This is as close as I can get to a freely available episode online - it's been "flipped" backwards for some reason but the essential content is still there.
Venue: Greek taverna in Seattle, Washington. Address and provenance verified as 3426 NE 55th St, Seattle, WA 98105, United States.
Situation: owner is clearly rattled by the repuation his premises have for being haunted and is reluctant to be on his own in the building as strange things have happened. The narration tells us that local folklore says, variably, a murder happened there, or else women were kept in chains in the attic for some unspecified purposes, or both. Owner says he has felt cold chills, movement behind him and touches on his back and shoulders in otherwise empty rooms.
Seemingly nonplussed, Mystery Diners bloke Charles S asks how they can help. Taverna owner then says he suspects staff and guests have been in parts of the building which he has said are off-limits; he suspects informal "ghost-hunting" is happening and his staff are facilitating trespass, with all the implications for security and liability if anyone gets hurt. Charles S says he can certainly help with this.
A total of perhaps fifteen hidden cameras are set up in all parts of the building along with microphones and listening devices. Note: the "attic" described is not an "attic" as we would know it - it's an upstairs first floor of the building above the main dining area. The owner has locked this off from the dining ground floor and made it clear this is off-limits to all employed staff. However, there is clear evidence people are going up there - signs of disturbance and empty beer bottles, nicked from the restaurant.
Investigators sent in as diners are offered the "ghost tour" which is down to collusion betwen staff who are faking the paranormal activity (and nicking beer from the cooler). Hidden camera footage also discovers staff are pranking each other and blaming it on the ghosts. Therefore on one level what is happening is the classic Scooby-Doo Hoax where supernatural activity is faked for financial gain. ("we'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't have been for those pesky Mystery Diners!") So this show is in itself Fortean for this reason and I commend it to the membership.
But. And this "but" is subject to caveat - this is a TV show which has been edited and perhaps scripted to tell a story. How real is reality TV?
Charles Stiles - very conveniently - has an investigator working on his team who is, in her spare time, a part-time spiritual medium. What are the chances, eh? We are assured she knows nothing of the paranormal dimension and is going in "cold" - all she knows is that the place is allegedly haunted, so out of interest, tell me if you sense anything? Straight away she tunes in and appears to corroborate the story of women locked up, against their will, in the attic. Hmmm.
Also, one of the recording devices picks up, on the very edge of hearing, a voice saying "
go away!" (At the same time, a member of bar staff demonstrates how the A/C system has funny acoustics and words spoken in the bar can be heard in the attic if spoken in the right place. All to do with the pipes)
The cameras and recording devices set up in the "attic" also malfunction, mysteriously. (Were they hardwired or relayed via wifi? As any BT customer knows, wifi-enabled devices set up furthest away from the home hub with floors or walls or other devices in between are going to be problematic). This does not prevent the gist of events from being recorded - undercover investigator goes on a "ghost tour" fortified by an offer of beer stolen from the premises. Other staff members fake a haunting. Lots of girly screaming audible from downstairs much to the concern of people eating. Staff members are then rounded up, sackings all round.
But.... always a "but" - the buiding was the centre of an alleged haunting, reports continued until it closed four months later with the owner planning to relocate elsewhere in Seattle. Still looking for independent confirmation of "haunting" from sources other than the TV show.