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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

a man in Maine finds an unexpected house guest.

Son of a.

Out of all the videos I've seen so far,

this is the first time the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

A church-turned-brewery

that proves not all hauntings are negative.

Whether that was an angel or not,

I think that it might be a protective spirit.

Something emerges from the vast Russian wilderness,

and it's not happy.

This is the freakiest little critter I've ever seen.

It seems to have a real attitude, too.

A peculiar blinking light in the Alaskan night

baffles even the most accomplished sky watchers.

All the explanations that we find for any UFO are absent.

It really makes it a strong case for an unknown.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe.

god.

At mental health care facilities of the past,

physicians armed only with the knowledge of the time

attempted to diagnose and appropriately treat

those who were believed to have gone mad.

With their ill-informed

and perhaps unintentional mistreatment

of so many patients, however,

they may have inadvertently unleashed

a terrifying echo through time,

one that still manifests through the halls

of some abandoned asylums even today,

and John Edmunds believes he has captured...

Turn around. Turn around. Turn around.

...the proof.

The Overbrook Insane Asylum was built in 1896

as the Essex County New Jersey Asylum for the insane.

In the 1940s and '50s, it was peak capacity.

I mean, like thousands and thousands of people

were sent to this facility,

and as we know about mental health in this country,

we always haven't been the best at diagnosing people's issues

or treating them humanely.

In the end, they were just kind of throwing everybody in there

for no reason at all.

People had strokes.

They didn't know what to do with them.

They put them in this institution.

There were also cases of abuse and neglect

and even people freezing to death in their cots

during one winter.

Like 10,000 people have died at this hospital

because it was open for so long and because people,

you know, would get sick in these conditions.

There is a specific tunnel system

underneath the entire hospital

that takes you from building to building

because they didn't want their patients

to see how many people were dying a day,

so they would gurney them underground to the morgue.

Overbrook was abandoned by the 1990s.

When they abandoned it, they just left everything,

and there were never ever any medical records kept.

If there were, they were just tossed

when everything was abandoned.

These places are known for trauma,

and these places are known for,

you know, really just some horrific medical studies

that we did on some of our more mentally ill people,

so I think that makes it a perfect, perfect place

for paranormal activity to occur.

That was the thought process of John Edmunds,

a resident of Mount Olive, New Jersey,

when he and his friend Vincent

decided to visit the Overbrook several years ago.

My name is John Edmunds, and I shot the video.

My friend Vincent and I,

we enjoy charting the forbidden

and unknown exploration zones

throughout the Garden State of New Jersey,

and one of these locations was the Essex County Hospital

located in Verona, Cedar Grove, New Jersey.

On one afternoon, my friend Vince and I,

we were traversing through the main hallway

which connected the long array of buildings.

I recall he picked up something,

and he threw it in one direction,

and then his face just changed.

Actually, my whole body turns with the camera, too,

and I just see, like, some little, like,

figure in the dark in the distance,

didn't really know what it was, and then it just starts moving.

God.

And that was my cue to just get out of there,

and I just basically just ran the other way.

God..

These two dudes that were in there,

they're looking for ghosts,

but what they found was sort of

like a spider-human hybrid crawling on the ground,

someone, something just there living

in this former insane asylum.

It has this creepy-crawly,

weird exorcist scene vibe.

I mean, it's either Anara from "The Ring"

meets the girl from "The Exorcist,"

and it's, like, running at you on all fours,

backwards, twisted.

I don't know what it's doing.

Turn around. Turn around. Turn around.

God..

I found this video particularly

disturbing because I have been in that hallway, personally.

If I had seen this creature,

whatever it is, it's terrifying.

I can't imagine how much more frightening it would be

if I were standing there

and saw this thing running down the hallway toward me.

My friend Vincent, he's a big believer of ghosts,

while myself, I'm a little reserved.

I'm a very realistic person, so I really try to process

things to really understand what they are,

but that day, seeing that,

who knows whatever it was,

it's just unexplainable.

It vaguely looks like a creature known as the Rake,

which is a very slender,

very tall gangly-looking creature

often described as being white or a pale skin color.

Nobody is quite sure whether Rake is an animal

or a spirit or a demon of some kind.

I say that because this doesn't seem to be human,

although it seems to have two arms and two legs.

I would like to see any human move the way this thing did.

It sort of walks, I guess, like a crab or a spider.

Obviously, our arms are shorter than our legs,

so if we're down on all fours, our hips are going to be higher.

This seems very flat to the ground

and moving quite quickly and almost in a menacing way.

Turn around. Turn around. Turn around.

And I never went alone after that day.

I can tell you that.

I never went exploring alone after that.

God..

When you're standing

on the ground and you spot something in the sky

that you cannot explain, logic dictates

that there is almost always a reasonable explanation for it,

even if it seems unnatural,

but what if you're not on the ground at all?

What if you're already in space?

For those who reside at the International Space Station,

seeing an unidentified flying object

seems to be as simple as looking out the nearest window.

Believe it or not,

going back all the way to the Apollo missions,

astronauts have claimed to see all sorts of UFOs

flying around up there.

A lot of times, NASA tells them to keep their mouth

shut about it, but sometimes stories leak out.

People from that era saw things that they couldn't explain.

So if we trust these people with some of

the most highly secretive information in this country,

I think we also have to trust these folks

when they say they saw something out of this world.

But when the International Space Station's

cameras are running,

your level of trust in an astronaut's word

is irrelevant.

The evidence is right there in front of you.

Watch this video from 2017 as the ISS cameras

captured an unidentified mothership-like aircraft

seemingly hovering directly over the Earth's horizon.

This thing, I mean, from the looks of it, it's massive.

My first thought was that, clearly,

we're looking at some sort of ship of some sort,

some glowing object that's off in the distance.

McNEILL: That is not a speck. It's not a dot.

It's not a blurry whatever.

It really appears to be a fairly significantly sized

flying object above Earth's atmosphere.

That, I think, is such a compelling image

for us nowadays.

We know what we think space is supposed to look like.

We know what we think space travel is going to look like,

and it looks a lot like that.

You add the weight of

the International Space Station behind it,

and you have a really compelling piece of evidence.

Adding to the mystery is the discovery that,

when the footage is only slightly sped up,

the anomalous object's movement and eventual disappearance

is all the more astounding.

The poignant thing about this video is the perspective,

the fact that we're looking from space at space,

whereas normally we're looking from the ground on up

and there's many things to be distracted by.

There's many obvious explanations

that could rationalize away what we're seeing,

but, from space, there's not a lot out there.

There's our planets.

There's the stars beyond,

and when you see a light or maybe a craft,

there's really nothing else to distract you.

Prior reporting from 2017 suggests

that NASA believes all unidentified objects

as seen from the ISS are explainable.

But with the preponderance of mysterious footage

that comes from the ISS,

combined with the reality of

the unknowable vastness of space,

it's fair to ask, can we really be so sure?

I imagine there's probably a lot of basic explanations

for what it could be,

but legends thrive on that possibility

of another explanation,

so if something is either all true or all false,

we don't care about it anymore.

We don't tell good stories about those things.

We tell stories about the things that are just ambiguous enough

to open the door to possibility.

It's got to be amazing to look out the window

and basically see Earth from a distance

and then things possibly flying around, you know,

and not knowing, you know, what else is out there.

It's an adventure.

An adventure that will continue on as long

as the mystery remains.

I believe that there are just an unfathomable amount

of other species out there living on other planets

and other solar systems.

It's pretty daft of us to think that only one star that we live

and grow off of exists when there's proof,

especially when we take photographs

with the Hubble Telescope,

we see other stars and other galaxies

that have the same amount of possibilities

for giving life like we know.

I think it would be incredibly sad

if Earth was the only planet to support life.

Out of all the stars out there, all the galaxies,

there has to be something else out there.

Whether or not they're visiting Earth, that's another question,

but there definitely has to be something there.

Now, if they are visiting Earth,

this could be perfect evidence of that.

Coming up,

a heavenly spirit descends on a Detroit brewery.

If you're visiting a local brewery,

chances are you're doing it for one reason

and one reason only, to drink its beer,

but the next time you're trying to decide

between an IPA or a Porter, it might be worth your while

to put that pint glass down for a moment

and take a closer look around the premises

because some brewery spaces

weren't always used for breweries,

and you never know who or what might be watching from above.

In March of 2018,

the Atwater Brewery in Detroit, Michigan,

which was once a church,

hosted the team from Detroit Paranormal

for a special event.

They wanted to brew their own paranormal-themed beer,

and they brought along a news film crew to shoot the process.

Hi.

My name is Alex Atwell, and I'm the one who filmed the video.

I was there with Detroit Paranormal Expeditions,

and they were at Atwater Brewery,

which is a former church that they brew beer in now.

Hi. My name is Todd Bonner, and I took part in this video.

Alex was part of a local news team that came out to film us.

Ready? Go.

We were making a paranormal-themed beer,

probably the only one in Detroit,

maybe the only one in the world

called Hello from the Other Side.

So as we went to the brewery to meet with the brewer,

we talked to some of the employees,

and they were telling us some of the paranormal experiences

they were having, some employees that,

you know, get nervous at night, that don't want to go downstairs

and little things that are happening,

so they kind of believe that it does have a history

and that it is haunted.

Curiosity piqued, they set up a spirit box to see

if they could make some kind of contact

with any entities that may be nearby.

How many spirits are with us tonight in this building?

Can you give me a number, please?

The employees really didn't have an explanation,

and we did get a lot of response up in the bar area

where the church actually was,

where the congregation would sit.

They did pick up a few potential entities

with the machine.

Tell us how many spirits are here with us right now.

But the most spectacular discovery

came a few days later.

It was when I was going through to edit pieces of the story

together is when I saw, like,

something I had never seen before on video.

Watch the right side of the screen closely.

Watch again in slow motion as an apparition seemed

to fly into Alex's frame

before disappearing into thin air.

When Alex sent me the video, I was pretty shocked

because I had never seen anything like that before,

and Alex has been doing this for over,

I think, 16 years as a cinematographer,

and he's never seen nothing like that,

and he went over it and over it

and tried to debunk everything he possibly could.

He's not a paranormal guy at all,

so this was all new to him.

Whatever it was, was above us,

and then it looks like it sprout wings,

and I had never seen anything like that before.

It seems to be a light color, but I couldn't say

whether it's a living creature or a spiritual thing.

At first I'm thinking,

"This could have been a bird,

but why does it just dissipate in the middle of the shot?"

It didn't fly up to a banner.

It flew halfway across your shot

and then just kind of disappeared.

It seems to fade away almost right before your eyes,

so that eliminates bird.

That eliminates bat.

That eliminates some animal being in the brewery.

I saved the video, and I sent out

to a couple psychics that I know around the United States

just to get different opinions on it.

One of the psychics said it was, like, a protector

of that church, like, something that's always been there,

a good presence, you know, looking over the church.

In churches,

there's a lot of really positive energy

because, you know, there's a lot of prayer, ritual, whatever.

All of that just kind of raises the positive vibes

inside of a building like that,

so whether that was an angel or not,

I think that it might be a protective spirit.

And if you're thinking that

a brewery is the last place

one might encounter an angelic presence, think again.

Booze and the church have a long relationship,

so it's not unusual to see angelic things

like this inside of a church,

especially now that it's a brewery.

I mean, if you think all the way back to the Middle Ages,

the Trappist monks of Belgium, France, Germany,

they were the official brewmasters of the church.

They've been drinking beer instead of water

for a long, long time.

Here, you have a brewhouse inside of a church,

so I think that, whether there is a residual angel

watching over the building, that could be possible,

but I also think that

the accumulated energy of the people

that used to worship there also sticks around,

so when you have now a lively environment,

people are drinking beer,

it's not an unholy communion to get together there

and drink libations and things of that sort.

I think that it actually creates, like, a perfect storm

for a haunt, you know,

and if it's for angels, so be it.

Could it be a ghost? Could it be an angel?

You know, we're in the church with all that history,

and, yeah, I mean,

it was just trying to figure out what it was,

and I couldn't find an explanation

of what it could be.

I still can't explain it.

I went over it and over it, and I sent it out

to other people to get their opinions about it.

No one can explain it, so I feel it's legitimate

paranormal experience that I caught on camera.

Coming up, a homeowner runs

head on into a shadow figure.

Son of a.

Maybe you know someone

who unequivocally does not believe in ghosts.

Maybe that someone simply cannot be convinced,

no matter the quality or quantity of evidence.

Maybe that someone is you.

What would it take to change your mind?

Hypothetically, what kind of paranormal event

must you personally witness?

Does it even exist?

For Kent Burris, his tipping point was choosing

to rent a home in New England with a specific history.

Son of a.

Burris, originally from Compton, California,

moved with his wife into a house in Carmel, Maine,

in 2014, with the intention of semi-retiring.

My name is Kent Burris, and I filmed the video.

When we first moved into this house,

there were some strange things going on in the house,

sounds in the house, voices,

but I kind of had logical explanations on those things.

There's people that told my son,

who lived here at the time, that,

"Hey, you know what? You need to be careful in that house.

There's a ghost in it, and it's haunted."

My son told me about it.

I laughed at him, but then he did see

a shadow apparition appear in his room.

I said, "Joshua, I don't believe in ghosts. I'm sorry."

Two years went by.

There was a night where I was in bed, sleeping,

and I heard a female voice say, "Help me."

Help me.

And my back was turned to the closet in the bedroom,

and I spun around and looked.

There's nobody there.

My wife was in bed next to me.

I laid back down, and then I felt a tap on my hip,

and the female voice again said, "Help me, Kent."

Nobody was there,

and it felt like there was a presence inside the room.

So that's when I started taking a closer look

into the strange activities in this house.

In 2018, Kent finally took it upon himself

to start documenting the unusual activity

he was experiencing in his home.

I was downstairs, sitting in the living room,

and I did hear some sounds coming up from my bedroom.

I just heard some talking.

Hello?

I can hear faint talking.

I go up to investigate it while the camera is going.

Is somebody up here?

The hell is that noise?

And when I opened up the door and came around the corner...

Son of a.

It was so unexpected

that it just kind of shocked me in the moment.

Out of all the videos I've seen so far,

this is the first time the hair on the back of my neck stood up,

and that doesn't usually happen to me a lot,

but I was like, "Oh, my..."

The shadow was in such close proximity to him.

It almost looked like it was about to tap him on the shoulder

if he hadn't spun around at that instant.

That is a terrifying little sequence.

You can tell he's terrified, too.

Son of a.

When your haunts start to happen,

it starts off kind of light, you know,

with knocking and whispering sounds, things of that sort.

And if you're not responding, then maybe it's going to try

to manifest in a visual way to get your attention.

I think this is definitely a shadow figure

that's haunting him.

He never really sought out the paranormal.

He never believed in any of these things, and then,

now, all of the sudden, this is happening?

There is a chance that he manifested this thing over time,

and now it's starting to show itself.

I think it has mostly to do with the intention of the apparition.

Apparitions choose to be seen.

They choose us to experience them or perceive them, go,

"You know what? Here's a guy that we can talk to.

Here's a guy that will hear us."

Somebody saying, "Help me because I don't understand

what's happening, and you're the only one

that seems to be able to hear me."

Because spirits don't have a physical body

that we're aware of, one might think,

"Well, how can they feel pain if they don't have a body?"

But so many of them say, "Help me. I need help."

Help me.

That torment could be of a spiritual nature.

Their hell could be entirely generated by themselves,

and the help they need, sometimes,

can come only from themselves.

I've captured this apparition many times.

In fact, we nicknamed him shadow dude.

And I never get the impression that he's evil.

It's just scary.

I mean, when you come around a corner,

and he's just standing there looking at you,

it's pretty scary.

But why is it in the house in the first place?

The history of this house, the front section

was actually an old school building,

from what we gathered, back in the early 1800s.

Edmund Lamb purchased the building

from the school district.

Now, back in those days,

they would hold funerals at people's homes.

When laws changed, Edmund had to set this up

as a funeral home for health reasons.

This was the original funeral home in Carmel, Maine.

In my opinion, based on the paranormal activity

I've come across, this house has kind of been a safehaven

for some of these ghosts.

If something grabbed ahold of me

and slammed me up against the wall

or threw me down the steps, it's all over with.

We're gone.

But it takes a lot of that fear away that,

whatever this is, it does not attack.

This is a phenomenon that's very amazing and very real,

but it's not doing anything to physically harm us.

If I'm him, I'm sleeping on the couch.

I am not going back into that bedroom anytime soon.

If I am in the bedroom, I'm keeping all the lights on,

no shadows around.

I don't ever turn this fricking light out.

Leave this light on because of certain reasons like this.

We sleep with the TV on going all night.

We sleep with the fan going on all night.

We have to create some type of noise

because the sounds in the house and the voices wake us up.

And all this activity has inspired

Kent to take a rather unusual step.

I want to buy it to preserve the history of this house.

I don't necessarily want to buy it

to continue to live in it,

but to preserve it as a historical site,

try to bring it back to how it looked back in those days

when Edmund Lamb used it as a funeral home.

Probably set it up more like a museum.

Coming up, strange lights in the sky baffle

an Alaskan man.

If it's true that humans always fear

what they don't understand, then UFOs, by definition,

are almost always innately unsettling.

After all, the word unidentified is right there in its title.

So it's logical that a vague sense of unease naturally arises

when someone is confronted with one of these sightings

for the very first time,

which is what makes this next UFO clip

particularly compelling

because, while it's one thing to unsettle a newcomer,

it's quite another to do it

to the world's foremost UFO experts.

In May of 2016, a man in Fairbanks, Alaska,

spotted an unusual blinking light in the distant sky.

Oh, what is that?

Less than a minute later,

the light began doing more than just blink.

Ooh. Ooh. There it is.

And soon after,

the light split apart yet again.

Whoa. Huh.

This blinking light births another light

and then births other lights,

and it just seems to be going on and on and on and on.

It stays stationary in the sky.

It's not moving back and forth.

Just to give some backstory on, like,

what Fairbanks is like in May, it's pretty much 24-hour light,

so what you're seeing right now is probably the dead of night,

which still kind of looks like sunset.

So what you're seeing is a light anomaly

that's probably very bright

because it's not totally night

in Fairbanks, Alaska, in May.

Not sure what to make of the UFO,

the man who filmed it passed

the footage along to an organization

that he believed might be able to help --

MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.

My name is Douglas Wilson.

I am the MUFON chief investigator.

MUFON is the world's oldest UFO investigative body.

It's been around since 1969.

We do scientific investigation of the UFO

and related phenomenon.

Oh, what is that?

This particular light is very anomalous

because of the way it moves.

In two places, it actually seems to break apart,

and that's something we do not frequently see

in a stationary UFO.

To rule out all other possibilities,

Douglas went through a checklist of usual

explanations for most UFO sightings.

For instance, could it be a meteor?

Normally, if this thing had been moving rapidly,

that would present quite a bit like a meteor.

In this case, because it is almost motionless in the sky,

it doesn't really fall under any of the usual suspects.

Next, what about Chinese lanterns,

which have often been mistaken for UFOs?

Normally, we think Chinese lanterns in a case like this,

but the way this one does not seem to be carried

anywhere on the wind,

and it's not constantly ascending like

we would normally expect a Chinese lantern.

Could it be an aircraft or a drone?

It's certainly not an aircraft

because it is almost motionless.

There are no navigation lights,

and there's some things that point very clearly to it

not being a drone, one of which is the size

and brightness of the light for the apparent distance.

This is clearly well beyond the trees.

It's clearly well beyond the distance of the buildings,

and yet it is a very intensely bright light.

Or was it possible that this UFO

was simply a flare?

If this object had descended and shimmered,

then that would be a good indication

that it would have probably been a military flare.

For four minutes, this UFO stays almost stationary,

so it's not a flare.

So we have gone down the lists.

We've taken a look at aircrafts, aircraft flight paths.

We've taken a look at celestial objects

that could have been visible at that time, from that location.

All of the prosaic explanations that we frequently find

for any given UFO report

are absent with the Fairbanks UFO.

It really makes it a strong case for an unknown.

And not just unknown,

but a reminder of another mysterious

incident from Alaska's history.

There was a famous UFO sighting in 1986

when this Japanese jetliner came over Alaska,

and the pilots claimed that there was

these two square-looking UFOs

that were straddling the plane.

Not only did they see it, but it was actually picked up

on radar back at headquarters.

And the guy said, "These things were the size

of aircraft carriers."

This is very famous.

That sighting and the one in Fairbanks

are just more bricks in the wall of evidence not just from Alaska

but from around the world.

So we're in a great time right now

when it comes to UFO investigations.

The US government is getting closer and closer

to disclosure on a regular basis.

Most of us hope that, eventually,

we could discover what the UFOs actually represent,

whether they truly are just

an accumulation of very unusual phenomenon

that we haven't been able to discover,

whether it does turn out to be actually

just a lot of very high-tech military equipment,

or whether it turns out to be actually visitors

from another world.

Coming up, the spirit of a librarian

returns to its old haunting grounds

to confront a curious explorer.

No.

By their very nature, quiet, dusty,

and filled to the brim with stories, fact and fiction,

libraries lend themselves to ghostly activity,

whether residual or intelligent.

And if anecdotal evidence is any guide,

the Leeds Library in Leeds, England,

may fit the bill as the most haunted of the bunch.

Its notorious reputation compelled Sean Reynolds

to visit the library in July of 2017,

an experience which he'll remember forever.

What the hell?

The Leeds Library was first founded in 1768

but didn't open its doors until the early 1800s.

This is one of the oldest

standing brick-and-mortar libraries in all of England.

Since at least 1844,

people have reported seeing apparitions

and having paranormal experiences there.

A lot of the haunts there are assumed to be residual haunts,

mostly from librarians that have worked there their whole lives.

They're still working there.

They're still organizing these books.

They're still protecting the information

that this library has.

But one curious Liverpudlian named Sean Reynolds

wanted to find out if those haunts were coming

from the spirit of one particular librarian.

My name is Sean Reynolds,

and I filmed the video at Leeds Library.

There was a head librarian there called Vincent Sternberg,

and it's believed that it's his ghost

that's haunting the building.

He, you know, had a very tragic accident with gunpowder

and has some very horrific injuries.

He died.

Now, the staff that work inside of the library,

they believe they've seen this guy,

and he's been seen over multiple years.

Books were flying off the shelves,

banging noises were being heard,

and people kept thinking they saw the figure

of some strange entity

walking and lurking around the building.

...of books.

You just don't know, from one turn to the next,

what you're gonna hear or what you're gonna feel.

As I was walking around, it felt like somebody was following me,

and everywhere I was going, the noises were following me.

I heard a voice then, okay, a lady's voice.

When you feel like somebody is looking at you,

when you start feeling the hair on the back of your neck...

I heard a voice then, okay, a lady's voice.

...that's not from a residual haunt.

That's from an energy that can feel you back.

And when Sean entered a specific room of the library,

things truly took a turn for the terrifying.

I was following the noises into different rooms,

and that's when I came upon a loud banging noise.

Was that you tapping on one of the bookshelves?

Hello?

I opened the door.

When I went inside, the noises were louder,

and the banging was louder.

What the hell?

And then, suddenly...

I saw it. I'm sure I saw it.

Hello. No.

No way.

The library ladder apparently moved by itself,

thoroughly freaking Sean out.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What the hell?

What's interesting about this

is that the top of the ladder seems to be doing the moving.

I looked at this from a skeptic's view,

and I figured, "Okay. There could be someone

just below the frame, pushing it."

But if that were so, the bottom of the ladder

would be the one doing the leading.

In this case, the top of the ladder moved first,

showing that the force enacted upon the ladder

came from the top.

I mean, that's a real interesting capture.

You know, it's a big room. It's an old library.

There's a lot of stories.

Who knows, when you're setting up a camera, what to look at,

so I think they were really lucky

they got this motion that they did.

I didn't expect the ladder was going to move.

I thought that maybe a book was moving

or something was going to fall off the shelf.

It's one of these books.

That's when I saw the ladder moving,

and I just couldn't believe it.

My instant reaction was, "Whoa."

No.

You know, I'm in this room,

and the door was actually near the ladder.

I needed to, you know, my escape route,

if there was something in there,

was quite short, so it was a bit scary.

It was intense.

It wasn't until after the event I started

to put the pieces together and perhaps see

if this was Sternberg making himself known to me.

I'm sure I saw that move. I'm sure this moved.

Maybe people that spend their whole lives in libraries

have nowhere else to go.

I mean, if they don't really pass on to wherever they go,

they might just want to hang around in familiar settings.

In Mr. Sternberg's case, you know,

a former employee who had a great tie to this library,

is just coming in, making sure that something

that he holds dear in his heart is being taken well care of.

I think that's my cue to get out of here.

It always amazes me when these people

go into a place looking for a ghost,

and then, as soon as they see one, they flee the scene.

It's like, "This is what you came for. Enjoy it."

Despite being spooked by his initial experience,

Sean is already planning his return visit.

There's an active haunting in Leeds Library.

There's a spirit that knows it's there.

It may be Vincent.

But it doesn't want to have its personal space invaded,

and I think that's why it follows people around.

Hello. No.

No way.

Coming up, a Russian man comes face to face

with a diminutive yet dauntless woodland creature.

From the sparse Siberian tundra

to the dense forests of the Ural Mountains,

Russia is home to a wide variety of wildlife.

But according to folklore,

those who venture out into the wilderness

may encounter more than just elk.

Indeed, several enormous cryptids are said

to be found in the region.

In addition to the widely known yeti,

there have been reports of giant lake monsters

and massive bears left over from prehistoric times.

Some legendary Russian cryptids, however,

come in smaller packages, a lot smaller.

In the Orenburg region of Southwest Russia,

a local man was out on horseback, feeding his cows,

when he heard unusual screaming coming from the forest.

Hello. My name is Sergey.

Curious as to who or what could be making the sound,

Sergey rode into the forest to check it out.

What he saw defied explanation.

According to local legend,

there is an old woman without a tongue who has lived

in the woods for decades,

but Sergey couldn't determine whether in fact the creature

was human, animal, or something else entirely.

This is the freakiest little critter I've ever seen.

It seems to have a real attitude, too.

The fact that this creature seems to be holding

a tool or a weapon

or whatever it is would indicate that it has opposable thumbs.

It has human-like hands.

No cryptids I can think of actually use tools,

which perhaps means that this, whatever this thing is,

is of a higher intelligence than other cryptids, perhaps.

Given the region's relatively spotty safety record

with radioactive materials,

some speculate that this creature

could be a result of a mutation.

When Chernobyl melted down, it did cause,

like, all sorts of anomalous,

like, abnormal mutations in animals and in humans.

Now they're thinking that they have these monsters

that have been created by the radioactive meltdown.

I don't have to tell you what kind of crazy things

come out of that country.

We do know of creatures like the Almasti

or the yeti that actually live there,

so this could be, perhaps, a deformed yeti.

You have bigfoot. You have dogman.

You have lizardman.

You have all these creatures, mole people,

all these things that essentially are animals

plus human fused together or evolved in a certain way.

Despite this creature's threatening gestures,

the seemingly unflappable Sergey kept filming.

That is, until the creature charged.

The creature vanished before Sergey

was able to make any sense of the encounter.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

No.

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

God.

Check your old footage and then check it again.

Welcome any and all new roommates.

Son of a...

Try not to be scared off by a little attitude.

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