Today on The Grave Talks, haunted abandoned locations.

From a young age, James Edward Garcia had a fascination with the paranormal, from witnessing his grandmother

practicing Santeria to hearing voices and witnessing objects moving. The supernatural was a fact

of life for James. As he grew older, James decided to take his interest and understanding

of the undead to a new level by personally investigating and

documenting locations that the living forgot. From the Queen Mary to the Hales Bar Dam to an

abandoned asylum in Long Island, James has documented and investigated ghosts all over the country.

He's also suffered oppression and attachments

while visiting locations infested with spirits.

What continues to draw James back to the physical homes of the dead?

Paranormal started, well, very young,

and mostly, I want to say, influence my grandmother,

my mother's mother.

She would tell me these stories from her own experiences.

And she'd tell my brothers and sisters as well, but there were times I was the only one hanging out.

Let me just turn this off.

That was not an EVP for anyone playing along at home. Yes, that was not a ghost phone

ringing. But, um, so she would tell the stories and I was so fascinated. There was times it was just me.

I would just hang out with her because I couldn't get enough of it. So she had these stories,

a lot of it from Cuba. She was originally from China, but as a young kid,

her father migrated over to Cuba.

And so she grew up mostly there and witnessed things that these,

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