The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help me" and "can't breathe," accompanied by water sounds and a heavy thud. Brendan waited two days before telling anyone. Both investigators hope the recording is a residual loop rather than an intelligent spirit reliving the experience. Other clips include a voice responding "talk to the dead" at a funeral home, a child crying "I can't see" near entombed infants, and a spirit asking "you guys dead?" at a cemetery, implying the dead may not know whether they address the living. Brendan surprises everyone by recommending cell phones in airplane mode as effective EVP recorders, a revelation Art Bell calls stunning.
The night ends with a promise: the GIS will return for a Halloween special with their most powerful recordings.
Key Moments
Cell phones as EVP recorders: Cook recommends using cell phones in airplane mode as modern digital EVP recorders, stunning Art.
Ogden asylum child recording: Cook introduces an EVP from an abandoned Ogden mental asylum, recorded in an empty room with no running water and no people inside.
Help me, can't breathe: After the Ogden clip plays, Art asks if the childlike voice is saying 'help me,' and Cook confirms it sounds like 'help me, can't breathe.'
Child voice says I can't see: In a pitch-black mausoleum, a childlike EVP says 'I can't see,' and Art calls it awful and clear.
You guys dead?: The investigators play an EVP that seems to ask the living investigators, 'you guys dead?'
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