Testing the “Death Watch”: Haunted Pocket Watch & Locket Session

Tim Wood introduces an old pocket watch and an accompanying photographic locket sent by a viewer. He recounts the sender’s story that the watch was associated with deaths in the family and says he found a newspaper account of an earlier killing; the documents themselves are not reproduced or verified in this transcript. The live test uses a radio spirit box and an Ovilus word-database device. Questions concern an attachment to the objects and whether they can be moved. Tim interprets several words but also explicitly describes later output as nonsensical. A cross is placed with the watch before a final radio session. Speculation about family responsibility comes from the questioning and device interpretations, and does not establish who committed any historical crime. The recording ends with plans for future Tonopah and Sallie House investigations and a recollection of meeting a cemetery dowser. No Ouija, dowsing-rod session or recorder EVP playback is performed in this video.

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Key Moments

Chapters combine transcript-supported additions with existing archive chapters and attributed viewer observations where available. Source labels identify reviewed additions. Reported experiences and transcribed interpretations do not establish their cause.

Reviewed captions span 0:03–40:57; the listed 41:10 runtime extends beyond this coverage. Auto-generated captions may mishear speech and do not independently verify audio or images. Only loaded top-level comments were sampled; replies and live chat were not exhaustively reviewed, and viewer flags remain unverified.

  1. INVESTIGATION — Return-to-live introductionSource: transcript review
  2. CONTEXT — Viewer’s story of the watch and locketSource: transcript review
  3. INVESTIGATION — Pocket watch, residue and locket examinedSource: transcript review
  4. SOUND — Tim asks about a possible growlSource: transcript review
  5. CONTEXT — Claimed newspaper research and locket photographSource: transcript review
  6. INVESTIGATION — Introductory spirit-box test explainedSource: transcript review
  7. GHOST BOX — Opening invitation and communication boundariesSource: transcript review
  8. GHOST BOX — Greeting and “no” interpretationSource: transcript review
  9. EQUIPMENT — Ghost-box resetSource: transcript review
  10. GHOST BOX — Name, attachment and prior-owner questionsSource: transcript review
  11. GHOST BOX — “Surrender” and further questionsSource: transcript review
  12. OVILUS — Word-database test beginsSource: transcript review
  13. OVILUS — Questions about the objects and moving the watch handsSource: transcript review
  14. OVILUS — Request to move or close the objectsSource: transcript review
  15. OVILUS — Family-history speculation from word outputSource: transcript review
  16. CONTEXT — Tim questions the relevance of device wordsSource: transcript review
  17. RITUAL — Cross placed with the watchSource: transcript review
  18. OVILUS — Proximity request and final wordsSource: transcript review
  19. GHOST BOX — Final radio sessionSource: transcript review
  20. GHOST BOX — Request for a confirming responseSource: transcript review
  21. GHOST BOX — Chopping-like sound interpreted in radio outputSource: transcript review
  22. CONTEXT — Session ends and live-investigation plansSource: transcript review
  23. CONTEXT — Earlier Tonopah cemetery dowser encounter recalledSource: transcript review
  24. CONTEXT — Closing and next-show plansSource: transcript review
Original YouTube investigation notes