Abandoned But Not Empty, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

From the boarded-up wards of an abandoned Long Island asylum to the fog-shrouded decks of the RMS Queen Mary, urban-explorer-turned-ghost-hunter James Edward Garcia has made a career out of knocking on doors the living would rather keep shut. Raised in a household where Santería rituals and disembodied voices were part of everyday life, James learned early that the dead are rarely silent. Decades later, his camera, EVP recorders, and iron nerves have carried him into some of America’s most notorious haunts—including Hales Bar Dam—earning him chilling evidence … and a few unwanted attachments. Why risk oppression for another photograph in the dark? Join us as James reveals the lure of forgotten spaces, the price of pushing boundaries, and the moments that keep him coming back. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to part two of our interview with James Edward Garcia about haunted, abandoned locations.
0:08.4	If it can be pinpointed, if it is a residential location or a smaller area, where you know who it is who's speaking, and there are the living around who are relatives who are still alive. That's one thing to be able to communicate,
0:22.1	hey, here's some interesting information that pertains to someone who is related to you,
0:27.1	versus in a giant location where you may not know who this voice is, what their message is,
0:32.1	or who needs to know about it, if anyone. If anyone alive is still, you know, even would have any recognition of that.
0:40.4	Tell me more about some of the locations that you've gone to,
0:44.6	some of the most haunted in your opinion that you visited
0:50.0	that really stood out to you as being super hot spots of activity.
0:55.6	Well, there's definitely a lot of them and, you know, there's some that are so scary because of the fact that I'm going to a place that I'm going to trespassing because that's what I was doing in asylums and whatnot.
1:09.7	There's big fortresses, and they're so creepy and I've got
1:12.9	the factor I could get caught being there. It could be somebody in there that's homeless
1:16.9	or a drug addict and you know my life could be in danger. You got the elements of animals
1:21.7	and of things decaying coming down you can fall through a structure. So that makes it that much
1:27.2	more creepy and scary to me.
1:29.7	Putting aside just saying just straight out haunting stuff, I know not too long ago, I did
1:36.6	investigation, well, it's 2018 now, like the summer of, late summer, a Hells Bar Dam
1:42.6	and I saw you had done an episode on that i don't know you spoke
1:46.1	with but i had done that with my wife and i was surprised because going there i thought eh you know
1:52.5	it's hells bar it's a dam and yeah okay it's not that creepy as this one structure is still up
1:58.4	there and you know it has a few other spots within it um a lot of it's torn down and it's a dam sure i have a building but it was i was surprised it definitely
2:11.3	turned my eyes to like wow this place has got stuff going on it was very active for me and my wife
2:17.2	and we
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