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Late-night library livestream becomes chaotic as participants report staged performer and an emergency alert
Summary
Participants in a late-night ghost-hunting livestream at a library described hiring a performer to play a “serial killer,” reported a separate emergency-services alert about spilled chemicals and made a claim that collaborator Sam Colby killed the performer, according to comments captured in the recording.
Participants in a late-night ghost-hunting livestream at a public library said they hired a performer to play a “serial killer” for a 24-hour video and later described an emergency-services alert about spilled chemicals that told them to go inside. Speaker 3, who appears repeatedly in the recording, also said a collaborator named Sam Colby killed the performer, according to the transcript.
The account matters because it combines claims of on-site danger, an official-sounding emergency alert and an allegation of violence made during a live-streamed event. The recording shows participants reacting in real time and unsuccessfully trying to verify information by phone.
Speaker 3 opened the session by describing the streaming plan and the permission to use the building, saying, “We actually have permission to do this, so we're not trespassing. It's gonna be a sick video.” The group repeatedly referred to a “24 hour challenge” and to “ghost hunting” as the main purpose of the stream. At one point, Speaker 3 described seeing an “emergency services alert about, like, spilled chemicals over there. We need to get inside immediately, it says.”
Later in the recording Speaker 3 said, “We we hired a a fake serial killer, and he he's not the guy who just murdered the other guy. He was just supposed to be there.” Shortly after, Speaker 3 said the collaborator’s name and accused him: “Sam Colby. Sam Colby. He he just I I don't know. He he murdered the fake serial killer and and we gotta hide from him.” Those statements appear in the recording as claims by a participant; the transcript does not include outside confirmation, police statements, or other evidence.
Other participants in the recording urged caution. In the earlier portion of the event, one participant said, “It's currently midnight in the library. We haven't seen any paranormal activity yet, but the night is still young.” The recording also includes a participant referencing clips on social media: “Did you hear about that 1 guy who jumped down a railway? I saw his TikTok. Guy jumping off. He was live streaming it. He jumped off, broke both of his legs.”
The recording contains no independent verification of the alleged killing, no law-enforcement response is captured in the transcript, and no formal statements from the library are included. The participants in the stream repeatedly framed parts of the event as staged for entertainment: “He was just supposed to be scary for the video,” Speaker 3 said. The transcript also shows speakers attempting to call family members and describing voicemail responses during the same period.
The recording names Sam Colby as a collaborator; it does not include a statement by Colby, nor does it include any official confirmation of criminal activity or emergency response. Questions of public safety, the presence of a real injured person and whether authorities were notified cannot be resolved from the recording alone. The participants’ claims and the emergency-alert reference are the principal elements documented in the transcript.
The recording closes with repeated expressions of fear and with participants urging each other to “hide” and to stop filming. The transcript does not show a follow-up or resolution within the captured audio.
