to outdo the other person,
you know, trying to get business.
- [Host] So I paid her a visit to help her become
one of the most sought after realtors in the city.
So I always like to begin with some small talk
to break the ice and make the other person comfortable.
- Okay.
- Have you ever posed for a painting before?
- No, not actually.
Not for anything like that.
- You'd make a good model.
You're very beautiful.
- Well, bless your heart.
Thank you so much for saying that.
- You're welcome.
So is that enough small talk to make you comfortable?
- Yeah, I guess so.
- [Host] My mission was to make Sue one of LA's top realtors
The plan, have her specialize
in a currently unrepresented group of homebuyer.
The 50% of people who believe in ghosts.
- Ghosts?
- When you show a house, you know,
half the people that come through are thinking,
is there a ghost in here?
- Okay.
- So it surprised me that I've never seen a realtor
that can guarantee that all the homes they sell
are entirely ghost free.
- True, yeah.
- So what I'm suggesting is a complete rebranding of you
as the ghost realtor.
(Sue sighing)
- It's really a wild idea.
- [Host] Sue wasn't fully seeing my vision yet.
So to help sell it to her, I mocked up some new branding
and prepared a special surprise to get her excited.
- Ready?
- Uh huh.
- All right, open your eyes.
Look.
- Oh my gosh.
That's amazing.
- Pretty great, huh?
- That's me!
My homes are a hundred percent ghost and demon free.
Oh my goodness!
- [Host] I could tell Sue was thrilled with her new image.
But to fully rebrand as the ghost realtor,
she'd need to work with a professional psychic medium
who could verify whether her homes were truly ghost free.
So I found a local psychic online.
- Hello.
I'm Psychic Ron Bard.
- [Host] And arranged for he and Sue to meet
at one of her listings.
- My mother was considered Queen of the psychics
by Dr. Hans Holzer.
He's written 145 books.
- Wow.
- And my daughter just found her first missing child
in New York.
- Okay.
So just to be clear, if there's a ghost in this house,
you'll be able to tell.
- That's correct.
- With Ron's guarantee, I introduced him to Sue.
- Nice to meet you. - My great pleasure.
- And then we followed as he led us through the house
inspecting each room for the presence of any ghosts.
- Definitely a change of energy.
You feel that correct?
- Mm hm, definitely.
I feel like chills going down my spine.
- Right.
- Is it a ghost?
- No.
- [Host] Things were off to a great start,
as Ron believed the first house was completely ghost free.
- I'm not feeling there's any entities in this house.
- Well that's good. - That's good.
- Yes.
- I can sell the house.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Host] But when we visited another one of Sue's listings,
Ron felt a presence immediately.
- I'm hearing screaming and arguing throughout the house.
- Screaming and arguing?
- Yeah.
This is no good.
- Oh, the bathroom?
- This whole house, something's wrong.
- Wow.
- [Host] Ron sensed evil all around us.
- Something went on back there.
- [Host] But it wasn't until we went into the bedroom
that he felt the true presence of the ghost.
- Do you feel like there's ghosts around, or?
- Yeah.
- Ooh, is that right?
- I feel there are entities in this house.
- [Sue] I see.
- There's no question about it.
- Well, that sucks for you.
- Yeah, yeah.
- What is his activity in the house?
- It's like evil.
It's like, you know what an incubus is?
It's a ghost that'll have sex with someone until they die.
- Wow.
That's like what I experienced when I was in Switzerland.
Something bad, a bad spirit or a bad entity.
- This is the room that it's generating from.
- What happened in Switzerland?
- When I was being choked.
- You were being choked in Switzerland?
- Yeah.
- [Ron] We were just talking about that.
- What?
- Earlier we were talking about it.
- Choked by what?
- By an entity like that.
I felt like I was being picked.
- Wait, a ghost choked you in Switzerland?
- Yes.
- Wow.
- Oh yes.
There's been many things that has happened in my life.
That's why it's such interesting to meet you.
- [Host] Sue's bombshell about the Switzerland ghost made me
feel an urgency to get rid of this entity right away.
The only question was how.
- Could always be cleaned.
- [Host] Ron suggested an exorcism.
So the next morning, I found an exorcist
from Fresno named Brother Carlos.
- You have to obey me, and you have to come out.
In the name of Jesus Christ, devils.
- [Host] And booked him to do an exorcism
in the master bedroom for the following week.
It was finally the night of the exorcism.
And after Brother Carlos, our exorcist, arrived,
Sue and I led him upstairs to the bedroom
where the entity was detected.
- So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna anoint this place, okay?
And I'm gonna command these spirits to leave.
In the modern name of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
come out evil spirits.
Making people believe you are a spirits of dead humans, huh?
Liars!
Liars and deceivers, get out!
Get outta here!
And don't ever, ever come back!
- [Host] After getting rid of the spirit,
Brother Carlos insisted that he had to cleanse us as well,
as demons can sometimes attach themselves
to humans and manifest as physical ailments.
- Do you have any health issues?
Are you constantly getting sick?
Do you have migraine headache hitting you all the time?
- I do have one thing, but it's kind of private, personal.
- All right.
- It's a hemorrhoids.
- Yeah, hat's demonic.
Oh yeah.
- Okay.
- So how you say it again?
I don't say this name very often.
Hemorrhoids?
- Oh don't, hold on.
Hemorrhoids.
- Hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids.
Yeah, I don't say this name very often.
- Oh, I see.
- So let me go ahead and address this thing right now.
Okay?
In the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
I command demons of hemorrhoids.
I am casting you out, evil spirits.
In the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Hemorrhoid demons, come out!
- Is it gone?
- [Sue] Wow, you look different.
- I do.
- Mm hm.
You look like something just happened?
Definitely.
- Wow.
If Sue noticed a change that quickly,
I wanted to be sure to leave no stone unturned.
Can it help with penis size?
Can it help for small penis? - You see, yeah, okay.
If it's demonic, yeah, I can cast out the demon from that.
I don't have to say for the thing to, you know,
increase in size or whatever.
- Okay.
- In the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
I command all of you demons!
If there's a demon there,
you know,
affecting this man's penis,
male organs,
making it smaller, whatever.
If there's any demon there lodged in his penis right now,
come out in the name of Jesus Christ!
Come out!
You might be free from this thing already.
- Really?
- Oh yeah.
- [Host] After Brother Carlos addressed my personal demons.
- I have a extremely bad back problem, if that can be.
- [Brother Carlos] Oh yeah.
- [Host] He offered to help Sue
by removing the demons causing her back pain.
- And as I am addressing these demons right now,
I'm gonna be more aggressive, okay?
Because I know you have signs of someone
that have demons inside.
Okay? - Okay.
- So just make eye contact with me right now, okay.
In the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, I command
any evil spirit that the Lord, Jesus Christ has identified,
to face divine judgment for violating this soul.
In the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
I command you now to get out of this woman right now,
evil spirits.
I command you now to get out!
Demons, look in my eyes!
Look in my eyes!
You've been messing up with her back, huh?
Right devils!
I'm commanding you to come out.
I am commanding you to come out.
I am commanding you to come out!
- Oh. (Sue sobbing)
- I am commanding you to come out,
in the name of Jesus Christ, come out.
Come out.
Get out.
Come out of Sue's chest.
Come out.
Come out evil spirits.
Demons messing up with the vertebrates in the neck.
Come out in the name of Jesus Christ.
(fingers snapping) Come out.
I want all demons out of her spine, get out.
Get out!
In the name of Jesus Christ, get out.
(camera shuttering)
In the name of Jesus Christ, get out.
Come out.
Come out!
Come out, in the name of your sheward!
Come out, in the name of your as sheward!
Come out.
Get out.
Look in my eyes.
You have to go now.
You have to go.
I'm casting you out, you have to go.
You have to go.
Leave now.
Leave now. - Oh.
- Leave now! - Okay.
- Leave, leave, leave!
- Stop it! - Leave!
Go now.
And don't ever come back.
Take a deep breath, three times please.
(Sue sighing)
- [Host] You didn't hurt her or anything, right?
- No.
- Okay.
Cause she looks like she's almost dead.
Are you okay, Sue? - Oh, yeah.
Actually, I'm fine.
I think I'm just feeling a little relief now.
It's amazing.
(Sue sighing)
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