Bobby Mackey's: Chapter Two

"You happy to be back?" Zak said with a half smile.

Nick and Aaron held their cameras towards him as we stood in the basement of Bobby Mackey's. I stood behind them with an eerie feeling. Everything about this place made me feel on edge as I constantly looked around me, half expecting to see someone standing. When Zak first told Nick and Aaron that I was joining them on this investigation, they got into an argument. Nick threw in the argument about his wife never joining them and Aaron's love life was affected, but, in the end, they accepted the idea with frowns on their faces.

Aaron looked at Nick and Zak with a half smile on his face. "No, I really hate you guys for making me come back here. This place is no good." He looked between both of them before looking around him.

I stayed quiet behind them, pretending that I wasn't there as Zak talked into the camera. He introduced how this place was not only one of the most terrifying places to investigate but it was the only place that things had followed them home. As Aaron turned the camera to Nick, I stepped behind in to make sure I stayed out of the shot.

"I woke up in the middle of the night and I heard pots and pans banging around in my kitchen and I heard the faucet being filled up." Nick's eyes wondered back and forth from Zak to the camera, looking almost scared to talk about it.

"And this was after our investigation?" Zak interrupted.

Nick nodded. "I seriously thought someone broke into my house and basically checked everywhere and there was nothing."

Zak swallowed hard and both cameras were back on him. "Two weeks after I got home, my girlfriend," he looked at me and Aaron turned the camera to me long enough for me to give him a brief smile,  "had a rosary ripped off her neck, taken fifty yards down my hallway, and placed in my guest bedroom with the door shut."

I shuddered as the memory came back to me and I reached up and gripped my rosary tightly. Chills shot through my body as Zak's words rang in my ears. I remember that day like it was yesterday. We were sitting in our bedroom, relaxing with a book and light conversation. All of a sudden, an icy breeze ran through my body as if someone had just opened the window on a winter's day. But, all the windows were shut. The rosary began to pull on my neck and sharp pains shot through my neck. It was yanked off my neck and was taken down the hall. Zak's eyes widened with eagerness and fear and ran down the hall after it. I stayed in the room as if I was glued to the bed. My entire body shook, with both fear and chills, as my breath was shallow and quick. The rosary was ripped off my neck so hard there was a ring around my neck.

That rosary has been in my family for more than a hundred and fifty years. My grandmother had given it to me when I turned eighteen. But, since that day, I was cautious about wearing it.

He walked closer to Aaron. "Now I know you, you are one of my very good friends. I'm going to ask you a question I already know but I want them to know," he points to the camera, "Do you think that investigating Bobby Mackey's Music World was a factor in ruining your marriage?"

Aaron sighed. "I believe it's an eighty percent fact, yeah. We had hauntings; me and my ex-wife shared the same dream about Bobby Mackey. He'd be at my window knocking 'cause he couldn't get in. When I went on the road, it would torment her. So many nightmares, so many dreams, and yeah ya know we are best friends but we had to cut it off cause whatever haunts me which is from Bob Mackey's had an effect on her."

Zak stepped away from Aaron and started looking around the room. He lifted his arms and seemed to stare at the ceiling. "You guys followed us home, I know you did, and you followed our guests' home."



They interviewed people about their experiences in Bobby Mackey's. All of them had joined them on their investigation back in 2009.

The first person they talked to was Nancy Waggoner. She was short woman with blonde hair and dark roots. Her eyes were blue and she batted her eyelashes when Zak asked her questions. Jealousy and anger began to boil inside me as I took a long, deep breathe. I clenched my fists, digging my nails into palms. Zak was loyal, I knew that, and he would never cheat on me. He loved me more than anything and he often told me that. But, I couldn't help feel a bit protective when some of the girls he interviewed would flirt with him.

During the 2009 investigation, Nancy and Zak were the only ones who saw the shadowy figure that looked like a creature back in the storage room. As Zak conducted his interview, I looked around the storage room. I couldn't see how a figure or creature could walk around in here without making some kind of noise. There was so much junk in here, wooden boards, tables and chairs stacked up, creates, there was no way. I was suddenly scanning through everything once Zak told the camera that, along with the shadowy creature, he also saw ember colored eyes. I was half expecting to see this black creature.

"Now, did something happen to you after left Bobby Mackey's?" Zak asked, his arms folded across his chest.

Nancy nodded. "That night, I went back to my hotel and went to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night in a state of terror. I didn't have any dreams. There was something in my room."

"Something followed you home?"

"Yes," she nodded, her voice was shaky.


The next person they interviewed was Mike Haberman. He looked like he was just above six feet with short brown hair and a beard. He and Zak sat in the dining room next to laptop on the wooden table. His expression made me think he wasn't happy to be back here, like he was afraid to tell us what happened. He sat perfectly still with his arms folded on the table.

The wooden wall behind him had a slant to it. It was made up of rectangular wooden boards and had a wooden ceiling above it. Everything seemed to be made out of wood. A single light bulb hung above the table.

"So, what happened to you after you left Bobby Mackey's?" Zak asked as he leaned over the table, his index and middle finger resting against his chin.

Mike sighed. "For about a month I didn't sleep right. It was one of those sleeps where you just got to sleep. I was uneasy and I kept feeling something in my room, I kept hearing my name being called."

I stared at Mike and saw an uneasy look on his face. He gave a grin to Zak but I could see his eyes shoot around the room as if he was looking for something. I kept looking over my shoulders after seeing him scan the room to see if there was really someone standing with us.


After Mike, Zak interviewed the caretaker Matt Coates. He was the one that was going to lock us in Bobby Mackey's later tonight.

"So, what are some of the stuff you remember?"

Mike shifted his weight from one foot to the other. He was just about as tall as Zak with his blue uniform on and a balding head. What hair he had left was shaved and dark. He was a bit overweight in a teddy bear kind of way. "I remember the Bishop getting the EVP knocked out of his hand.

Zak nodded. "I remember how you and I started feeling sick, dread, and sorrow."

"I remember how I looking around the room and remember that I wanted to kill everyone."

Zak nodded. "The Bishop had put holy water on my forehead and it felt like my head was on fire."

He grabbed a dark, silver pendant from under his uniform, polo shirt. "The bishop gave me this pendant. As soon as I put it on, it started to burn. I told the bishop and he said that's good. You was board line possessed."

"So, you've been working here for six years?" Zak shifted his weight from foot to foot. "Why?"

Mike shrugged. "Something just keeps drawing me back here. No matter how many times I turn in my keys, I always seem to come back the next day."


The final guest we interviewed was Tara Bohren. She was one of the one hundred guests that investigated back in 2009. She is also The Ghost Adventures Crew Coordinator. She seemed hesitant about talking to the cameras, her face showing a little bit of fear as she once again stood inside Mackey's.

"The spirit seemed to get personal with all of us," She spoke, keep her eyes away from the cameras.

During their investigation, a paranormal investigator Dave Shradder pulled out a device called the Hack Shack that draws out the spirit voice with the right noise. I remember the look on Zak's face when they went through the footage. His face turned pale white when the spirit called him Z-man, the nick name his father used to call him.

"Dave asked the spirits if they had a message for me," Tara continued. "And a little girl's voice came out of the Hack Shack saying, 'Mommy, mommy help!' and it sounded just like my daughter." Her face was white as she stared down at her feet.

When I learned from that investigation was that some spirits can mimic voices. At one point in their investigation, Nick and a couple of fans were upstairs. They can running down stairs to Zak after hearing a voice coming out of the hack shack that sounded like Zak's voice say, "Guys get me out of here now! Please!" There was a second recording was captured that was Zak's voice saying, "Guys be careful!"

Those voices seemed to really mess with Zak.



A bishop had joined them during their 2009 investigation named Bishop James Long. Back in that investigation, he did an exorcism but he was also attacked during an EVP session.

"The digital recorder was knocked out of my hand," he said as he sat in the dining room with Zak. "It honestly felt like sharp needles came across my hand." He rubbed the top of his hand.

"When we shined the flashlight on your hand, we have three deep scratches." Zak looked at the camera and the back to the Bishop. He turned back to the bishop. "The last time we were here, you put holy water on my forehead and it felt like it was on fire."

"That's because you were partially possessed." He placed his hands together. "A demonic oppression is a sense of obstruction in the body or mind, caused by a demonic spirit. They tend to go after your most emotional core and will pick at it to break you down. You can't beat up a demonic entity. It's more of a theological issue"

Zak turned to Aaron. "And that night they did that didn't they Aaron?"

"When we were in the basement," his eyes traveled from the bishop to Zak to Nick, who held the camera to him, before back to the bishop. "The voice coming out of the hack shack started saying family problems and then marriage problems and, at the time, my grandfather was really sick."

"The demonic entities are patient," the bishop looked at Zak. "They come out when they want to. You can provoke them and demand for them to come out. They don't work on your time. They work on their's."