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Waking nightmares...

When people have spirit attacks in the bedroom,

one of the most common things they will describe

is that something is tugging on their feet.

...a mysterious ice cryptid in Alaska...

It definitely looks like a giant creature

kind of just slowly swimming under the water.

...celestial lights over Charlotte...

I ain't ever seen anything like that.

This could be a alien craft.

I really don't know.

...scary shadow spirits...

Dude, there's something here.

Whoa!

This video is a bit terrifying.

...a run-in with a Russian yeti...

If I thought I was in the woods with one,

I would certainly be ill at ease.

...and even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe.

Every day, countless people witness something

they believe is paranormal.

And with more cameras out there recording than ever,

it's becoming clear with each new video

they may be right.

People often leave the stress and anxiety

from the busy day behind as they climb into their comfy beds

and settle in for the night.

But as they drift off into dreamland,

some may find they have been lulled

into a false sense of security

because the witching hour is the perfect time

for a visit from something otherworldly.

A lot of the apparitions I've seen have been

while I was in my bed when I was in a very relaxed mental state.

The room is still.

There is less going on in the atmosphere

that if there is an energy trying to communicate with you

or trying to make itself known, that that's the best time.

It's when it's got your attention.

It has you alone.

You are certainly at your most vulnerable

when you're asleep, so there's certainly an openness

to things like that going on.

In September 2016,

Jasmine Aloma was fast asleep in her bed

when her security camera picked up some unsettling activity.

If it is a spirit and they do want to interact

with this person who's sleeping, getting their attention

is what you would have to do, and you'd have to wake them up,

and that might be a way to get their attention

is to pull the covers off them.

It seems like more of a harassment than a communication,

but I think ghosts only have so much of a vocabulary

they can use to get in touch with us.

After checking her home for intruders,

Jasmine felt safe enough to go back to bed.

But not for long.

When paranormal phenomena happens,

there tends to be electromagnetic fluctuations.

A lot of investigators believe that lights go off

because the energy is draining the electromagnetic force

from all of the circuits around you.

There are many cases documented for centuries

of people having unpleasant experiences at night.

For example, the hag attack, which goes back centuries.

It's called a hag attack because in earlier times,

people believed that witches were out at night,

and either they or demons sent by them

would come and torment people in their sleep

and even sit on them.

These sorts of experiences are much different

from visits from the dead.

In July of 2018, Tony Rodriguez believed

he may have experienced a visit from the dead

in his Atlantic Heights, New Jersey, home.

This is my sheet.

This is my covering for my mattress.

There is nothing under it.

Look, look.

See? Wait, watch.

Look. There it is.

Look, watch.

My name is Tony Rodriguez.

I filmed this video in my bedroom one night.

At first, I thought it was my cat,

and I look over and my cat's at my feet.

I took my hand and I put my hand

down on top of it, and it went away.

And then a few seconds later, I see it pop back up

and then I start to see it move,

like trying to find a resting spot.

Oh, there it is. Look!

Look.

The out of here.

A couple years ago, I had a dog

that got hit out here on the highway,

and my dog used to sleep on that part of the bed.

Just the way the shape was and the way it moved around,

I kind of feel like it was my dog just letting me know

that he was there, maybe.

If it's his routine to be going to bed that night,

the dog's going to follow his routine,

and it's gonna probably be sitting in the same spot

that it used to always sit.

What a great gift for somebody to have his pet come by

and be by his side again.

I'm a big believer in that when,

you know, you lose a loved one, they always show you

some kind of sign that they're still around.

Not every ghostly nighttime visit

is nearly as sweet.

This video, taken in India in January 2017,

went viral when a sleeping man

appeared to have a more hands-on experience.

When people have spirit attacks

or entity attacks in the bedroom,

one of the most common things they will describe

is that something is tugging on their feet.

I personally have had my ankles pulled

when I've been sleeping,

and I wouldn't say that I felt, like, hands,

like, pulling at my ankles.

I didn't feel physical.

I just felt my body from the bottom half of my body

just kind of slide down, and I wasn't doing it.

There's a superstition where

if you sleep with your feet facing the door, it's bad luck

because that is how dead people are brought out of rooms,

feet first, and so people believe

that it tells the spirits that you're dead,

and so they'll try and, like, drag you away.

Despite the unfortunate timing,

it is still possible to get a good night's sleep each night.

My advice to anyone who feels that they're being haunted

while they're asleep is don't panic.

The worst thing you could do is assume

that it's something coming from the ninth level of Hell

to drag you down.

A lot of times, spirits just want to tell their story,

and if they're trying to impart it to you,

maybe there's a reason for that.

The road crews for big music acts

crisscross the country for weeks at a time,

driving thousands of miles a year

to ensure that the gear and equipment

arrive safely to the next concert venue.

During the long dark hours traveling city to city,

these guys think they have seen it all,

but recently, one veteran roadie caught something overhead

that absolutely blew his mind.

In October 2016, Chris Hulbert,

a truck driver who was on tour with a music group,

was walking back to his hotel while working a gig

in Charlotte, North Carolina, when he and his crew

saw some weird light activity in the night sky.

So, this is the Le Méridien Hotel

in downtown Charlotte,

and we are here watching whatever those are.

As you can see, they're sparkling.

Don't know what they are, but they're really up there.

Yeah.

You can see it in my phone, yeah.

I ain't ever seen anything like that.

My name is Chris Hulbert.

I'm the one who actually shot the film.

They started out in an odd formation.

They were blinking and moving slightly erratical.

If you look closely at the lights,

you can actually see them sort of,

like, going back and forth,

and the other odd thing about the whole situation was the wind

was going the opposite direction of where this thing was going.

So, whatever they are, they're moving around like fireflies,

but they're really high up in the air.

Plus, its light patterns keep changing.

I actually thought this video was really interesting.

I'd never seen UFOs that looked like that.

They sort of are twinkling and moving.

See if I can show the hotel here.

There's the hotel, and these things are all jumping around.

To his credit, he pans down to give perspective,

be like, "All right, there's the hotel, there's the lights."

But they're twinkling.

They're coalescing. They're moving a little bit.

It was way too bright to be stars.

It was way too bright to be something that was far off.

It felt like it was in our atmosphere, in our sky.

As intriguing as this shimmering display was,

the situation became even more captivating

when the lights began to take shape.

Now it's moved into --

it's like a vertical pyramid-looking thing

or a triangle.

I don't know what that is.

They went from being just kind of displaced

to turning into a triangle,

so something had to be operating or moving it into that position.

The lights act as though they're being manipulated

by some kind of intelligence,

and many people who have UFO sightings

have the intuitive feel that they are witnessing

something intelligently controlled.

I drive all over the United States and Canada

about 280 days a year,

and I've honestly never seen anything like this

in all the time I've been on the road.

Chris later posted the video online

to see if anyone had any answers.

He was excited when the local chapter of Mutual UFO Network,

known as MUFON, reached out to research the video.

MUFON had documented this account,

and then they also talked to the FAA.

And the FAA said they had nothing in the air that night

that would be over the hotel in any way, shape, or form.

To actually have somebody who really thinks this

is something serious and this isn't just,

you know, somebody sending up drones

or Chinese lanterns was pretty cool to know

that it might be something completely different.

This could be a alien craft.

I really don't know.

It's really unclear whether or not this

is one entity or a bunch of entities grouped together,

and if it is a bunch of smaller entities,

then it's most likely that they're communicating somehow.

Now it's making a triangle like

it's an actual geometric form

when before it was just moving around.

A lot of times we've seen the triangular

or V-shaped light formation.

This one seemed more complicated than that,

so I would say this is unique in that aspect.

There are so many different types of sightings

of UFOs in the skies.

A lot of people believe that triangular formations

is a different type of visit and race of alien

than, you know, for instance,

you would see these rows of lights

communicating with each other with, like, vibrations

and blinking and colors.

That night, Chris filmed

whatever this was for almost 8 minutes,

but duty called and he had to put the camera down

to make a run to pick up equipment.

By the time he'd returned to the hotel,

the lights had disappeared.

We had a couple of days in Charlotte,

but that was the only night that I saw the lights.

There's no real explanation for it.

The city hasn't come out and said anything about it.

The military hasn't said that they were doing

any tests or anything like that.

It's obviously not airplanes or helicopters.

We just don't know what the heck it is,

and that's what makes this footage so compelling.

No matter what the lights were,

Chris feels that he witnessed something special that night.

I've always have a belief in extraterrestrials,

and it was just really cool to see something

that you hear about all the time,

and you see these documentaries of people talking about,

but you never see it yourself, and then when you do,

it really kind of hits home.

Don't know what they are, but they're really up there.

Coming up, apparitions in an asylum.

Whoa!

Early American care for the mentally ill

was notoriously poor,

giving the first psychiatric hospitals a bad rap.

Significant advancements have been made

since those early days,

and most of the original buildings have been abandoned.

However, the painful energy may have stuck around,

and many believe the still-traumatized spirits

of those who suffered these barbaric practices

continue to haunt these places,

and Fairfield Hills State Hospital

in Newtown, Connecticut, is no different.

It was opened in 1931 and housed the criminally insane

until it was shuttered in 1995.

In the years since the hospital was boarded up,

it has gained a reputation

as a hot spot for supernatural occurrences

as two recent paranormal investigators learned firsthand.

Whoa!

In September 2018, two ghost-hunting friends,

Omar and James,

set out to explore the derelict building,

and equipped with their cameras,

they made their way through the halls.

These are patient rooms

where they used to house, like, the --

Well, I mean, that's exactly what it is.

Yeah.

The type of mental energy that was emitted

in these places led to some serious phenomena,

which is why the asylum is always one of the most

notorious places you can investigate.

You're always gonna have some kind of residual

haunting or spirits that fly around this place.

Something made a noise in here.

It's very important for investigators

to protect themselves

because there may be earthbound souls at a place like this

that would be looking for help and might want to try to attach.

Ghost activity in the middle of the day

is way creepier than at night 'cause you don't expect it.

Dude, there's something here.

Whoa!

I don't know.

It darted from one side of the hall to the other.

In places like this,

there was confusion and pain and mental instability,

so all that energy could coalesce

into what we call shadow forms.

Now, could this be what that is?

I don't know, but the possibility exists.

Whoa!

An insane asylum would carry a lot

of negative haunting residue,

and some of it might even be rather unpleasant.

I've investigated at many of these kinds of places,

and I have seen apparitions.

I've seen movements of things, shadow people,

so it's not unusual to see something manifest visually.

Against Omar's better judgment,

he agreed to split up with James

to see if either of them could see the shadow creature again.

Omar explored the ground floor

while James climbed the stairs to the top floors.

It's bad practice to split up,

not necessarily for paranormal reasons, but for safety reasons.

A lot of these buildings are derelict and falling apart.

What the hell?

James!

Is that you, James?

Omar was about to find out...

...just how dangerous separating while ghost hunting could be.

Yo, James?

You over there?

I just heard a noise coming from over here.

What the was that?

This video is a bit terrifying.

If I was in a haunted asylum and a coffee can come flying at me,

I don't know how I'd react to that.

What the was that?

Could the can have been thrown

by a former tortured patient of Fairfield Hills?

It is being propelled by an unseen force,

but the fact that it's coming from such a low angle,

even if it were a person throwing it,

it would be almost impossible

to get that kind of force in that trajectory.

I don't know what just happened right now.

It's just a coffee can.

That guy had a coffee can come flying at him,

and I think that that was legit.

Investigators, you only have your reputation to go on,

so if you get caught faking something, you're done,

and I don't think these guys were faking anything.

Omar was certainly shaken by the activity

and decided to find James...OMAR: James!

...who turned out to have had a very similar experience.

Wow, yeah. I totally don't think you're crazy.

Trust me 'cause it happened to me, too.

The fact that both gentleman

seem to encounter similar phenomena

makes me think there's a spirit there

that has gained the power to move objects

and wants these guys out of there.

I mean, obviously the entity wants to do physical harm

to the people within its space.

These two people do not need to be in this building

and they need to leave that place immediately

because it could lead to actual danger.

For their part, Omar and James decided

to heed the warnings and leave the ghosts

of the Fairfield Hills facility in peace,

at least until the next paranormal-thrill seekers

come knocking.

Coming up, a chilling sighting in Alaska.

Fairbanks, Alaska, sits just outside the Arctic Circle,

making it one of the colder places in the United States.

With temperatures hovering around freezing

over 8 months of the year,

the landscape is almost always covered in ice and snow.

While the frigid climate makes it difficult for humans to live,

one local government employee may have found proof

that it's the perfect environment for monsters.

In October 2016, Alaska Bureau of Land Management

employee Craig McCaa went down to the Chena River

to take some pictures of the changing weather,

but instead of snapping some pictures of ice

forming on the water,

Craig got the shock of a lifetime.

From his perch on a bridge above the river,

Craig saw a strange creature

swimming in the icy waters below.

He decided to film it in hopes of getting a better look.

My name is Craig McCaa.

I am the person who shot the video.

I saw movement in the water beneath me,

and I was spooked initially.

It kind of sent a shiver down my spine,

if you want to put it that way.

I look down and see this object in the water,

undulating in the currents,

and quite large, about 20 feet long or so.

Definitely looks like a giant creature

kind of just slowly swimming under the water.

Usually, you see a lake-monster video

and it's off in the distance.

You're squinting to see it.

The camera can't capture a lot of detail.

This one -- front and center, snaking through.

Parts of it were encrusted with ice.

It had sort of limbs coming off of it

or some kind of side pieces,

and it rolled a little bit in the current

as it swung back and forth.

It stayed a little bit below the water level,

right near the surface,

but it was hard to see exactly what I was looking at.

Stumped on what it could be,

Craig turned to the Internet and posted the video

on the Bureau of Land Management social-media page

asking for help on identifying the slithering water creature.

My job is a public-affairs specialist

for the Bureau of Land Management,

so when I saw the video was so eerie and mysterious-looking,

that's why I decided to post it.

The Land Bureau, the ones taking the lead on this,

they have a well-versed knowledge of animals

that tend to be swimming in their waters.

So for themto be confused,

well, that definitely shows that it's something unique.

It could cause quite a stir and quite a scare

in their community, so they must be taking it seriously.

There are certainly large and reclusive species

in places like Alaska.

There's a lot of land up there,

and there's a lot of water up there,

and things do tend to grow much larger

in those type of environments.

So, in Alaska, you kind of have two types of cryptids.

Usually, it's the bipedal ape-men,

you know, a Sasquatch, a Bigfoot, or lake monsters.

You know, you got the Kodiak Dinosaur,

which looks like a plesiosaur, or a liopleurodon,

which is a very extinct dinosaur that lived in the oceans.

So it's not out of the realm of possibilities

that there is a river monster.

If I had to guess which type of cryptid this is,

I would say it's the Lagarfljot,

which is most commonly seen in Iceland,

but of course, the waters of Alaska

and the waters of Iceland are extremely similar.

So there's no reason why it wouldn't be able to survive

in Fairbanks as well.

Within a few hours, the video had gone viral

with over 21,000 views and counting.

People suggested everything from an arctic crocodile

to the more outlandish zombie shark.

But it was eventually dubbed the Alaskan Ice Monster.

I was contacted at the time by some people

who said they'd seen strange things in the Chena River,

some of them dating back to the 1970s,

and they were very curious about this,

but that video is the only exposure that everyone else

but me has to what I saw in the river.

Not satisfied, Craig went back several days later

to see if he could get a closer look,

but the Alaskan Ice Monster was nowhere to be found,

only adding to the mystery of Alaska's newest cryptid.

But locals continue to keep their cameras

trained in the frozen rivers in hopes of spotting

this new cryptid once again.

I go over that bridge periodically

on foot and by bicycle.

I always look down in the river now that I cross there,

but no, I have not seen it again.

Coming up, specters in a haunted prison.

Cornwall, England, may be known

for its beautiful coastline

of rugged cliffs and sandy beaches,

but within the county is a building

that has gotten attention for much darker reasons --

Bodmin Jail.

First opened in 1779, it was in operation until 1909

and was the site of over 55 grizzly executions.

It is said to be one of the most haunted places in Great Britain.

Since its closure, paranormal explorers

have investigated the prison,

hoping for a glimpse of one of the infamous spirits

who still reside in the walls.

One lucky ghost hunter

may have gotten more than he bargained for.

In September 2017, Tony Ferguson and his wife

visited the penitentiary for a second time

to settle some previous unfinished business.

My name's Tony Ferguson.

Bodmin Jail is the kind of jail I like.

It's old. It has a creepy history.

People were executed there, and it's very, very haunted.

Tony decided to explore the bottom floor,

which is said to be the most haunted area in Bodmin Jail.

Once the cameras were in position,

Tony was ready to make communication

with any spirits that might be there.

One of the tactics that investigators like to use

to stir up activity is to address the supposed energy

that's there by a name's basis.

It kind of helps you relate to the energy there.

It creates a bit of knowledge about the person

that might pique the spirit's interest.

Unsure if he caught anything on camera

besides the lights darkening,

Tony returned to his home to scour the rest of the footage.

This is a classic ghost-hunting angle.

What ghost hunters will do is shoot a camera down

a long hallway hoping to see something cross back and forth,

and in this instance, it seems they did.

It looks like an entity.

It looks like a spectral thing walking by.

The fact that he called out the name William

and then you see someone walk through

makes me want to believe that it might have been him.

Tony immediately took the video evidence

back to the jail and asked the employees if there was

any way it could have been one of them on camera,

but they all said no.

This investigator went back and they confirmed

that there was no other living person and there's no one

that could have been in that hallway at the time,

so I give a thumbs up to that.

Not only did Tony confirm the footage

was something paranormal,

but he also learned the day it was shot

had major significance to the former prisoner.

There's a theory out there,

especially with a place-memory haunting,

that they seem to work on a schedule.

They got there on the anniversary of his hanging

and were able to perceive that last couple of walks,

and maybe that was William looking down the hallway

for the last time as he entered the execution chamber.

Whether or not the spirit truly was William

or that of another prisoner,

Tony is grateful to have gotten this capture on camera.

Coming up, a highly haunted dispensary.

Founded in 1829, Oregon City, Oregon,

is one of the state's oldest towns

and is perhaps most well-known

for being the end point of the historic Oregon Trail.

As the final stop on the pioneers' westward journey,

it is believed that the restless ghosts

of these early settlers still roam the town.

But these days, Oregon City is home to some new pioneers

who are leading the way in the legal-marijuana business.

But it seems some of the city's old ghosts

may want in on the action.

Andy Gomez works at a marijuana dispensary

in downtown Oregon City.

On August 28, 2018, he was working alone in the shop

when all of a sudden, he was startled

by the sound of a jar tipping over.

My name is Andy Gomez.

Realizing it was caught on the store's security camera,

Andy ran to the back office to watch the video,

and he discovered that the jar had been slowly moving

toward the edge of the counter for over 6 minutes

before it finally fell over.

When the jar, you know, kind of tips over, it's pretty neat.

I mean, there's definitely something happening there,

you know?

And this camera was a little different

than your average security system.

Since it was in a dispensary, it had to be state-certified.

It's illegal to doctor these videos,

so everything you're seeing is very real.

I wish that all paranormal videos were state-certified.

That's just one more layer of validation

as far as this being presented as evidence.

Further examination of the security footage

from other dates around that time

revealed similar incidences of paranormal activity

from the same area of the shop.

Well, I'll tell you one thing.

If I ever come back as a ghost,

that is exactly what I'm haunting --

a good weed dispensary.

What makes this capture more plausible

is the activity is subtle.

It's not extreme.

The objects move a little bit and then fall.

There's a little bit of activity in the pencil jar.

That would be more likely the case

than something that is sudden

or moves a great distance very quickly.

So this could quite likely be a haunted place.

Andy would certainly agree.

This was not the first time

he had experienced something otherworldly in the store.

Andy and the other employees decided to do some research

into the history of this particular building

and found out it had been built on the former site of a pharmacy

that had operated during the early days of the city.

If this is haunted,

the pharmacy would probably play into that scenario.

That's where people would have to go

if they were sick, if their children were sick.

If they were dying from their injuries,

they would need whatever cures they could get their hands on.

We're talking layers of history

that are associated with this site,

so it's not uncommon to find paranormal activity

linked to so many different things

that are mashed together on top of each other.

Other local stores have also

reported ghostly sightings, leading Andy and many others

to believe Oregon City is in fact haunted.

Coming up, danger in the Russian woods.

With over 12 million people

living in Russia's capital city of Moscow,

it is among the most populous in the world.

But just past the city limits, the bustling streets

begin to give way to the vast Russian wilderness

that may very well be populated

by some other things that are not quite human.

In December 2018,

a Russian woman driving with three of her friends

had just gotten into a car accident

on a snowy, wooded road north of the Russian metropolis.

But before they could get out and assess the damage,

some movement in the trees caught their attention.

What we see here is some sort

of bipedal, upright creature that seems to be agitated.

It's running back and forth,

perhaps angry that someone is filming it.

It almost seems like an unnatural move

for a wild creature,

but if it's in distress or somebody is threatening it,

then I could see it behaving that way.

As they continue to film it,

it's moving throughout the trees,

so we have a hard time getting a clear look,

but the girls, you know, hey, they're brave.

They keep filming.

Their curiosity is getting the better of them,

so if this is a dangerous cryptid or whatever it is,

they're taking a chance.

Especially if the mysterious creature

weaving through the trees is the legendary Bigfoot,

known to many in Russia as a yeti.

Russia is a huge country,

and it's full of remote and dense forested areas.

There have been many official Bigfoot expeditions

in that country just as there have been in America,

and some of them have turned up

some rather interesting evidence.

If I thought I was in the woods with one,

I would certainly be ill at ease and want to get out of there.

People do go missing in the woods

that have never been found again, so you never know.

I don't think it's a coincidence

that we are seeing this cryptid showing up in Russia.

If you recall the Dyatlov Pass incident,

where nine people were killed while skiing

and no one knows what the heck happened,

and there's a lot of people saying, "Maybe it's a yeti."

It was in 1959 that the bodies

of a group of experienced ski hikers

were found at Russia's Dyatlov Pass.

The incident has since become infamous among cryptid experts.

They found their campground sort of just, like, intact

with all their belongings,

but the tent itself was ripped from the inside,

which made no sense, and you could see footprints

leading to where they were found.

Six died from hypothermia

and then three died of fatal injuries that were unexplained.

What caused the hikers to abandon their campsite

remains a mystery,

but due to the gruesome nature of their injuries,

some have speculated they could've encountered

and angered a yeti.

I can understand why a yeti-type creature

would be a theory.

I don't know how you get so scared inside a tent

unless something was outside the tent trying to get in.

If they exist, they're certainly

large and powerful animals,

and I would imagine that they're probably very territorial, also.

I wouldn't want to get close to one.

With the grave danger close proximity to

a yeti can pose, perhaps the girls in this video

are lucky to have only suffered a bit of shock and terror.

I would not go camping in Russia

at any point in any time because the woods do seem to be

full of paranormal activity and bizarre creatures.

Russian woods are just a weird place.

It's not an enchanted forest, I'll tell you that.

What should youdo in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Watch out for unexpected paranormal attacks.

Hit record as fast as you can.

Trust your instincts that what you're seeing

really is supernatural.

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."