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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

ghost hunters have a close encounter.

-It's going crazy - ...with the Owlman

That sends a chill down my spine

because how vulnerable were you at that moment?

A ventriloquist dummy....

comes to life.

Dummies are creepy enough,

but to see this one actually move by itself...

An enormous UFO hovers above a crowded city in China.

They're obviously not trying to hide.

That kind of tells me maybe this isn't

a conventional UFO at least.

A demonic spirit crashes an apartment.

If I was those people, I would get out of the apartment

and go find a place that's not haunted.

Plus even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

to believe.

There are certain locations around the country

notorious for being haunted.

Like one Georgia hotel that prefers to remain nameless.

Bought in 1920 by three wealthy sisters who never married

and ran the business until the 1950s.

The classic building has been visited

by the likes of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller...

And reported endless string of spirits and ghosts

over the past 100 years,

and more recently, it's rumored that an elderly man passed away

in one of the guest rooms --

and his ghost is still present.

It remains a popular destination for amateur ghost hunters

hoping for an encounter with the paranormal.

But as one man found out, be careful what you wish for.

I won't come back to close that door one more time.

What the hell?

In August 2019, ghost hunter Clayton Golda

checked into a 102 year old hotel

in St. Marys, Georgia,

which had a reputation for being haunted.

His goal?

Spend the night alone and find evidence

of the haunting.

So, I'm staying in this super haunted room.

And I was even getting ready to film or anything yet.

I was going to throw all my stuff on my charger.

And I was going to go outside.

I was going to have a cigar for the night and then come back in

and then try to set some cameras and film.

Okay?

I've been in this room for like 10 minutes.

My fan has shut off and turned back on.

See that?

The bathroom door over there, there's no windows open.

I got nothing going on and that thing right there

just closed all by itself.

So I'm telling you what, it's a little spooky.

I am thinking it's --

A am thinking it's kind of neat.

So I'm probably going to go have my cigar, I'm gonna come back,

set some cameras up, and do whatever I --

Battery's about to go low -- and then do whatever I can

to get it --

It's closing right now, guys.

Just moved a little bit.

Telling you, it just --

See that?

There's no one in here with me.

My name is Clayton Golda.

It just happened, just like that.

Activity started happening.

It was... it was really exciting.

I didn't have much battery power.

But I wanted to get it because I didn't know if

this is going to happen again.

I can't remember if it did it once or twice while --

before I turned it on, or what.

But it's been doing it a lot and I don't get it,

because I tried doing it by hand--

I got goose bumps.

Sure enough, it happened again, right on camera.

Stuff just kept happening after that.

I won't come back if you close that door one more time.

What the hell?!

Clayton goes inside the bathroom to see

if he can detect a presence.

There's no one here, guys.

And to conduct a test on the door.

You can see, watch.

Watch.

See, watch.

It doesn't close by itself.

Well, first of all, I know it is an intelligent kind of spirit

because, you know, again,

you ask somebody to do something and it does it.

You ask this ghost to shut the door and it shuts the door.

So how great is that for a ghost investigation?

To actually, you know, talk to the spirit.

I'll leave this room for a little while.

I won't come back if you close that door one more time.

What the hell?!

It's not like an aggressive spirit of any kind,

it doesn't seem threatening at all.

So at least they seem to be on some sort of terms.

I'm gonna probably get ready for bed,

but I'm thinking I'm gonna leave the camera on.

I hate sleeping with the light on,

but maybe I'll leave light on

and we'll just leave the camera rolling

while I sleep,

see how it goes, see if anything happens.

If something does happen, great.

Clayton goes to bed shortly after,

and actually manages to fall asleep.

Most of the night seems unremarkable,

but then around 3:30 a.m...

Keep your eyes on the lower right side of your screen.

A chair is pushed or pulled right up next to Clayton's bed.

With enough force to actually move the fan.

This unseen figure actually draws a chair up

next to his bed,

and I have to assume has a seat while he's sleeping.

You know, that's something that was a little off-putting.

And takes some force to push a rolling chair.

So that's definitely unusual to see.

Just a few minutes later,

Clayton is suddenly startled awake.

Again, keep your eyes on the right side of the screen.

Specifically, the lower right corner of the bed.

Something or someone appears to jolt the bed

and shake Clayton awake.

At nighttime, it feels like

there's a shift in the type of activity

we are witnessing.

It seems a little more forceful

and even perhaps with more intense.

What strikes me when I see this nighttime footage

is how vulnerable he must be

and how relatable that is.

In my field, it's often believed

that when you are sleep, you travel.

There's astral travel, and that's a place

where you can interact with spirits.

If they have something to say,

perhaps it's through a dream, through a way

that they don't have to manifest in a physical form.

We're going to meet them on their plane.

We're going to meet them on their turf.

After viewing the tape,

Clayton was too excited to go back to sleep.

The haunting was real.

I personally feel this was the spirit

that might have passed in that room

that was just still there

and didn't even have anything to do with me whatsoever.

Whatever the cause,

Clayton had all the evidence he needed.

The next morning, he checked out -- early.

I just felt terrified being there.

Just a feeling.

And that's one of the things I look for.

Not just objects moving,

not just that -- I go for the feeling

that you receive from these places.

And that's what the kind of stuff I look for as well.

Freaking out, guys, I'm freaking out.

Coming up, two Russian ghost hunters

meet a poltergeist with some chops.

Poltergeists are noisy...

Watch the door open.

...mischievous entities.

...that can manipulate the environment around you

and make your life a living hell.

But at least there's the minor comfort

that once you leave the premises,

you most likely leave the poltergeist behind.

But what if there's no escape?

What did the poltergeist

manages to trap you inside?

That's what happened to two members

of a Russian paranormal team

when they encountered a powerful poltergeist

in an abandoned home.

And it proved to be one of

the most terrifying experiences of their lives.

It's the summer of 2019 in Zelenogorsk,

St. Petersburg, Russia.

The ghost hunting team Nerv Paranorm

is approaching a long-abandoned early 20th century home.

They've been here before and believe it's haunted.

Now they're back hoping to catch

some paranormal activity on camera.

Almost immediately,

they come upon something disturbing.

A creepy stuffed animal --

proof that someone or something has been here

since their last visit.

They're a little freaked out, but determined to make contact.

As they carefully make their way through the upper level,

almost inch by inch,

they use a camera with a high powered flash to capture

any potential entities passing through.

These guys are trying to collect as much data

and potential evidence as possible,

and they're firing away with their camera.

My concern with that is it's going to mess up

their vision in that darkened space

so they won't actually be able to visually process

what's taking place around them.

I have no idea what his strategy is,

but I'm going to say it's deeply flawed.

If he cares about his own safety.

They come upon a familiar room.

...and another sign that something has changed

since their last visit. Still, if I can say.

Although this is what they came for,

their instincts immediately scream...

Get out.

I would say it almost has to be

some sort of intelligent haunting.

They're clearly toying with these guys.

They're closing doors in front of them.

They moved the chairs right in front of them.

Whatever it is, they know that those guys are there

and they're messing with 'em.

Panicked, they search for a way out.

But even finding a way out of this nightmare is a nightmare.

I guess that these guys had just,

you know, met their threshold of bravery

and said, you know what, let's just get out of here.

I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

It's like you're playing hide and seek,

but that's their childhood home. That's not your home.

You don't know where the hiding spaces are.

But they own the space.

Like, there is nowhere to hide there.

They will find you.

Unfortunately, the only way out...

is going back in.

They finally find an exit and get out for good.

So what exactly was happening inside this place?

It feels poltergeisty to me,

it doesn't seem like a thoughtful,

intelligent presence with a clear message

of, "I need you to accomplish this on my behalf."

This feels like chaotic, noisy, loud energy.

That was an extreme poltergeist.

Moving one chair half an inch

takes an incredible amount of spiritual energy.

So just imagine how much energy it would

take to move all of those chairs at once.

It's very possible that it's not just one spirit.

It could be multiple spirits.

It could be an entire cadre of energy

that is either holding domain there

or has come there for whatever purpose.

And it's telling them, "Guys, it's time to go."

Whatever it was, the Nerv Paranorm team

feels lucky to have made it out unscathed.

When you're watching these videos,

it's very easy to be brave;

when you're in the situation itself,

I can tell you that it's not always easy.

Coming up, a ventriloquist doll

with a mind of its own.

During the darkest days of World War II,

a young American private named Billy Booth

was held in a notorious German prison camp

called Stalag IIB.

Wanting to lift the spirits of his fellow prisoners,

Private Booth made a ventriloquist puppet

to entertain them using old newspapers

and other found materials.

He named it Mr. Fritz.

Sadly, Billy Booth never made it out of the camp alive.

But amazingly, more than 70 years later,

his creation, Mr. Fritz lives on.

For real.

It was the fall of 2019 in Liverpool, England.

Collector Michael Diamond began noticing some strange activity

in his freak room,

a room in his home filled with antique oddities.

A display case containing the disembodied head of

Mr. Fritz, a ventriloquist's dummy from World War II

kept opening on its own.

One night, Michael decided to set up a camera,

and the next day when he reviewed the footage,

his blood ran cold.

A few hours in, Mr. Fritz comes to life.

First, his eyes open.

Then the door opens.

And his mouth moves.

But wait, there's more.

Now, watch the controls at the base of the neck.

It's as if Mr. Fritz is being controlled

by someone or something from beyond.

This clip was super creepy.

Dummies are creepy enough even as a hobby,

but to see this one actually move by itself,

it was just unbelievable.

It's creepy to see a ventriloquist doll's eyes

open on its own, its mouth flap.

But then if you look closely at the base of its head,

there are these little mechanisms at the bottom

that you see moving,

which a ventriloquist would manipulate,

you know, behind their heads

to make the eyes move and the heads turn

and all those things.

It was like the ventriloquist was still there,

moving the dummy, testing it out, you know?

Yes, strings are moving.

It's -- but what's moving the strings?

What is Mr. Fritz trying to communicate?

I think these kind of inanimate objects

can be a conduit to the spirit world

just as much as in a Ouija board could.

If Mr. Fritz's movement is somehow a conduit

to the spirit world,

then who is using it to communicate?

Maybe the answer lies in the doll's sad and dramatic past,

a past that was revealed in a letter attached to the dummy

when it was given to Michael.

Mr. Fritz has a very dark history to it.

It was made by a Allied prisoner in a German prison camp

named Billy Booth to entertain the troops that were there.

Unfortunately, the Germans made him actually dig his own grave

and then they killed him.

I mean, when you die an awful death,

like literally dying at the arms of a firing squad

two weeks before your camp was liberated,

I think that energy is fluid and intelligent.

Even though he passed away,

he was probably aware of how close he was to freedom.

You just have to put yourself in that soldier's shoes

and understand what that doll meant to him.

And there's definitely an attachment

to something like that, you know?

This doll was present

during some of the darkest days of modern history.

So for me, it's not an exceptional leap to think

that there was some sort of energy connected to it.

And though the dummy's body has long since been lost,

it makes sense that the spirit would attach itself to the head,

the most important and most communicative part of the doll.

But could other entities also be making use of the dummy?

It's not just the doll head moving.

It's also the door to his case that moves.

That makes me think that

something is an enacting upon it.

It's not coming from the doll itself.

It's not the doll which is haunted,

but there's energy around it that might be using it

as a conduit for communication.

Either way,

since the activity seems relatively harmless,

Michael has learned to live with a dummy

but is keeping a close eye on him, just in case.

I would love to record

this thing in more controlled environments

and see; if it were in my house, though, I can guarantee you

that I would lock that glass case up --

double lock that glass case up at night when I went to bed.

NARRATOR Coming up, is this proof?

of the elusive Owlman?

At any given time, there are countless

paranormal creatures roaming the Earth.

Yet few are more mysterious and elusive than the Owlman.

This ominous winged cryptid has been spotted on and off

for the past 40 plus years, often seen flying above

a certain church in Cornwall, England.

But most of what we know of the Owlman is from folklore

and the occasional eyewitness account.

No actual images of the Owlman existed...

That is, until a young man in England

unwittingly captured this.

It's August of 2019

in Cornwall, England,

Paranormal investigator Mark Davies and his friend

Chris go to St. Mawnan

and St. Stephen's Church Cemetery,

where the infamous Owlman

has been spotted on numerous occasions.

We go this way?

Tonight they have

to capture proof of its existence once and for all.

Wow.

First stop, a mausoleum

that has supposed Owlman markings

scratched on its door.

Look at all the little finger marks down there.

Oh, yeah. This is what the press was reporting,

looks like finger marks etched into the doors.

Like, trying to get in.

This is crazy.

What're they trying to get in from?

A short while later, Chris thinks he's caught

something lurking in the woods on his camera.

You haven't.

Oh, my God, Chris has caught something.

Check this out.

- Is it still there? - Yeah.

What's it look like?

Glowing eyes.

This is the footage that

Chris took just moments ago.

Watch as two glowing shapes suddenly appear.

Could they be the eyes of the Owlman?

Glowing eyes.

Mark is disturbed.

He immediately pulls out his K-II EMF,

or Electromagnetic Field Meter,

a device used to detect the presence of ghosts.

Just heard something flapping.

Yeah.

K-II is going absolutely ridiculous just then.

Look at that.

Whoa, something -- Wow. It's going right off now.

Are you the Mothman? The Owlman?

It's saying yes, Chris, it's going crazy.

Yeah?

It's on full bars, mate!

Wow. That is a strong energy, whatever that is.

Mark is now sure that the Owlman,

or at least something otherworldly,

is nearby.

I know it takes you some time...

...to do it.

Thank you.

There you go.

Thank you.

Nervous and barely able to see anything

in the pitch darkness,

he begins to scan the area with his night vision camera.

Is there a creature that lives here?

He sees nothing --

or so he thinks.

Take another look.

As a figure appears for a moment

on the right side of your screen,

a figure that looks very much like the Owlman.

Oh, my God!

Although you only see it for a few seconds.

I mean, it does have the form of a man

and the drawings that people that witnessed it drew.

And that they do look similar.

You can see the horns sticking up.

It was pretty creepy.

Incredibly, Mark didn't realize

what he had captured

until he reviewed the footage later at his home.

He immediately broke out into a cold sweat.

How close did he come to being attacked?

Something to think about with footage like this

is when you don't notice something right near you

and you only pick up on it later...

I don't know, that -- that sends a chill down my spine

because how vulnerable were you at that moment?

Despite being freaked out,

Mark was thrilled with the footage he captured

and in reality was probably never in any real danger,

at least not from the Owlman itself.

Like the Mothman here in the United States,

the Owlman seems to be benign.

He's not evil. He's not good.

Owlman itself isn't really

something to be afraid of.

But people think that he might be a sign

that something terrible is about to happen.

If it is an omen of bad things to come,

we may all be in for some trouble.

Because lately both the Owlman and its American cousin,

the Mothman, have been sighted all over the world.

It's almost identical to the stories

that we hear of the Mothman here in America

coming out of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The description is almost identical,

and even Mothman is really described

as more of a birdlike creature than an actual moth,

which is more terrifying, of course,

because birds are the raptors,

are certainly more threatening than moths are.

Whatever these sightings signify,

one thing is for certain:

Mark is one of the very few, if not the only person,

to have captured proof of the Owlman's existence.

Yeah. I just heard an owl.

The reason I love these kinds of stories

is I'm always wondering, is this alien in nature?

Is it extra dimensional?

Is it's supernatural?

Where is this thing coming from?

And I don't know.

And I don't think we really have a firm grasp on it,

but it's popping up everywhere.

Coming up, a shadow figure

wreaks havoc in an apartment.

Most of us have had this experience --

we hear a strange noise in our home...

Or find something on the floor with no explanation

of how it got there.

Most of the time we chalk it up to a random occurrence

or some figment of our imagination

and go on with our day.

But what if the noises and displacement of items

are so outrageous,

so beyond the norm,

that they can't be ignored?

Because the only possible explanation

for them is paranormal?

That's what happened to one young woman in Russia.

And when she finally saw the cause,

she was terrified.

It's the fall of 2017 in Elektrostal, Russia.

A 17 year old named Nikita

has been experiencing peculiar activity in her apartment.

The lights go on and off for no reason.

And when she returns from being out,

she sometimes finds her apartment in disarray.

She finally decides to set up a few cameras in her place

to see if she can capture what is happening while she is out:

one in her bedroom and one in the kitchen.

When she reviews the footage,

it is beyond what she ever thought possible.

Watch the center of your screen closely

as some kind of shadow figure materializes for a moment.

And then gets to work, wreaking havoc in her home.

Did you catch what just happened?

It appears that the shadow figure

is leaping around the room as it causes this destruction.

But it's not finished yet.

Watch what the second camera in the bedroom picks up.

The shadow figure generates enough force

to rattle a heavy armoire,

and then...

is heard stomping away.

The activity we're seeing here

almost looks like the activity

you would expect with a poltergeist case,

but this just escalated beyond anything

I've ever even heard of.

The action you see in this video is pretty insane.

Whatever this thing is,

it wants to wreck this apartment.

You actually hear the footsteps of this thing walking away.

You don't usually hear that, and the footsteps

weren't a light footstep, they were heavy clomping.

So this thing must have been huge.

Most times when we get poltergeist type activity

on a video, it's something falling down,

something moving, a door opening, closing.

We'll see the effects, but we won't see the culprit.

In this video, not only do we see the culprit,

we seem to track its movements throughout the entire room.

Now, at first, towards the bottom of the screen,

you see something coalescing.

You see a shadow form and it dissipates,

you think, okay, that's it, that's all I'm going to get.

Then almost as if it's doing some kind of acrobatics,

it's almost like spiritual parkour.

It jumps onto the table, jumps onto the floor.

You can track its movements throughout the room --

as it comes around behind the camera,

the camera jiggles, something falls down,

continues its circuit.

It's jumping on whatever table or something is there.

Something falls down.

And it's crouched down,

you could almost make out an arm,

a shoulder, a head.

Something is poised to jump.

At one point, I almost felt like

maybe the spirit wasn't even human.

I feel like I was leaning towards animal.

Animal, not human --

in the paranormal world, that could mean demonic.

Demonic haunting comes from something

that was never human to begin with.

So it's sort of in a way like a species of its own.

And they come into your life and cause a bunch of havoc.

Whatever this thing is,

one thing is clear:

it's determined to make a mess.

But why?

It may be angry at the person that's living there

for some reason, but another theory could be

is it's trying to get out of this situation and it can't.

So you the only thing it knows to do is like wreak havoc.

While having at least some idea of what or who

is causing the issues in her home is certainly helpful,

the most important question still remains:

What, if anything, can Nikita do?

I would try and bring in some people

to verify what what I'm seeing and what I'm experiencing.

I would bring in a really talented psychic medium

and see if there is some kind of apparition

or intelligent spirits there,

if there can be some kind of communication through that way.

Or perhaps there's a simpler solution.

If I was those people, I would get out of the apartment

and go find a place that's not haunted

because there has to be at least

one not-haunted apartment in Russia.

Coming up, a bizarre rectangular UFO over China.

According to the UFO International Project,

the estimated total of UFO sightings annually

is in the thousands.

And of those thousands of sightings,

the vast bulk of them seem to occur in desolate,

sparsely populated areas with few witnesses.

But occasionally a UFO will defy expectations

and appear in more populated areas,

leading many to question its motives.

Why here? Why now?

Is this boldness a sign of impending communion

or the beginning of the end?

Those were the questions on the minds

of the hundreds of witnesses who saw this incredible sight

one night over the city of Jinan, China.

The summer of 2017,

the Chinese city of Jinan in Shandong province,

population: nearly 8 million.

In the sky above a crowded street,

a mysterious light suddenly appears in the clouds.

The bright rectangular object,

shown here from three different cameras,

hovers above the city

in full view of countless witnesses, all of whom

are a little freaked out.

The behavior is a bit strange.

It seems to just be hovering right over

top of a busy city center.

They're obviously not trying to hide

or anything along those lines, so that kind of tells me

maybe this isn't a conventional UFO at least.

Obviously, this thing wants to be known

to the people below it, so...

But why?

If something is appearing

in the skies over an area like this,

one must wonder if we are building toward something,

perhaps a mass revelation.

And the follow up question is, are we ready for that?

If it is some kind of revelation,

could it have something to do with the long held belief

that the visitors are here to give us something...

or maybe take something away?

If you go way, way back to even like Mayan culture,

ancient esoteric societies talk about these motherships

that they've seen, that have, you know, taken people

and brought people to this planet

and they bring either more enlightened humanoid species

or take the most enlightened human species with them.

And that's the whole thing with the mothership.

They're literally like giant cities that collect people

or bring people to this planet.

Or perhaps it's not a mothership at all,

but rather a doorway to another time and place.

The idea that what it is, is a doorway or an opening

or some sort of intentionally created passage space,

is, I think, a really compelling idea,

especially these days as we're looking to explain

why things would be present sometime and not others.

So it depends a little bit on what your favorite theory

is of how the Universe works.

Is this an opening into another dimension?

Is this an opening into another aspect of the multiverse?

Is this an opening into some sort of

space-time portal or a wormhole?

We won't know until we go through it.

The object eventually disappeared,

leaving many questions unanswered.

But on the plus side, no one was abducted by aliens,

at least as far as we know.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Don't be afraid to make a deal.

I won't come back

if you close that door one more time.

What the hell?!

Plan your exit ahead of time.

Check all your footage -- and then check it again.

And if you do get something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com,

or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here on

"Paranormal Caught on Camera."