Disclaimer: A bit of the dialogue in this chapter is taken from Season 3, episode 19 of Ghost Adventures, which aired originally on November 13, 2009. I took some [readable] transcript from

Some of the dialogue is altered by myself, for a few reasons. Sometimes I couldn't hear everything that was being said in the video, and sometimes the transcript seemed wrong or incomplete.

Chapter 1

"Aaron's Vlog! We're here in sunny-"

"Dude its hot-as-hell here." Zak interrupted.

"Aaron's vlog! We're here in hot-as-hell Venice." Aaron said cheerfully.

"On a boat!" Nick exclaimed.

"On a boat." Aaron and Zak repeated at the same time.

"So to recap..." Aaron started. "We're on a boat, in hot-as-hell Venice!" He pointed the camera at Zak, whom didn't even try and smile.

"This sucks." He mumbled as he tried to wipe the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief a fan had given him.

"It's very..." Aaron started.

"Humid." Zak finished. "But we're going to Poveglia Island." He said, sounding a bit enthused. "This is going to be one creepy lockdown."

"One of the best lockdowns." Nick said happily. "All that history, all those spirits."

"Plus, you know...we're on a boat." Aaron said. Nick and Zak mumbled in agreement. "Aaron's vlog, out!"

The next day they started on their journey to the island for the lockdown, and Aaron and Nick turned on their cameras to tape Zak talking about the island. With each word he said, however, Zak started to feel nervous, and the other two men noticed this by the way his voice was shaking. "There's an x in the sky guys, just like the x we put down for the 'x-cams'." He was staring at the clouds and Aaron peeked at him from behind the camera.

"It's okay bro, they're just clouds." He said trying to reassure Zak, and himself.

"No dude..." Zak said, glancing back at him, "It's like they knew we were coming..." his voice trailed off as he stared into Nick's camera, and mustered up all his strength to keep his voice from wavering. "The time has come guys, the first gunshot has been fired to mark the beginning of our battle on Poveglia.." Zak continued, but Aaron zoned out for the rest of the recording.

After this was finished, they climbed into the motorboat that would take them to Poveglia Island, but as soon as they were about to leave, Zak's shaky voice started again. "Uh...the motor just died. Hold on. Do I need to-" The boat driver interrupted him. "Yeah just pull it." Therefore, Zak did, a few times really, until he gave up.

"It's that curse they've been talking about." Nick spoke up.

"This is the fricking curse they've been talking about." Zak agreed. "This shit is unbelievable." He was out of breath by this time from all of the pulling. "Right now, what we're going to do...is I'm going to run down the dock, and I'm gonna find another boat, and I'm gonna find another driver. Okay?...Guys?"

"Alright." said Nick

"Hurry up" Aaron mumbled.

"Hold on." Zak said, and with that he was up and moving quickly to find another boat, while Aaron and Nick sat in the boat, laughing at the situation.

"Alright guys, listen-" Zak said as he was walking back.

"Wait wait wait!" Nick said, "The boat started up again!"

"We're back, let's go!" Aaron said happily as the boat drove off into the direction of the foreboding looking Poveglia Island.

When they finally pulled up near the island, Zak looked into Nick's camera. "You have reached your final destination...Hell." He said, sounding a bit worried. As they watched the boat drive away, they started mapping out where they would put the x-cams, finally settling upon the hospital, the chapel, bell tower, the long hallway, and the bridge overlooking the plague field. After they'd set up their equipment Zak looked at Nick. "We don't even know what we're up against, there are no other paranormal investigators to talk to." Nick nodded. They continued to walk through the tall grass and bushes to reach the building, growing more apprehensive the closer they got. Once inside they started asking questions aloud to see what sort of replies they'd get, they'd done this so many times now that the questions came easily, they'd gone through this so many times that the darkness didn't bother them anymore.

They'd began using the EMF detector, to measure the electro-magnetic fields around them to see if anything seemed out of place; hoping they'd get something out of the ordinary. Aaron looked around the room through his LCD screen on the video camera he was carrying, trying to get a sense of his surroundings. Nick held up his digital voice recorder, and looked into Aaron's camera. "So I'm rolling on my digital recorder, trying to capture EVPs, or electronic voice phenomena's, and this device I'm holding will capture what we can't hear with our own ears." he announced, he was use to having to dumb it down for the Ghost Adventures viewers.

"Now," Zak started, "We should speak in Italian." this was Venice, Italy after all.

"Yes." Nick replied.

"We've uh-" Zak started, but was soon interrupted by Aaron.

"Whoa, whoa!" He gasped, "Did you hear that?" he and Zak asked at nearly the same time, though Zak was a bit louder.

"Yes!" Nick exclaimed, meaning they'd all heard the strange voice at once. About this time, they'd heard it again. Aaron shuddered. Though they hadn't been able to understand what it said, it had creeped him out.

"Something's in this hallway bro, no joke. I keep hearing something in there." He whispered, barely able to speak.

"All right." Zak said, "Let's go in here." So the three of them made their way into a room on the left.

Once they'd entered the room, Zak looked into Aaron's camera. Aaron was still shaking, but trying to hold still, the air in the room was cold on his skin, and he almost couldn't stand it.

"We learned that there were a lot of murderers, and hardcore convicts that were killed over here." He said. "This is for once I ask myself if I should actually taunt here or not." He was use to doing so, but had always made sure to only taunt evil or bad spirits. He thought about it a moment. "I'm fifty-fifty on that answer." He said quietly. Aaron snickered, it didn't seem like Zak to not taunt a murderous spirit.

"Voglio che mi attack che!" Zak yelled out, which he was told meant I want you to harm me!

"Se le un asesino?" Nick asked in Spanish, meaning Are you a murderer? He was starting to feel the cold as well. Suddenly the three of them heard a disembodied voice, female sounding, as though it were hurt.

Zak gasped. "Did you hear that?"

"Yeah, I heard that." Aaron said, sounding surprised, and feeling creeped out once again.

"Turn around, turn around! Watch out! Watch out!" Zak said, he held his arm outstretched behind him, letting Aaron and Nick know to stay behind. With his camera pointing to the darkness before him, Zak started down the hallway, with a shuddering breath.

"Se le un asesino?" Nick asked again, from behind Aaron.

Further down the hallway, Zak positioned his EMF detector in front of his camera so he could read it on the LCD screen. "I'm getting a base of a two." He said, before asking "C'è qualcuno qui?" which translated to Is anyone here? He continued to watch the EMF detector, which had climbed higher. "Guys I'm up to a three and a half." He mumbled.

"What?" Aaron asked loudly.

"Three and a half?" Nick asked, sounding just as surprised as Aaron.

"Yeah." Zak replied to them both.

"What the fu-" Aaron said, stopping mid-curse word.

"Three and a half right now." Zak muttered.

"And there is no electricity whatsoever in this whole place." Nick said into Aaron's camera.

"The whole island." Aaron added.
"So there's no explanation for a spike like that." Nick continued.

"Are you coming at me?" Zak asked aloud, hoping to get some sort of response.

"Oh man I don't feel good in here," Aaron said, as a bad feeling washed over him.

"Do you feel kind of like your equilibrium's thrown off?" Nick asked him. "Kind of sick?"

"What's that?" Aaron asked.

"Do you feel kind of like your equilibrium's thrown off?" Nick repeated, "Like, sick?"

"No, I feel fine." Aaron replied.

After they had walked a bit further, Nick called out. "Uso la mia energia." meaning Use my energy. In the distance he could hear another voice, sounding either in pain or in distress. He gasped. "Did you just hear that?" He asked Aaron, whom replied that no, he had not. Nick turned his camera on Zak. "You didn't h- Zak?" he asked.

"What?" Zak replied, sounding as though he had no energy whatsoever.

"W-w-whats the matter? What's the matter?" Nick said, sounding genuinely concerned for his friend. Zak stared straight ahead at the wall in front of him.

"I don't know, something feels weird." He said, still sounding completely drained of any energy.

"I felt like just weird man." Zak said, leaning up against the wall for support.

"No, I said use my energy and then all of a sudden your energy was drawn from your body at that exact moment." Nick said, pointing at Zak. "And then at the same time I just heard that weird voice."

"It's using my energy." Zak said, still sounding drained, and leaning against the wall. He looked sick, but Aaron didn't mention that to him.

"Exactly!" Nick said sounding ecstatic. Suddenly the three of them heard a noise, Zak gasped.
"I hear footsteps bro." Aaron said calmly.

"Hold on, hold on, hold on!" Zak said, pressing a finger to his lips, he could feel his energy slowly coming back. He gasped again. "They're coming at us...they're coming at us!" He said in an excited whisper.

"They're walking towards us." Zak whispered, as Nick moved his camera to record whatever he could outside of a window that contained no glass. At the same time, Zak was recording down a long hallway, and Aaron was recording the both of them. He stayed silent. Suddenly he gasped as he heard a noise and felt an energy boost go through his body.

"Oh my god, shit, what the fuck? What the fuck?" Aaron yelled as he moved quickly from the spot he was standing in. Zak whirled around to make sure he was all right.

"Settle down, settle down." Zak said, trying to comfort him.

"Oh my God dude." Aaron said, sounding scared.

"It's okay!" Zak said, trying to reassure him.

"No, that's not okay man!" Aaron replied, "When that noise happened an energy boost when through my body, bro. Not fucking cool."

"What was the noise?" Zak asked calmly, trying to get his mind off of the energy that had gone through him.

"Don't know." Aaron said, not caring. "Dude something ran through my body, bro." Aaron said, still visibly shaken. "Just like at the Washoe." He said, remembering the Washoe Club investigation. Suddenly Nick's voice rang out. "Come here, look at this! It's a secret little room." He said excitedly, as he pointed his camera inside. Zak walked over to him and looked inside. "Let me see." He said quietly.

"Oh, my god. I'm getting light-headed big-time." Aaron said, as he peered through his camera.

"Yeah, me too." Nick said quietly.

"Equilibrium's thrown off." Zak muttered, while looking around the room. Aaron closed his eyes as he started to feel nauseous. "Dude." He said quietly, fearing he might be sick at any moment.
"Are you okay?" Nick asked, feeling the same way.

"No." Aaron answered, trying not to speak too much. "Hang on." He said bending over to try to make his head stay still. "I feel like-" He started.

"Nick weren't you saying in Italian, 'Come draw energy from us'?" Zak asked.

"Yes, it hit you Zak, and now it's hitting Aaron." Nick replied.

"I can't even stand up." Aaron said, still feeling sick.

Zak decided to use the device used for measuring temperature and electro-magnetic fields. Suddenly he started feeling warm. "Man," Nick started. "Zak right here-" Aaron interrupted him.

"Oh I'm freezing."

"No, no, right here, my equilibrium is thrown off. Like you feel dizzy" Nick continued.

"Yes!" Aaron exclaimed, glad someone understood how he felt.

"I just feel like I wanna fall over." Nick replied.

"Dude I'm feeling that too." Zak mentioned, feeling sick again.

"Yeah!" Nick said, "Do you feel it? Stand here." He pointed his camera at the device in Zak's hand. "Whoa twenty-two point two, guys!" He exclaimed. "I'm dizzy again I need to stop." Aaron muttered.

"Twenty-two point two?" Nick said again, sounding astonished.

"No no no, I can't." Aaron muttered, leaning his head against a wall. Suddenly the device went off, and Zak couldn't get it to turn back on, he glared at it through his camera. He could hear Nick and Aaron in the background excitedly talking about what had happened.

"Look at it, this doesn't even work anymore!" Nick yelled, staring at the device through his camera as well. "It just used all of our energy, and our equipments energy!"

"I'm gonna be sick." Aaron said. "I can't even hold my head up."

"Don't keep talking like that, man." Zak said calmly. "It's just...you gotta fight it."

"Okay let's just get out of this room." Aaron said, struggling to stand up even though he felt sick.

"Yeah they're feeding, they're using your energy and they're just feeding off of it." Nick tried to sound reassuring, but failed in his attempt.

Nick was pointing his camera down the hallway, as Zak and Aaron stood behind him. Zak started to feel extremely angry, and hatred came over him. He wasn't sure what it was, but he wasn't sure how to stop it either.