And now, in a breaking story, two sisters,
Emily and Sara Rodriguez, were reported missing
while filming a documentary about spiritual mediums,
College administrators and local authorities
are combing through their social media pages
for clues as to their disappearance,
But at the moment, no one knows
what happened to the two sisters,
We reached out to Paul Shipman,
one of the mediums the girls interviewed,
Here's what he had to say,
How do you know Emily and Sara?
I first met Emily and Sara when they contacted me
to come over and do a reading in their house,
Can you describe what you do for a living?
Well, what I really do for a living
is I use my gift to help people,
Can you tell us about your gift?
Me seeing things,
it may be a gift, but it's also a curse,
And for me to convey my readings
to people and have them react,
whether it be positive or negative,
it's really the hardest part of what I do,
and I see a lot of tragedy,
All right, Lucas, you owe me one,
Hey, what are you doin'?
Just needed to go for a walk,
- You all right? - Mm-hmm,
What about you?
I'm good,
- Okay, - I'm good,
- Good, - I'm really good, actually,
Mm-hmm,
Wait, what are you doing?
Sara, this has been the best three years of my life,
What do you say?
Lucas,
You're always gonna be gone,
I'm always gonna be worried about you,
Oh, shit,
- What are you saying? - I can't,
I can't be a military wife,
It isn't me,
I'd be miserable,
I'm sorry,
All right,
Hi, I'm Emily,
This is my college final,
Dude, what the hell?
What are you doing?
The little intro,
You know how important this is to me,
Oh my god, okay,
Whatever,
Hey, I'm Emily,
And I'm her sister, Sara,
Emily's documentary project is about,,,
It's about spiritual mediums,
so I've titled it Dead Voices,
Not creepy at all,
Mediumship is the practice
of mediating communication between spirits
of the dead and of living people,
Practitioners are known as mediums,
I lost my ex-boyfriend Lucas
a little over a year ago to the war in Iraq,
He was in Special Forces,
Right, his body was never found, but his death was assumed
after other men in his platoon were found dead,
I wanna find out what happened to Lucas
by getting into contact with him or someone he was with,
Yeah, and I agreed to help as long as I get to film it,
We've been reaching out to try to find
a legit medium that can help us,,,
Yeah, we posted ads on the web,
social media, no luck so far,
Oh, oh, okay, that should be good for now,
Are you gonna quit cutting me off
or is this how it's gonna be for the whole shoot?
Cutting you off?
What do you mean?
I'm just finishing your sentence,
Shut up,
Okay, sisters' fun time over,
Okay,
Hey, um, you okay?
It's been kinda quiet,
Did you take your meds today?
Oh my god,
Get out of my room,
Mm, this explains a lot,
Gotta call Dr, Feelgood, oh my god,
I literally just ran out,
Don't keep tabs on me,
I can handle my stuff,
Yeah, we can all see that,
Why do you have the camera on?
Um, this project
is due in a week, Sara, okay?
The project is happening fast,
The camera stays on,
Shut up,
Well, I kinda wanted to do that, you know,
thing where we interview each other
and ask questions about things and bubble gum, cherry pop,
You're not listening at all, so what are you lookin' at?
Oh!
Okay, he kinda looks cool,
Yeah, I feel really good about him,
Okay, well, do you want me to call him?
Yeah, all his testimonials say
he's the best medium in California,
All right, we'll give him a shot,
but let's go on this first, yeah?
Yeah?
Okay, fine,
Okay, good,
All right, hey, so what do you want me to ask you?
Why my sister is an idiot,
Okay, dang,
Um, all right, why don't you talk
about Lucas a little bit more?
- Why? - I don't know,
Maybe because he is the reason we're doing the project,
You're right,
Yeah, I'm always pretty much right, so,,,
I think our government should
take better care of our troops,
I mean, how the hell do you lose someone's body like that?
Wow, straight for the jugular,
I should have taken better care of him, too,
Sometimes I wish I could go back,
I have to find out what happened to him,
You broke up with him for the right reasons,
I don't know if I did,
I think Taylor would disagree, strongly,
Holy shit, that must be him!
Coming!
Hi!
Hi, I'm Paul,
- Sara, - Is your mom or dad home?
Oh, we called you,
This is Emily,
Hi,
Wait a minute, are you recording this?
No, no, yeah, no, no, we're not, yeah,
Okay, well, then what's with the camera?
We're part-time models,
Hey guys, we are with the world-famous medium,
Understand, can we maybe just stop,,,
Oh, well, you should follow us,
Our handle's @deadvoicesmovie,
I just put you on our story,
Okay, you lost me at story, so,
Oh, sorry,
Okay, fine, whatever, can we begin?
Sure!
I must rest my eyes to connect to the other side,
In case anyone wants to follow,
I feel,,,
I feel a presence,
Sorry!
God, what did I miss?
Shh,
This, this presence
or figure,
it wants me to warn you both,
Do you understand?
No,
He or she, it,,,
It keeps screaming, "Don't let them go,
"Don't let them go,"
Do you understand?
We got no idea what you're talkin' about,
Are you okay?
Don't, don't, don't go, don't go!
- Hey! - Ah!
I need to leave,
What?
No, wait!
Uh,
Oh my god,
Okay, you know what?
That's the last time we're calling
someone off a random website,
What do you think he was talking about?
Come on, you don't think that guy was legit, do you?
Uh, what?
I almost pissed my pants 'cause of that,
Oh, please, that was
the most generic psychic show I've ever seen,
I don't know, I felt something,
Well, he's gone, so let's find someone else,
Em?
You're freaking kidding me?
Emily!
I'm gonna break your stupid camera,
Okay, hey, you ready?
Do I really have to do this part?
Come on, what do you wanna do?
You're gonna do all this
and I can delete all my stuff, all right?
Okay,
Um, okay, all right, you're set,
You owe me one,
Hey, what are you doin'?
Just needed to go for a walk,
- You all right? - Mm-hmm,
What about you?
I'm good,
- Okay, - I'm good,
- Good, - I'm really good, actually,
Mm-hmm,
Wait, what are you doing?
Sara, this has been the best three years of my life,
Oh,
Hey, baby, how's it goin'?
Not bad, just helping Emily,
I think I found our medium,
He looks like a Mormon,
Mormons can be psychic,
Plus, he DMed me and followed me so let's give him a chance,
Wow, that's really great,
You're turning your project into a dating service,
Could you take this a little more serious,
like just for a day?
Excuse me, do you not see all this legit gear I bought?
Okay, this is just for the project, so it's pretty serious,
Yeah, real legit, wow, looks real legit,
Shut up,
I can't understand you sometimes,
That's him,
You called him already?
Yeah,
Hello?
You're such a slut,
Shut up,
Oh no, yeah, yeah,
Great, okay, all right, sorry, one sec,
And Steadicam is in the house,
When does it get steady?
Oh my god, shut up,
Okay, shh,
Okay, go, go!
Our subject is here,
and we will begin the interview process now,
Great, okay, let's go,
All right, oh shit!
- Ooh! - Oh my god, okay, I'm good,
I read the manual, I read the manual,
Don't worry about it,
Okay, Sara, can you get the door?
Okay, all right,
Hi, one second,
I'm just on a learning curve thing here, okay,
You must be Emily,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, hi, oh, I'm sorry, sorry,
Funny accident, don't ask,
Oh, yeah,
Nice rig,
Thanks,
I'm Sara,
- Nice to meet you, - It's my sister,
Um, you come in, yeah,
The living room is right through here,
Okay, let's give it a shot then,
Since we're recording this, can you both confirm
I know nothing about your lives or anyone in your lives?
- Yes, - Yeah,
Okay, I hear quite a few voices speaking now,
Something about, something about Oktoberfest,
Does that make any sense?
No,
Um, I think maybe it does,
A group of guys
talking about Oktoberfest in Germany,
They can't wait to go,
This has meaning, Sara?
Uh, yeah, my boyfriend
was stationed in Germany for a while,
Okay, hold on,
Sara, come here,
I'm getting more,
A name, it starts with a D,
Don?
Doug?
I don't know,
No, it's not,
Dan, no,
David, Dave,
I hear the name Dave,
He's trying to speak now,
Do you know the name Dave?
Um, yeah,
Dave says he was good friends with Lucas,
Oh shit, the battery!
Was Lucas your boyfriend?
Okay, okay, go on,
Okay, Sara, stay with me,
Dave has something important to tell you,
Oh, he talks fast,
Hmm, yeah, he always did,
He said there was an explosion, some sort of battle,
Were him and Lucas on tour together?
They were,
Yeah,
Dave is telling me all about it,
Uh-huh,
Mm,
Okay, I'm a bit confused now,
Sara, is Lucas still with us?
No, no,
Dave is telling me Lucas wasn't
with them during the explosion,
What?
I mean, they never found his body,
Right, okay, this is making more sense now,
What happened?
Hold on,
I'm losing him, hold on,
Something happened with Lucas,
He was involved with something, so he wasn't with his group,
He had to, he had to leave?
Do you understand this, Sara?
No,
Dave is telling me Lucas was involved
in something and left them behind,
Lucas told Dave where he was going, though,
Sara, get your phone and write this down real quick,
Somewhere, somewhere in the mountains,
He says you've been there before, Sara,
Wait, I'm losing the rest,
I hear the letter Y,
Something yo, yose,
I see a house with a green roof,
Mike?
- Mike, Mike, are you okay? - Oh my god, Mike, Mike!
What's going on?
It's okay,
What happened?
Mike, you passed out,
You blacked out after talking to Dave,
Huh?
Does this happen after you channel?
Never,
I remember speaking with Dave,
and then something overwhelmed me,
Everything went dark,
Do you think Lucas is still alive?
I wish I could answer that,
I don't know,
Do you know what Dave meant with what he said?
Yes, Lucas grew up in a ranch near Yosemite,
Maybe that's where he is,
Let's go then,
Please, will you come with us?
No, I can't right now, please,
I'll pay you,
You gotta go get him!
He's the real thing!
Come on, go, go get him!
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
Mike, hey Mike!
Patrick?
Sorry, babe, wrong guy,
Patrick, it's me, Abby,
- Hey! - Patrick?
Nice try, babe,
Can you play some music?
Mm, yeah,
Come on, it goes with the project,
Why don't you save the battery?
I have plenty of batteries,
I wanna catch all the boring stuff
so the good stuff sticks out,
Whatever,
I swear to God, you better not pull
the same crap you always do,
What are you talking about?
You know, where you say that if I drive there,
you'll drive on the way back,
Yeah, that doesn't seem unfair at all,
And then you end up feeling sick
or tired the day we're supposed to leave,
and I end up driving back home, too,
Okay, that's not too far off,
I'm normally sick and,,,
Emily, stop!
Don't screw with me,
This is a really long drive,
All right, jeez, what's wrong with you?
Oh, I forgot to fill my prescription,
Oh my god, are you serious?
Yeah,
Are you gonna be okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I saw a few pills
rolling around in the bottom of my bag, so,
All right, and you're sure?
Yeah,
All right,
Do you think it was a bad idea comin' out here?
What are you talking about?
I mean, the only other medium we saw
was screaming at us, "Don't go,"
That guy was fake, Sara,
Yeah, I guess,
I'm feeling sick,
Okay, like carsick, carsick?
Yeah,
All right, well, I don't know,
What do you want me to do?
I need some fresh air,
Uh, okay, all right,
- Just stop! - This thing is heavy,
Hey, say hello to our fans, Sara,
We have like three followers,
Whatever,
Damn, look at that view,
Middle of nowhere,
Emily is tryin' to get a hold of Mike,
He was supposed to meet us here at the cabin a while ago,
Of course, she told me to turn the camera back on,
Em?
Hey, let's just go without him,
Get off your stupid phone!
Doesn't look like anyone's here,
- Oh shit! - Who is that?
Oh my god!
It's just Mike, oh my god,
Sorry, didn't mean to scare you guys,
Did you see that guy?
What guy?
I didn't see anyone,
We both saw someone,
There shouldn't be anyone out here, right?
Hey, what's going on?
It looks like he sees someone,
You go, go, go see what's he doing!
Wait, why me?
Because I'm the getaway driver if he goes crazy!
Oh,
Mike?
Are you okay?
You're freaking me out,
Dammit Emily!
- What was wrong with him? - What's wrong with you?
Why'd you keep turning the lights off?
I was trying to get the car started!
What happened?
I don't know, he freaked out or something,
Great, so what now?
I don't know,
I mean, we didn't come all this way to not get answers,
I know the door code,
Okay, great, let's go!
I'm gonna just make sure it's balanced,
- Yeah, - Got it,
Okay,
It doesn't look like anyone's been here for a while,
Feels like I was here just yesterday,
Um, come look at this,
Look,
I remember taking this picture,
Please tell me you're the one
that scratched out their faces,
Are you crazy, why would I do that?
I don't know,
It was probably Lucas,
This is so screwed up,
This place brings back so many memories,
I really miss him,
I know, okay,
I know, but you gotta leave it in the past, right?
'Cause you have Taylor, right?
Taylor's nice to you and he's rich
and he loves you, so you're gonna be fine,
Lucas's parents should never have pushed him
so hard to join the military,
I know, I know,
Where are his parents?
I haven't talked to them in six months,
They went to Europe, last I heard,
Um,
Sara, look!
Come on, one for Lucas,
All right,
Okay, let's,
Wait, wait, wait, here,
Oh my god, cheers?
Cheers,
Oh!
Oh my god,
Emily forced this best on me,
And this is where Lucas was made,
I'm so glad Emily's sleeping in here,
Oh, what a slob,
And this is where
Lucas and I, you get the idea,
And this is Lucas,
I'm sorry,
Oh, what is that?
"Self-gratification with no guilt or shame
"instead of the denial of pleasure,"
Oh, is that blood?
Em?
Mike, what are you doing?
I'm so sorry about last night,
Yeah, what happened?
Can I come in?
Uh, I don't know if that's,,,
Oh, look who decided to come back,
So you gonna tell us why you freaked out and disappeared?
Yeah, where'd you stay last night?
I started going home and stayed at a motel in town,
Again, I'm sorry about what happened,
There was an energy coming from this cabin,
one I've never felt,
When I connect with the departed,
I sometimes receive glimpses of how they passed,
So, what?
Are you saying somebody died here?
Mike,
I don't know if it was here exactly or close to here,
It wasn't a natural death, though,
I felt two people suffering,
What do you mean?
These people were murdered,
It was in such a cruel way,
They begged for it to stop,
Slowly gutted like animals,
Do you know what that means?
Do you know what this means?
Mm,
What is it?
The demon's creed,
How do you know that?
You meet all kinds of people
when you claim you can talk to ghosts,
Is that Lucas's handwriting?
I don't know,
It could be,
No, no, Lucas wouldn't get into something like this,
What?
Wait, Sara, what are you doing?
Stop, I don't wanna hear anymore,
- You said you could,,, - Shut up, shut up!
If he's alive, I'll wait for him,
God,
Even if he's gotten into this shit,
I'll help him get out of it!
Stop, wait, Sara!
No, stop, stop, stop,
She's off her meds,
She just needs to calm down,
She doesn't get it,
Okay, well, try me,
Those words, if Lucas wrote that,
he committed himself to Satan!
Okay, Satan like the devil Satan?
Yes,
Okay, what exactly does that mean?
It depends how deep he got into this,
Sara!
Sara?
Sara!
Are you okay?
I'm gonna get going,
You are not leaving us here alone again!
I can't, this is too much for me!
Please, just wait here until she comes back!
Where do you think she went?
I,,,
Mike?
Sara?
Lucas?
Oh God, Lucas is not here,
What the hell are you doing?
Why are all the cabinets open?
None of this is good,
I need a drink,
Emily to spirit world,
Come in, spirit world,
Over,
Didn't work,
What are you doing?
Turn that off,
No way, this is the good stuff,
So is Mike short for Michael?
Mike, are you connecting with the spirit world?
I'm just a little buzzed,
Well, someone's a lightweight,
Okay, so tell me how alcohol affects your process?
How do you think?
I think we all need to get to know you a little better,
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
What?
Okay, so, um,
do you think it's wrong to take money from people
who are mourning the loss of their loved ones?
What's that supposed to mean?
I'm just asking for the documentary,
No, I don't think it's wrong,
I mean, I have to make a living somehow, don't I?
I can't stand when people question that,
We were all given gifts
and we should all use 'em to our advantage,
Rather than shying away from this, I've embraced it,
I've welcomed the one thing most people are so afraid of,
Everyone hides from it with religion
or this idea called faith,
The most popular question today has an answer,
but no one is willing to listen,
Okay, I think someone needs a refill,
Give me your glass,
Yeah, sorry about that,
You struck a chord,
Mike?
Sara?
Who moved this?
What's going on?
Mike?
He left?
Again?
Sara!
I'm officially freaked out,
I'm leaving!
Get the hell outta here,
Sara?
Sara, come on, you can't stay pissed all night!
Is that you?
Hello?
Who's there?
Sara?
Sara, is that you?
Are you okay?
Okay, let's just go back into the cabin,
and we'll talk about things,
Turn off the light!
I don't see anything!
It's late, you're just seeing things, Sara,
Wait, where'd you go?
I'm scared,
Okay, come on, come on, come on!
That definitely wasn't Lucas!
I saw him, Emily,
You need your meds,
I know what I saw,
We need to go back and find him,
No, we're going into the cabin!
- No, no, - Come on, come on!
Stop!
Mike, what's wrong?
I'm losing control!
What's your deal?
I went to the police station,
What are you talkin' about?
I'm sorry I left in the middle of the night!
The voices won't stop!
I can't make them stop!
I can tell you right now, we can't trust this guy!
Do you remember when I told you
about the two people that were murdered?
Yes!
They were Lucas's parents,
- They spoke to me in the night, - No, you're lying!
- It ain't true, - You're lying!
Why would I lie?
How do you know it was them?
How do you know?
Mike, are you sure it was them?
I'm so sorry,
No, you're just saying this so that we'd leave,
You were right about us needing to leave, Sara,
What about the bodies?
What do you mean?
Did the police find his parents' bodies?
Oh, fuck!
Oh, you're full of shit!
Then why did you ask me to come here?
All this and I'm a fraud because I tell you
something you don't wanna hear?
His parents told me if we don't leave!
I know you wanna find out
about Lucas, but enough is enough!
I'm not leaving!
No, wait!
- Where is your car? - I don't know,
What do you mean, you don't know?
I don't know!
I blacked out!
I feel something coming over me!
What is it?
Lucas gutted his own parents!
Why, why would he do that?
It was a sacrifice to Lucifer,
Where the hell are my keys?
God!
I left them right here!
- My God, - Lucas, no!
What the heck, Mike?
Lucas is here?
Sara, where are the keys?
I don't know, I don't have 'em,
Damn it, Sara!
Come on, you gotta pull it together!
We have to leave!
Sara!
Back off!
I have an idea,
Come here,
Damn it!
What?
It's a newer model,
You can't hot-wire these things,
Well, please, please just try
so we can get out of here,
I'll see what I can do,
What was that?
Probably just an animal,
Go inside, I'll figure this out,
Sara?
What are you doin' out?
Em said we needed to document everything,
Uh, you should go to bed,
I need to show you something,
What is it?
Please, please just come with me,
Okay, show me,
Okay,
Here we go,
You okay?
Look,
Did you rewrite those?
No,
Then they came back out of nowhere,
Where's Lucas?
Shh,
Everything's gonna be okay, all right?
Lucas?
Is that you?
Here,
Lucas?
Take this,
What is it?
It'll help you sleep,
Oh,
Okay,
All right, come here,
I don't have anyone to talk to and,,,
This is gonna sound crazy,
but I need to get these thoughts out of my head,
I, I think I really do need my medicine,
Because if not, then,
Lucas was really in my room last night,
I was, I was really messed up, so,,,
But,
I felt Lucas,
I know he was there,
I felt him,
And when I woke up,
I was alone,
and my window was open,
This book says that Satan is not a being to be worshiped
but a metaphor, an idea of how to live,
This chapter talks about sexual freedom,
nothing evil in this book so far,
All of this goes against what Mike has been telling us,
Where is Mike anyway?
Lucas,
I've looked outside,
I looked in the upstairs,
I can't find her anywhere,
I can't find anyone,
Sara?
What's happening?
- No, get off of me! - Oh, no, no, no, no, Sara!
Sara, Sara, get back, get back!
What is she doing?
Sara, what are you doing?
Hey, you're acting crazy!
- Sara, get off! - I'm going to kill you!
Sara, Sara, get off!
Sara, get off!
Where are you going?
Come back!
Emily!
What is it?
Wait, she's had these the whole time?
Sara's taken this too far,
Damn, no signal!
Let me see if I can get reception somewhere else,
Okay, wait, wait,
Is this Sara's handwriting?
Oh, shit!
Oh, no, Mike!
Mike, open the door!
- Emily? - Help me!
God, Mike, help!
I'm trying!
Are you okay?
Where are you going?
Are you who you say you are?
What?
This is all in Sara's head,
God, she's going crazy, isn't she?
We all need to get outta here,
Okay, I'll go find her outside,
You wait here if she comes back, okay?
Okay,
All right,
Sara?
Sara, is that you?
Sara, please!
Get away from me!
What do you want from me?
Lucas,
No, no, Sara, he's dead, okay?
They told us at the house!
- He's dead! - I found him,
- He's alive, - You're losing it!
You're saying random shit, Sara!
I saw him!
- I felt him! - No, why are you doing this?
I told you already, you don't understand!
I can't, I can't, you're losing it!
You're saying random shit, Sara!
Mike, Mike isn't who he says he is,
He's manipulating us,
Are you even listening to yourself?
I have proof!
- I have proof! - No, please stop!
- Please stop, Sara! - Oh, where is it?
- I must have dropped it maybe,,, - We need to go!
We need to go!
We need to go, Sara, stop!
Come on!
Em?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Em, Em!
I'm really sorry, Ems,
Lu,
Come back, come back, come back!
Emily?
Oh, oh, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Emily!
Oh my god!
Okay,
This is what I wanted to show you,
Emily!
What's going on?
Emily!
No, no, someone help, help!
Someone, help!
Help!
No!
Oh wait, why is,,,
Who the hell is this guy?
If anything happens to me, it's because of him,
Patrick?
That is your real name, isn't it?
What are you holding?
Oh no!
Give me that!
No!
Are you scared?
You should be,
No!
- Huh? - No!
How do you like your documentary now, huh?
No, Emily!
You left Lucas!
This is what you get!
Give me that!
Are you having fun?
It took me a while to set this place up!
I guess I know the military things after all!
I did this for you, Lucas!
It was all for you!
It wasn't your fault!
He took one wrong step and then everything went black,
The IED explosion wiped out half our platoon!
Me and the other seven came to after a while!
We were tied up next to each other in a cage
with the enemy screaming at us and torturing us!
After six months, it was only me and him left!
Why did you do it?
Why did you abandon Lucas
the same way the VA abandoned us both?
No!
I can't wait for everyone
to see what I'm gonna do to you!
Sara!
Are you out here?
Think you can beat me at my own game?
Sara, Lucas is waiting for you!
Emily!
It's really you,
Oh, I missed you,
What are you doing?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
How does it feel?
Brother?
When I snapped her neck, it was
the best feeling I've ever had,
But I killed her too quick,
Yeah, that cunt deserved
more than being scared for a few days,
Yeah,
Do you remember that day that I swept the road for bombs?
You were off your game 'cause of that bitch,
Those six months we spent in hell were 'cause of her,
Yeah,
I killed her too quick,
That's okay,
We're not done yet,
Yeah,
Since Crystal married my own brother, let's kill 'em both,
Done,
I'm gonna go take one last look at her,
Here, wait,
Take this with you,
Hello?
Hi, is this Crystal?
Um, yeah, who is this?
Lucas, I'm calling about Patrick Enders,
Hello?
Sorry, it's just my sister Abby
said she followed a car the other day
because she could've sworn she saw him,
but Patrick died in Iraq a little over a year ago,
I was engaged to him,
Are you sure he's dead?
I mean, they never found his body,
I think he might still be alive,
What are you talking about?
Can we meet tomorrow?
I could explain everything and help you find some answers,
Yes, of course,