Dan Bell CUTTING/ROOM/FLOOR Ep. 35 : We’re Being Watched (Audio Commentary)

[Music] [Music] hey everyone this is Dan Bell and we are doing a little Cutting Room floor here for the we're being watched new video that was posted on the main Channel this shot right here in carne's point uh Brennan stood on the bed of the truck and filmed over the cab and I drove very slowly I just wanted a wide shot going into this carport right here where you would check in I had been to this area here several times um the video that I did where I went into one of the hotels uh an

abandoned hotel and we found that toilet seat sculpture that is actually this same place there was another hotel there that went out of business so this is the second hotel to go out of business there there somebody and this place went out of business recently now here's the prison given a little little preview here I was so worried that people were going to uh think that we put that candle there and the little weird alar I can assure you we did not somebody was in that room and heard us come in and they blocked the

door off there and then they were creeping around here's a shot of nework where the prison is and this Trestle bridge this video was a lot of fun to make even though I was extremely nervous the whole time it's been a while it's been a while since I've done this so it was kind of going back but it came back quickly it came back very quickly here's this cruddy Inn that we stayed at with the Naran on the counter now the reason we checked in here was we were quite tired and we wanted to do

the hotel at night and the hotel is right across the parking lot from this place so that's why we got a [Music] room and the room was I think it was like $50 or $60 I mean it was so cheap and um Brandon wanted to live stream on his channel it's bivo itsb V if you're interested to go over and subscribe to his channel he's trying to grow it now if you haven't seen this video I want you to go over to the main channel that this is Dan Bell Channel and watch this before you

watch the commentary this is not another dirty room by the way this was all shot with a with an iPhone 15 which is really a camera that I use more than any other camera it's just so convenient and easy the but this room was pretty bad it was uh the bed was surprisingly not that bad but there were roaches and it was just a filthy room it was it's grimy it had a grimy feel to it and um it's stunk think there's roaches at the other one very bad odor I'm telling you right now I

don't think we're going to see any roaches so here's I'm just looking for bed bugs because I really wanted to lay down in the bed and just get a nap before we did this uh here's a shot here of the outside of the the Hotel this was a red carpet in you can actually look it up it's still on Google I don't know if it says closed or temporar temporarily closed or if it's still listed as open but I can assure you it is most definitely closed thank you now this man came up to us

what he say or came up to Brennan and warned us that the police come through here so my my whole demeanor changed and I became anxious cuz I I just hate when police come I'm always like oh God and I'm in no shape to run you know I can't run from the police so I have to go up to them and explain what I'm doing and hope they don't uh give me a ticket or take me to jail yeah that's it's a pretty large hotel and very easy to get into as you can see the

door is right here was wide open and meting us was a big pile of orange I think it was vomit or something I don't know what that is on the ground it looks I think it was vomit what the hell is that I am so pleased with the uh return of videos on the main Channel now that uh I have been traveling again and filming new places um big trip coming up in January Ary oh Christ look Brenan and I are going to go on a road trip out to uh Nevada so we're going to

be covering a lot of ground and filming a lot of different uh videos hopefully some more hotels and motels my favorite thing to film I just I don't know what it is about Abandoned uh ins and motels and stuff I just I don't know I just really enjoy seeing them now my shotgun mic I forgot to charge it so the sound went directly to the camera oh yeah the mic on the camera is it's ridiculous so when it gets quiet the mic will increase its sound pickup so when I go in these places I am

always like cuz I'm just I'm freaking out man I mean it's just part of the the thing it's the more nervous I am the more I'm like cuz I'm I'm like having anxiety attack so the the sound of me breathing is on there now some people like it other people people really don't like it um I want to find a middle ground so I've been researching microphones that I can utilize perhaps miking us both up with a nice uh cardioid uh voice pickup mic that will cancel out background noise and then have a third mic

recording the atmosphere and then bring them all together and po post this attic was huge it's amazing that a place like this it can just be left I mean it just looks like they just up and left you look at this PL this is incredible and nothing's going to happen to this building it's going to sit there and continue to rot for years and years and then they'll finally get tired of it and they'll tear it down at this point you could bring this place back you could it would need some cleaning and um rearranging

and and updating cuz it's not terrible so far there's a few busted windows stuff like that but uh totally redoble but in another 6 months well it's hard to say I'll this refrigerator was awful it smelled like death like someone died in there when that smell hit me I just and the fridge was filled with maggots dead maggot carcasses there were hundreds of them just stuck all over the inside of the refrigerator that's why the kitchen [ __ ] stunk so bad it's coming out of that fridge that attic visit actually the the kitchen itself

I didn't do that until last cuz brandan said you should see the kitchen and I said oh the kitchen I said I just want to get out of here but we were filming here for a good probably 90 minutes 2 hours somewhere around there this is the uh an old bar that was in there I love these uh brass and green leather pairs they're so great so 80s one of the reasons I was so nervous is because there were Windows just surrounding this banquet room so I was afraid that uh if a cop did pull

into the lot across the street they would see our lights so I was just trying to be you know very cautious but out of all the videos I do this is my favorite I love doing videos like this and it's not a question of do I want to continue I do it's just a question of finding the places to film you know we we just locked out we had two great locations that were both very creepy and especially the prison the prison was horrid I I don't know how want to describe that prison it was

awful in there um I was I was def when I saw the candle and I heard someone there was definitely I at one point I heard footsteps somebody moving around up on the second floor and I said oh my god there are people in here I don't think it was one person I think it was a few people but I just don't understand why anyone didn't say hey or you know whatever here's an office here they had to just left everything it was incredible it just uh there was even uh change like money in some

of the drawers over $20 I took it all no I just Kidd no it's still there if you want to go get it red carpet in it looks like maybe they were trying to improve or bring the place back or something I don't know but it just didn't work I guess here we go outside to look at some of the exterior rooms oh [ __ ] there's a kitty the rooms were kind of surprising because um some were in really good shape I mean it just looked like you know they were ready you were ready

to check in these are all those little cards you put in the uh in the door handle the door in the lock so they know not to disturb you here we go into this here this room here which is uh a hot tub suite they had hot tub suits Scrappers had definitely been here cuz the walls were ripped out so they were in here uh taking stuff this tub here oh H well how romantic so I hadn't posted on the main channel for 10 months over 10 months Jesus and I can't believe these haven't been

to go back I mean I had a good you know I've been posting pretty regularly on the this on this channel this uh filming channel uh which you know got people people kind of back um from the dead um so they knew that the video was going on but in the next few weeks it'll it'll go up even more but uh 70,000 views isn't that bad considering it's been so long since I posted anything but the response to the video was so great I really really appreciate it I'm really glad you guys enjoyed it it

is a creepy video I mean it this is probably one of the creepiest videos I've done I could have done two videos honestly I had enough footage to do too but I really wanted to do both in one video and I I really really had kind of a struggle editing it I wanted it to be you know you see some videos where people just they don't really cut anything and you you know it gets boring and I definitely don't want videos like that I I don't want my audience you guys to be bored when you're

watching these I want you to be titillated and excited so when I cut this I cut it a few different ways before I settled on this but uh I am going to put additional footage up on patreon so hopefully get that done this week these old wrinkled ass dry tissues still in there those handprints down the see I had another experience with a handprint like that at uh that old Motel down in Pine Bluff Arkansas if you guys I don't remember the title of that video coffee pots it's uh there's like a handprint on one

of the columns look like blood or [ __ ] oh here it is right here what is this creepiest Motel Ever possible murder scene that's the name of that one I think that's probably true 1.1 million views well those were the days weren't [Music] they uh the dead Mall series will be back to too which I'm excited about but it won't be back until probably February maybe earlier I don't know I have no malls in my archive or no new malls that I could do so if I decide to go shoot something next month I

was thinking about shooting like a Christmas M Christmas video we'll see if I actually do it or not it smells good in here can't tell you how nice it smells smelled in this stairwell it smelled wonderful like like fresh cut coconuts or something it just it just smelled so nice very sweet Brennon with his wide eyes that's how Brennan get when he's freaking out his eyes are like wide open and then I'm having like a coronary event with uh breathing so I've learned to monitor sound again so I wear headphones when I do this which

is why when we got in this section of the pl of the uh Hotel I could hear people talking if I hadn't been wearing headphones I probably wouldn't have heard them but the mic on that camera is so sensitive and I really I didn't spend time sitting there to try and uh turn off the you know the uh automatic increase option I didn't do that so I didn't even look I was just like I'm still honestly I bought the camera I've used it five five times it's a brand new camera so I'm still learning the

menu and the you know but I never expected to use the mic on the camera but it actually sounds pretty good should we check the room out you can hear it here I mean you can hear everything it sounds it sounds really good so it's hard for me to be like well maybe I shouldn't get a mic and I should just use that and be aware of uh my anxiety level who knows obviously some people were hanging out in here that blue bed spread I don't know if that is uh busted someone brought that or

if that's the hotels it doesn't really match the other Decor in the other rooms that's also not a hotel I was thinking the same thing but it might it might be you know maybe they I I love how this looks the uh the camera is is fabulous it's a a Sony fx3 and have a beautiful uh what is it 16 to 35 uh lens on it and it's the uh the newer one so it's about it's so much lighter than the uh old one oh these damn Sirens I'm sorry I live in Baltimore so this

is an everyday occurrence when I'm especially when I'm recording I can never get just a period where there's no Sirens at all it never happens they did I was hella nervous down this hway because these doors were locked and whenever the doors are locked I think there's someone in there there's someone on the other side sure enough there were people in this building right yeah I think that man was in there hanging out and um oh and I forgot we actually saw another person walk by when we were outside but I didn't put it into

the video I don't know why I didn't include it well you'll see it uh you'll see the extra footage but a man just walks by he doesn't say hi or anything very strange I think we heard the knocks somebody was knocking on the on a door or something on a wall I don't know but I don't know if it was directed at us or if it was just somebody upstairs oh look at this shot so beautiful we got back to the place to pack up and there's these flickering fluorescent lights two of them and I

said oh this is perfect my segue into the uh nightmarish conditions of the prison this here is a abandoned housing project it's being torn down I'll have that video out hopefully on Friday um so the prison in nework is uh very easy to access as you can see there's just holes all around the whole property so you can just you can go in from different uh different points but very very unsettling when I walked in I was like I I don't know if I like this or not especially when I could see that there were

people in there sleeping like that that freaked me out a little bit Yeah there people living here I'm walking over all this garbage is this garbage and needles and is there anybody in there human excrement it's horrible I mean drug addiction is like I mean it really drags you down man to a place where like when do you hit bottom at this point when you're in a place like this I mean I I would be I'd be praying for a uh overdose I could not do this I just I don't know how someone could stay

here overnight with all the rodents and everything else that's in there forget it I mean it's just it's creepy place I was going through YouTube cuz I haven't really I I don't really watch YouTube I mean I W I love YouTube I love watching old videos like uh old TV shows and I've been watching a lot of UFO videos uh from uh the past you know from the 80s and 90s love those um but there's not many channels that I that I really I'm trying to think of a channel that I would tune into I

mean I watch um Adam the woo good friend of mine uh he's doing a whole series right now he's in Alaska and his videos have been so fascinating the last couple weeks and um I've been watching this every every morning and when Brennan live streams I watch him Jake proper people uh somebody s uh retail archaeology um so I do keep up with people that I know and whose work that I enjoy but I I really don't watch a lot of stuff so I just saw this I'm not going to say their names but um

I well I don't even know them I know that they've worked with uh Mutual uh acquaintances but I I don't know these people but what is this they all so if if say another Channel wanted this person it would be about ghosts and they would be jumping around and making those faces that looks like they're getting ready to blow somebody when they stick their lips out and they're like you know with the the eyebrows go up and they look like surprised or horrified and they they look like a stll where they're getting ready to blow

someone I just don't I don't know how you make videos like that I mean no offense I'm I'm not trying to talk [ __ ] or anything or start any [ __ ] but I just don't I don't get it man I just don't to me watching that is just like GH it just makes me cringe I can't I can't deal with it and I much prefer this style which is much I think much creepier than having having a bunch of you know hoo-ha devices that are allegedly supposed to find Ghost and reacting to what

the devices do and I I I just don't I don't understand it if I were doing like ghost kind of things I I just much prefer doing it like this cuz it is so much more creepy but the reason that this is so scary is because it's not a ghost There's real people in this place you okay I've been getting a few comments people are like ah you're just exploiting homeless people and drug addicts and I'm just like where are there homeless people or drug addicts in this video there's two people in this video myself

and Brennan we don't interview homeless people we don't run into homeless people or drug addicts it's just us and one of the things I'd like to point out is you know I could go that route I could start including people uh that I run into in these places which I have run into people in places and I don't put them in the video Simply to protect their anonymity but what about all these chant like all these n channels but well channels too where they where they use homeless people as a way to get views you

know what I mean like they're they're like oh I'm going to go and give a homeless person you know $1,000 today and they go and give them $1,000 homeless person's crying and or they bring them food uh hello and everyone's just oh this is so wonderful but they're exploiting homeless people for views no matter which way you look at it I don't understand why people just can't do good things and not film it it's too good and don't pull your camera out this is how I feel about it you know I mean I've given homeless

people blankets and shoes and I bought stuff for people they need stuff and food and whatever I don't film it and I don't put it online CU I'm not looking for accolades or for everyone to go oh God he's such a saint he's so wonderful I I don't do that so but to say I exploit homeless people oh my God come on please how does this video exploit homeless people we're just in a place where Anonymous people are sleeping or hanging out even someone said you're in their home and I'm like but they're trespassing too

so why can't I go in and film something you know what I mean and if somebody was there living there I would never I've run into people who live in places I don't disturb them I just say okay well we're full fil the rest of the building we leave you alone uh it you know there's a pentagram on that tree that freaked me out and I tell the reason it freaked me out is because uh it I'm not I don't believe in Satan or Devils I don't believe in any of that stuff but I do

believe people are crazy and and uh when I saw that candle and put the camera in that room and saw there was somebody had gotten up and left the room and was in the prison somewhere still my heart started to race cuz I said oh it says a bort your fetus on the wall and it's there's a pentagram outside and there was other um satanic kind of things and I say in the video it's not a spiritual thing it's it's a psycho thing I don't it really really freaked me out this this candle thing I

was so we Brandon and I as soon as we got in the truck and when we were done Brandon said no one's ever going to believe that candle they're they're all going to think we lit it and I said I know I said I should put up a a title card saying we did not light this candle we really didn't light it it was already lit so somebody's living in that room I think in the left there in that room with showers oh I was shaking here to put this camera over the over the screen

and into this room to get a look man that is sad look at that this is sad I can't I can't imagine um having to stay in a place like that you know what all freaks me out about this video I don't want to find out there are moments in the video where if you really look in the dark you can see what looks like people or faces several times and um I'm sitting here watching this I'm like I don't remember seeing a person when we were there um the only time I saw anything thing

was the on the stairs uh not of the stairs it was the landing above where brandan and I were exiting a Cell Block there was a a walkway and I looked up and saw a pair of ten of shoes and pants like jeans and they were dirty and I said oh my God there is someone standing there and I didn't know whether to say hey what's up or can we help you or whatever uh I just told Brandon I said Brandon just walk forward and I I said there's someone up on the landing you know

I'm like there's somebody up there and uh it was just my heart was just pounding man cuz after we saw the candle I was ready to run the [ __ ] out of there I want it out man I was like get me out of this [ __ ] place but then I'm like I don't have enough for a video we have to stay and I knew my anxiety level would be through the roof but uh now looking at the final product I'm really really glad that we mustered through and went down a couple of

the cell blocks so we could see uh how small and how horrible the cells were this prison actually closed in in 1971 so it's been well over 50 years it's been abandoned and but I wonder over the 50 years how many bodies they've pulled out of this place from oding and what horrible things have happened here this is just like a building where it's had two rough lives like you know they had prison here where people raped and murdered and everything else and then that closes and it becomes abandoned and then then you have a

whole new group of people moving in head back that way I don't want to I don't want to get trapped down here just got to be careful even homeless people that uh I've met in places like this are always like be careful and you know they're always armed because they never even know you know the normal uh homeless people who are not like you know crazy or addicts or something oh look at that oh my God that's crazy looking prison never fails an abandoned prison never fails always a good good thing to get on film

I couldn't believe there was an abandoned prison in the middle of nework which uh I filmed in nework with the proctor theater I think it was called with the proper people that one year that place was wild we go all the way up to the top and the windows are open and it faces uh you can see Manhattan in the distance it just beautiful the main camp that we saw right above us so here we're walking back and this is when I saw the uh what you want to do the feet and the panss can

someone please tell me what this thing is it's it's getting up here we're going to see in a minute where is it that metal thing with a ribbon on it what is this thing right here right here is this like on the tip of my thought I'm like I know what that is but I just I can't figure it out what is that is that if someone knows please let me know is it something for a pipe maybe uh okay there is you can just kind of see it walk forward but there is someone standing

up there and my thing is I only know one way in or out so I can't run in any direction cuz who knows if I'm going to be trapped or not so I had to walk out from underneath of this platform and I'm convinced that uh the end is near I was like they're going to throw something at me or God only knows but uh they weren't there and then if you look up in a couple of these shots it looks like there's people up there looking at us it's very very eerie place there now

I I had never heard of this place and I went on YouTube and looked up videos of it and there's not one person who's gone there at night there there's a a bunch of day footage uh but no nighttime footage but this was supposed to be a Halloween video so that's the reason I went at night to make it creepier but I would actually like to see this place what it looks like in the daytime when the sun is shining down inside the place there's my uh my footsie saying Brandon let's get the F out

of here cuz it at this point I said I have enough I have enough stuff we can go I know and I looked down it there's just needles everywhere hundreds of needles strewn all over the place in here but I I love these old cells I think they're just uh really interesting and the bars everything rusted and the paint's coming off and now I heard that this place has a basement and the in the basement there's a tunnel that goes over to City Hall I think I read that somewhere but we didn't go looking for

a baseman at this point when at this point right here I was ready to go cuz I could hear the guy walking uh I don't I don't know if it was above us or if it was on the other side of the cells on the other walkway down there um I was not about to find out so I just said you know what I the guy is a freak I want to get out of here and that is exactly what we did cuz it was just it was just o so scary [ __ ] horrible

it's just one of those moments where the the sigh of relief when you're back near your vehicle and you can take a minute and just chill and like pull together your thoughts and be thankful that you did not get murdered that's what I love about doing this is the after that the after feeling is it was like a high Shin phone and I could see it was like On's Bron explaining the hand he saw a hand on a wall and then when we walk by it uh it disappeared when we shine when he shined a

light over on it so we're whining down here thank you everyone so much for watching this and uh make sure you go over to the main Channel and give the original video without my commentary on it a nice uh I'll watch it again maybe has new info new insight with this audio commentary he knows the place better than we do that's true this is dell.com for Prince and patreon.com for additional exclusive footage uh I'll have it up this week for this and uh I do have another surprise this week on patreon that is uh coming

up in the next couple days so I'm excited to for everyone to see that patreon's a very fun community of fans um there's no fight there's no politics there's no just just have a good time and talk about the videos and stuff it's a lot of fun junk there are now over 600 posts videos and podcasts and everything here's a perfect ending for this boom I love that people love the old the old titles and stuff from back in the day I can't believe I was looking at some of the Dead Mall series uh uh

10 Years it'll be in in like April this coming April it's 10 years it's crazy anyway you guys thank you very much for watching love you very much and uh uh keep it going thanks a lot