Vault: This nightclub is extremely haunted. They were touched!

Summary

The Bert Show: Vault — "This Nightclub Is Extremely Haunted. They Were Touched!"

Date: May 7, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this spine-tingling episode, The Bert Show team dives into a paranormal investigation of an old Atlanta nightclub known as “The Compound,” which is reportedly haunted. Led by the host—acting as lead investigator—the cast retells their terrifying nighttime exploration, sharing incredible stories of physical and audible encounters with the supernatural. From mysterious scratches and physical touches to chilling audio evidence, this episode offers listeners an immersive, unsettling glimpse into a real-life ghost hunt where even the skeptics leave convinced.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Setting the Scene: Why Investigate the Compound?

• Host’s Curiosity and Skepticism: The episode opens with the host expressing a desire to understand what exactly “these things” are and questioning the authenticity of physical hauntings. The group initially expected a standard ghost hunt, not anticipating anything particularly dangerous.

  • “Up until this investigation, I experienced anything personally where I really felt like my safety was in danger… This investigation really… threw me off for about 48 hours.” (01:14)

• Physical Hauntings: Multiple team members experienced direct, physical interactions—including being touched, scratched, kicked, and more.

  • "I was actually scratched. I was kicked. Cappy... had his ear pulled. My brother had his butt grabbed..." (01:39)

Background & History of the Compound

• Past Lives of the Building: The hosts explore the building’s layered history.

  • “The building itself… that’s where the headstone factory was. Then… a building right next door… is where the slaughterhouse actually used to be."
  • The group splits up to cover both "compound" and "slaughterhouse" areas due to their reputation for hauntings. (03:13)

• Discovery of a Mysterious Basement:

  • The investigation team stumbles upon a locked door in the slaughterhouse area, leading to a previously unknown basement even the club’s marketing director had never explored.
  • “We open it up, and there’s just… this dark basement we didn’t know was there. And come to find out, Cappy didn’t even know that it was there.” (04:12)

The Investigation & Chilling Experiences

• Atmosphere and Energy Shift:

  • The basement sets the stage for the most intense activity, plunging the group into complete darkness.
  • “Within the first 45 seconds of us… turning the lights off, the tenseness in the room started to increase.” (04:55)

• Sensory Descriptions:

  • Absolute pitch-black conditions: “You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. There’s building materials all over the place down there… toilets, doors… just thrown.” (05:18)
  • The host admits, despite years of investigations, this was the first time he refused to go anywhere alone due to feeling unsafe. “I truly feel like my safety would be in jeopardy if I went down there by myself.” (05:55)

Audible Evidence and EVPs

• Multiple Spooky Recordings:

  • The group captured disembodied voices and noises both live and on playback, referencing numerous specific incidents.
  • “We all… heard this woman’s voice that says, ‘come in here.’" (07:37)
  • A little girl’s scream is heard after the group asked if any spirit could scream. “All of us clearly hear a little girl scream somewhere, probably about 30ft behind us.” (09:09)
  • When asked if the ghosts were Civil War soldiers, a faint female voice responds, “my uncle” or “soldier” (10:00).

• Direct Physical Response:

  • The spirits often responded physically or audibly when prompted, such as tapping noises when asked.
    • “Albert asks… to make a noise. You hear three taps. And then we say, do it again. And then another two taps.” (11:15)

• Disturbing Sound (“The Grudge” Reference):

  • The host describes capturing a growling/clicking noise identical to the ghost in the horror movie "The Grudge."
    • “We caught the exact same noise… the ghost from The Grudge.” (11:40)
    • “It was right in front of us… all of us had to go home and change our underwear. It was one of those nights.” (12:18)

Physical Encounters Escalate

• Being Scratched and Kicked:
  • The host details a burning sensation, later identified as two 6-inch-long claw marks on his forearm:
    • “I had two distinct claw marks about 6 inches long… and we’ve got pictures of it.” (13:13)
  • Later, while sitting in total darkness, the host is kicked by what felt like a cold, leather work boot:
    • “I felt the cold leather of a physical boot, like a work boot, kick my hand. My hand slung around… I scream bloody frickin’ murder… I started hyperventilating. That was about to vomit. It was the most sickening experience I’ve ever had.” (14:01–14:32)
    • “What did it feel like?” “It felt like somebody wearing a pair of army boots kicked the side of my hand.” (15:10)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Reality of the Experience:

  • “None of this is made up. We promise you.” – Co-host/Paranormal Expert (02:36)
  • "I would not put my credibility on the line for a marketing ploy... My God, I had no idea what I was walking into." – Host (02:48)

• Physical Intensity Admitted:

  • "I've never run out of one of the last ones that we're gonna play for you. Literally, I run out of this place screaming like a little schoolgirl." – Host (05:55)
  • "I'm running out. I'm tackling whoever is in front of me so I can get the hell out of this room." – Host (14:22)
  • "Hey, man. Every man for himself at that point." – Host, laughing about abandoning the group after being kicked (14:32)

• Paranormal Humor:

  • "Just tell the ghost, good touch, bad touch..." – Listener/Guest (02:25)
  • "Just so you know, Big Wicked, there is no bad touch." – Guest/Commentator (02:33)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:14] — Host reflects on disbelief in physical hauntings, discusses physical attacks during investigation
• [03:06] — History and layout of Compound and the slaughterhouse
• [04:12] — Discovery of hidden, locked basement and surge in paranormal activity
• [05:18] — Descriptions of the basement’s eerie, pitch-black setting
• [05:55] — Host breaks precedent: refuses to go anywhere alone, describes terror
• [07:37] — First significant EVP: Disembodied woman’s voice saying “come in here”
• [09:09] — Little girl’s scream is audibly heard by entire team
• [10:00] — EVP possibly referencing Civil War: “my uncle” or “soldier”
• [11:15] — Spirits respond with tapping noises; group reacts live
• [11:40] — Disturbing "Grudge"-like click/growl captured in basement
• [13:00] — Host is scratched with unexplained claw marks
• [14:01] — Host is kicked while sitting in pitch dark, describes visceral terror and aftermath

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Final Thoughts

This episode delivers authentic, hair-raising storytelling paired with the group’s signature humor. The level of physical and audible paranormal activity described is extraordinary, taking even experienced investigators far beyond their comfort zones. The team’s blend of skepticism, candor, and outright fear offers listeners a vivid, immersive account—sure to intrigue both believers and skeptics. The story continues in a promised part two, with more audio and revelations still to come.

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For listeners interested in evidence:

• Photos of the injuries sustained and audio clips mentioned are said to be available on The Bert Show’s website.
• Stay tuned for the follow-up episode for even more paranormal findings!

Transcript

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[Lead Investigator / Host]

The Bird show. The main thing that I want to try and figure out is, you know, before I even see him, is what are you? What are these things? We experienced them all over the place. And, you know, up until this point, I really did not think that these things could physically attack you. I had heard the stories, seen the movies, all that stuff. And really, up and up until this investigation, I experienced anything personally where I really felt like my safety was in danger. And this investigation, really, it threw me off for about 48 hours trying to put my hands around what in the world could have happened in this building that would have caused the amount of audible activity that we had as well as the physical activity that we had? I'm not the only person that was touched. I was actually scratched. I was kicked. Cappy, the marketing director for the place, he had his ear pulled. My brother had his butt grabbed while we were there. I mean, it was an extremely physical event, and nothing like that has ever happened with us before, so.

[Co-host / Interviewer]

And you guys weren't on the dance floor with the DJ Stone?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

None of that stuff. None of that stuff. No. Albert was walking up into the VIP room when he got his butt grabbed. So Y' all, watch out. Whatever you guys are going through exactly,

[Listener / Guest]

just tell the ghost, good touch, bad

[Co-host / Interviewer]

touched guys are going to be grabbing butts and be like, one me.

[Guest / Commentator]

Just so you know, big Wicked, there is no bad touch.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

That's true.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

That's true.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

And I know you guys are skeptical a lot, and I would be also. And some of you guys might be thinking, look, this is just an easy way for them to talk about the big Wicked, because it's that compound, and this is where the hunt is. None of this is made up. We promise you.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

I would not put my. I would not put my credibility on the line for a marketing ploy. I went there thinking, you know, if there's something there, cool. It might be cool to have everybody there in a true haunted place for the. For the. For the party. But, my God, I had no idea what I was walking into. It was out of this world. It really was.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

What is the history of Compound? Like, we heard earlier that it was a slaughterhouse, and then we heard that they used to make tombstones there.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

The building itself, wherever the party actually is, that's where the headstone factory was. We did catch activity out of Compound itself. Then they also have a building right next door to it that's actually just a warehouse. They use it for storage, things like that. And that is where the slaughterhouse actually used to be. And it is dark, and it is creepy in that slaughterhouse. And that was my favorite. Instantly coming up, I'm attracted to the darkest, creepiest spot in the entire building, and it was the slaughterhouse. So we kind of broke up into teams. Half the team went into compound. Half of us went into the slaughterhouse. My team actually started off in compound, and then we went to the slaughterhouse after maybe about an hour afterwards. So while we went into the slaughterhouse, we came across a door, and this door was padlocked. I mean, it was locked.

[Listener / Guest]

I feel like a little kid with my legs crossed. Like, I'm listening in class because I'm.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

So this door was locked, and we had. We just. Something was telling us we got to get inside this door. So we finally jimmied the door open to get in, and we open it up, and there's just, boom, this dark basement that we didn't know was there. And come to find out, Cappy didn't even know that it was there. The marketing director, he's like, dude, I've never been down here before. I didn't even know this place had a basement. So we went down there, and the activity just. It Blew up instantly as soon as we were down there. And the amount of activity, the audible activity was literally when I was going back. It's about a 45 minute stretch of the most crazy paranormal activity I've ever. Every minute something was happening.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Could you feel like you and I have talked about this before last year when I spent the night in that haunted hotel, that I could feel an energy behind me when I was trying to sleep that would wake me up. When you started to walk down into that basement, could you feel that kind of energy?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Not at first, because you're going down with flashlights. Anytime you have light, it gives you that sense of comfort. But when the lights go off, that's kind of when your adrenaline starts pumping at that point. And it definitely got very heavy very quickly. Within the first 45 seconds of us kind of, you know, settling in and turning the lights off, the tenseness in the room started to increase. Wow. And I mean, it was.

[Co-host / Interviewer]

What did it look like down there?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Pitch black. You couldn't. There were literally no windows in the building or in the basement. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. There's building materials all over the place down there. I don't know where the building materials came from. Windows, doors, toilets, all kinds of stuff just all just kind of thrown down into the basement area. It's basically storage. And you know, the compound has owned this part, this building for the past six months.

[Guest / Commentator]

And they even use those toilets a couple years ago.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

There's plenty of them. So there are some nights that, you

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

know that I needed a bathroom so bad. It's downstairs in a dark room. I would have gone anyway.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Well, you're not going to catch me going down there alone. And normally I would go into any place by myself. I've never been in a situation where I wouldn't go into a place by myself. But down in this basement, I truly feel like my safety would be in jeopardy if I went down there by myself. No kidding. That bad? It was that bad. It was that intense. I have never run out of one of the last ones that we're gonna play for you. Literally, I run out of this place screaming like a little schoolgirl. And I'm horribly embarrassed that I'm gonna play this on air. You know, it is what it is. It's exactly what happened. And you can hear the terror in the voices of everybody that was there. That something crazy just happened. And I mean, first time ever I've run out of a room screaming.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Alright, let's go ahead.

[Co-host / Interviewer]

I'M sorry, one quick question. When we hear this audio, is this stuff that was on the playback, or is this. Did you hear audible things when you were in the basement?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Yes, while we were there. Really?

[Co-host / Interviewer]

This first one, I heard it. Because usually it's not until after, when you play back the audio, then you hear some of the whispers and the voices.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

But this is the 1% when you hear these things, and we heard them all night long. So when I say this is without a doubt the most wicked place I've ever been to. The big Wicked. You could not get a better fitting name for this. For this event. I mean, it is unbelievable.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

There are so many, like, really freaky ghosts, like, people that love this kind of thing, that I bet they could rent that place out for Halloween next year in the pitch dark and not do anything to it at all. And people want to spend the night.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Absolutely, yeah.

[Listener / Guest]

Just go sleep in the dark.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

All right, let's.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

We're gonna have to do this in two parts because there's so many clips to play for you guys. There were so much activity that I think we're gonna have to do it in two different parts here. So why don't we give them a taste with a couple, then we'll come back and we'll play all the really, really, really freaky stuff.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Sounds good. Now, keep in mind, all of this was captured during maybe three hours, but the majority of this happened in the last 45 minutes to an hour. All right, the first one that we caught, this one is just one of the. One of the many events that. That we actually heard while we were there. My brother Albert, if you guys have tuned in for a couple years, he's actually about to go to Afghanistan, so he definitely wanted to come in for one of these. He says, tap on something. Make a noise. Tap on something. And we all. All of us in the room heard this woman's voice that says, come in here. Tap on something. Holy. I had to cut it off right there at the end because it was going to be another bleep. There's a lot of these that unfortunately had absolute clear as day.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

She's there with you.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Oh, my God.

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[Co-host / Interviewer]

One more time.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Okay, so you'll hear. Once again, you'll hear his brother's voice, who I'm assuming doesn't get shook very easily because I've been on a couple of tours in the military.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

He's a police officer as well.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

And then you hear the woman's voice come in.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Something.

[Guest / Commentator]

Holy, in case you couldn't understand what they said? They said two for one. Well, drinks at the main bar.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

All right, now this next one. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. All of us, again, all of us heard this at the exact same time. Dreama, which, by the way, Dreama did such a great job over the past couple of months keeping everything running smoothly with the ghost hunters. But Dreama actually said, if you're in here, scream. So about 30, 45 seconds go by. No scream. And then all of us clearly hear a little girl scream somewhere, probably about 30ft behind us.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

So this is completely silent for you guys now? For almost a minute when this happens.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

I don't know about silence. I think we asked another question in between. And then we heard the scream. And all of us again, you'll hear us note the fact that we all heard the scream.

[Listener / Guest]

That was definitely, like, between you guys.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

There it is.

[Guest / Commentator]

That was a scream.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Let's hear it again.

[Listener / Guest]

That was definitely, like, between you guys.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

There it is. And like I said, that was about 45 seconds after she had just said, if, you know, can you scream as loud as you can for us?

[Listener / Guest]

That was definitely, like, between you guys.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

There it is.

[Listener / Guest]

And the freaky thing is that you say, can you scream as loud as you can? And that's how audible it is. Yeah, that distance away.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Oh, man. Now, this one's a little on the faint side. This one was actually captured in compound itself, obviously. Atlanta's got so much Civil War history to it. I asked if they were a Civil War soldier, and there's a little bit of a pause. So the first clip is kind of long because there's about five to six seconds of a pause. And then some girl or woman responds back, my uncle or soldier?

[Guest / Commentator]

One more time.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Yeah, no, I clipped it. So just. It's just to the my uncle part. So if you want to play the next one.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Okay, so this is now zoomed in on this one.

[Guest / Commentator]

It's really faint.

[Listener / Guest]

It is how you guys find this,

[Lead Investigator / Host]

you know, like, you just listen to the background. You. You got to be able to filter out what's actually being said and just listen to the background. So real quick, I'm going to keep moving on because I still got a couple more. This next one, Albert asks him to make a noise. You hear three taps. And then we say, do it again. And then another two taps. Make a sound. What? Do it again.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

I can hear the last part.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

It was responding back to us. And. And when we asked it to tap again, it definitely tapped again.

[Guest / Commentator]

How'd you ask him to do it again? Goes to make a sound. He does.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Shut the hell up. All right, now, have you guys seen the movie the Grudge? All right, they've got this. This ghost that comes down out of the closet. It makes this crazy clicking noise, like a growling clicking noise. Whatever this was from the garage was down in this basement because we caught the exact same noise of this. So those of you who've seen the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about. But it sounds just like the. The ghost from the Grudge.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Wow, you guys are freaking out.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

It was right in front of us. I mean, literally, like, in our face, whatever these noises were. Let's hear that again.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Is that Dreama? That's freaking out.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

No, that was Katie Rut. That was Katie Ruth Dream freaking out. But all of us had our. I mean, we all had to go home and change our underwear. It was one of those nights.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Let's hear that clicking again. And that couldn't be, like, an animal or something. Animal in the.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Right in front of us. It was in front of us. I mean, all of these noises, literally, except for the. The come in here. That one did sound like it was a little bit further away. All of the. Like I said I had.

[Listener / Guest]

And you heard them live.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Exactly. Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Co-host / Interviewer]

So, jeez.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

All right, I'm gonna have to skip over a couple of these here. I'm. I just want to go straight to the one I told you. I was personally attacked twice. One of them happened in a back storage room, actually, in compound itself. We're down in this dark, creepy area, and my arm just started burning. I, Like, I'd either been bitten by a spider, had run into poison ivy, something, and my arm just started burning.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

Isolated in one area.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

No, it's just kind of right on my forearm. And so we hit the flashlight on it. Really couldn't see a whole lot with the flashlight. And then when we went out to the parking lot, I had two distinct claw marks about 6 inches long that we're going. And we've got pictures of it. We're have that up on the website today after we get off the radio as well. But this next event I had. I don't get into personal feelings. Ooh, I feel this way. I feel that way. But something just kept telling me everybody wanted to leave after all these experiences. They were like, dude, let's just get out of here. Let's go. And I kept saying, no, we're gonna stay there. Something is gonna happen here. Well, I had something else.

[Guest / Commentator]

You mean something more.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Something really exciting was about to happen. So I just couldn't leave. So we all stuck around for a couple more minutes. I was sitting Indian style. Had my hands resting on my legs. Exactly.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

And this is in a dark room. So you're sitting on the floor and there's just a couple of candles around. You got a flashlight?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

No. It's pitch black. Pitch black. Not a bit of light. And out of nowhere, I felt the cold leather of a physical boot, like a work boot. Kick my hand. My hand slung around because it was kicked so hard. Hit Katie Ruth, who was standing right next to me, my recorder. Because I was sitting on the ground. My hand hits a recorder. I scream bloody frickin murder. I'm running out. I'm tackling whoever is in front of me so I can get the hell out of this room. And everybody that's cool.

[Guest / Commentator]

You make everybody else stay. But you're the first man out.

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Hey, man. Everybody. Every man for himself at that point. So. But it was. I started hyperventilating. I couldn't breathe. That was about to vomit. It was the most sickening experience I've ever had my entire life. Of what we're about to play now. We didn't catch any EVPs, but you've got to hear the terror in all of our voices. And this was. You hear me say, I'm done. I am done. I have no. What?

[Co-host / Interviewer]

What?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

Something just kicked my hand. Something just kicked my hand. And the whole way you hear me

[Listener / Guest]

going, what did it feel like?

[Lead Investigator / Host]

It felt like somebody wearing a pair of army boots kicked the side of my hand. And it was right on the pinky, like the ball. The. The side of your hand. And literally it was so hard that my arm slung around and hit Katie Ruth, who was standing up right next to me. It was the realest experience because it was physical. I felt the coldness of a leather boot on my hand. I mean, it was. It was unbelievable. I could not. There's no way I could have gotten back down there now. Now I'm dying to go back down. Now that I've calmed down and changed my underwear. I can't wait to go back. And we are absolutely going back to find out what. What else we can get out of here.

[Co-host / Paranormal Expert]

The bird show.