1. 13 Bannerman Road is
where Sarah Jane Smith lives.Copy !req
2. And it's home to things
way beyond your imagination.Copy !req
3. There's an extra-terrestrial
super computer in the wall.Copy !req
4. A genetically engineered
boy genius in the attic.Copy !req
5. A schoolgirl
investigator across the road.Copy !req
6. And a whole universe of adventure
right here on the doorstep.Copy !req
7. Ready? Always.Copy !req
8. No-one really knows just when
Ashen Hill Manor was first built.Copy !req
9. But, through history,
there has always been a house here.Copy !req
10. And, so they say, just as long
as there's been stone and oak,Copy !req
11. there has always been evil.Copy !req
12. They say it was the reputation
of the houseCopy !req
13. that attracted the magician
Erasmus Darkening.Copy !req
14. He entered the service of the young
lord of the manor, the widower,Copy !req
15. Lord Marchwood.Copy !req
16. Darkening promised that in return
for his protection,Copy !req
17. he would replenish the family's
fortunes with the secret
of making gold from base metal.Copy !req
18. But after two years working in a
secret chamber far beneath the houseCopy !req
19. Darkening's alchemy had
failed to bear one ounce of gold.Copy !req
20. And the people
on Marchwood's land were uneasy.Copy !req
21. There were stories of how
Darkening came among them at night.Copy !req
22. Of how he took away people
that never returnedCopy !req
23. and that he was not human.Copy !req
24. Elizabeth?Copy !req
25. Joseph?Copy !req
26. Elizabeth? Joseph?Copy !req
27. My children, where are you?Copy !req
28. No matter how long, no matter how
hard their father searched for them,Copy !req
29. they were never ever seen again.Copy !req
30. My children!Copy !req
31. My children!Copy !req
32. And they say he searches still.Copy !req
33. It's a good story, Professor,
but I don't believe in ghosts.Copy !req
34. Of course you don't. And neither do
I. But Ashen Hill ManorCopy !req
35. is reputedly one of the most
haunted locations in the UK.Copy !req
36. So let me get this right,
if you don't believe inCopy !req
37. ghosts, Sarah Jane, and you don't
believe in ghosts, Professor, then...Copy !req
38. What are we doing here?
To see if we're right.Copy !req
39. To find out scientifically one way
or the other.Copy !req
40. In that case, I'm delighted you
invited me along to cover the story.Copy !req
41. We're set up through here.Copy !req
42. Are you are sure about this?
I mean...Copy !req
43. there's are no such things as ghosts,
is there? Clyde, I don't believe you.Copy !req
44. After all the things we've seen,
you're scared of ghosts!Copy !req
45. Who said anything about scared?Copy !req
46. Did I mention "scared"?
I don't think so.Copy !req
47. Don't worry. I'm sure.Copy !req
48. Whatever people may think
they've seen at Ashen Hill Manor,Copy !req
49. it has more to do with
imagination than the supernatural.Copy !req
50. Introductions - Sarah Jane Smith,
journalist. My assistant from theCopy !req
51. Pharos Institute, Toby Silverman.
Hello, Toby.Copy !req
52. This is Rani and Clyde.Copy !req
53. Sort of Sarah Jane's apprentice.
And I'm carrying the sandwiches.Copy !req
54. So are you the technical genius?
I don't know about that.Copy !req
55. I'm just interested in the
quantifiable effects of meta-normalCopy !req
56. energies on
the established phenomena.Copy !req
57. We should've brought Luke.Copy !req
58. Only he said that people
who believed in ghostsCopy !req
59. were still living in the Dark Ages.Copy !req
60. Or something like that.Copy !req
61. Luke is my son.Copy !req
62. Toby is the son of Professor
Sir Rupert Silverman.Copy !req
63. The physicist?
What does your father think of his
son dabbling in the paranormal?Copy !req
64. I ought to get on with putting
my monitoring equipment together.Copy !req
65. Yes, of course.Copy !req
66. This house has a long
history of psychic activity.Copy !req
67. Then there are the disappearances.Copy !req
68. Disappearances? Nobody said
anything about any disappearances.Copy !req
69. No, they didn't.Copy !req
70. There's something else, isn't there?
The Scrivens family,Copy !req
71. who legally still own the house,
a mother, a father and two children,Copy !req
72. vanished one night 20 years ago.Copy !req
73. The keys were found
still in the doors.Copy !req
74. Locked from the inside.Copy !req
75. Toby! What on earth are you doing?Copy !req
76. My screwdriver. I just put it down
there and it's gone, it's vanished.Copy !req
77. What's that? EMF meter. ParanormalCopy !req
78. activity causes a fluctuation
in the electro-magnetic field.Copy !req
79. Save your batteries, Professor.Copy !req
80. The only ghost at work here
is the spirit of Sir Isaac Newton.Copy !req
81. Gravity. It fell and rolled away.Copy !req
82. Come on. Let's have a look around.Copy !req
83. At least we know
Lord Marchwood was real.Copy !req
84. I've no doubt he was.Copy !req
85. And his children probably
disappeared, too. PerhapsCopy !req
86. Lord Marchwood did spend the rest of
his life looking for his children.Copy !req
87. But the afterlife? I doubt it.Copy !req
88. Ah, it's so sad how this house
has fallen into disrepair.Copy !req
89. It must have been quite wonderful.Copy !req
90. Professor Rivers
couldn't have pickedCopy !req
91. a creepier place for a ghost hunt.Copy !req
92. It's felt like someone's been
watching me since we got here.Copy !req
93. It's psychological,
you know this place isCopy !req
94. supposed to be haunted and your
imagination starts to work overtime.Copy !req
95. No wonder Luke
wanted to stay at home.Copy !req
96. I could get bored of jumping
at my own shadow pretty fast.Copy !req
97. What about the disappearances?Copy !req
98. An entire family
vanishes into thin air.Copy !req
99. Whether or not you believe in
ghosts, that's just sinister.Copy !req
100. I've seen so many strange things in
my life, wonderful and frightening,Copy !req
101. yet all of it had a scientific
explanation of some kind.Copy !req
102. The trouble with ghosts is
that there simply isn't anyCopy !req
103. scientific basis for them to exist.Copy !req
104. What's that? Dinner time?Copy !req
105. I didn't see any bell tower.Copy !req
106. That's because there isn't one.Copy !req
107. Miss Smith?Copy !req
108. Didn't you hear it?
The bell. The church bell.Copy !req
109. What bell?Copy !req
110. There's no bell tower,Copy !req
111. there's nothing.Copy !req
112. But why did we hear something
like Quasimodo on a joy rideCopy !req
113. and Professor Rivers
and Toby heard nothing?Copy !req
114. It doesn't make sense.Copy !req
115. I'm telling you, I don't care whether
Sarah Jane believes in ghosts or not,Copy !req
116. there's something seriously
freaky about that place.Copy !req
117. Let's check up here.Copy !req
118. "The History Of Ashen Hill Manor."Copy !req
119. Perfect.Copy !req
120. Look at this place, it's beautiful.Copy !req
121. Yeah, I bet Castle Dracula
looked OK on a sunny day too.Copy !req
122. Look.Copy !req
123. Doesn't look like
it's been used years.Copy !req
124. Well, that would be because
everyone just disappears.Copy !req
125. Are you scared?Copy !req
126. Clyde Langer, scared?Copy !req
127. I've taken on just about every
creep in the universe right.Copy !req
128. I ain't afraid of no ghost.
Good. Come on, then.Copy !req
129. Oh, it smells
like cucumber farts in here.Copy !req
130. It's just old and damp.Copy !req
131. It must have been
wonderful here years ago.Copy !req
132. A picnic by the fountain.
Taking the boat out on the lake.Copy !req
133. If you like to paddle.Copy !req
134. Who turned that on?Copy !req
135. CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER
Who's there?Copy !req
136. Is there someone out
here messing with us?Copy !req
137. Cos we're not falling for it, OK?Copy !req
138. I'm not hearing this.Copy !req
139. You don't believe that?
Wait till you see this.Copy !req
140. Wet footprints?Copy !req
141. Hello?Copy !req
142. What are you doing?Copy !req
143. If it's a ghost, it can't hurt us.
It's already dead.Copy !req
144. Besides, listen to her.Copy !req
145. CHILD'S SOBS CONTINUECopy !req
146. Hello?Copy !req
147. Are we feeling freaked yet?Copy !req
148. What's wrong?Copy !req
149. I think what you experienced
was a stone tape manifestation.Copy !req
150. Some of us are a bit new to this
kind of thing, you might need to
explain.Copy !req
151. It's the theory
that events can be recordedCopy !req
152. on physical matter, normally stone,Copy !req
153. and then, under certain
circumstances, they get played back.Copy !req
154. It's the most convincing explanation
for most so-called hauntings.Copy !req
155. The house is built on a giant slab
of granite bedrock, which researchCopy !req
156. suggests is a great conductor
of these psychic recordings.Copy !req
157. There are stories about the Grey
Lady that walks the castle rampart,Copy !req
158. or sometimes a legion of Roman
centurions marching along a road.Copy !req
159. Only people only ever
see them from the knee up.Copy !req
160. Because the Roman Roads were lower?Copy !req
161. Exactly.Copy !req
162. I heard about this castle
where some lord was murderedCopy !req
163. by his jealous brother. He lopped of
his head and every Hallowe'en,Copy !req
164. it rolls down the castle steps.Copy !req
165. The man in the mirror, he didn't
look like any sort of recording.Copy !req
166. If it was a disembodied spirit,Copy !req
167. let's hope he shows
up again tonight.Copy !req
168. It's after eight and it's gone dark.
It's time to begin the experiment.Copy !req
169. If I could have everybody's
mobile phones, please.Copy !req
170. What for? Mobiles
can interfere with our equipment.Copy !req
171. We can keep in touch throughout
the house with walkie-talkies.Copy !req
172. I'd like to speak to Luke
first. And Clyde and Rani shouldCopy !req
173. call their parents. Of course.Copy !req
174. We'll be in the control hub
running final checks. Toby.Copy !req
175. Hi, Mum. Everything's cool.Copy !req
176. Just bedding down for the
night in the old haunted house.Copy !req
177. I haven't seen any ghosts yet but
I reckon they're on a skeleton staff.Copy !req
178. And yes, we've had dinner,
we had ghoul-lash.Copy !req
179. The EMF network?Copy !req
180. All meters through the
house operating and on-line.Copy !req
181. Thermostats? Operating and on-line.Copy !req
182. Video cameras?Copy !req
183. Toby?Copy !req
184. Sorry. For a moment...Copy !req
185. I thought I saw...Copy !req
186. You saw what?Copy !req
187. Oh, nothing. All cams are fine. Good.Copy !req
188. Oh, no.Copy !req
189. Hang on, nursery cam's on the blink.Copy !req
190. Mm-hm, I'll go and check it.Copy !req
191. Apparently Luke's been driving Dad
round the bend all afternoon.Copy !req
192. What? Luke's your dad's star pupil.Copy !req
193. He's probably just
secretly planning your wedding.Copy !req
194. Ugh. Not any more.
Dad taught him to play chess today.Copy !req
195. And Luke beat him six times
before he went home.Copy !req
196. Oh, I bet he had
your father in pieces.Copy !req
197. I closed this book. I know I did.Copy !req
198. Is there a draught in here?Copy !req
199. Someone tell me the window is open.Copy !req
200. Please. It isn't.Copy !req
201. Must be a draught
coming down the chimney.Copy !req
202. That's him!
That's the man from the pavilion.Copy !req
203. That's Erasmus Darkening.
The magician?Copy !req
204. I bet he made a mean balloon
giraffe at kids' parties.Copy !req
205. That's better, Professor.Copy !req
206. Oh. The camera doesn't do
you any favours. I heard that.Copy !req
207. Where is the Professor?Copy !req
208. Something seriously
freaky just happened.Copy !req
209. Which I'm sure has
a rational explanation.Copy !req
210. She's in the nursery. Won't be long.Copy !req
211. Happy with the positioning, Toby?
Right on target.Copy !req
212. Miss Smith wants to talk to you.Copy !req
213. I'll be down in a minute.Copy !req
214. I refuse to believe that book was
opened by any ghost,Copy !req
215. and certainly not the ghost
of a supposedly evil magician
from the 17th century.Copy !req
216. Well, something
opened it, Sarah Jane.Copy !req
217. And there wasn't any breeze,
we'd have felt it.Copy !req
218. That was definitely
the man in the pavilion.Copy !req
219. Oh! Wow! Look at that!Copy !req
220. What is it? EMF readings throughout
the house are spiking.Copy !req
221. Something's happening.Copy !req
222. What happened? Where did she go?Copy !req
223. She's vanished.Copy !req
224. Come on! Better check the landing.Copy !req
225. Professor Rivers didn't strike me as
the kind that plays hide and seek.Copy !req
226. 'Hello? Hello?Copy !req
227. 'Is anybody there?'Copy !req
228. Professor? Where are you?Copy !req
229. You had us all worried for a second.Copy !req
230. 'Hello? Where am I?Copy !req
231. 'Is anybody there?
Can anybody help me?'Copy !req
232. Professor! Celeste!
Wherever Professor Rivers has gone,
she can't hear you.Copy !req
233. But where is she? I don't know.
But these readings are likeCopy !req
234. nothing I've ever seen before.
What is that?Copy !req
235. It's like your EMF meter
only more useful.Copy !req
236. Who set that off?Copy !req
237. Poltergeist activity.Copy !req
238. This room is famous for it.Copy !req
239. Or perhaps just
a freak mechanical fault.Copy !req
240. I just got head-butted
by a rocking horse!Copy !req
241. No, you must've knocked it.
I didn't! I know I didn't!Copy !req
242. The electro-magnetic signature
is increasing by five milli-Gauss...Copy !req
243. eight... ten.Copy !req
244. This is astonishing!Copy !req
245. No, this is freaky!Copy !req
246. These readings are going crazy.Copy !req
247. We have to get out of here.
♪ A-tissue! A-tissue... ♪
This is amazing!Copy !req
248. Look!Copy !req
249. Come on, now!Copy !req
250. It's locked! It can't be.
The energy in here is building!Copy !req
251. I don't want to be
in here when it peaks.Copy !req
252. Still say there's no such
thing as the paranormal then?Copy !req
253. I only wish the Professor were
here to see it... And my father.Copy !req
254. Your watch.
Did it pick up something alien?Copy !req
255. The readings were confused. Alien?Copy !req
256. Now, that's more like it.Copy !req
257. Aliens, I can handle. We have to
track down the source of whateverCopy !req
258. is happening here, we have to stop
it and get Professor Rivers back.Copy !req
259. And how do we do that?
We do what we always do.Copy !req
260. We look for clues.Copy !req
261. My readings are different now.
Still energy signatures that I don'tCopy !req
262. recognise... neither human nor alien,
but less intense, almost dormant.Copy !req
263. The EMF readings have gone
back to normal as well.Copy !req
264. Those readings in the nursery
were completely unnatural.Copy !req
265. Unnatural, but not supernatural.Copy !req
266. There's an energy source
in this house.Copy !req
267. If we can locate that, we'll be on
our way to finding the Professor.Copy !req
268. So we split up yeah?
Oh, I don't think so, Rani.Copy !req
269. Professor Rivers managed
to disappear in the blink of an eye.Copy !req
270. The same thing may have been
happening here for centuries. Yeah.Copy !req
271. But it's a big house, and we don't
know how much time we might have.Copy !req
272. All right, but don't take
any unnecessary risks.Copy !req
273. Hey, there's nothing to worry
about,Copy !req
274. we all know Luke is the loose cannon
in the gang.
I'll check through the house.Copy !req
275. Yes, have a look around,
but be careful.Copy !req
276. OK. The study.Copy !req
277. Always a good place for clues.Copy !req
278. This place doesn't look like
it's been touched since
the last people disappeared.Copy !req
279. Yeah. Just be careful. Around here I
wouldn't be surprised if there reallyCopy !req
280. was a skeleton in the cupboard.Copy !req
281. Oh, jumping at shadows, now.Copy !req
282. Please, you must leave here.Copy !req
283. You're Lord Marchwood's children.
But you can't be.Copy !req
284. We want our father. Your father?Copy !req
285. He keeps us from him. Who does?
You must leave the houseCopy !req
286. before he comes for you,
all of you.Copy !req
287. Who? Who will come?
Was it you that opened the book?Copy !req
288. Were you trying to warn us
about Erasmus Darkening?Copy !req
289. He will take you all,
you will never leave.Copy !req
290. Don't go. I want to help you!Copy !req
291. Clyde, look at this. Someone wasCopy !req
292. researching the house and
the people that disappeared.Copy !req
293. It didn't do them much good,
did it? They still all disappeared.Copy !req
294. Look, this list goes
all the way back to 1655,Copy !req
295. Lord Marchwood and his children.Copy !req
296. And your friend Erasmus Darkening.Copy !req
297. I am unable to find any historical
records of Erasmus Darkening.Copy !req
298. But Marchwood's household accounts
prove he existed.Copy !req
299. Stories that Darkening was
responsible for disappearancesCopy !req
300. from local villages are
impossible to substantiate.Copy !req
301. Perhaps the answer lies
in the secret passage.Copy !req
302. Did you say secret passage? Mm-hm.Copy !req
303. As in whoever wrote that went looking
down it and maybe never came back.Copy !req
304. We should show this to Sarah Jane.Copy !req
305. Oh, no, wait, wait, wait. What is it?Copy !req
306. It's a list of the secret passages.Copy !req
307. Well, guess what?Copy !req
308. There's one in Toby's control room.Copy !req
309. Hello? Is there anybody out here?Copy !req
310. Whoever you are, I'm not
here to hurt you. I promise.Copy !req
311. Save yourself, my lady!
Get thee to the Netherworld!Copy !req
312. Hello?Copy !req
313. When me and Luke were being held
prisoner by those nutty Gorgon nunsCopy !req
314. he got us out by opening
a secret passageway.Copy !req
315. It's just a question of finding
a panel or something to press.Copy !req
316. Hey presto!Copy !req
317. I think we've hit a brick wall.Copy !req
318. Now that's magic.Copy !req
319. It looks pretty dark down there.
Yeah.Copy !req
320. Never leave home without one.Copy !req
321. Especially if you're going somewhere
with Sarah Jane Smith. You coming?Copy !req
322. Well, someone's got to hold
your hand haven't they? Go on.Copy !req
323. Couldn't
you have brought a bigger torch?Copy !req
324. What and spoil the look of my jacket?Copy !req
325. I'm not just an action hero,
you know. I am a style icon.Copy !req
326. Yeah. Yeah.Copy !req
327. Whoa! Very Spiderman!Copy !req
328. Come on.Copy !req
329. It's all right, Toby. It's only me.
Are you all right, Miss Smith?Copy !req
330. I'm not sure.Copy !req
331. Well, they do exist, Miss Smith.Copy !req
332. And we could be on the verge
of something so enormous here.Copy !req
333. Is that why you're so jumpy?Copy !req
334. Oh, I'm not jumpy, I'm excited.Copy !req
335. This could be the scientific
discovery of all time.Copy !req
336. The ultimate question answered.Copy !req
337. Is there life after death?Copy !req
338. And that would mean you could
prove yourself to your father?Copy !req
339. I'm presuming that he doesn't
approve of your area of research.Copy !req
340. Science has a very short-sighted
view of the paranormal.Copy !req
341. For a good reason. There is nothing
scientific about ignoring phenomenaCopy !req
342. just because it doesn't fit in with
your view of the universe, Miss
Smith.Copy !req
343. Toby, my view of
the universe is very detailedCopy !req
344. and I understand humanity's need to
believe in some sort of afterlife,Copy !req
345. but whatever is happening here,
ghosts do not exist.Copy !req
346. Well, I have those EMF
readings for you. Darkening!Copy !req
347. Where?Copy !req
348. He's gone.Copy !req
349. Are you sure
you don't believe in ghosts?Copy !req
350. Look at this place.Copy !req
351. I take it all back.Copy !req
352. Everything else...
that was not creepy.Copy !req
353. This place,Copy !req
354. this is creepy.
This is Creepsville, Transylvania.Copy !req
355. Look at this stuff.Copy !req
356. This is Hogwarts Tim Burton Style.Copy !req
357. It's Harry Potter
Has A Close Shave Off Sweeney Todd.Copy !req
358. Clyde, do you know where we are?Copy !req
359. Well, it isn't Santa's workshop.Copy !req
360. According to the legend,
Erasmus Darkening spent two yearsCopy !req
361. working in a secret chamber beneath
Ashen Hill Manor. This is it.Copy !req
362. It's all for real.Copy !req
363. He hasn't been around in a while.Copy !req
364. Maybe this is the reason
for whatever's going on here.Copy !req
365. If this part of the legend is true.
Then maybe he really did make thoseCopy !req
366. two kids disappear.
And Professor Rivers?Copy !req
367. Rani, this guy lived
hundreds of years ago.Copy !req
368. And I know what I saw in the
pavilion. It was him. Darkening.Copy !req
369. Well, I have to admit it,Copy !req
370. I've seen some weird stuff,Copy !req
371. but there's weird and then there's...Copy !req
372. .. this place.Copy !req
373. What was I saying again?Copy !req
374. It's like electronics but
from hundreds of years ago.Copy !req
375. And it's still working.Copy !req
376. Who's there?Copy !req
377. Welcome to my dominion.Copy !req
378. My halls of granite.Copy !req
379. You crossed my threshold of your
own free will and now by my will,Copy !req
380. you shall stay.Copy !req
381. For all eternity.Copy !req
382. Release us from this purgatory.Copy !req
383. Whatever is going on in this house
is far more dangerous
than a haunting.Copy !req
384. Get down!Copy !req
385. What was that?
The poltergeist activity.Copy !req
386. I think it's following us!
It doesn't matter what you shut out,Copy !req
387. you never know what you're
locking yourself in with.Copy !req