So, you're offering up your own soul?
All you got to do is bring sam back.
How long did they give you? one year.
I don't want to go to hell. We'll find a way to save you.
Ed zeddmore and Harry Spangler —
Hellhoundslair.com.
What are you guys doing here?
What the hell are you doing here?
Uh, we belong here.
We're professional paranormal investigators.
We're just trying to get a book and movie deal, okay?
Get that damn thing out of my face. Go, go, go, go!
Sweet lord of the rings.
Run!
Forget it. I'm not going back in there again.
Harry, this is our ticket to the big time —
Fame, money, sex...
With girls.
Hello.
I am Harry Spangler.
And I am Ed Zeddmore.
Now, if you've received this tape,
You must be some sort of bigwig network executive.
Well, today is your lucky day, mister.
Because the unsolicited pilot you are about to watch
Is the bold, new future of "reality tv."
We know you've had it hard
During the crippling writers' strike.
Lazy fat cats.
Who needs writers when you got guys like us?
Our team faced horrible horrors
To bring you the footage that will change your world forever,
So strap in for the scariest hour
In the history of television.
In the history of your life.
Strap in for...
"Ghostfacers."
You know, it can get kind of hard
Balancing our daytime careers with our nighttime missions.
Yeah, but Ed and I pretty much call the shots
At the kinko's where we work,
So we can usually pretty much get off by 6:00 every night?
Yeah, 6:00.
It's used to be just, you know, you and I taking on the cases —
Just Harry and me.
Two lone wolves.
And two lone wolves need, uh...
Other wolves.
Morning, 'facers.
Good morning, Ghostfacers.
It's 7:00 p.m., dude.
It's morning to a Ghostfacer.
Corbett, what do we got, buddy?
Oh, I'm just putting up some of the —
Yeah, this has got to go up here.
That's got to go here. Got to see the whole field.
Markers, eraser — good job.
I first saw Ed
Putting up flyers down at the —
The outlet mall in scogan,
So I-I read one,
And I thought to myself, "huh.
Where do ghosts come from?"
And now here I am.
Ed, your sister's abusing staff.
That's adopted sister, thank you very much.
Ed has been obsessEd with the supernatural since we were kids,
You know, and then he meets Harry at computer camp,
And love at first geek.
Spruce here.
What up, player?
I am 15/16 jew, 1/16 cherokee.
My grandfather is a mohel,
My great-grandfather was a tallis maker,
And my great-great-grandfather was a degenerate gambler
And had a peyote addiction.
Okay, people. Let's cut the chatter and get on a mission.
Okay?
Morton house...
one of our big fish.
All right, we all know the legend.
Every four years, supposedly,
This becomes the most haunted place in america.
The leap year ghost, some call it.
The ghost returns at midnight just as february 29th begins.
And no one has ever stayed the night, right?
Yeah, well, every testimony that we dug up,
Every eyewitness has cut and run well before midnight.
Well, that's all about to change, baby.
Absolutely true, Ed.
Absolutely true.
Mmm. that's good.
It's french vanilla, cause the other day,
You said how much you liked it, so...
Thank you.
You are welcome.
I like Corbett. I do.
Shows up early, does his job, lot of good hustle out —
I think he's got the hots for Ed,
And that could spell trouble for the whole team.
Ed's kind of the more ruggEd,
With that really golden...
Beautiful sort of beard.
Definitely nice.
Uh, and Harry's nice.
29th is this friday, facers.
We want this mission,
We got to move on it now, or guess what —
He's gone for another four years.
Oh, watch out!
Who is that?
Dad! told you we were gonna have the garage right now.
Just cut the cameras. We don't need that.
We don't need this part. We don't —
Stay low. Follow formation.
Okay, as suspected.
A lot of people have tried to break into the Morton house.
The local authorities have just gotten fed up.
Looks like the cops have got this place
Pretty well fenced off.
Wait.
Didn't you guys get, like, a permit or something?
A permit? that's a good idea for next time.
Yeah.
Car!
Car. shh, shh!
Flashlights off.
It's okay. Not cops — just hicks.
Oh, right on.
Guys, let's go! let's go! let's go!
Go! go!
Hear that, people? let's keep it quiet.
There's the kitchen sink.
Copy that. Copy that.
All right, everybody.
Ghostfacers, let's line up.
Everybody.
We'll set up camp right here. This is command center one.
We'll call this the eagle's nest.
Hallway cam one up and running.
Looking good, Corbett.
Copy that, Ed.
Uh... uh, you're welcome.
All right, Spruce, how are we doing there, buddy?
Checking basement camera two, mein fuhrer.
Maggie, I got no visual on you, Maggie.
This is Maggie. Do you copy? there you are. Hello.
Harry, are you alive? upstairs, Ed. camera one.
Looking good. I can smell syndication.
All right, fellas. Let's regroup at the eagle nest.
All right, Spangler.
Battery check, battery check. Check.
Okay.
Check. Check.
Yo, robocop.
R-robocop?
You think I — you think I look like robocop?
Everybody, bring it in. bring it in.
We've all been here before. Standard walk-through.
Team one, west. Team two, east.
Spin the tires, light the fires.
Ghostfacers on three.
1, 2, 3...
Ghostfacers!
Hello!
I'm speaking to the restless spirits of the Morton house!
Okay.
Hello!
My name's Ed.
Careful.
Watch my back.
Okay. Okay.
What's your name?
.3,29.
Is there an entity or entities here with us now?
Can you give us a sign of your presence?
You got to breathe, buddy. I can't breathe.
Corbett, night vision.
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Calm down, buddy. Breathe, all right?
Calm the whirlwinds of your mind.
We're doing a basic emf, evp, temp-flux sweep.
Looks like we've got all of our ducks in a row here.
What?
I don't know. It's weird.
It's gone.
All right. Get this. Get this.
Turn the knob.
All right...
Oh, my god! oh, my god!
I don't really like rats.
They're gross.
Rats are like the rats of the world.
What — was that an apparition?
Was that a spectral — was that a.4?
What do we got, 'cause the emp was just off the —
Oh, god!
Oh, that is so not funny, Spruce!
Oh, god. Okay, it was just...
I think it was just this branch...
Okay... in the window.
This is spooky, man.
This place...
Okay.
Oh, no!
Freeze! police officers! don't move!
All right. All right. All right.
Let's see some identification.
Come on. let's see some I.d.
What — are we under — under arrest?
We are unarmed.
Oh, god. Oh, god.
Want to explain that weirdo outfit, mr. Corbett?
I know you.
Yeah, sure you do. give me some identification.
Yeah, ho— whoa, hold on a second.
I know the both of you guys. Yeah.
What? yeah. Huh.
Holy
What?
Uh, west texas —
The — the — the tulpa we had to take out,
Those two goofballs that almost got us killed...
The hellhounds or something?
Me.
Yeah, we're not hellhounds anymore, okay?
It didn't test that well. Ed, what's going on?
They're not cops, buddy — no, not at all.
Ed, Ed, you had a partner, too, didn't you —
A different guy?
Oh, yeah, yeah. Is he around here somewhere?
He's running around, chasing ghosts.
Okay, well, listen, you and rambo
Need to get your girlfriends and get out of here.
All right.
Listen here, chisel chest, okay?
We were here first. We've already set up base camp.
We beat you.
They were here first.
Oh, god.
Ed... yeah?
where's your partner?
10.6. 10.7, guys.
The emf is really spiking here.
Pressure's down, like, 11 degrees.
All right, all right, keep your eyes peeled.
This could be it.
Maggie, can I get a reading in here, please?
Something keeps messing with the chip.
I don't know what's going on here.
Guys. Guys. Guys.
I'm sorry. That's it.
I'm telling you, that's all the money I —
On leap year — what are you thinking?
We're here to spend the night, okay? it's for our tv show.
What? great. Perfect.
Yeah, nobody's ever spent the night before.
Uh, actually, yeah, they have.
Uh, we've never heard of them.
Yeah, you know why?
Cause the ones that have haven't lived to talk about it!
Oh, come on, I don't believe you.
Look — missing-persons reports
Going back almost a half century.
John graham stayed on a dare — gone.
Julie wilkerson — gone. There are tons more.
All of them came to just stay the night through,
Always on a leap year.
The only body they ever found
Was the last owner, Freeman Daggett.
These look legit. They are legit.
Look, Ed, we ain't got much time here, buddy.
Starting at midnight, your friends are going to die.
Oh, my god! oh, my god!
Oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god!
Guys! guys! oh, my god! oh, my god! we got one!
Corbett! Corbett, we saw one! we saw one!
It was a full apparition! it was like a class four.
It was a spectral illumination! it...
Hey, aren't those the from texas?
Yes.
All right, let's have this reunion across the street, guys.
Crap. What are you guys doing here? come on, come on.
We'll get you ice cream — our treat.
What do you say? let's go.
Yeah, I say no. look at this. Look, look. Ed, Ed.
No. no. look at this.
Okay, honest-to-god proof, all right?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah. No, not kidding.
What kind of reading did we get?
Uh, it was a 10.9.
10.9?
Yeah, it was 10.9. it was almost 11.
I came out, and I was like, "what's going on?"
And I was like — wait, watch this.
Oh! he got blasted.
It was crazy.
What's a death echo?
We got a problem here. That ghost ain't it.
Yeah, that's real. Like, that happened.
What's a death echo?
Echoes are trapped in a loop, okay?
They keep replaying how they died
Over and over and over again,
Usually in the place where they were ganked.
It's about as dangerous as a scary movie.
Maybe the echo's not dangerous, but maybe something else is.
You're right. All right, we need to get out of here, guys.
Come on. let's go. let's go. let's go.
Pack it up.
What about all of our equipment?
Lots of fun. Let's go.
We got more material. We got all kinds of stuff.
We'll make you guys recurring guest stars.
Wait!
Where's Corbett?
I wish to communicate with the restless spirits here.
Uh, lights out?
Oh, I think I got night vision here.
That's better.
No man left behind.
That was Corbett.
That was Corbett! Corbett!
Corbett! it's okay!
We'll get him! go back!
Guys!
No! where are you, dude?
Tell us where you are!
Corbett!
Let me go!
Guys!
Corbett, you need to come back, Corbett.
No!
Hey! hey! hey! come on.
Corbett's...
He's not here. Let's go. let's go.
No. no. no. but that's Corbett.
No, that was Corbett. Didn't you hear that?
Go, go, go, come on.
Guys. Guys. Guys.
Here we go. here we go. keep it moving. Keep it moving.
Corbett?
Hey. hey. hey. watch him. Watch him.
Go. go. move. Move.
Turn it off!
Oh, god, what's happened?
Oh, god. He's gone.
He just disappeared.
Okay, let's just go through all the angles.
Let's go through all the cameras we have.
Well, it's 12:04, dean. You good? you happy?
Yeah, I am happy.
"let's go hunt the Morton house," you said.
"it's our grand canyon."
Sam, I don't want to hear this.
You got two months left, dean.
Instead, we're gonna die tonight.
Whoa! what the hell is going on?
I'll tell you what's going on.
Every door, every window,
I'm guessing every exit out of this house —
They're all sealed.
But w-why are they sealed?
It's a supernatural lockdown, okay?
Whatever took Corbett doesn't want us to leave,
And it's no death echo.
This is a bad mother, and it wants us scared.
Or it just wants us.
Uh, guys, the camera's fritzing again.
Whoa. Whoa. Guys, the emf's starting to spike.
Everybody, stay close. There's something coming.
Is this the same echo you guys saw earlier?
No, it's a different guy.
Multiple echoes? what the hell's going on?
Beats me.
Okay. All right. All right. All right.
Uh, hey, buddy!
Hey. hey. wake up. you're dead!
Hello!
What's he doing? what's he doing?
It's rare, but sometimes you can shock an echo out of its loop
If you can talk to the part of the ghost that's still human,
But usually you have to have
Some kind of connection to the deceased.
Come on! wake up! be dead!
You guys hear that? what's that sound?
You guys hear that?
Snap out of it, buddy, huh?
Come on, what are you waiting for?
You're gonzo! you're dead! hey!
Where the hell did it go?
Dude, there's no records of any of this here.
No one got shot here.
Obviously, no one got run over by a freaking train.
Stay close.
Did the echoes take Corbett?
Yes. no. I don't know.
We don't know
That's what we're trying to figure out, okay?
All right, stay close.
Okay, look, death echoes are ghosts, okay?
Now, ghosts — they usually haunt places
Where they lived or where they died.
Except these mooks didn't live or die here.
Right.
So, what are they doing here?
Hey, give the lady a cigar.
All right, seriously, does looking at this nightmare
Through that camera make you feel better or something?
I mean...
Um... I, uh...
Well, yeah. Uh, yeah. I think so.
Freeman daggett, house's last owner,
Officially commended for 20 years of fine service
At the gamble general hospital.
He's a doctor?
Janitor.
This looks like his den.
When'd you say he died — 64?
Yeah, heart attack.
What are these, c-rations?
Yeah, army-issued, three squares —
Like a lifetime supply.
God, is that all he ate?
One-stop shopping.
Hello. Locked.
Oh, come on, guys. This is ridiculous.
I mean, how the hell is this supposed to find Corbett, huh?
We should be digging up the friggin' floorboards right now.
"survival under atomic attack."
An optimist.
Crap. Crap.
Taxidermy. Okay.
You said Daggett was a hospital janitor?
Yeah.
Got three toe tags here —
One, death by gunshots,
Train accident, and suicide.
What?
Well, that explains why all the death echoes are here.
They're here because their bodies are here
Somewhere in the house.
Daggett brought the remains home from the morgue to play.
Yeah.
Wait a minute.
Corbett.
Okay, Maggie.
Closer to the herd, okay?
Maggie? Maggie?
She's fine.
Harry. Harry, I got an 8.6 and climbing fast.
Something huge is coming.
Look. Something big is coming.
It's past 11, you guys.
What? nobody move!
Hold on. hold on. stay quiet.
It's really cold in here.
Sam?
Some kind of surge.
Sam?
Oh, no.
Sam!
Sammy!
Corbett! sam!
Corbett!
Sam!
God.
God, I am so scared.
I'm so scared.
It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay, Maggie.
Corbett!
My best friend...
And my best sister.
Ed. Ed. harry.
Harry. Ed. listen, ed.
Are you banging my sister?
No!
Hold my glasses.
Ed.
Ed! Ed! Ed! Ed! Ed!
What the are you doing?
Cut it out!
We're down by two people.
Sam!
Sammy!
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Give me my glasses.
Did he knock my — my tooth there?
Uh, no.
Thanks, Spruce.
Yeah, it's my fault.
That's real great. That's nice. Thanks.
Corbett.
Corbett. Hey.
Corbett, hey.
Hey, you got to keep listening to my voice, okay?
I'm right here. Stay awake.
Don't listen.
It stops hurting, so don't worry.
Corbett, stay with me.
Stay with me, you got it?
I'm right here. Hey. stay with me.
Don't. Don't.
No.
Corbett!
No!
Corbett!
Corbett! where'd you guys go?
Where are you guys?
Dean, what are you doing?
Okay, so Daggett was a cold war nut, okay?
He was — he was an amateur taxidermist.
He liked to slow dance with cadavers,
And all he ate were c-rations,
So what the hell are we looking for?
Horrible little life.
Yeah, a lonely life.
A cold war life.
He was scared.
He was scared. He was scared.
Scared of what?
What? dean, where are you going?
Wait, don't leave me in here, you guys.
Get away from me.
This won't hurt.
It's okay.
It's okay. Relax. Relax.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Where are you going?
Guys like Daggett back then,
the ones who were really scared of the russkies —
They built bomb shelters. I'm guessing he's got one.
I'll bet you it's in the basement.
Um, who closed the door?
It did. It wants to separate us.
Ed! listen to me! what?
There's some salt in my duffle.
Make a circle and get inside.
Inside?
Inside your duffle bag?
In the salt, you idiot!
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Harry, hurry up. get in the circle. Get in the circle.
Come on. come on. quick. Quick.
Guys, guys, I don't want to die, okay,
And I don't want you to die.
Harry, listen — listen to me, okay? listen.
If we don't die...
it's totally okay if you, uh, do my sister.
Ow. nice.
Oh, no, guys. Oh. oh, no.
My camera. Get in close.
Why does this keep happening? why does this keep happening?
Why does this keep happening?
Oh, my god.
Oh, god. Oh, god.
It's — it's Corbett.
Oh. oh, c-Corbett.
Hey, can I ask you something?
What?
Earlier, you and sam —
He said you had two months left?
Yeah, it's complicated.
A while ago, sam...
No. no. no.
I'm not gonna whine about my problems
To some reality show.
I'm gonna do my job.
Is it cancer?
Shut up.
You hear that?
I've been waiting for some more friends.
I get lonely.
But you're coming to my party, aren't you?
Is that music?
Yeah, it's coming from behind this wall.
Wow, you're strong.
You'll stay a good, long time.
Ed. Ed.
Yeah?
Corbett's a — he's a death echo.
He's reliving his own murder.
Over and over forever.
What's this Daggett guy's problem anyway?
Loneliness.
He's never heard of a realdoll?
No, no, no, Daggett was the norman bates,
Stuff-your-mother kind of lonely.
That's why he lifted these bodies from the morgue,
Threw himself a birthday party,
Except they were the only ones who would come.
Anyway, so, at midnight, he sealed them in the bomb shelter
And went upstairs and o.d.'d on horse tranqs.
How do you know this?
Cause he told me.
Oh. yeah.
Okay, so now that he's dead, what?
Same song, different verse,
Trying to get people to come to his party?
Pretty much, yeah. Stay forever.
Are those real bullets?
It's rock salt.
Oh, no.
Oh, god.
Wait, guys.
Guys, it's — it's Corbett.
He's — he's — he's trapped.
He's in a lot of pain, you know?
We got to try and —
We got to try and pull him out of his loop.
We have to.
Corbett.
Corbett, it's —
Oh, god.
Don't cross the line of salt.
Corbett, listen to me.
Okay, I'm not gonna hurt you.
Listen.
Listen. Oh, god. Corbett.
Oh. oh, god. Whoa.
Oh, I can't, okay?
He's not hearing me, okay?
He won't stop dying.
Seriously — you're still shooting?
It makes him feel better. Don't ask.
Ah, hell, guys.
Get in your ghost-role thing. Something's coming.
Oh, my —
I know how we can get through to him.
How?
Ed...
He had feelings for you.
He wanted you.
Wa— wanted me to what?
You know.
And you know what you've got to do.
You can do it, Ed.
You've always been the brave one. Yes, you can.
You make us brave — Maggie, right?
Yeah.
Ed...
You got to go be gay for that poor, dead intern.
You got to send him into the light.
Corbett.
Maggie, no. no.
It's okay.
Corbett, look.
Hey, it's just Ed, buddy. It's just me.
Hey, hey, Corbett, listen to me. listen to me.
I — we...
Okay.
You meant...
Corbett, you meant a lot to the team.
You meant...
You meant a lot to me.
You know, never back down...
Never say a bad word, okay?
I remember that, Corbett. I-I remember that.
I remember because I love you, Corbett.
I really, truly love you.
Do you remember that? do you?
Hey. Ed?
Yeah.
Yeah, Corbett, it's...
Corbett, yeah, it's me.
It's me. look at me.
You got to help us, man. You have to help us, Corbett.
Please. Please.
Please help us right now.
Take it easy. You all right?
Uh, guys...
This is bad — very bad.
Corbett?
You all right, dude?
You all right?
God.
Leap year, february 29th, the Morton house.
A tragic day —
A day of souls bound in torment,
Of lives held in cruel balance.
But the Ghostfacers —
They did the best that they could.
We lost a beloved friend,
But we gained new allies.
We know this much —
That every day, including today,
Is a new beginning.
We learned more than we can say
In the brutal feat of the morton house.
The Ghostfacers were forced to face something
Far more scary than ghosts.
They were forced to face themselves.
War changes man.
And Maggie.
War changes man...
And one woman.
You know, Corbett, we just...
Oh, gosh, we just like to think
That you're out there watching over us.
As far as we're concerned,
You're not an intern anymore.
You have more than earned full Ghostfacer status.
Plus, it'd be cool to have a ghost on the team.
Yeah.
You know, and here we were,
Thinking that, you know, we were teaching you,
And all this time,
You were teaching us...
About heart,
About dedication, and...
About how gay love can pierce through the veil of death
And save the day.
Thank you, alan j. Corbett.
Go well into that starry night, young turk.
Go well.
Come on, Spruce.
I got to get all this stuff packed up.
So? pack and talk.
I don't know what to say.
Say what comes to mind.
This is one of our confessional moments, Corbett,
So confess.
What do you think was gonna happen tonight?
What do you think's gonna happen tonight on this trip?
I think tonight — I really do —
I think all our dreams are gonna come true.
Does that sound stupid?
Kind of does, yeah.
So, guys, what do you think?
You all right?
You know, I kind of think it was half awesome.
Half awesome — that's full-on good, right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's bizarre how y'all are able to —
To honor Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his
death.
Well done.
Yeah, that's a real tight rope you guys are walking.
Yeah. All right, guys.
No, that's reality, man. Yeah.
Corbett gave his life searching for the truth,
And it is our job over here to share it with the world.
Right. Well, um, our experience —
You know what you get when you show the world the truth?
A straightjacket or a punch in the face —
Sometimes both. Right.
Oh, come on, guys, don't be 'facer haters
Because we happen to have gotten the footage of the century.
Oh, yeah.
You got us there. Yeah.
Yeah, well, we'll see you guys around.
Dicks.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yep.
Start laying off some dvds.
Sounds like a good idea, Spruce.
You know, guys, I think we're gonna need a bigger office here, you know,
Cause we're gonna go national,
And then it's gonna go international, and then —
Hey, menudo left their dance bag behind.
What's inside, huh?
What the hell is this?
Uh, I seem to be having some technical difficulty over here.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait! wait! wait! wait! wait!
"no operating system found"? wait a minute.
We clean?
No-o-o-o-o-o-o!
Electromagnet wiped out every tape and hard drive they have.
World just isn't ready for the Ghostfacers.
That's too bad. I kind of liked the show.
Had its moments.