A Victorian survivor with a Second Empire silhouette, a town shaped by fire, and a midnight voice that wasn’t on any of our devices—Bruce Mansion gave us more than a story. We went in to listen, not to perform, and the house met us halfway with layered responses, names in the static, and a heavy hush near the old outhouse that felt like grief pressing up from the ground.
We start by grounding the legend: how a funeral parlor past, apartment years, and a rumored cupola suicide built the mansion’s haunted reputation. From there, the gear is simple and the approach slower than usual—partly because late pregnancy made every stair count, partly because old houses reward patience. You’ll hear us juggle EVP prompts with respect for place, debate a request for “beer pudding,” and confront a real-time “We’re here” that lands both through an app and as a disembodied whisper. In an upstairs space some call a quarantine room, the name “Emily” surfaces. Out back, a small bone and a string of terms—“I’m close,” “daughter,” “iron”—spark a careful hypothesis about injury and infection in a world without tetanus shots.
We pull apart the evidence like engineers: how echoes behave in tall stairwells, why we discount most “orbs,” and what motion patterns actually make us pay attention. We also talk preservation and access, because the path to better investigations runs through good neighbors, working bathrooms, and roofs that don’t leak. Tours keep the lights on and the history living; kindness from the gas station next door kept us focused and fed. If you’re curious about the line where folklore meets fieldwork, or you just want a clear-eyed walkthrough of a famously haunted Michigan landmark, this one’s for you.
If you enjoy our work, follow, rate, and share the show. Your support helps fund future investigations and the restoration efforts that keep places like Bruce Mansion standing. What did you hear that we missed?
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SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to Strange StrangeBeyond Insane.
And I would like to share acouple of recordings from um
Bruce Mansion here in Michigan.
Chris and I went, um, we visitedabout a month before it was due.
So I was extra large and veryslow, like a sloth, and um kept
(00:23):
falling asleep towards the endof the night.
But we absolutely enjoyed thisgorgeous historic old mansion.
And it was just we it was kindof surreal that we finally got
to go because it has not beenopen to the public for a long
time.
So yeah, I have some liverecordings that I'd like to
share.
(00:43):
And uh if you guys can get achance to go there and visit,
you guys should.
It is the Bruce Mansion inBurnside, Michigan.
So before I get right into thelive recordings, I do want to
give you guys a little historyof the Bruce Mansion.
Okay, so the Bruce Mansion wasbuilt in 1876 by a Scottish
immigrant named John G.
(01:04):
Bruce in Michigan, surviving theGreat Thumb Fire of 1881 and
later used as a funeral homebefore being divided into
apartments.
The mansion's reputation forparanormal activity stems from
several resident deaths,including a rumored suicide in
the cupola and the death of aowner by unknown causes.
(01:27):
The property is owned by privateresidents, and they are offering
um tours to fund itsrestoration.
So the architecturearchitectural style, sorry, um,
is a striking example of asecond empire in Victorian
style.
(01:48):
Um the survival of the GreatFire is a great thumb of fire in
1881, which devastated much ofthe surrounding area.
So the mansion served as afuneral parlor, a common
practice at the time.
Apartments happened sometimes inthe 1980s, and the mansion was
divided into separateapartments.
Prohibition era.
(02:09):
A room and an upper floor wasused as a speakeasy during
prohibition.
Um, so like again, theresidents' deaths, uh, the
mansion's reputation for beinghaunted is linked to the
numerous resident deaths thathave occurred over the over the
years.
The suicide legend.
The second owner, Jen Walker, isrumored to have died by suicide
(02:30):
in the cupola, a significantcontributor to the mansion's
paranormal reputation.
I believe he got into a caraccident outside of the mansion
and um he someone died in thecar accident.
I don't think he that he couldtake it, and that's why he
committed suicide.
I think that's what the storyis, which is pretty insane
because the first time that Icalled to talk to the um the
(02:54):
groundskeeper to set somethingup, he had to call me back
because there was an actual caraccident right in front of the
mansion, and he was cleaning upum all of the parts and you know
everything.
I think everybody's okay, but Ijust found that very strange.
Um yeah, it uh it was a verybeautiful stay, and I am totally
(03:18):
looking forward to going backwhen I'm not super pregnant, and
I believe me, there was a lot oftimes that I enjoyed being
pregnant.
The second trimester wasbeautiful.
However, when you at the end,when you're huge and you're
tired all the time, it it makesthe whole paranormal
investigating a little harder,right?
Alright, so let's jump into thislive investigation.
(03:42):
Let me just fix this mic.
Alright, here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (03:47):
Okay, it's about 11:30.
Um Friday, July 18th, 2025.
SPEAKER_05 (03:58):
We're at Bruce Mansion in Burnside, Michigan.
SPEAKER_04 (04:03):
And we're just sitting in the front, seeing if
we hear anything.
SPEAKER_03 (04:12):
Why does it be quiet?
SPEAKER_05 (04:24):
Sorry, are we talking too much?
SPEAKER_01 (04:28):
We're only talking now because we're just getting
right in the only way.
SPEAKER_05 (04:38):
What is your name?
You know, I didn't walk aroundto the back of that.
You know that I keep lookingback at me.
I know that there's um porcharea.
SPEAKER_06 (04:57):
Um, but can't walk ahead to see or take pictures
that I don't think about it tojust uh they don't want to get
here to try to take picturesthat was already pretty much
getting dark.
unknown (05:17):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (05:18):
I've got so much manager.
unknown (05:32):
Okay.
SPEAKER_06 (05:39):
Alright, bro.
If you're like high with yourwater to colour but too.
unknown (05:46):
Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_06 (05:47):
Okay, that is reverbed.
Also, one I read guy.
SPEAKER_05 (06:03):
Someone nearly that's an old name.
Somebody not lost.
That's like the name.
SPEAKER_06 (06:17):
Like why should be a chip?
That has to be um aligned.
A lot, yeah, to like forget somepeople to open the window.
Is this Mr.
Locker?
Yes.
(06:37):
It's nice to meet you.
SPEAKER_01 (06:41):
You two are you happy that we're here?
SPEAKER_03 (07:09):
Jocelyn or Jocelyn?
SPEAKER_05 (07:12):
Is that your name?
SPEAKER_01 (07:18):
Well, we are you?
SPEAKER_05 (07:23):
Tell her your name again.
My name is Current.
SPEAKER_01 (07:38):
My name is Melissa.
We're here to communicate.
So so happy to meet all of you.
Are you guys happy that we'rehere?
SPEAKER_05 (07:50):
So then are we here on the house?
Oh shit, we have a little bit ofa more um.
SPEAKER_03 (08:02):
Hey, we're gonna we're gonna walk over to the
party store.
Can I bring you back anything?
SPEAKER_01 (08:11):
Can I bring you back something?
Pudding.
You want pudding?
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (08:20):
I'll give you pudding here.
We are gonna go run over to thegas station.
This is part two.
She just recruited me, okay?
(08:41):
Um, Krista's gonna havenecrophonics on on her phone,
and I'm gonna keep recording.
Here.
We'll use this to set our phoneson.
SPEAKER_05 (08:55):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (08:56):
Or we can put them on the staircase.
All right, beer pudding.
The um Chris has had some greatfeedback.
They want beer pudding.
Ooh, that freaks me out backthere.
SPEAKER_06 (09:17):
Oh, wait, right here.
unknown (09:54):
I have to take a sickle here.
Yeah, it's a beautiful flowers.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (10:06):
Okay, be right back, guys.
SPEAKER_02 (14:50):
You can hear a female talking, some males, um,
kind of distorted, not reallyany full like full names until
later in the night with adifferent app.
(15:10):
Would you like original orberry?
You hear that?
SPEAKER_01 (15:32):
Should we just leave it?
Should I just leave the phone'sbutton on the phone?
The staircase?
Yeah, for a while.
unknown (16:01):
All these rails and stuff, these are beautiful.
This is what these stairs.
SPEAKER_08 (16:17):
Yeah, I could I could see Mrs.
SPEAKER_07 (16:31):
Walker, are you here with us?
SPEAKER_04 (16:38):
I'm here yet.
Run away.
SPEAKER_07 (16:49):
Run away.
No, we don't like to do that.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Oh, that's cool.
Do you play the piano ever?
Can you play a little bit forus?
SPEAKER_08 (17:06):
This was in the front of the house, yeah.
So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03 (17:12):
So something Where does that door go to?
I go to the back.
unknown (17:21):
Oh, that's good.
SPEAKER_04 (17:49):
Holy shit.
Oh, the rake.
SPEAKER_03 (17:56):
I just barely stuck on you.
We're here.
unknown (18:00):
Right here.
SPEAKER_03 (18:02):
We're here.
SPEAKER_04 (18:03):
Whoever the daughter is at passed, I'm very sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (18:07):
I wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for
her.
I definitely felt that.
So I just want to let you guysknow that when my ghost tube ab
said we're here, that wasanother disembodied voice.
I think either right after or asI was reading we're here.
And you can hear it.
I'm gonna do it again so youguys can hear it.
(18:29):
Take a moment to pay ourresponse.
Whoever the daughter is at past,I'm very sorry.
I wanted to take a moment to payour respects for her.
SPEAKER_03 (18:41):
Okay, hold on to that.
I just barely stuck on it.
We're here.
unknown (18:47):
Right here.
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
Right here.
SPEAKER_02 (18:51):
That's yep, definitely a disembodied voice
right there, so that was a heavyone.
SPEAKER_05 (19:05):
Should we do uh session down here or bang up
here?
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
Wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for
her.
I definitely felt that.
Ooh.
SPEAKER_05 (19:22):
That was a heavy one.
Should we do uh session downhere or bad hooks here?
I don't know what do you want todo.
I don't want you down here toolong because you're asking.
SPEAKER_04 (19:38):
Oh, I'm like I feel invine.
It was when I wanted to go walkin there.
SPEAKER_06 (19:44):
Oh, that's creepy as fuck.
Yeah.
I know.
SPEAKER_04 (19:48):
That's like what is it, like 13th century?
SPEAKER_06 (19:51):
Yeah, but you look this way, he's good, you look
this way.
Ah, changes.
SPEAKER_05 (20:04):
No, that was why.
SPEAKER_06 (20:06):
Oh no, we can't get to it all the way up.
unknown (20:09):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:14):
Holy So that's us looking all the way up at the
cupola, and it's extremely highup there.
So I was thinking, oh, we couldclimb up there, but no, there's
no way.
And I definitely would not trustthat with an older house like
this.
unknown (20:30):
It's not easy.
SPEAKER_02 (20:33):
It's not easy.
Especially for for my fit.
He said hello.
SPEAKER_07 (20:38):
Hi.
SPEAKER_02 (20:39):
Who's up there?
SPEAKER_07 (20:42):
Can you talk to us?
SPEAKER_04 (20:51):
Do you like that we're here?
The light's not always a goodthing though.
It can go either way.
Oh, I'll give it a doubleground.
(21:11):
Oh yeah, that's gorgeous.
Paul does a lot of that now, soyeah.
It's expensive.
He said talk he said talk.
SPEAKER_05 (21:24):
What's her name?
This really seems to be a littlebit fun.
unknown (21:31):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
There's five.
So there's three of us, sothere's two more with us right
now.
Five altogether.
Would you like me to lead, oryou want Dave or Cursive lead?
Here comes Dave.
SPEAKER_05 (21:58):
Follow.
And this is where the littlegirl was quarantine.
unknown (22:04):
What?
SPEAKER_05 (22:04):
And I think it might have been a uh like a secret
door.
SPEAKER_06 (22:09):
Oh, like a secret door.
unknown (22:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (22:24):
Or a secret, like I think you can open up.
SPEAKER_04 (22:29):
I've never seen a door frame like that before.
Okay, I'm gonna come over.
SPEAKER_07 (22:34):
This is where the little girl stayed.
That's what uh Nina said.
unknown (22:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (22:39):
You guys be careful for the nails.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:44):
Oh hi, honey.
You wanna talk to us?
What was her name, person?
SPEAKER_05 (22:51):
I don't think we ever got her name.
Do you know still my credit'sname?
I'm not remembering.
Emily.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (22:59):
Great evidence.
Yes.
Let me.
Hi, Emily.
Oh, you oh, I lost her.
SPEAKER_00 (23:18):
This way, he's good.
You want this way?
SPEAKER_06 (23:22):
Oh, you can just weak.
SPEAKER_01 (23:32):
It says weak.
Weak.
SPEAKER_09 (23:49):
This one is the hairy chips, I believe.
unknown (23:59):
Okay.
SPEAKER_09 (24:05):
What do you mean, leave me a lot?
SPEAKER_06 (24:10):
Yeah, but I'm so damn sure.
SPEAKER_04 (24:19):
Oh yeah, I can't see how someone's humming.
Why is someone just humming?
(24:54):
Oh god, how are you?
And back there, that one is thefirst one.
SPEAKER_06 (25:03):
I thought it's all right.
SPEAKER_04 (25:21):
You're not sure how you're doing.
SPEAKER_09 (26:49):
Something glued to it?
I think so.
SPEAKER_07 (26:53):
Yeah, so one might have died using it.
SPEAKER_06 (27:55):
No.
This is just uh story.
SPEAKER_04 (28:09):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_08 (28:10):
The owner, he never turned it on.
SPEAKER_04 (28:12):
I don't blame him.
SPEAKER_08 (28:13):
Well, there's one meter, there's like many meters
from the apartments.
I think there's like five meterson the outside of the house.
SPEAKER_06 (28:19):
Yeah.
unknown (28:28):
Oh, he plugged into the door, so he has power for his
own.
SPEAKER_08 (28:33):
Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_00 (28:53):
That's not my equipment.
SPEAKER_04 (29:00):
I think he's I think he woke up, he said hello.
SPEAKER_06 (29:05):
Oh maybe that's not me on this alarm.
SPEAKER_05 (29:10):
I don't know, that was fucking.
Don't leave.
unknown (29:15):
Don't leave.
SPEAKER_06 (29:16):
We're gonna go use the gas room, okay?
SPEAKER_00 (29:20):
Go test it out.
SPEAKER_02 (29:21):
So, really quick, you guys, the groundskeeper,
Dan, come to find out that wasnot his alarm, and he did not
wake up and say hello.
He actually slept through thenight.
So I don't we don't know whothat is.
Um, this guy with us, um my god,I forget his name.
Dan is a ground keeper, and thisone is oh my god, I can't think
(29:46):
of it.
Give me a second, brain fart.
Because both of their names aresimilar.
But this guy works at the gasstation next door, and he is
such a sweetheart, and he walkedthe house with us.
SPEAKER_00 (29:58):
So, um
SPEAKER_02 (30:00):
Sorry about that.
It restarted.
So um he was walking around withus.
He's good friends with Dan, thegroundskeeper.
But the groundskeeper stays in aroom at the Bruce Mansion, but
he's the room is completelyclosed off.
He did not wake up.
We actually had to wake him upin the morning to let him know
(30:21):
that we were up and we werestill walking around the house.
So again, I don't know who thatguy was that said hello, and we
have no idea what that alarm wasbecause that is not any of
Chris's equipment.
Um, I didn't even really set upmy equipment.
I was just walk walking aroundwith my phone that night.
So that's still a mystery.
SPEAKER_07 (30:48):
Here's a bone.
There's a bone.
SPEAKER_04 (30:58):
Yeah, it's back there because I was both
(31:50):
daughters.
SPEAKER_02 (31:55):
Did your daughter pass away here?
SPEAKER_04 (32:15):
Did your daughter die right here?
I'm so sorry.
Did she have like an ironinfection?
Somebody near me.
Somebody died.
I felt it right when I startedwalking over here.
Dirty.
(32:36):
So she might have gotten an ironinfection.
She could have gotten cut.
Maybe it could have been like onher butt or something, or in her
foot.
Back then we didn't have tent inshots.
SPEAKER_03 (32:46):
No, nothing.
All that is items and on yourcherries and okay.
SPEAKER_02 (32:54):
So keep in mind the reason why I said her butt is
because again, Bruce Mansion wasnot built with a bathroom.
So there was like a little miniouthouse outside of the um horse
carriage um house.
So it was weird.
Like you could, first of all,I'm breathing heavy, anyways,
(33:14):
because I'm super pregnant.
I'm going up and downstairs atthis point.
But you could hear when I saidbone, because I said, Wow,
there's a bone right here.
It was like a small animal'sbone.
And then the app said, I'mclose.
And then as soon as we got bythe outhouse, um, is when I
started really breathing heavyand I felt sad.
(33:36):
I could tell someone died rightthere, and then it said
daughter.
And then the camera with my app,uh, it's pointed towards like
the, you know, like the littletoilets that are built into the
bench seat, and it said iron.
So for for me, like I said, whenI have these, I don't know if
you want to say visions,whatever, feelings, it's like a
flip book in my head, and I wasjust imagining her sitting on
(33:59):
the outhouse toilet and likeeither getting like stabbed with
a um nail back then, or um, youknow, you know, there wasn't
tetan shots and stuff, so that'sjust how I felt the energy that
I felt.
But I wanted to clarify why Isaid she could have gotten it
like on her foot or her butt isbecause it's in the outhouse.
(34:27):
Yeah.
Did your daughter die righthere?
SPEAKER_04 (34:30):
I'm so sorry.
Usually I'm the one to smell.
SPEAKER_05 (34:37):
I've smelled here.
SPEAKER_02 (34:40):
How old was your daughter?
SPEAKER_04 (34:41):
I'd like to honor her really quick before we walk
out of here.
Pay my respects.
Oh, my lips are tingling.
Yeah.
I think she had something withlike iron, like she either
stepped on something.
She got an infection.
SPEAKER_07 (34:57):
I'm sorry.
You don't want to talk no more,okay?
SPEAKER_04 (35:09):
Oh yeah, someone she definitely died right there.
I haven't felt that heavy in asecond.
Whoever you are, I'm very ohdanger.
I got an orb too.
I got it on my I got an orb.
SPEAKER_02 (35:32):
So we only announce orbs when you can really see the
patterns of them.
And for us, it's when they goback and forth, up and down, and
they're very prominent.
Um for this, I mean, we've beendoing this for quite a bit of
time, you know, going in and outof locations, and you can
usually tell dust from orbs.
Anyways, very sad about thisyoung girl.
(35:54):
Maybe that's who we were pickingup on when they said Emily.
Um, Bruce Mansion was superactive, and I cannot wait to go
back there.
It's about an hour from all ofus, pretty much.
Um, so it's not far at all.
And like I said, although I, youknow, have baby Jack mostly in
(36:15):
my arms now, and I do miss himbeing in my belly.
I am very, very almost happy tosay that he's out of my belly.
Um, there's times that maybe Imiss it, but cool thing is is
that when I go out on um, youknow, spooky paranormal
adventures, I won't be breathinglike, you know, in my videos.
(36:38):
You can hear how much I wasstruggle struggling to breathe
up and down those stairs.
So it's nice to not be huge.
I've lost most of my baby weightand um pretty much back to my
size before.
So I will I would love toexperience this place, not
pregnant again.
Um, so yeah, we'll be doing alot more investigations there at
(37:00):
Bruce Mansion.
And like I said, if you guys arein the Michigan area or are here
visiting, you should try tocheck the place out.
Um, I think it's veryreasonable.
It's a hundred dollars a person.
So they the guy next door, theum that works at the gas
station, like I said, you canuse the bathroom, and they also,
if you get a private, they umthey make you a pizza next door.
(37:22):
It's a big pizza too.
And you get like um, I think wehad unlimited pop, fountain pop
too from there.
So they were super nice people,very, very, very down-to-earth,
treated us like almost likefamily, like it was probably one
of the best locations and nice,low-key and simple, and just
(37:43):
very nice.
So I will continue to talk greatthings about this place, and um,
we're hoping that we can um, youknow, perform some type of
fundraiser on our behalf or helpthem in any way to restore the
Bruce Mansion so that it isaround for at least another two
hundred years.
But, anyways, you guys, thanksfor listening and tune in for
(38:06):
some more.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to Strange StrangeBeyond Insane.
And I would like to share acouple of recordings from um
Bruce Mansion here in Michigan.
Chris and I went, um, we visitedabout a month before it was due.
So I was extra large and veryslow, like a sloth, and um kept
(00:23):
falling asleep towards the endof the night.
But we absolutely enjoyed thisgorgeous historic old mansion.
And it was just we it was kindof surreal that we finally got
to go because it has not beenopen to the public for a long
time.
So yeah, I have some liverecordings that I'd like to
share.
(00:43):
And uh if you guys can get achance to go there and visit,
you guys should.
It is the Bruce Mansion inBurnside, Michigan.
So before I get right into thelive recordings, I do want to
give you guys a little historyof the Bruce Mansion.
Okay, so the Bruce Mansion wasbuilt in 1876 by a Scottish
immigrant named John G.
(01:04):
Bruce in Michigan, surviving theGreat Thumb Fire of 1881 and
later used as a funeral homebefore being divided into
apartments.
The mansion's reputation forparanormal activity stems from
several resident deaths,including a rumored suicide in
the cupola and the death of aowner by unknown causes.
(01:27):
The property is owned by privateresidents, and they are offering
um tours to fund itsrestoration.
So the architecturearchitectural style, sorry, um,
is a striking example of asecond empire in Victorian
style.
(01:48):
Um the survival of the GreatFire is a great thumb of fire in
1881, which devastated much ofthe surrounding area.
So the mansion served as afuneral parlor, a common
practice at the time.
Apartments happened sometimes inthe 1980s, and the mansion was
divided into separateapartments.
Prohibition era.
(02:09):
A room and an upper floor wasused as a speakeasy during
prohibition.
Um, so like again, theresidents' deaths, uh, the
mansion's reputation for beinghaunted is linked to the
numerous resident deaths thathave occurred over the over the
years.
The suicide legend.
The second owner, Jen Walker, isrumored to have died by suicide
(02:30):
in the cupola, a significantcontributor to the mansion's
paranormal reputation.
I believe he got into a caraccident outside of the mansion
and um he someone died in thecar accident.
I don't think he that he couldtake it, and that's why he
committed suicide.
I think that's what the storyis, which is pretty insane
because the first time that Icalled to talk to the um the
(02:54):
groundskeeper to set somethingup, he had to call me back
because there was an actual caraccident right in front of the
mansion, and he was cleaning upum all of the parts and you know
everything.
I think everybody's okay, but Ijust found that very strange.
Um yeah, it uh it was a verybeautiful stay, and I am totally
(03:18):
looking forward to going backwhen I'm not super pregnant, and
I believe me, there was a lot oftimes that I enjoyed being
pregnant.
The second trimester wasbeautiful.
However, when you at the end,when you're huge and you're
tired all the time, it it makesthe whole paranormal
investigating a little harder,right?
Alright, so let's jump into thislive investigation.
(03:42):
Let me just fix this mic.
Alright, here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (03:47):
Okay, it's about 11:30.
Um Friday, July 18th, 2025.
SPEAKER_05 (03:58):
We're at Bruce Mansion in Burnside, Michigan.
SPEAKER_04 (04:03):
And we're just sitting in the front, seeing if
we hear anything.
SPEAKER_03 (04:12):
Why does it be quiet?
SPEAKER_05 (04:24):
Sorry, are we talking too much?
SPEAKER_01 (04:28):
We're only talking now because we're just getting
right in the only way.
SPEAKER_05 (04:38):
What is your name?
You know, I didn't walk aroundto the back of that.
You know that I keep lookingback at me.
I know that there's um porcharea.
SPEAKER_06 (04:57):
Um, but can't walk ahead to see or take pictures
that I don't think about it tojust uh they don't want to get
here to try to take picturesthat was already pretty much
getting dark.
unknown (05:17):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (05:18):
I've got so much manager.
unknown (05:32):
Okay.
SPEAKER_06 (05:39):
Alright, bro.
If you're like high with yourwater to colour but too.
unknown (05:46):
Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_06 (05:47):
Okay, that is reverbed.
Also, one I read guy.
SPEAKER_05 (06:03):
Someone nearly that's an old name.
Somebody not lost.
That's like the name.
SPEAKER_06 (06:17):
Like why should be a chip?
That has to be um aligned.
A lot, yeah, to like forget somepeople to open the window.
Is this Mr.
Locker?
Yes.
(06:37):
It's nice to meet you.
SPEAKER_01 (06:41):
You two are you happy that we're here?
SPEAKER_03 (07:09):
Jocelyn or Jocelyn?
SPEAKER_05 (07:12):
Is that your name?
SPEAKER_01 (07:18):
Well, we are you?
SPEAKER_05 (07:23):
Tell her your name again.
My name is Current.
SPEAKER_01 (07:38):
My name is Melissa.
We're here to communicate.
So so happy to meet all of you.
Are you guys happy that we'rehere?
SPEAKER_05 (07:50):
So then are we here on the house?
Oh shit, we have a little bit ofa more um.
SPEAKER_03 (08:02):
Hey, we're gonna we're gonna walk over to the
party store.
Can I bring you back anything?
SPEAKER_01 (08:11):
Can I bring you back something?
Pudding.
You want pudding?
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (08:20):
I'll give you pudding here.
We are gonna go run over to thegas station.
This is part two.
She just recruited me, okay?
(08:41):
Um, Krista's gonna havenecrophonics on on her phone,
and I'm gonna keep recording.
Here.
We'll use this to set our phoneson.
SPEAKER_05 (08:55):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (08:56):
Or we can put them on the staircase.
All right, beer pudding.
The um Chris has had some greatfeedback.
They want beer pudding.
Ooh, that freaks me out backthere.
SPEAKER_06 (09:17):
Oh, wait, right here.
unknown (09:54):
I have to take a sickle here.
Yeah, it's a beautiful flowers.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (10:06):
Okay, be right back, guys.
SPEAKER_02 (14:50):
You can hear a female talking, some males, um,
kind of distorted, not reallyany full like full names until
later in the night with adifferent app.
(15:10):
Would you like original orberry?
You hear that?
SPEAKER_01 (15:32):
Should we just leave it?
Should I just leave the phone'sbutton on the phone?
The staircase?
Yeah, for a while.
unknown (16:01):
All these rails and stuff, these are beautiful.
This is what these stairs.
SPEAKER_08 (16:17):
Yeah, I could I could see Mrs.
SPEAKER_07 (16:31):
Walker, are you here with us?
SPEAKER_04 (16:38):
I'm here yet.
Run away.
SPEAKER_07 (16:49):
Run away.
No, we don't like to do that.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Oh, that's cool.
Do you play the piano ever?
Can you play a little bit forus?
SPEAKER_08 (17:06):
This was in the front of the house, yeah.
So that's cool.
SPEAKER_03 (17:12):
So something Where does that door go to?
I go to the back.
unknown (17:21):
Oh, that's good.
SPEAKER_04 (17:49):
Holy shit.
Oh, the rake.
SPEAKER_03 (17:56):
I just barely stuck on you.
We're here.
unknown (18:00):
Right here.
SPEAKER_03 (18:02):
We're here.
SPEAKER_04 (18:03):
Whoever the daughter is at passed, I'm very sorry.
SPEAKER_02 (18:07):
I wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for
her.
I definitely felt that.
So I just want to let you guysknow that when my ghost tube ab
said we're here, that wasanother disembodied voice.
I think either right after or asI was reading we're here.
And you can hear it.
I'm gonna do it again so youguys can hear it.
(18:29):
Take a moment to pay ourresponse.
Whoever the daughter is at past,I'm very sorry.
I wanted to take a moment to payour respects for her.
SPEAKER_03 (18:41):
Okay, hold on to that.
I just barely stuck on it.
We're here.
unknown (18:47):
Right here.
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
Right here.
SPEAKER_02 (18:51):
That's yep, definitely a disembodied voice
right there, so that was a heavyone.
SPEAKER_05 (19:05):
Should we do uh session down here or bang up
here?
SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
Wanted to take a moment to pay our respects for
her.
I definitely felt that.
Ooh.
SPEAKER_05 (19:22):
That was a heavy one.
Should we do uh session downhere or bad hooks here?
I don't know what do you want todo.
I don't want you down here toolong because you're asking.
SPEAKER_04 (19:38):
Oh, I'm like I feel invine.
It was when I wanted to go walkin there.
SPEAKER_06 (19:44):
Oh, that's creepy as fuck.
Yeah.
I know.
SPEAKER_04 (19:48):
That's like what is it, like 13th century?
SPEAKER_06 (19:51):
Yeah, but you look this way, he's good, you look
this way.
Ah, changes.
SPEAKER_05 (20:04):
No, that was why.
SPEAKER_06 (20:06):
Oh no, we can't get to it all the way up.
unknown (20:09):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:14):
Holy So that's us looking all the way up at the
cupola, and it's extremely highup there.
So I was thinking, oh, we couldclimb up there, but no, there's
no way.
And I definitely would not trustthat with an older house like
this.
unknown (20:30):
It's not easy.
SPEAKER_02 (20:33):
It's not easy.
Especially for for my fit.
He said hello.
SPEAKER_07 (20:38):
Hi.
SPEAKER_02 (20:39):
Who's up there?
SPEAKER_07 (20:42):
Can you talk to us?
SPEAKER_04 (20:51):
Do you like that we're here?
The light's not always a goodthing though.
It can go either way.
Oh, I'll give it a doubleground.
(21:11):
Oh yeah, that's gorgeous.
Paul does a lot of that now, soyeah.
It's expensive.
He said talk he said talk.
SPEAKER_05 (21:24):
What's her name?
This really seems to be a littlebit fun.
unknown (21:31):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
There's five.
So there's three of us, sothere's two more with us right
now.
Five altogether.
Would you like me to lead, oryou want Dave or Cursive lead?
Here comes Dave.
SPEAKER_05 (21:58):
Follow.
And this is where the littlegirl was quarantine.
unknown (22:04):
What?
SPEAKER_05 (22:04):
And I think it might have been a uh like a secret
door.
SPEAKER_06 (22:09):
Oh, like a secret door.
unknown (22:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (22:24):
Or a secret, like I think you can open up.
SPEAKER_04 (22:29):
I've never seen a door frame like that before.
Okay, I'm gonna come over.
SPEAKER_07 (22:34):
This is where the little girl stayed.
That's what uh Nina said.
unknown (22:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_07 (22:39):
You guys be careful for the nails.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:44):
Oh hi, honey.
You wanna talk to us?
What was her name, person?
SPEAKER_05 (22:51):
I don't think we ever got her name.
Do you know still my credit'sname?
I'm not remembering.
Emily.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (22:59):
Great evidence.
Yes.
Let me.
Hi, Emily.
Oh, you oh, I lost her.
SPEAKER_00 (23:18):
This way, he's good.
You want this way?
SPEAKER_06 (23:22):
Oh, you can just weak.
SPEAKER_01 (23:32):
It says weak.
Weak.
SPEAKER_09 (23:49):
This one is the hairy chips, I believe.
unknown (23:59):
Okay.
SPEAKER_09 (24:05):
What do you mean, leave me a lot?
SPEAKER_06 (24:10):
Yeah, but I'm so damn sure.
SPEAKER_04 (24:19):
Oh yeah, I can't see how someone's humming.
Why is someone just humming?
(24:54):
Oh god, how are you?
And back there, that one is thefirst one.
SPEAKER_06 (25:03):
I thought it's all right.
SPEAKER_04 (25:21):
You're not sure how you're doing.
SPEAKER_09 (26:49):
Something glued to it?
I think so.
SPEAKER_07 (26:53):
Yeah, so one might have died using it.
SPEAKER_06 (27:55):
No.
This is just uh story.
SPEAKER_04 (28:09):
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_08 (28:10):
The owner, he never turned it on.
SPEAKER_04 (28:12):
I don't blame him.
SPEAKER_08 (28:13):
Well, there's one meter, there's like many meters
from the apartments.
I think there's like five meterson the outside of the house.
SPEAKER_06 (28:19):
Yeah.
unknown (28:28):
Oh, he plugged into the door, so he has power for his
own.
SPEAKER_08 (28:33):
Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_00 (28:53):
That's not my equipment.
SPEAKER_04 (29:00):
I think he's I think he woke up, he said hello.
SPEAKER_06 (29:05):
Oh maybe that's not me on this alarm.
SPEAKER_05 (29:10):
I don't know, that was fucking.
Don't leave.
unknown (29:15):
Don't leave.
SPEAKER_06 (29:16):
We're gonna go use the gas room, okay?
SPEAKER_00 (29:20):
Go test it out.
SPEAKER_02 (29:21):
So, really quick, you guys, the groundskeeper,
Dan, come to find out that wasnot his alarm, and he did not
wake up and say hello.
He actually slept through thenight.
So I don't we don't know whothat is.
Um, this guy with us, um my god,I forget his name.
Dan is a ground keeper, and thisone is oh my god, I can't think
(29:46):
of it.
Give me a second, brain fart.
Because both of their names aresimilar.
But this guy works at the gasstation next door, and he is
such a sweetheart, and he walkedthe house with us.
SPEAKER_00 (29:58):
So, um
SPEAKER_02 (30:00):
Sorry about that.
It restarted.
So um he was walking around withus.
He's good friends with Dan, thegroundskeeper.
But the groundskeeper stays in aroom at the Bruce Mansion, but
he's the room is completelyclosed off.
He did not wake up.
We actually had to wake him upin the morning to let him know
(30:21):
that we were up and we werestill walking around the house.
So again, I don't know who thatguy was that said hello, and we
have no idea what that alarm wasbecause that is not any of
Chris's equipment.
Um, I didn't even really set upmy equipment.
I was just walk walking aroundwith my phone that night.
So that's still a mystery.
SPEAKER_07 (30:48):
Here's a bone.
There's a bone.
SPEAKER_04 (30:58):
Yeah, it's back there because I was both
(31:50):
daughters.
SPEAKER_02 (31:55):
Did your daughter pass away here?
SPEAKER_04 (32:15):
Did your daughter die right here?
I'm so sorry.
Did she have like an ironinfection?
Somebody near me.
Somebody died.
I felt it right when I startedwalking over here.
Dirty.
(32:36):
So she might have gotten an ironinfection.
She could have gotten cut.
Maybe it could have been like onher butt or something, or in her
foot.
Back then we didn't have tent inshots.
SPEAKER_03 (32:46):
No, nothing.
All that is items and on yourcherries and okay.
SPEAKER_02 (32:54):
So keep in mind the reason why I said her butt is
because again, Bruce Mansion wasnot built with a bathroom.
So there was like a little miniouthouse outside of the um horse
carriage um house.
So it was weird.
Like you could, first of all,I'm breathing heavy, anyways,
(33:14):
because I'm super pregnant.
I'm going up and downstairs atthis point.
But you could hear when I saidbone, because I said, Wow,
there's a bone right here.
It was like a small animal'sbone.
And then the app said, I'mclose.
And then as soon as we got bythe outhouse, um, is when I
started really breathing heavyand I felt sad.
(33:36):
I could tell someone died rightthere, and then it said
daughter.
And then the camera with my app,uh, it's pointed towards like
the, you know, like the littletoilets that are built into the
bench seat, and it said iron.
So for for me, like I said, whenI have these, I don't know if
you want to say visions,whatever, feelings, it's like a
flip book in my head, and I wasjust imagining her sitting on
(33:59):
the outhouse toilet and likeeither getting like stabbed with
a um nail back then, or um, youknow, you know, there wasn't
tetan shots and stuff, so that'sjust how I felt the energy that
I felt.
But I wanted to clarify why Isaid she could have gotten it
like on her foot or her butt isbecause it's in the outhouse.
(34:27):
Yeah.
Did your daughter die righthere?
SPEAKER_04 (34:30):
I'm so sorry.
Usually I'm the one to smell.
SPEAKER_05 (34:37):
I've smelled here.
SPEAKER_02 (34:40):
How old was your daughter?
SPEAKER_04 (34:41):
I'd like to honor her really quick before we walk
out of here.
Pay my respects.
Oh, my lips are tingling.
Yeah.
I think she had something withlike iron, like she either
stepped on something.
She got an infection.
SPEAKER_07 (34:57):
I'm sorry.
You don't want to talk no more,okay?
SPEAKER_04 (35:09):
Oh yeah, someone she definitely died right there.
I haven't felt that heavy in asecond.
Whoever you are, I'm very ohdanger.
I got an orb too.
I got it on my I got an orb.
SPEAKER_02 (35:32):
So we only announce orbs when you can really see the
patterns of them.
And for us, it's when they goback and forth, up and down, and
they're very prominent.
Um for this, I mean, we've beendoing this for quite a bit of
time, you know, going in and outof locations, and you can
usually tell dust from orbs.
Anyways, very sad about thisyoung girl.
(35:54):
Maybe that's who we were pickingup on when they said Emily.
Um, Bruce Mansion was superactive, and I cannot wait to go
back there.
It's about an hour from all ofus, pretty much.
Um, so it's not far at all.
And like I said, although I, youknow, have baby Jack mostly in
(36:15):
my arms now, and I do miss himbeing in my belly.
I am very, very almost happy tosay that he's out of my belly.
Um, there's times that maybe Imiss it, but cool thing is is
that when I go out on um, youknow, spooky paranormal
adventures, I won't be breathinglike, you know, in my videos.
(36:38):
You can hear how much I wasstruggle struggling to breathe
up and down those stairs.
So it's nice to not be huge.
I've lost most of my baby weightand um pretty much back to my
size before.
So I will I would love toexperience this place, not
pregnant again.
Um, so yeah, we'll be doing alot more investigations there at
(37:00):
Bruce Mansion.
And like I said, if you guys arein the Michigan area or are here
visiting, you should try tocheck the place out.
Um, I think it's veryreasonable.
It's a hundred dollars a person.
So they the guy next door, theum that works at the gas
station, like I said, you canuse the bathroom, and they also,
if you get a private, they umthey make you a pizza next door.
(37:22):
It's a big pizza too.
And you get like um, I think wehad unlimited pop, fountain pop
too from there.
So they were super nice people,very, very, very down-to-earth,
treated us like almost likefamily, like it was probably one
of the best locations and nice,low-key and simple, and just
(37:43):
very nice.
So I will continue to talk greatthings about this place, and um,
we're hoping that we can um, youknow, perform some type of
fundraiser on our behalf or helpthem in any way to restore the
Bruce Mansion so that it isaround for at least another two
hundred years.
But, anyways, you guys, thanksfor listening and tune in for
(38:06):
some more.
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