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00:00You're definitely not alone.
00:02Are you trying to scare me?
00:08Yes.
00:12On this episode of Expedition X...
00:15Here's the building.
00:15This is so weird.
00:17My team continues their investigation into the terrors of Trinidad.
00:22Is Obia capable of manifesting something like a Sukunya?
00:26Yes. I could do it.
00:28And these evil spirits could kill you.
00:31A group of high school girls report being possessed by demons.
00:35The last thing I remember was a black figure with red eyes hovering over me.
00:41They told me I tried to jump off the second floor balcony.
00:45Leading Heather and Phil to investigate the island's secretive and mysterious religion.
00:50Oh, my God. Look at this. Chal bone.
00:52Are you serious?
00:53And a candle.
00:54Oh, my God.
00:55As they confront the curses of the Caribbean.
01:06So far, my team's trip to Trinidad has revealed a very bright culture.
01:11Welcome to Trinidad!
01:13With a very dark past.
01:15This plantation had the most weapon and mutilation in the whole of Trinidad.
01:21Phil and Heather investigated stunning claims of unique, evil entities.
01:26Like the sinister, childlike Duens.
01:28She noticed something short run across.
01:31Like a child with no face.
01:34His foot was turned backwards.
01:36Look at that.
01:38That looks like a child's footprint.
01:40And the soul-sucking Sukunyas.
01:43The Sukunyas is an old Obia woman who made a pact with the devil.
01:49Are you a Sukunyas?
01:54The activity led them to one of the deadliest islands in all of the Caribbean.
01:59That's not creepy at all.
02:00Oh, my God.
02:02Shaka shakare.
02:03An abandoned leper colony where the flora and fauna are even more frightening than the ghosts.
02:09Wait, wait.
02:10This is the Manganeal tree.
02:12The death tree.
02:13Everything about this thing is toxic.
02:14If you eat that fruit, you die.
02:16If you burn this wood, the smoke will blind you.
02:19Even though I'm a skeptic, there is something evil, very evil in that place.
02:26When they fell asleep, something was choking them.
02:30They could physically feel a hand around their neck.
02:35A couple of the men said they saw a figure in a black robe.
02:38It was a female.
02:41Heather believes something deliberately lured Phil into danger in the decaying dormitory.
02:46Look at the ground.
02:48Whatever that noise is, it literally took you to very dangerous ground.
02:55The bell's under the house.
02:56We gotta get down there.
02:58Let's go.
02:58And it may not be finished with him yet.
03:01You are literally underneath a crumbling building.
03:04All right.
03:04I'm moving.
03:10You need some water?
03:18Are you okay?
03:21Yeah.
03:22Water.
03:22Water.
03:23Here.
03:27You good?
03:31Yeah, I think so.
03:33What just happened?
03:35I don't know.
03:35It just felt like my throat was closing.
03:40I've had reactions like that before to something like peanuts that I'm allergic to, but I've never had a wave
03:46hit me so strong.
03:48And now it's just dissipating.
03:51I don't know.
03:52I mean, we were under the mansion hill trees for a long time.
03:57Maybe there's a delayed reaction to that.
04:00Yeah, but I feel like they would be affecting me as well.
04:02I mean, everybody's gonna react differently to those things?
04:04You were literally underneath the building where those soldiers felt like they were being choked.
04:08And now you're telling me you couldn't breathe.
04:11Oh, my God.
04:12I mean, they all claimed they felt physical hands on them.
04:16I can't necessarily say I felt that.
04:18But you felt the sensation of choking.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Pretty damn close.
04:22But not seeing any dark cloak-toated figure around, I did see a lot of poisonous trees.
04:30So, but my money, that's what it is.
04:34Agree to disagree.
04:36You feeling better?
04:38I'm feeling better now.
04:39I think I'm gonna be okay.
04:41Convinced it was the environment affecting me, I want to investigate the old hospital.
04:45The place where countless lepers tragically died.
04:49Inexplicable choking has been reported there too.
04:52And I wonder if the same toxic trees could be the real cause.
04:56Meanwhile, Heather is heading to the chapel.
04:59Another location of so-called paranormal attacks.
05:07First thing I'm gonna do is look down because this island is full of very venomous scorpions.
05:13It is time to shine.
05:16They glow under UV light.
05:20Oh, my God.
05:21Look at that.
05:22Right away.
05:24Scorpion one.
05:26So that is the Trinidad thick-tailed scorpion.
05:30They're one of the most venomous in all of Central and South America.
05:34About one in 50 people die when they get stung by this.
05:40Finding one right away?
05:40They're probably everywhere.
05:51It's definitely creepy.
06:01Oh, this must be the chapel.
06:16I'm just crumbling.
06:20Look at those floorboards.
06:23Literally falling in.
06:25I mean, there's open sky there.
06:27Let's be careful where we walk under.
06:31This is where a young girl saw a hooded shadow figure where she was physically choked.
06:37And whatever just choked fell.
06:41I wonder if it's all the same thing.
06:45Witnesses have repeatedly described a dark hooded woman during their choking fits.
06:49Strong evidence that a saccunia may be behind the attacks.
06:54If that's the case, I need to protect myself before trying to communicate with it.
06:59I say a prayer to St. Michael, who defends believers from the devil and his minions.
07:04St. Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle.
07:07And, following Najim's advice, I also lay out salt to distract any evil spirits.
07:12If you put salt by your window or by your door, they have to count every single grain before they
07:19can move on.
07:22I'll choose a pendulum.
07:25I invite those spirits, those creatures, those entities, to communicate with me through this pendulum.
07:36This pendulum will move in this direction for yes, this direction for no.
07:44If there's anyone here with me, can you say yes?
07:51Yes.
07:55Are you a jumbie?
08:01Are you a duin?
08:05Big no.
08:10Is it a saccunia I need to be worried about?
08:16Yes.
08:18Big yes.
08:27Did you hear that?
08:28Yeah.
08:30There is nothing above me.
08:32And I swear I just heard a sound above me.
08:35Sound like footsteps.
08:38Are you above me right now?
08:45Yes.
08:47We are definitely not alone.
08:52Are you trying to scare me?
08:59Yes.
09:06What was that?
09:12I think that was the shutter.
09:14This shutter was in the window when we first entered the chapel.
09:18That is heavy.
09:21That's so heavy.
09:24That did not take some light force.
09:29That's insane.
09:30I was asking is something trying to scare me.
09:34And then that happened.
09:36It's wild.
09:44Oh.
09:46What is this?
09:49There is a building here.
09:52This must be the leper hospital.
09:55There could be some animal living in here.
09:58Oh boy.
09:59Look.
10:00We are underneath another manchineal tree right now.
10:03The most poisonous tree in the natural world.
10:06That is a manchineal tree.
10:08This is a manchineal tree.
10:10This one is.
10:12There.
10:13Everywhere.
10:14Above us.
10:15You can smell the fruit.
10:17I don't know if it's just my imagination.
10:19My eyes are starting to burn a little bit.
10:22And I'm wondering if it's from the tree.
10:28I'm not leaving.
10:30I'm trying to understand this activity.
10:31I'm trying to understand what's going on.
10:34Is that you that ripped the shutter off its hinges?
10:41Yes.
10:44Are we welcome on this island?
10:51No.
10:54Is that why something tried to harm Phil earlier?
11:02Yes.
11:05Is Phil in danger?
11:13Yes.
11:20Whoa.
11:22Look at this place.
11:25I found very often that structures made by humans
11:29can sometimes end up being perfect homes
11:32for things that could surprise you.
11:43Whoa.
11:46I just got goosebumps.
11:48Look.
11:51When I was laying on the ground in the Coast Guard dormitory,
11:54Heather told me to say out loud what I was seeing in my head.
11:57It was this.
11:58I keep getting this image of a square hole in the wall.
12:02I don't know why that keeps popping in my head.
12:05I assumed it was in a wall across from me,
12:08but it could just as easily have been on the ground.
12:10This is so weird.
12:13Why did I see that?
12:16Maybe I'm supposed to go in here.
12:19I don't even know what this room was used for.
12:23Is there anything in this hole?
12:29Oh!
12:31Oh, my God!
12:39Oh, my God.
12:41Are you all right?
12:43I think so.
12:47All right.
12:48Whew.
12:50That was rough.
12:54Okay.
12:55Wow.
12:57I just fell through the floor.
13:00Like, what the hell?
13:02This place kind of has it out for me.
13:06You know what Heather's gonna say?
13:07It was a trap.
13:09In this case, that sure felt like a trap.
13:18Phil, you okay?
13:20A little sore.
13:21I can explain that later.
13:22What's going on with you?
13:24Look, I've definitely been communicating with something,
13:26and it told me you were in danger.
13:29No way.
13:30Heather, I just fell through a damn floorboard.
13:33Are you kidding me?
13:35And now you were calling me to say,
13:36you got a message that I was in danger?
13:38Yes.
13:39I think we're safer together.
13:41In this case, I think I'm starting to agree with you.
13:44Are you still in the chapel?
13:45Yeah, I think you should have it my way.
13:46Okay.
13:47I'll reach you there.
13:48Copy that.
13:57You okay?
13:58Yeah.
13:59You fell through a floorboard?
14:00I mean, you're not gonna believe it.
14:02Do you remember what I told you I saw?
14:03When I was laying down, and you told me to clean my mind?
14:06Yeah.
14:06Something through the wall.
14:08I thought it was a wall.
14:09I came across a building back there,
14:10and I realized it was the exact same square,
14:14cut out into a floor.
14:16No way.
14:17I walk in there,
14:18try to figure out what's in that hole,
14:19and boom.
14:20Foot falls right through a floorboard.
14:22I'm down.
14:23That's the third time you were lured into danger.
14:27I knew she was gonna say that.
14:28Yeah.
14:29According to whoever I was communicating with,
14:32we're not welcome here.
14:34I'll admit, most of the time,
14:35I feel pretty welcome in the jungle.
14:37Right now, I'm not so sure about this place.
14:38Well, clearly, there is a lot going on here.
14:42And if Obia is at the heart of it all,
14:44we need to regroup and learn as much as we possibly can about it.
14:48Let's go.
14:49Okay.
14:54With Heather certain that Obia is somehow shaping the activity here,
14:58we head back to the mainland to learn more about this secretive religion.
15:02But first, it's time to update Josh on our findings.
15:08There are my castaways.
15:10So how's the most haunted island of the most haunted island in the Caribbean?
15:14Well, something almost choked Phil to death.
15:16Yes, I was choking, but to be fair to me and my larynx,
15:20I was at the time surrounded by toxic trees known to cause swelling of the throat.
15:25And these trees are also known to cause visions and communicate threats.
15:28Well, that part wasn't in my botany guide.
15:30Wait, what?
15:31Are you saying you think the island was trying to communicate with you guys?
15:35Yeah.
15:35Something identified itself as a Sakunia,
15:38which is an Obia woman that made a deal with the devil.
15:40Honestly, I feel like I have to find an Obia practitioner
15:43to really understand the activity going on here.
15:45Well, if that's the case, I have just the place for you.
15:49There is a remote village there called Moruga
15:51that is considered the capital of Obia.
15:54And there are reports of some very disturbing paranormal activity,
15:58including, get this, a mass demonic possession at the local high school.
16:04That is a seriously shocking claim.
16:06Are there any witnesses to this?
16:08Witnesses?
16:09Oh, yeah.
16:10This was all over the news.
16:11Check this out.
16:12Some call it stranger than fiction,
16:14as Moruga secondary student Kenisha Ramlal
16:17explains what some of her peers went through on Wednesday and Thursday.
16:21There was like, just like, I'm getting sick and had headaches
16:24and they were well-weak and stuff, so they fell down.
16:26Some of the children complained of being strangled and scratched, clawed.
16:31Pentecostal minister Mark Daniel got called to the school.
16:34The symptoms were there, he says, to define demonic activity.
16:37He's linking it to the history of Moruga.
16:40Moruga has a lot of Obia, a lot of black magic,
16:44a lot of that type of thing in Moruga, a lot of it.
16:48Wow, that is next level series.
16:50Are there any witnesses willing to actually talk about this?
16:53Look, Obia is considered very, very dangerous by a lot of people in Moruga,
16:57so much so that getting anyone to agree to go on camera to talk about it
17:01has been a huge challenge.
17:02But I have managed to lock down one of the students
17:05that was actually hospitalized in this reported attack,
17:08as well as a current school teacher.
17:10That's huge. Let's head to Moruga now.
17:12And Josh, while we're heading down there,
17:14can you try and lock down some people who know more about the Obia faith itself?
17:17For sure, I will look into it.
17:18But listen, guys, be really careful out there.
17:21There are really strong beliefs around Obia.
17:24Folks think that it is extremely powerful.
17:26So tread carefully.
17:28You are headed into the eye of the tropical storm.
17:31Okay, we'll be careful.
17:33It's a three-hour drive from Port of Spain to the remote village of Moruga,
17:38a route that cuts through miles of rugged jungle roads.
17:47We're meeting teacher Leanna Boyce and former student Whitney Kahn,
17:51who lived through a truly terrifying experience at the village's high school.
17:56The reports say this was some kind of, what, demonic attack?
18:00Mm-hmm.
18:01Do you agree with that?
18:01Yeah.
18:03Can you tell us what you remember of what happened that day?
18:07It was around lunchtime.
18:10Everybody was eating, and we hear this screaming, so we thought it was fighting.
18:14But it wasn't actually a fight.
18:16One girl in my class, her eyes were rolling up in her head,
18:21and she was barking back, and I thought she was having a panic attack.
18:25So I ended up lending her my inhaler, and after that, it was so frantic,
18:29so I just went back upstairs, and there's where everything just went haywire.
18:34What happened?
18:35The last thing I remember was walking up this step.
18:38I see a black figure with red eyes and a black hood.
18:45And you saw that, what, in your mind or walking around?
18:48Hovering over me.
18:50Oh, no.
18:51It was terrible.
18:54And you don't have any memory after that?
18:56Mm-mm. I can't remember anything else.
18:57So what's the next thing you remember? When did you come to?
19:01In the hospital.
19:03They told me I tried to jump off the second-floor balcony.
19:07I was banging my head, so they had to hold my head.
19:11And it took five boys to hold me down.
19:15You could have been seriously hurt.
19:17Or dead.
19:19Do you think that Obia played a role in what happened?
19:23Yeah.
19:23Yes.
19:24When I heard it, the first thing came to my mind is Obia.
19:27Mm.
19:28You have to remember, Moruga is very spiritual.
19:31The area and the name Moruga have that Obia word slam-hunted.
19:38That stigma started years ago due to Mother Cornhusk being from the area.
19:44Mother Cornhusk?
19:45Yeah.
19:46And Mother Cornhusk's famous Obia woman throughout the Caribbean.
19:50She used to have people from all over coming to Moruga to walk Obia far.
19:55And you could go to Mother Cornhusk's house and church, it still stands there today.
20:00Even though she's dead 20-hundred years, she is known for doing good and bad.
20:06Mm.
20:09With Mother Cornhusk as a potential suspect behind the activity reported in Moruga, Phil and I split up to speak
20:15with two Obia practitioners that Josh found.
20:19Mama Akila.
20:20Hey.
20:22Thank you for being with me.
20:23Ia Akila Jaramugi practices Obia as Mama Akila, offering healing and protection to those who seek her counsel.
20:31Before we speak, she pours a libation for her ancestors, a ritual offering in their honor, and places a white
20:40cloth over me so that I'm in harmony with the spirits.
20:44I wanted to meet with you today to learn the Obia ways.
20:49Mm-hmm.
20:49Can you tell me about the origin?
20:53Obia is earth.
20:55Obia is healing.
20:56Obia is living the life that my ancestors were taught.
21:04I tap into the land, earth, water, and fire.
21:10That's Obia.
21:11So for you, it is connection to your ancestors.
21:14It's connection to the earth, to the elements.
21:17Yeah.
21:18It's just healing and goodness.
21:20But if someone wanted revenge, could they use it in that way as well?
21:24They can do anything they want to do.
21:26Obia is a powerful thing.
21:28It's not something that you can take lightly.
21:32Obia can be the other side of my calm energy.
21:36Obia can have rot as well.
21:38Mm-hmm.
21:38Like, you go to the sea, one day it's calm, and one day it's rough, that's Obia.
21:43Mm.
21:44What is the process of communicating with your ancestors, with your spirits, through Obia?
21:50When I want to go to my ancestors, I ask permission to speak.
21:55I offer light and for libation to all my ancestors.
22:01I invoke the energies that needs to invoke, and the answers will come.
22:08While Heather speaks with her expert, I'm meeting with Morgan Forgini, who practices Obia as Papa Duguid.
22:15He trained with the infamous Mother Cornhusk, the Obia practitioner who some say is behind the negative activity reported all
22:23over Moruga,
22:24even though she's been dead for years.
22:27What is Obia capable of?
22:29Some people will do it for healing, for good.
22:33Mm-hmm.
22:33And some people take it to do evil.
22:35Is Obia capable of manifesting something like a Sukunya or a Dwen?
22:41Yes.
22:43I could do it.
22:44If I want to do it, I will control them.
22:48You give the spirit goat blood.
22:51You would feed the spirit goat's blood?
22:54Yeah.
22:56And the spirit will start hunting you from there on.
22:59Or start getting sick.
23:01And these evil spirits could kill you.
23:11So what kind of signs would let me know that the spirit is present?
23:16Yeah, well, maybe you might feel it in an unusual way.
23:20Your body.
23:22I just had an incident where I had difficulty breathing in an area where people had said there is a
23:28strong female spirit.
23:30Why do you think it did that?
23:32Because your spirit weak.
23:34The spirit in your body weak.
23:37It could destroy you in seconds.
23:39In seconds?
23:40In seconds.
23:43Where in this village, do you think, is the heart of Obia?
23:48My mother, where she used to live.
23:52Well, you will have a lot of energy.
23:54And she do all type of rituals.
23:56What kind of rituals?
23:58It could be good.
23:59It could be evil, too.
24:01Do you think that some of the activity that is here in Moruga could come from that property?
24:07Yes.
24:08These things could stay.
24:10It could affect people.
24:11Most people are free to pass.
24:13Why?
24:14People died, yeah.
24:17Multiple people have died on her property.
24:19Mm-hmm.
24:21These evil spirits could cause people to kill them.
24:25If you did not do the right thing, they could be dangerous to you.
24:29You just have to make sure what you're doing.
24:35Papa Duguid claims that the paranormal activity Trinidad is suffering from can be traced back to one place.
24:41Mother Cornhus' abandoned sanctuary.
24:44We need to find the ruins of her church, where she performed Obia rituals for over 50 years, hidden deep
24:51in the jungle.
24:53We'll have to bushwhack our way through dangerous terrain to get there.
24:57But if Papa Duguid's claims are right, it'll be nothing compared to the spiritual danger we'll supposedly face if we
25:05find it.
25:07The Obia man I spoke with warned me that this area is incredibly dangerous.
25:11He said that these spirits could manifest in many different ways.
25:16They can make one of us want to kill another person.
25:19And he said, in fact, people have died back here.
25:22So, if any of us start to feel off, we need to call it out.
25:26Yeah.
25:27For Sean?
25:28Yeah. Let's try this way.
25:33Watch where you step.
25:35The good news is, all the regional hospitals are the best at dealing with snake bites.
25:41The bad news is, that's because there's a lot of snake bites around here.
25:44Great.
26:00There's a building!
26:03Oh, yeah.
26:06Wow.
26:09Look at this.
26:13Oh.
26:14Oh, definitely. Seems like no one has been here in a very long time.
26:18No. This is crumbling.
26:22This does not look like a church.
26:26Maybe this is where she would have lived?
26:28This is where she would have lived?
26:30I mean, look at this. She could have sat right there.
26:32Yeah. To think that such a powerful woman, her life was right here in this home.
26:38True, but she didn't do rituals for people in here.
26:41That was done in her church somewhere else on this property.
26:45True, but before we find that, we have to do something for her here.
26:50Okay.
26:50My opiate woman said we need to pour a libation out to show our willingness to communicate.
26:58With a corn husk, I offer you this libation as a sign of our respect.
27:07Whoa, whoa, whoa.
27:09What was that?
27:11I don't know.
27:13It almost sounded like a voice.
27:15Yeah, like a yell.
27:17Whoa.
27:20Let's go find out.
27:25You see anything?
27:27Nothing.
27:31It opens up over here.
27:36Look, another building.
27:38Wow.
27:42Shh.
27:43Wait, wait, wait, wait.
27:45Whoa.
27:47Eyeshine.
27:49What is that?
27:58Oh, my God.
28:01Are those goats?
28:04That must be what we heard.
28:06Why would someone keep goats here?
28:09Do you know what the Obi-Man I spoke to said?
28:11What?
28:12He said, if you are to do an evil curse on someone, you need goat's blood.
28:17No.
28:19You give the spirit goat's blood, and the spirit will start hunting you from day on.
28:28Look at these guys.
28:30Hey, little goat.
28:32What are you doing out here?
28:34Oh, my God.
28:35Look at these.
28:37See that wound right there?
28:38Yeah.
28:39This one has one, too.
28:41I recognize this.
28:43These are marks from vampire bats visiting these goats probably on a nightly basis, latching
28:49onto them and drinking their blood.
28:51You just said people use goat's blood for evil curses.
28:55True.
28:56So how do you know that's not this?
29:00I guess I don't technically know.
29:02But, I mean, if these goats get visited tonight, I want to know if it's a bat or a person.
29:09So maybe we should sit up a camera trap.
29:11Okay.
29:12Right on here.
29:18Got a good angle on that?
29:19Yeah, I think so.
29:26What was that?
29:30Did you hear that?
29:32I mean, that sounded like someone yelling.
29:34Yes.
29:38Was not a goat.
29:39No.
29:41Let's go this way.
29:42Okay.
29:58Oh, there he is again.
30:01Up there.
30:14Oh, my gosh.
30:17Look out of the building.
30:19Not a whole lot on the left.
30:21The jungle's completely taken over.
30:24I've got to figure out what this is.
30:30Oh.
30:32Heather, this is for sure the church I got across.
30:36I think I have something better.
30:38What do you mean better?
30:39Look at this.
30:42I think this potentially could have been her altar.
30:45Wow.
30:47And Heather?
30:48You seeing this?
30:50What?
30:50Some feathers here?
30:52Oh, God.
30:53Is that a bad thing?
30:53I mean, to me, that's evidence of another ritual.
30:57Oh.
30:58What?
30:58Oh, my God.
30:59Look at this.
31:00Jawbone.
31:00Are you serious?
31:01And a candle.
31:02Right here.
31:03Oh, my God.
31:05100% people are doing rituals here.
31:07Inside the ruins of this church.
31:10This was Mother Cornhusk's altar.
31:13And to come in here and to come in here and try and harness that to control it?
31:17You couldn't ask for something more dangerous.
31:20And based on what I've learned, some people trying to do that met a pretty awful fate here.
31:25Right.
31:26But we have to try and communicate here.
31:28You're going to sit up on the altar?
31:29Oh, I'm definitely not touching that.
31:32I'm going to sit up over here, but keep it in sightline.
31:34Okay.
31:38Clear line inside for me.
31:39Okay.
31:41I want to try to communicate with Mother Cornhusk by calling on the four elements, the way Mama
31:45Aquila taught me.
31:49Soil?
31:49I lay out soil to root myself in the earth.
31:52Pour water for the Obia ancestors.
31:56For wind, I will use my voice to ask questions.
31:59And fire.
32:00And fire will provide the answers.
32:03If the flame leans towards me or fill, or flares up suddenly, I'll take it as a yes.
32:12I ask to be at one with nature.
32:15And to communicate with whatever entities, spirits, or creatures may be here.
32:22Recording.
32:23All right.
32:26Mother Cornhusk, are you here with us?
32:30You can twist this flame, move this flame, grow this flame.
32:38That's a lot of movement.
32:40It's dancing.
32:41There's no...
32:43No breeze.
32:46Mother Cornhusk is the activity here on Trinidad because of Obia.
32:55Now it's leaning towards me.
32:56Okay.
32:57I'll take that as a yes.
33:00Did it all come from here?
33:06Wow, it's pointing right at me.
33:08So based on your system, that means what I just said is true.
33:14Yeah.
33:16Have you been with us this whole time?
33:20Are you the same one that we spoke to at Lopino?
33:25At Shaka Shaka Shikari Island?
33:28Here tonight?
33:30Just definitely leaning towards you, Phil.
33:37The students of that school, were they possessed by something evil?
33:46Yes.
33:48Are you the one that possessed those students?
33:55No.
33:57Have there been curses done here to harm others?
34:04Yes.
34:06Walter's right there.
34:07What if I move the flame a little closer?
34:09Just put it right here.
34:24That was a big noise.
34:30You hear that?
34:33It sounded like footsteps brand...
34:42One of the first great practitioners of Obia was a woman known as Queen Nanny.
34:47Born in Africa, brought to the Caribbean in chains,
34:50she would become one of the region's most extraordinary freedom fighters.
34:54Legends say Queen Nanny's powers allowed her to spy on her enemies,
34:59leading her troops, known as the Windward Maroons, to many victories.
35:04Eyewitnesses swore she could catch bullets in her hands,
35:07hurling them back at her attackers.
35:09Others said she could cloak her warriors in shadow until they struck.
35:14Queen Nanny was so feared that in 1740,
35:17the British signed a treaty granting her and the Maroons freedom.
35:21Her defiance inspired others,
35:23terrifying the colonizers so much that they eventually outlawed Obia itself.
35:28Today, Queen Nanny is considered a hero across the Caribbean.
35:32Her picture is featured on Jamaica's $500 banknote,
35:35a priceless reminder of her resistance and strength.
35:44What the hell is that?
35:45Something just flew into the flame and died.
35:49Oh my God.
35:50Right when you moved it closer to the altar,
35:53we heard those noises.
35:54And that?
35:56That is a sign that eyes are on us.
35:59What do you see as like a warning shot?
36:02Yes.
36:03It's a living sacrifice.
36:05It doesn't matter how small it is.
36:08That very well could have been a sign that we're intruding.
36:12Or it's just a bug that flew into a flame.
36:15That happens all the time.
36:17We have been interacting with something this entire time.
36:20Something evil.
36:22I got an affirmative at Lapino.
36:24At Shaka Shikari.
36:26That it was a Sucunya.
36:28It is very clear to me that Obia is a force.
36:33It is very powerful.
36:34And just like nature, it can be used for good or for evil.
36:39I'll admit, Obia and nature are undeniably intertwined.
36:44I just think it's nature influencing Obia beliefs
36:48versus Obia affecting nature.
36:53When did you turn off my recorder?
36:55I didn't.
36:57I did not turn it off.
36:59I have no idea when this died.
37:00We had full battery.
37:02Are you kidding me?
37:04The recorder dying was the last
37:07in an all-too-long list of unsettling events
37:09that my team encountered
37:11while investigating the terrors of Trinidad.
37:14The digital recorder lost all power
37:17at the same moment Phil and Heather
37:19heard noises in the brush behind them.
37:22You hear that?
37:25It sounded like footsteps.
37:28And what it captured right before it died
37:30is disturbing to the extreme.
37:39We've never recorded anything like this before.
37:47Heather believes this eerie audio is proof
37:50that for good or ill,
37:52the spiritual energy from Mother Cornhusk's Obia rituals
37:55still lingers at her wilderness church
37:58more than two decades after her death.
38:01After all, Mother Cornhusk was renowned
38:03for her incredible power.
38:05I should do all type of rituals.
38:08What kind of rituals?
38:09It could be good.
38:10It could be evil too.
38:13And there were many more horrors
38:14from the team's time in Trinidad.
38:19They traveled to the island
38:20to investigate reports of malevolent forces,
38:24duennes, jumbies, and sucunyas.
38:27And frighteningly,
38:29they may have found evidence of all three.
38:31Are you a sucunia?
38:35Heather believes she was communicating
38:38with a sucunia,
38:39the shape-shifting, soul-sucking vampiric spirit,
38:42near the Lupino plantation,
38:44and then again on Shaka Shakaare.
38:47Is it a sucunia I need to be worried about?
38:50Yes.
38:51As for duennes,
38:52the evil childlike entities
38:54said to have backwards feet,
38:56We analyze the photograph
38:58of the footprint Phil found
38:59in the forest behind the plantation.
39:01It matched those
39:02of an approximately four-year-old child.
39:05But curiously,
39:06there are no children of that age
39:08in the closest village.
39:09Phil notes that it could have been
39:11just a kid who visited the area
39:13going for a walk.
39:14Heather asks why a child
39:16would be walking alone
39:17that late at night in the jungle,
39:19doing so away from civilization
39:21and possibly backwards.
39:23And lastly,
39:24there were the jumbies.
39:26Supposed restless spirits of the dead.
39:28On Shaka Shakaare Island,
39:30the IR camera the team left behind
39:32to monitor their boat
39:33shows hours of gentle movement.
39:36And then,
39:37it records this.
39:42The current under the boat
39:44never changes,
39:45yet it's clearly rocking
39:46more violently
39:47than it naturally should.
39:49With no obvious explanation,
39:51Heather wonders
39:52if this could be evidence
39:53of a jumbie.
39:54Perhaps one desperately trying
39:56to escape this island
39:57where so many perished.
39:59They have not been able to move on.
40:01Jumbies care,
40:02car, sort of.
40:03Thankfully,
40:03there were also a few things
40:05that could be explained.
40:07Although our trail cam
40:08failed to catch
40:09any vampire bats in the act,
40:11Phil showed images
40:12of the goat's curiously mutilated tissue
40:15to a veterinary expert
40:16who confirmed
40:17they are consistent
40:18with marks left behind
40:20by the blood-sucking bats.
40:24Phil is also convinced
40:25his coughing fit
40:26under the dormitory
40:28was caused
40:28by breathing in pollen
40:30from the deadly
40:31manchineal trees,
40:32finding dust from it
40:33on his clothing.
40:35He's incredibly lucky
40:36he only got a minor taste
40:38of these toxic trees.
40:41So with some things
40:42in Trinidad settled,
40:43but some distinctly unsettled,
40:45there was one last thing
40:47the team needed
40:47to take care of
40:48before they left the country,
40:50Phil's limbo loss.
40:53All right, you on.
40:55Just when he thought
40:55he couldn't get any lower,
40:57it was time for him
40:58to face the music.
41:00All right,
41:01we all know
41:02that Phil Torres lost to Betton.
41:03It's time for him
41:04to pay up.
41:05Phil Torres,
41:07come on down!
41:13Come on down!
41:21Anything you want
41:22to say, Torres?
41:23You know what, everybody?
41:24I've learned something today.
41:26You should never
41:26make a bet
41:27with Heather Romero.
41:31Maybe she got one
41:32of these for Josh.
41:33Maybe!
41:35Ha, ha, ha, ha!
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