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NICK: Last week on "Death Walker". Building dates back to 1847. The land goes back way farther than that. Morrison Lodge was originally chartered in 1823 by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. You hear what it just said? It said Mason. I've been grabbed around the neck. Entities have oppressed if not possessed people.
I'm just waiting for a UFO to come down again. Can you speak to me? Don't be-- You see this ball of light that looked like a UFO flying above in the sky over here. My journey has led me around the world to some of the most haunted locations searching for answers from the other side.
I've seen over the years while investigating locations how other people and myself get affected by certain haunted locations. What's strange is how our individual energy can change or enhance the paranormal activity at certain locations and environments. People seem to have this unusual ability. I personally feel drawn to Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder, Kentucky and the Washoe Club in Virginia City, Nevada as if I have been to them both in another lifetime.
By conducting another investigation at this point of my journey, I will be able to better observe how these locations have changed but also see if they still affect me in a physical or psychological way. Join me as I investigate new theories of the unknown. [tense music] I saw something moving there and I thought, well, nobody's in here but us.
And and I saw it, you know, kind of move toward the door and-- NICK: Just vanished. --it was gone. It was later that I came back and drove around and, like, the back door just kind of just, just creeped open. You know, it was next to the railroad track, the door back there. It just creeped open. And, you know, that was really weird. I didn't really think anything about it much at the time.
I come in and that door that, that opened, we came in and, and the daylight was shining in and I walked up to the stage, and I just, just had shadows of daylight coming through that door. I walked up to the stage, stood on the stage, and I saw something moving. And I thought, well, nobody's in here but us.
Was it a lady? Do you know if it was a solid lady? It looked like a lady. My mind was, was, was occupied with deciding if I was going to buy the place or not. Almost like it shows you. Maybe they wanted you to keep it alive and keep this building going because who knows what would happen if you didn't take over.
I mean, really, you have spawned a location that maybe a small community knew about or just the people who knew about your music, but its gone way international beyond that with, you know, the paranormal investigation stuff that has happened here. And then when you start digging into the history and stuff of the location, it's really fascinating.
I mean I really feel that something has kept me here and there's no, no place I'd rather be than right here at America's honky tonk in Wilder, Kentucky. We have so many things to unlayer still. I feel like it's never enough and never enough time for me. And you've been here how many years now? - 40 years. - 40 years. Yeah.
And you're still learning new things about this location, right? Yeah. You've experienced several things here in the basement and lots of people are wondering why you wanted to come back. There's a huge reason why I want to come back. I mean, number one I want to face my own fears. Whatever I experienced back in years prior, I felt like I was immature. I didn't understand what was happening.
And no matter what we believe or don't, unless you're in somebody's shoes going through that experience, you truly don't know what's happening. So I felt like there was a good part of my life where I wanted to come here, live here, dive deeper into the history of this location, because there's a lot of stuff we didn't know about this location. You know, a lot of stuff that was connected through maybe urban legends or something like that.
We want to set those facts straight and we want to just dive a little bit deeper and really peel back, you know, to get to the core of what's happening here. In the past, I vowed to never return to Bobby Mackey's Music World due to the negativity it brought me in my life. But over the last five years, my perception of the paranormal has changed and has allowed me to evolve into a better investigator.
This is why I have decided to return and investigate two infamous locations that changed my outlook on the paranormal. Over the years, I have gathered factual information regarding the backstory of Bobby Mackey's Music World and urban legend of Pearl Bryan. In 1896, 22-year-old Pearl Bryan's body was found decapitated near a road 2.5 miles from the Mackey's Music Club.
Pearl, five months pregnant at the time of her death, had been brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Scott Jackson, a dentistry student who had tried to perform a botched abortion on her with the help of a fellow dentistry school classmate, Alonzo Walling. Scott and Alonzo were eventually arrested and convicted of the murder of Pearl Bryan. They were both executed on March 20th, 1897.
When it comes to finding out why Bobby Mackey's Music World is deemed the most haunted nightclub in America, we need to go back to the very beginning, long before it was ever built. It was soon after the Civil War. This area was known as Finchtown, Kentucky. It was also called Gallows Gap because of the 20 illegal lynchings that took place here. Tragedy occurred in 1892 when the Licking Bridge collapsed one quarter mile from the music club that killed over 40 people.
There were several people reporting seeing ghosts in that area long before Bobby Mackey's Club was ever built. On the Finchtown map, the slaughterhouse was located in the southwest part of the town, several hundred feet south of where Bobby Mackey stands today. Research done by an author corroborates that a distillery built by George Robertson jr. once stood where Mackey's is now.
In 1876, Robertson obtained permission to dig three tunnels under the railroad from the distillery to the nearby Licking River. These tunnels were used to pump water into the structure for the distilling process. All three of these tunnels are still in existence, and one of them is what has been deemed Hell's Gate. As for the Satanic cults and their whereabouts and activities-- show that none ever existed in any part of Campbell County in the late 1800s, and since there was no slaughterhouse with a well to hell at that spot, in combination
with the fact that the distillery was operational when Pearl was killed, it's obvious that Pearl's head could have never been thrown into the well. The distillery was demolished in the early part of the 20th century, and the ground sat empty until the 1920s when a new building was erected that served as a casino, nightclub, and speakeasy during the Prohibition era.
In 1933, a man named Ernest Buck Brady bought the building and named it the Primrose Club. It was during this time that Cincinnati mob began to frequent the nightclub and expanded their business by giving Buck Brady an ultimatum of either give them the club or be killed. Brady obliged and handed over the deed and fled to Florida.
The mob changed the club name to the Latin Quarter, and it flourished for years until 1961, when a local sheriff began to rid business establishments of organized crime. It's very unclear how many undocumented deaths and murders took place between the 1930s and '50s due to the mob owning and operating within the building.
After the Latin Quarter closed, several businesses moved in and out of the location. A roadhouse called the Hard Rock Cafe opened in the 1970s but was shut down in 1977 after several shootings. In 1978, the building was vacant and was finally purchased by Bobby Mackey. One thing I am certain about, and that is Bobby Mackey's Music World is being haunted by something, or perhaps more than one spirit.
The answer as to what or who this entity is could be more terrifying than the urban legends. And you remember seeing that footage I showed you where it just started manifesting? Yes, I did. Looks like a ball just moving. Right. And it's like it almost looks like an energy form.
And I don't know what it is still to this day, and we can speculate all day long. I'm shocked when you showed me that, really. What did you think when I showed it to you? I don't know. That it-- there was some energy there and I don't know how to explain that. Well, I couldn't believe it when, when you showed it to me.
It just-- you know, I was just really taken aback, but, you know, there's got to be some energy there. Yeah, absolutely. I don't know what it is. I truly don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the voices that people are hearing down here. Does it come from that energy or is it the manifestation of shadow figures or figures that people have seen through the years? Is that what that is? Can it transform or manifest or take on other forms and-- I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Given the history of this, this building, the history of this site, there's a whole lot there. NICK: It was here in the mid 1870s Virginia City, Nevada was a thriving town when the Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859. The mine dispensed millions of dollars in profitable high grade silver.
Hoping to get in on the action, America's most skilled miners, gunslingers, prostitutes, performers, writers, and businessmen flocked to Virginia City. The Washoe Club in Virginia City opened for business just four months before the Great Fire of 1875 destroyed the building in most of the town. The Washoe Club was later rebuilt a second time in 1876. The Washoe Club was designed to be the meeting grounds for the Virginia City elite and was otherwise eventually known as the Millionaires Club.
The club's exclusive quarters were on the second floor, above the Crystal Bar. There was one primary entrance in two secret exits were used by those who did not want to be seen visiting the establishment. Harsh winters left the ground frozen, so whenever an accident or fire occurred in a mine that resulted in the death of workers, their dead bodies would later be taken and stored inside a room located in the back of the Washoe Club called the crypt.
The grave diggers would have to wait until spring so the ground could thaw before burying the bodies. In 1873, the "Sacramento Daily Union Paper" reported a nitroglycerin explosion that killed 10 people right behind the Washoe Club. As the Comstock era declined, so did the Washoe Club, with membership renewals continuing to drop off until its ultimate demise in 1897.
The club, located on the second and third floors, remained abandoned for decades while the saloon on the bottom level continued to operate. Today, the Washoe Club museum and saloon located on the lower floor of the building remains in operation. The Washoe Club in Virginia City, Nevada is a location I always find myself returning to.
This was one of the first haunted locations I ever investigated where I had multiple experiences with the paranormal. After conducting numerous investigations at the Washoe Club, like Bobby Mackey's Music World, I still do not have a definitive answer as to who or what tried to communicate with me from the other side. So the history goes it was a millionaires men's club, right, back in the day when it was a mining town.
Silver, biggest silver mining town in the world at one point. Can you tell me a little bit of the history here? So, yeah, the rich miners, this would be their place to blow off steam. So they would have gambling and hookers and partying all upstairs, and it would be the richest of the rich. It was the place.
They were a very exclusive, invite only kind of club. But we know there's deaths, right? Deaths that have occurred here. A lot of deaths that have occurred here, though. Right. Besides the bodies that were stacked here and then brought somewhere else, I feel like there's a lot of energy, a lot of conscious thought that was put into this place and it's replaying itself.
I mean, you, you would believe that, right? 100%. NICK: And why do you think that is happening here? It's like a hotbed of paranormal activity, I believe, this location. I mean, a lot of people believe that if you have unfinished business or if some sort of situation where it is horrendous kind of experience, there is death, I think that kind of those two experiences kind of trap you somewhere.
We're on this journey, right? We're trying to explore the unknown, and I think sometimes we, we don't have all the right answers, and I think that's what the interesting part about all this is these walls right here. If they could talk, they would tell us a story, because everything at the core of all these things start with a story and then a ripple effects outward.
You know, I think that's what this is all about is to get to the experience. It's your knowledge for the search for truth. That's it. Yeah, it's the search for truth. A good way of putting it. And, you know, that's what I'm trying to do. It's always weird coming back down here into this basement. It's like you're looking into the abyss, just darkness.
What do you think's down here? What do I think is down here or what do I know is down here? And what I know is down here I won't say, because I'm, I'm afraid that, you know, if I open that-- if I-- if I open that side back up that it might have the chance to come back into me. And just wreak havoc on your life again. Exactly.
So I don't-- I try not to, you know, bring that up because of the-- it possibly coming back. NICK: I feel like you've opened yourself up to the things that we don't fully understand. MATT: Correct. Because there's no facts to say, it's the death of this person and that person is the one haunting this place. So that's the scary part about what we do.
When you open that door and you start becoming sensitive to these energies or these things you're communicating with and you make that interaction, you're using that telephone of the dead, but that person or whoever that is on the other line can be very negative, you know, and when it attaches and understands who you are, that's when it attacks. I want to go right to where the apparition was seen.
Can you come down the hallway to my voice? Show yourself once again. You can walk down the hallway right through me into this room. Can you do that? Did you come from here? Did you live in this place? JUSTIN: There's walking coming from right behind over here. I can hear it. It's starting to pick up now.
So there's some sort of walking or footsteps coming from over there. You can hear them slowly approaching. I'm in pitch darkness. You can easily walk up to me. I won't see you until you get really close to my face. JUSTIN: Go this way. What? What's the matter? You see something? JUSTIN: Mm-hmm.
Is there a figure back here? I just got the goosebumps right here. That's why I could have sworn-- Whoa, it feels like something's right here with me, some sort of static electricity. As you were talking about your perspective-- It got dizzy right now. It got really dizzy right here. See, this is what it's about. JUSTIN: There's a cold breeze. Yeah I feel it.
Everything has just changed right now in this whole area. It's very intense. The energy has shifted to this spot. I don't know what it is, but the environment has absolutely just changed. Come on. Let's go. It feels so different right here. JUSTIN: Whoa, there's something right here. NICK: Right behind you.
I think that's what's scarier than knowing that someone died here and that's the one-- that's the person haunting here. I think some sort of energy form that's manifested and created and then everybody else's energy-- From all of our stories. It's manifested off that into its own self.
That's, that's scary to me, because who knows what the hell that thing is then. You know, I think there's stuff in this world we just don't fully understand that can manifest, take form, take shape, communicate in its own way. Correct. And if we're saying, all right, you know, the old urban legend about Scott and Alonzo, you know, if we're saying, oh, that's what's here for hundreds of people who've come here, they keep interjecting that into this environment, this thing can be like, yeah, I'm it, but it's really not it.
That's the scary part. You hear that walking? Mm-hmm. There's something just walking back here. Yeah, this is the room. I was fixing these pipes here above and come down off the ladder and walked over here to the table, and I had my stuff set up here because I was soldering the pipes, and that's when I was picked up and thrown against this wall here.
What did you feel, just like something lift you? It felt like somebody had just taken their arms, put like that, and just threw me straight back. Threw you back? Yeah. What kind of force? Like, I mean, you're a big guy. The energy and the physics-- I'm 6'4" and 300 pounds. Man, the physics behind that. Like, I just can't understand what could have that amount of power down here that could do those type of things, you know.
And you're not the first one to talk about it. Like, there's been a lot of people who've been scratched, pushed, pulled, seen figures, seen these anomalies, you know. MATT: Had cameras ripped out of their hands. Yeah. No, that's weird. What are you feeling now? A little bit of uneasiness right now. I swear I just heard talking. Like someone conversating.
You heard that, right? WOMAN: I hear it from your mic. I heard someone talking. WOMAN: Yeah, it's actually-- it sounds like a woman. Yes. I heard a woman too. That's exactly what I heard. Man, I just got the goosebumps. WOMAN: But it's not coming out of-- Yeah, right now. Wait, and there's smoke. I smell like a whiff of smoke.
I just walked into-- Cigarette smoke. Something like that, yeah. Are you in here? Is there a lady here with us talking? Right? You feel that? MATT: Yeah. NICK: It's like energy that just hit us. I'm hearing footsteps upstairs. Everyone's gone. You locked it. Correct. I locked the door when we came down.
This place is just so weird. It's like down here it's so different than upstairs and vice versa. It's, it's almost like two different worlds colliding with ours, and it's just always shifting, like a Rubik's cube or something where it's twisting. I don't know why. The energy suddenly changes, putting us on guard.
A nervous feeling as being stalked in the darkness, unaware of the paranormal contact we are now making, but my intuitive sense is telling me something doesn't feel right. You feel it right in here? Yeah. Like somebody standing in the doorway watching us. Are you back here in the doorway? Tell us what you did? It's about you. Inez. Whoa. That was a quick yes.
That was an older lady talking. Inez. Inez right there, that man. Something's wrong. What did it just say? Are you back there, Inez? NICK: Haunted? Feels uneasy down here. I'm not getting as much down here as we was back there. Yeah, back there it was weird. Did you hear that? You heard what it just said, right? NICK: I answered.
It's where I would get my name cap. Holy fucking shit. Oh, shit, go look in there. [laughter] That's creepy. What the hell is this guy doing in here? I walk around the corner and this guy's just standing here. It scared the shit out of me. God. At least give a little notice, buddy. That was scary. Remember in the documentary, right here? It's been years since I've been back here. It's so weird.
Just walking around. Here's the crypt. The crypt is down there. Hello? Anybody here? It's like a maze in here. You start walking around and there's all these, like, twists and turns. I'm alone now here. Holy shit. There was footsteps right over there. There was footsteps shuffling away this way, almost like it was running back to the well.
Man, I feel like there's something here. Like, the presence, the energy, I can't even describe it right now. It's just so strong, like it's moving and just waiting for the right moment to just attack. All right, I'm running an application to the speaker. We're going to see if we get any voices coming through it.
They manipulate the voices. It should only be phonetic words coming through. It should not make any sense. Who have I been talking to in this room? Can you say my name? Doesn't feel right right here. What, what is here with me? Do you stay down here in the darkness?
Wow, that was weird. Are you back there? Can you show yourself again? Can we see you? All the energy in this basement gather. Right there. Knocking on the wall. That's good. I can hear that. Can you move something? Can you use all that power to move something? No? Why no?
Where are they? Where is everyone? I said It looks-- You know, the only way we can describe it is negative, right? But it's a feeling, and it doesn't matter if it's negative or positive. It's just a feeling that's overwhelming, where it makes me feel uncomfortable. I don't know if this entity is positive or negative, because it manifests into whatever it wants.
So many things have been experienced down here and I've been on both sides of it, positive-- good and bad. And there has been something captured down here. I documented this light anomaly, this ball of energy that was manifesting for eight minutes long on a static night vision camera that I set down here when I slept here.
I just heard a growl. I just heard a growl in here. Can you walk into this room right here? There's footsteps coming right now. The night has come and gone just like the day before. Time has an interesting way of passing in the short life we live. I am now starting to wonder if I am not supposed to know the answers behind these questions I've been vocalizing to the world. Just a few weird moments through the night kept me on guard.
The search continues into the unknown, but this time I will add new energy into the environment to see if things change. I don't know what it is, but I just feel connected with this location. There's something here that just keeps drawing me back. I'm going to conduct an experiment which will require other people to be present.
Together, we'll attempt to use our concentrated thoughts and emotions to see if a thought form entity will arise and communicate with us. So the idea is to focus your energy and your mind on the hallway where the stairs are and try to communicate in your minds rather than your voice to whatever is here, meaning picture some sort of a person or what we label as an entity or an apparition.
Let's draw that person or ghost or spirit or whatever you want to label it as into this room. So everybody picture the staircase, the rooms above, and ask it in your mind to come to the ballroom. Hallway? You hear that? Can you come down the hallway into the ballroom? Did you die up here? GEO PORT: Exit. NICK: Oh, there's an exit. WOMAN: Yeah. NICK: Exit.
Do you know that you're dead? Changing? Can you help us out? Can we-- can we figure out-- Can you help us figure out what happens when you die? Can you give us the answers? What do you see? Do you know how many people are here? Do you like being in the Washoe Club?
Come on. Yeah. Watch these things. There's a staircase leading up. Are you hiding back here? I feel sometimes this entity, it likes to go back to the darkest, most decrepit places in this building, and that's where it's actually waiting, building up energy, and then it will come out and try to find whoever comes down here and draw their energy off them, try to scare them.
I'm just hunting for it, just looking for it. I'm now all alone in complete darkness, vulnerable, awaiting to see if anything else will manifest and communicate with me. This is the time the energy has shifted and changed, but I'm patient, waiting. Can you show yourself again? I'm by myself.
If I walk in here? Can't see anything. I'm alone in the well room. Can you show up behind me? Or back here? Are you in the well? You can use my energy. You can come out here and manifest. This entity has been moving through this building for a long time. Being by myself, it definitely puts a little bit of fear in you. I mean, I won't lie.
I'm in this decrepit building with all this past history and all this energy, and sometimes it just throws my body off and my mind, and this entity likes to draw the energy out of you and use your thoughts and just kind of project that back at you, so it strikes fear and feeds off of that, and that's what I've been feeling down here.
So I'm seeing what happens being by myself in complete darkness with just my camera. Are you in here? Can you manifest again so I can see you? Can you show yourself? One more time, just try to show yourself to me. Don't you want to show the world how powerful you are? Whoa, what was that? Right, right there. There it is. I heard you. Did you move over here?
Are you back there? I feel like it's back there. Can you crawl out here if you're back there hiding? Right there. Right there. There it was. All right. I heard you that time. You went back here? The very first time I came to Bobby Mackey's, I was scared. I was in fear of whatever I was dealing with when things were
happening here, but every time I've been coming back and researching it and experiencing it, I accept what it is now. This entity has manifested into its own thing here, and now that I have a better understanding of what it is, I can really understand how we can actually document it further.
Knowing that it's feeding off of my energy and my thoughts and projecting itself back to me, now I can really discover something new beyond what the scope of the paranormal that is happening here. I'd rather learn about it than fear it. It can draw thoughts from my own body and project that back to me and try to get me scared so it can gather that energy off of my own-- my own psyche, my own mind and body, and physically just drain me from that. It keeps growing more powerful. This entity will not stop.
Every time I come back, it's becoming something else. I don't know, this place is so intriguing. It makes me keep coming back. It's not like I want to keep coming back. But something about it just draws you back. Something just keeps drawing me back.
Incredible journey leading up to this point in my life, not only to meet good people like Matt, Bobby, and the people I've crossed paths with, became friends with, but not only that, just pulling back the layers of the history of locations, learning more of what's happening in the core of all the weird things that kind of affected all of our lives in some sense.
And here we are, still in the darkness, still doing what we did 10 years ago, still asking questions, but sometimes we find that little needle in the haystack that just makes us think a little bit harder that there is something beyond just dying, something farther than we can comprehend yet, and that just gives us enough hope, you know, knowing that when we die, maybe the energy's lingering. Maybe it moves on to a different place or that conscious thought, or maybe locations like this can create some sort of other energy that we just have not been familiar with yet. When I set out on my journey years ago,
these two infamous locations played a central role in making me want to discover answers about the other side, and I know I'm not alone. People to this day are still bearing witness to the extraordinary energies and paranormal phenomena on a daily basis, but something is different now. A decade ago, you all saw how these locations affected me.
I've talked about them for years. I came back to look at how people over time change a location. The truth is, it's never really changed. Same foundation, same walls, same stories. What has changed is me. I was hoping to get some answers, but I leave now with more questions.
One thing I know for sure is that this is only the beginning. Join me as I explore new theories into the unknown. [music playing]
