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Whoa! Whoa!

...close encounters...

I don't know of anything

that could manipulate a craft in that matter.

...motel apparitions...

Oh, crap!

I was terrified and I kept thinking,

"If I rush for the door, it's going to attack me."

...the sky on fire...

You would assume if you were there

and you saw this that it was the apocalypse.

...a ghost versus a security guard.

You're scared of what you don't understand.

The Earth cries out.

It sounds like the world is just, like, breaking apart.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

...to believe.

Every day, countless videos hit the Internet

from around the globe from people

who believe they have witnessed something paranormal,

and as more and more cameras are pointed at the world around us,

it is becoming clear there may be something else out there.

Seedy Texas hotel rooms have their reputation for a reason.

They've seen some stuff, usually bad stuff,

and sometimes the leftover energy from all that bad stuff

will linger around long after

the walls and carpets were scrubbed down.

Just ask Frank Ramirez,

a Texas businessman forced to travel twice a week for work,

whose wildest expectations could never have prepared him

for what he experienced one particular evening.

I decided to turn on my camera because...

there's something really scary going on in here right now.

My name is Frank Ramirez. I'm from Corpus Christi, Texas.

The man you see in the video is me.

One of those cups right there

fell off onto the floor down in here.

That phone fell off its cradle, and I have no idea why.

There's a lot of mental energy that's going on in a hotel.

You could have a person that's going there

to have a romantic evening with their partner or a mistress,

somebody going there to kill themselves.

It's a private space to do things so people

don't judge you in those spaces.

You never know who was there before you.

You never know who's there after you,

Band you never know what will be attracted by that energy.

Ghosts love to haunt hotels because, let's be honest,

horrible things happen in hotel rooms.

Just ask any cleaning person in the entire world

what they've seen when they enter a hotel room,

and they'll tell you it's ghastly.

Something particularly ghastly

must have happened in this room,

because there was all kinds of strange energy

getting Frank's attention.

I can't figure out what's going on,

and it's happened a couple times already,

and I don't know...

Oh, crap!

When things fly around the room,

it's really not a safe place to be in.

And I don't know...

Oh, crap!

A poltergeist can get really dangerous.

If they start moving things at you.

Who's to say that it can't, like,

just be thrown off of the shelf right on his face?

That's crazy.

For the past 8 years,

I have been going and staying in that same hotel.

When I first got into the room, I looked at the phone,

and the phone was off the cradle,

so I put the cradle back on, turn around

and then popped off again.

I was looking right at it,

and I didn't want to believe what I just saw,

so I started recording.

Just as, you know, we're leaving physical bits of ourselves

anywhere we go,

we're also leaving behind that emotional energy.

Now hotels and motels, you know, what's so emotional about that?

Well, any time you go to one, something is happening

that is outside of the box of your everyday routine,

and that can leave behind that emotional echo.

It's really, really freaky.

Oh, my goodness!

Who knows? Maybe something went down in that motel room

that it was trying to communicate

and just didn't have the communicative skills

to pull that off,

so all it could do was manifest in the movement of things.

That towel had just fallen off from there today.

Right now, it's over here.

I tell you guys, this stuff is really freaking me out.

Can you move the phone again?

Okay.

Wow.

I was terrified, and I kept thinking,

"If I rush for the door, it's going to attack me,"

so I just casually walked out.

I stayed in that same hotel that night but in a different room.

I didn't sleep all night, but I stayed there.

Activity just does not happen for no reason at all.

We have to look for a cause first.

We need to pinpoint a time and an incident in history

that could account for the onset of paranormal activity.

Turns out, one especially evil incident

that occurred in this room

may be stirring up all that activity.

A few days after the video went viral,

a family from Harlingen, Texas, reached out to me.

Turned out that their daughter had been murdered

in that room on July 12, 1989.

They never found the murderer.

I have not been back to that room since I shot that video.

I just don't want to go back there.

Oh, crap!

For those in search of a spiritual awakening,

there are certain religious landmarks

that attract people from around the world,

but according to some, people aren't all they attract.

Take the case of Eligael Gedalyovich,

an Israeli man who, in 2011,

noticed something strange hovering in the night sky

over the Dome of the Rock,

a centuries-old Islamic shrine in Jerusalem.

Keep an eye on the seemingly innocuous light

that lowers towards the Dome of the Rock and then hovers.

Whoa!

The light shot up into the otherwise barren night sky

and disappeared,

leaving in its wake a series of dim blinking red lights

that flash a pattern suggesting they emanate

from one single massive aircraft.

I don't know of anything that could manipulate a craft

in that manner.

It mirrors what people often see in the sky,

which is lights that move erratically

and also at high speed,

especially moving up or down at high speed

and leaving at high speed.

But why was this thing

particularly attracted to this holy site?

There are many instances of unusual aerial activity

around sacred sites.

In the 1960s, for example,

there was a famous wave of sightings in Zeitoun, Egypt.

They were called the Marian apparitions

because visions of the Virgin Mary

appeared over a Coptic church.

The pilgrims who go to Medjugorje have, for years,

reported mystery lights in the sky.

And there's no greater example of a place

that epitomizes a higher power than the Dome of the Rock,

at least, to Gedalyovich himself.

His reverence is not misplaced.

The Dome of the Rock is the oldest existing

Islamic monument in the world

and is equally sacred to both Jews and Muslims.

Jewish tradition names the dome as the spot

where Abraham brought his son, Isaac, to be sacrificed.

And some Muslim scholars believe the dome is the spot

where Muhammad ascended to heaven.

When you go to a place of religious significance,

already your mind is thinking of things

that are greater than you,

things that are beyond you, things that are unseen

and things that you have to have faith to come to.

- Whoa! - Whoa!

What is it about religious sites

that may attract this kind of activity?

Do we put on temples and our pilgrimage sites

in places where we know there's an intense energy,

where perhaps the veils between dimensions are thinnest?

One of the wild cards in all of these experiences

is human consciousness.

We simply do not know enough about the projection

of our consciousness into the environment,

which carries an emotional energy.

So are we contributing to the phenomena

and participating by being

emotionally engaged in certain locations?

It makes for a very interesting mix

about what's really going on.

Whoa! Whoa!

Coming up -- ghostly encounters on the job.

Y'all see that? Y'all saw that, right?

Over the course of a lifetime,

most people will never have the privilege,

or perhaps the curse,

of even one firsthand encounter with something paranormal.

That's what makes the case of Jay Brown,

a Chicago man who has had multiple encounters

with the same spirit, so extraordinary.

It began during one particular night shift

at his job as a security guard at an elderly care facility.

Hello. My name is Jay Brown.

I've been doing security for about over 4 years now.

Keep your eye on the carpet in front of the desk.

It's crazy.

Like, when I saw it that close to me for the first time,

I was like, "No."

Watch again in slow motion

as a spirit seems to glide across the entryway rug

of the facility, in full view of the front desk.

Not quite believing his own eyes,

Jay rewatched the security camera footage

of the experience to confirm what he thinks he had just seen

and provided some colorful commentary.

Look it. Look it. I saw that.

I saw that.

See? I saw that,

and then it disappeared over there by the desk,

and I'm like, "Okay. Okay," so I looked at the camera.

I'm like, "You know what? I'm-a calm down.

I'm-a calm down."

So seldomly do you see a genuine human reaction

in a video of this type,

especially when it's security footage.

The interesting thing about it

is that he doesn't catch it upon review.

He sees it in the moment.

I saw it through the CCT cameras

and from when I saw it with my own eyes.

I felt like, "Okay. This is very interesting."

So I wanted to tell the camera, "Y'all see that?

Y'all saw that, right?"

I'm telling C.H.A., "Did y'all see that?"

Amazingly, that wasn't Jay's last ghostly encounter,

not by a long shot.

A few short days later, he saw the ghost again

and reacted accordingly.

decided to show itself again.

See it? See it?

It's faint, though.

I looked at it like, "Okay."

I'm like, "Okay," so I hesitated,

so I just threw something

because I didn't know what to do.

The movement is repeated,

and that is something that's been documented

by paranormal people over the years,

one of the theories being that they're repeating an action

that they performed in life.

It's almost as if that spirit is caught

in endless tape loop in time.

See, I'm over there just talking now like,

"Why it's always me?" and stuff, so I'm like,

"You know what? Let me just pray on it."

I prayed to God like, "I don't know who it is

or what it is, but leave me alone."

But by the time

the ghost rolled around a third time,

Jay had decided to make peace with its presence.

I saw it again. This time, watch.

It come from -- See? There it go.

I'm looking dead at it.

When it came from outside, I waved at it.

I wanted to see if it was going to stop,

but it just kept going, so I was like...

I was just curious at that time.

You're scared of what you don't understand.

He sees it. What is it? What's going on?

Sees it again, throws something at it,

a little afraid, and then acceptance.

That's a positive thing

that I want to highlight in the paranormal

because a lot of people tend to fear phenomena

and not embrace it and try to interact with it.

This guy, I would totally put him on my team.

You know, I ain't really getting scared now.

I guess it's too cold outside, and he was like, "it."

I have interviewed people who have left their jobs

because they keep seeing something,

especially something that occurs in the same place

over and over again, and it spooks them.

Other people make their peace with it.

It was probably just passing by,

just minding its own business or whatnot.

It ain't did nothing harmful. No possession, no none of that.

If it comes to that and start throwing stuff,

some people have to -- I might just leave, so...

If I'm his boss, I'm giving the dude a raise,

Security Guard of the Year.

Persons shall not pass, nor shall ghosts.

In the heart of Russia,

along the unspoiled wooded highways

in the Sverdlovsk region, a mystifying event was captured

by several motorists one night in November of 2014

that soon baffled people the world over.

For the usually steely locals of this mining region,

what they saw in the skies that night

shook even the most hardened Russian.

This driver, like many of those on the roads of Russia,

had a dashboard camera running,

but it picked up something even more eye-opening

than any highway accident.

This explosion that just illuminated everything,

you would assume if you were there

and you saw this that it was the apocalypse,

and something was happening, something big,

something biblical almost.

If I had been riding in my car and captured this,

my immediate reaction would be fear.

What's going on? Is something on fire?

Is something going to rain down out of the sky?

Are there going to be any more explosions?

Yeah, of course they saw this weird, crazy light in the sky.

It's Russia.

Russia is no stranger to events like this.

The blast brought back similar feelings

to a famous earth-shattering explosion in 1908.

The first feeling I get, of course,

is since it's in Russia is the Tunguska blast,

which is a historically documented episode

in which a meteorite hit Siberia

and knocked down trees for miles.

Almost 800 square miles to be exact,

with a force of power 1,000 times greater

than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

However, there is zero evidence

that this explosion was related to a meteor,

and added to the mystery is another angle of the same event

from a different driver.

I think it may be a ground explosion

by the way the clouds light up.

They light up like something coming from underneath them

that spreads throughout the sky.

Experts could not agree

on an explanation for this footage

and whether the explosion

originated from the air or the ground.

Many speculated that it was caused

by something out of this world.

Are we to assume that this is a UFO taking off?

Is this a UFO landing?

Did they lose 3 days of their life and woke up with,

you know, like, I don't know, an implant in their arm?

These are the things I have questions about.

What was it? Was it a UFO? Was it a test?

Was it something hitting the atmosphere?

I know there's not a lot of information

coming out of that country for us to easily go through,

but it seems to deepen the mystery

of why these things are happening in Russia.

I think this video is the most frightening

because it looks to me like the Russians are testing nukes,

which is something that keeps me up all night long.

The Russian government denied any knowledge

of weapons test in the area

or other possible causes for this explosion,

which naturally only made people more suspicious.

Many thought the Kremlin knew more than they were letting on.

Sometimes, things are denied in the face of actual events

just simply because it's something that needs to be

kept under wraps.

I feel that if they wanted to just calm the public,

they would say, "Oh, yeah, something hit the atmosphere.

It was a satellite that was coming down that burned up."

It would be very easy to calm most that way,

but the fact that they're not forthcoming with that

makes me think they don't know, and they don't want to tell us.

What did we capture?

No matter what caused this mysterious event,

if it happens again,

hopefully those Russian dashcams keep on recording.

Coming up -- the board that is no game.

Oh, my God! Ah!

Board games have been played in living rooms

everywhere for decades, and most of the time,

they're fun for the whole family...

mostof the time, because there's one board game

that allegedly has the power to contact the dead --

the Ouija board.

Ouija boards, sometimes called talking boards or spirit boards,

have a rich history in America.

Ouija boards really became popular in this country

in the late 1800s during the whole spiritualist movement

where people were trying to communicate with the dead

because so many people had lost relatives during the Civil War.

Soldiers were dying in the war.

Children were dying of diseases that hadn't be cured yet.

Women were dying during childbirth.

Death was everywhere, and spiritualism offered a way

for people to feel comforted by the fact

that they could still communicate with loved ones.

So you'll have a board, and it has letters, numbers,

and "yes" and "no,"

and this is to allow spirit to point

to whatever it points to by using a planchette.

Baltimore attorney Elijah Bond

finally patented the idea in 1890,

eventually commemorating the event, fittingly enough,

on his final resting place.

Today, Ouija continues to be played around the world

as something of a parlor game.

It's a device that gets misused quite a bit.

Kids like to use it for a thrill factor.

They almost hope that something creepy will come through

because they want a good scare.

But the Ouija board is not a toy.

It's a legitimate tool for opening the door

to the spirit realm.

There are more opportunities than ever

to discern the true power of these boards,

thanks to more and more people filming their expenses.

Back in 2012, this video of some adults

trying their hand at contacting the other side hit the Internet.

Are you here?

The danger comes from, you don't know who you're talking to.

It's like answering the phone

and giving someone your credit card number.

You have to be very guarded.

What's your name?

"Fear."

It's not the Ouija board that's the tool.

It's the person that's the tool,

and then you could start channeling information,

and it helps you psychically spell out

what information you're receiving.

What are you? What do you want?

- Aah! Oh, my God! -Oh, my God!

- You okay? -Hey, are you okay?

Stunned by the shaking of the house...

- Aah! Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

...the women didn't want to mess

with whatever they had summoned any further.

I told you that stuffs' real.

You can't play with that.

-What was that? -I have no idea.

When you open the doorway to the spirit realm,

there are all kinds of things out there

that will stand in that doorway

and want to communicate with you,

and some may be benign, and others may not.

The girls in this video certainly found something

that wasn't benign in the slightest.

Are you okay?

Oh, no! Oh, my God!

- Aah! - Run!

- Run! - What's wrong?

I have seen many cases that erupt into

truly paranormal disasters

with poltergeist phenomena, bad dreams.

People start to feel watched

because something came through that doorway

and was able to latch on.

Do you want water? You want some water?

Guys, can you get some water, please?

Using a Ouija board, if you're not ready

to have those experiences, can be very shocking

when you realize that it can definitely

open something in yourself.

Even with all these cautionary tales

out on the Internet,

people can't help but keep messing with the Ouija boards.

These YouTubers took one to the Dering Woods,

a supposedly haunted forest near Pluckley, England.

But they may have regretted

contacting the spirits who reside there.

I personally used to be terrified of Ouija boards.

I used to think that just touching one,

looking at one, being in the room with one was awful.

But the more I learned about them,

the more I understood it's just another tool

to interact with the spirit world.

In order to use a Ouija board, you have to believe.

If you believe it's going to happen, it's going to happen.

Regardless of what you personally believe,

the legend of the Ouija shows no signs of slowing down.

- Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

Coming up -- the Earth cries out.

Been hearing some strange noises.

A strange new phenomenon

is being captured by everyday people

across the globe that has paranormal experts stumped

and others worried about a pending apocalypse.

From western Canada to the gray skies of England

to Southeast Asia and beyond, the sounds of something sinister

is rattling eardrums and raising hairs.

In 2013, Kimberly, a young mother

in Terrace, British Columbia,

was woken up early one August morning

to these shocking sounds filling the sky outside her house.

It sounds like the world is just, like, breaking apart.

It just sounds like something is going on that isn't right.

The sounds are terrifying.

It sounds like the sounds that you hear in a scary movie.

It reminded me of "War of the Worlds,"

when those creatures came.

The noises continue to ring out for several minutes,

and residents all over Terrace

reported hearing the same deafening sound,

but no concrete explanation for this bizarre phenomenon

could be found,

even when they were caught again

in the same town by Kimberly almost 2 years later.

Now if this happened in a very populated city,

I feel like people would ignore it.

When it happens in a more suburban area,

this causes people to stop and pay attention

and say, "What's going on?"

People started to notice

similarities in the sounds from Canada

to the ones in this video

heard in the U.K. by Bristol resident Steven Burden in 2016.

I couldn't imagine how I would deal with this.

The ominous feeling that you get watching the video,

I can only imagine how amplified that would be in real life.

Hi. I'm Steven Burden.

I filmed the strange noise.

I was intrigued and also a little bit alarmed

because I've never heard anything like it before.

There was a part of me, a split second,

I kind of thought, "Is this the end?"

There was a few videos on YouTube

I seem to remember

watching with kind of strange noises in the sky,

and I thought, "Maybe I've captured one as well."

So, um, very, very strange, very strange.

Residents of Glens Falls, New York,

were equally freaked out by such sounds as far back as 2011,

as evidenced by this video posted by a local man.

Well, you know, the odd phenomena

is not only this video, but there are dozens of videos

of these sounds from all over the world.

Videos have been posted

from as far away as Singapore in 2016...

...and the Philippines in 2015.

Nobody can actually figure out

where these sounds are coming from.

That hasn't stopped people on the Internet

from speculating as to their origin.

Some people suggested it may be the government

doing weather experiments,

bouncing different waves of energy

on different levels of the atmosphere.

Other people claim that it's coming from the ground,

that there's some activity underground

that's causing this sound.

You hear a lot of conspiracy theories,

and you hear a lot of things about the end of the world

and the Second Coming and all that kind of thing.

Is the apocalypse coming? Is this the final warning?

Is someone going to descend from the heavens

and end up eradicating the entire human race?

You just don't know when you hear sounds like this,

but it is definitely something I don't want to hear

when I open up my window.

Coming up -- a Sasquatch in the snow.

It's this little black dot

walking in the middle of nowhere.

Imagine you and a friend are hiking

in the windswept hills of British Columbia,

enjoying the scenic views and the fresh mountain air,

when suddenly, out of the corner of your eye,

you see something in the distant snow

that sends a shiver up your spine

that has nothing to do with the frigid temperature.

We're on top of Tricouni Peak

and pretty sure there's a Sasquatch down there.

A 2-hour drive due north from Vancouver,

Tricouni Peak is an unsurprising location

for any potential Sasquatch sighting

given the legendary and elusive cryptid's longtime association

with the Pacific Northwest.

For the most part, many of the Bigfoot legends

or Sasquatch or ape-man legends,

a lot of them are in colder regions

where there's a lot of snow.

Even still, most winter adventurers

don't expect to just run into a possible Sasquatch,

not to mention filming.

My name is Myles, and I'm the one that shot the video.

I go hiking, backpacking quite regularly,

and my buddy and I had made our way to the summit

and we were sat down to have lunch.

And then as we were eating,

I just noticed a bipedal person

or whatever it was walking in the snow below us.

It's this little black dot

walking in the middle of the snow...

In the middle of nowhere. ...in the middle of nowhere.

I mean, it was clearly not an animal.

I've seen countless bears in the wild,

and it was definitely not a bear.

It was just an all-black figure with no backpack,

no snowshoes, no gear that was detectable by eye,

so, I mean, it's rather odd that people would go in the bush

with nothing, especially where we were.

Given the time of year, you know, there's crevasses

if you're walking on glaciers like that,

and there was no rope.

There was no ice ax, so if it was a person,

they were incredibly ill-prepared.

The color seems uniform.

It seems to be a brownish-blackish color.

I just don't see a hiker being in that situation,

wearing clothing of that color,

and it makes me think maybe we're seeing a Sasquatch.

Despite the distance, the creature's monumental size

was obvious to both Myles and his hiking partner.

The commonly known characteristics of a Bigfoot

or a Sasquatch are large,

7-feet tall or larger, hairy,

slumped over, large forehead.

Something that would seem simian but maybe humanlike.

There's no campsite around.

There's no houses around. I don't know.

It seems, to me, plausible that this is indeed

a really, really cold Sasquatch.

It wasn't until we started to think about the direction

that this person or thing was going

and the speed that it was covering the ground

that we started to question if it was just a person

because it certainly was covering ground

faster than we were.

The thing that really caught me off guard was the speed

at which the creature seemed to move through that deep snow.

It's really tough going,

but this creature seemed to have no problem.

Now they're hikers.

They know he shouldn't be moving that fast,

but maybe a Bigfoot that is used to the terrain,

that is designed for such areas would move faster.

They do live in very isolated, remote, desolate locations,

and that's largely to their advantage

and perhaps why we've never been able to capture one.

Initially, it was a bit of a joke, you know,

suggest, you know, saw a Sasquatch, right?

And then as I started to film,

I think the route the thing was going,

the direction it was taking,

the speed it was covering ground,

it just started to seem more and more odd.

For his part, Myles remains skeptical that

what he saw that day was unequivocally

an actual Sasquatch.

I've never said it couldn't be a human.

I've just claimed that it is what it is.

I've never claimed it to be anything other than it's not,

and I let people make their own assumptions.

I've just suggested that it's not a bear,

and it's not in observation that I have seen with other humans

in that landscape with no gear,

no backpacks, no other equipment.

Still, the question remains.

Had I seen a backpack on this thing,

we wouldn't be having this conversation.

- Coming up... - Oh.

...multiplying UFOs over Massachusetts.

What are these things?

Unidentified flying objects

aren't something you come across every day.

This guy was impressively calm

when he looked up to find

a mysteriously bright light in the sky in 2015.

There's the UFO.

He wasn't the only one who spotted a glowing orb

hovering over western Massachusetts.

This one was out and about in broad daylight.

The New England area is no stranger

to this kind of activity.

In fact, the first recorded UFO sighting in the United States

occurred in Massachusetts in 1639 near Boston

when three boatmen saw a great light

darting back and forth through the sky for several hours.

One town even has a monument

dedicated to a UFO sighting in 1969,

where 40 people all reported

seeing the same unexplained lights.

46 years later,

enough people were carrying around cameras

to provide this proof of similar objectives over the Bay State,

but here is where it got interesting.

Oh.

Out of nowhere, the orbs began to multiply,

and this didn't happen just once.

Watch the orb closely.

What are these things?

The objects appear to be moving independently

of each other.

This split would be too crazy to believe

without video proof.

-What is that? -I don't know.

There's another one over there, right there.

This UFO breaks apart.

It's actually kind of common in UFO sightings,

which makes it pretty well solidified as a UFO,

because what the heck is it?

If it's not aliens from another planet,

is the military working on some spacecraft that can do that?

That's equally horrifying to me.

The video does represent

what eyewitnesses say in other accounts.

They witness this light separate into the smaller lights

and move around at unusual angles and unusual speeds

and then sometimes even recombine.

There have been speculations

that these are not hard mechanical craft

but some sort of energy form, which could certainly be better

explanations for some of their unusual activity in the sky.

Viewers of this footage online report

witnessing similar lights over towns in the area,

but where do they come from?

Military testing is a common explanation

for any sort of unknown sky activity.

Could this possibly have been some sort of man-made aircraft?

Of course, my first instinct --

it's a military experiment.

But when you see these things in public areas,

in high-population areas, makes me think,

"Well, the military wouldn't do a test out there.

"They would do it out in the middle of the desert

or in a low-population area,"

so makes me question my skepticism.

Oh.

It's obviously not a star. It's not a planet.

It doesn't appear to be an aircraft,

certainly no aircraft that I'm familiar with.

Whether the orbs originated on Earth

or have extraterrestrial origins is anyone's guess.

Unidentified flying object --

it just means that there's something in the sky

that I don't know what it is,

but I feel like someone knows what it is.

And even if I'm not aware of the explanation

or maybe if it's not something for public consumption,

someone has to know what that is.

Either there's some technology out there

that exists that we are not privy to,

or the other explanation is obviously

that these things are not of this Earth.

It is definitely something wayout of the ordinary.

No, no, there's another one over there.

What are these things?

If you witness something paranormal,

here are some tips to get it all on camera --

Keep a safe distance.

Keep the strange activity in frame.

-Whoa! -Whoa!

Trust your instincts that what you're seeing

really is paranormal.

Oh, crap!

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com,

and your footage may be used right here

on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."