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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera"...

...a woman's faithful pet alerts her to the presence

of otherworldly spirits in their home...

When I actually saw stuff on there, I was in shock.

I was like, "Oh, my god. She really did see something."

...an unidentified entity

from another realm crashes Las Vegas...

What it looked like to me was a jellyfish minus the tentacles,

just kind of, like, a floating, like, body.

...an abandoned maximum-security prison

still ravaged by the dark souls of the past...

It was, to me, hands down probably the scariest place

I've ever, ever been to.

...a bicyclist is ambushed

by an unidentified humanoid...

This guy is lucky that he got away from it

before it ripped his face off.

...the relentless haunting of

a couple in North Carolina...

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

It was so much louder and so much closer

than what I was hearing before.

It scared the crap out of me.

...and even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

Oh! Oh!

...to believe.

When in active use,

given the sometimes vicious clientele,

maximum-security prisons

are some of the most frightening places in the world,

yet there are those who believe that once they are closed down

for good and forever emptied of the violent offenders

that once roamed their halls,

those prisons only get scarier.

After a truly unsettling overnight experience

at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

in Petros, Tennessee,

one particular man would certainly make that argument.

Oh!

Well, the Brushy Mountain prison

in Tennessee has a really dark and checkered past.

Since 1896, this place has housed

the worst of the worst types of criminals,

even famously it held James Earl Ray,

who was the assassinator of Martin Luther King Jr.

It just gives you insight on the types of people

that would stay there.

It was well-documented

that this was one of the worst prisons you could stay in

because it was the harshest of all the penitentiaries.

There is a lot of dark energy in this prison.

And even though it mercifully

shut down for good in 2009,

that dark energy was what attracted Omar,

an investigator from Spring Hill, Florida,

to the now-abandoned prison one night

during the summer of 2017.

Hi. My name is Omar, and I filmed the video.

There's just so many buildings to explore here,

so much history, so much haunted history.

So I went into the Brushy Mountain prison

with my best friend, James,

and something that we like to do,

especially when we're in a place like Brushy Mountain prison,

is we'll split up.

So we kind of hung out a little bit at first.

He went one way.

I went the other way.

Yeah, there's no cell phone reception out here.

We are on our own as of now.

Never split up. That's rule number one.

Do not split up!

Doesn't anyone watch horror movies anymore?

Always stay with your friends.

James?

I'm gonna give you a little glimpse here of death row.

There it is right there.

Perhaps Omar wished James had stayed with him

by the time he ventured into the prison's cafeteria.

This is the cafeteria straight ahead.

There's been so many stories tied to that cafeteria.

I wanted to go in there and see if I would catch something.

I wasn't hearing anything.

I get ready to leave, and I hear --

It sounded like something moving behind me.

I turn around, and, of course, it sounded like some metal,

and I see this chair right in front of me move.

What the was that?

Oh!

In the cafeteria, everyone is close together.

They're eating their food.

They're going about their daily routines,

and this is going to leave an imprint over time,

just the same routine,

the same actions over and over and over,

and again, this is a prison,

so if something like a fight or a riot broke out,

that would intensify the chances for a haunting.

I get a little closer to investigate,

and I ask it to move again.

Move this chair again.

Nothing's happening, so, of course,

I get ready to walk away.

All right, I think it was clickbait.

Oh! Oh!

I ran out of there so quick.

When chairs start moving around on their own,

you're obviously gonna get a little freaked out.

Oh! Oh!

There were no strings attached to the chairs

that were moving around.

I mean, that was kind of obvious

because they were moving in all different directions.

Oh!

And nobody else was around him.

I mean, you know, this --

Prisons weren't built for a resort.

They were built for punishment.

Oh! Oh!

Buildings like this that housed hatred

and stressful environments,

like, it creates this, like,

flourish that it needs to feed off of fear

and hatred in order for those energies to keep manifesting.

So when you have a lot of negative haunts like that,

buildings become hungry for more negativity.

You don't want to be in a place that feeds off of negativity,

and prisons tend to be those types of places.

But it was only when Omar

migrated to a specific cellblock

that he encountered his biggest surprise of the night.

There's so many haunted stories

tied to the Brushy Mountain prison.

One that caught me by surprise was of the Magnificent Seven,

which was a gang.

Supposedly this gang took four guards hostage,

and they ended up shooting about,

I want to say, like, seven or eight African-Americans,

two of which who died.

Now, if you go inside of this prison cellblock,

the very first two, the ones that died, they're --

Both of their names are James.

One of the stories that people say is that

if you leave a cigarette

because James, the second prison inmate that was killed,

shot and killed by the Magnificent Seven,

you can actually see and witness a cigarette being smoked.

Now, I tried to put this to the test.

James, go ahead and take a giant puff

and let me know that you're here with me and...

Now, you can actually see the cigarette getting puffed,

and I tried this myself at home, and it didn't work.

I put the cigarette down, and I thought

if I turned the lights off I could blow on the head

and it would light up, but it didn't.

Clearly this one, you could see it actually getting sucked in,

not just, like, you know, blowing all over the place.

Immediately after it happened,

he clicked his light on

so we could verify that there was no one in the cell.

There was no one around the cigarette.

It just -- It's almost unexplainable.

I've heard many reports of cigarette smoke

being smelled in a place where, you know, no one is smoking

and no one has even been for months, days, even years,

so there's something about tobacco and the paranormal.

There's some sort of connection there.

Omar was using that cigarette as a trigger object,

where you bring something that hopefully the spirit

would be interested in.

If you were doing

an investigation in an orphanage,

you might bring some toys.

In a prison, bring a cigarette,

and I know people that have gone on investigations

where, you know, the former owner of the home

or a location was a smoker,

and they lay cigarettes around to see,

you know, what might happen.

I wasn't expected anything at all to happen.

I thought maybe it was just -- had to have been just from a,

just, gust of wind coming through.

I'm not a smoker, so I don't really know,

but I've had smokers tell me that that, in fact,

was somebody puffing on the cigarette.

It scared me so much that as soon as --

I mean, it was, like, instant.

I turned my light on,

and you could see there was nobody there.

The one common thing that I find about every prison,

jail, and penitentiary is that it housed violent people.

It has a history of fear and despair and hopelessness,

and these things echo through time.

It's just the perfect melting pot of tragedy and trauma,

and that just sticks to the walls like glue.

Brushy Mountain has to be one of those places

where it was just truly unique to me in so many different ways.

I mean, it was, to me, hands down

probably the scariest place I've ever, ever been to.

Oh! Oh!

Coming up, a mysterious sighting

in the Las Vegas sky baffles

a vacationing Australian man.

What is that?

Las Vegas is known as the entertainment capital

of the world,

a place where people go to watch shows,

win money, and release their inhibitions,

but people aren't the only beings

that Vegas seems to attract,

and Peter Slattery thinks he has the proof.

What is that?

It's interesting when it comes to Las Vegas

and Nevada in general.

They do seem to have a lot of UFO sightings.

Which might be fitting considering Vegas

is only 130 miles from Area 51.

Far and away, that southwestern area of the country

is just more sightings of not only UFOs,

but unexplainable lights in the sky.

Obviously, you know, with Roswell and Area 51,

some of our most, you know,

storied UFO tales come from these places.

Perhaps it's sort of a collective of

you've got big sky out there.

You don't have a huge population.

You got a lot of military testing going on,

and you also have the collective unconscious

that wants to see extraterrestrial life

and wants to see UFO activity.

When you're out in an area like Vegas or any barren desert,

there's a tendency to look to the sky.

You could see more stars.

You can imagine the possibilities.

You wonder what is up there? Who is up there?

And you feel a connection

that we're a part of something greater, and who knows?

They might be checking us out.

Perhaps that's what motivated Peter Slattery,

a resident of Albury, New South Wales, Australia,

to drift his eyes to the skies while visiting

Las Vegas in July of 2018.

Got it. There it is.

My name is Peter Maxwell Slattery,

and the footage that you're being shown

was filmed by myself.

It's beautiful.

I was on a trip to Las Vegas,

and I was there with a friend at the time,

and it was just a beautiful sunny day,

and he had to go to a bank.

As soon as we walked out of the bank,

up there in the sky was this object.

It's just stuck there. It's --

- Look at it on the screen. - It's not moving at all.

- It's moving, man. - It's beautiful.

At first, it sort of came through sort of

like a rainbow of iridescent light,

and it was doing just not normal things.

Look at this, man. Look at the screen.

Oh, it's moving a bit, huh?

The first thing that I went through

was just trying to debunk it in my mind, you know?

What's the wind doing? Is it a plastic bag?

Is a balloon?

Is it some debris that's got caught up

in a wind draft or something like that?

But this thing was just doing nonconventional things.

It was morphing. It was changing shape.

It was continuously going back and forth

and changing direction as well.

When you first see this, it's kind of out of focus.

It's hard to really figure out what it is.

It could be a balloon of some kind.

Then you get these really quick glimpses

where it comes into focus, and you say,

"Well, that's not like some kind of balloon

that I've ever seen before."

The thing kind of changed shape,

but also it was kind of stationary.

It wasn't really going anywhere. It was just there.

What it looked like to me was almost like a jellyfish minus

the tentacles, just kind of, like, a floating, like, body.

The really weird thing is

that it seems to have something within it.

The guy taking the video actually says,

"Is that a person?"

Oh, that's someone in there. What is that?

Doesn't necessarily look like a man,

like a pilot or anything.

It, to me, it looks like,

like a weird embryo.

You sort of just get a little bit of anxiety,

but it's because you're just trying to capture it.

You sort of look at it at first and go, "What's that?"

And then you want to get it on the camera just to see,

you know, can you get some more data,

but it's more excitement after that

once you're able to sort of see it a bit more

and, you know, just in awe, I guess, with what it's doing.

No. It's getting closer.

Wow, dude. Wow.

I feel the presence of this being.

The gentlemen in this video seem

to have a spiritual reaction to what they're seeing.

They're genuinely surprised

and interested in what this may be,

and they're moved by the experience.

So we're just looking at the subject.Oh, my god!

It's coming. Dude, look. It's coming down.

That's something that actually falls in line

with a lot of UFO reports over the years,

where people have claimed to see something

that moves them spiritually

or changes their outlook on life altogether.

I just felt that day something was gonna go on.

I get an awareness.

It's more, like, just a thought to look up,

and that's what happens.

A majority of the time, there's something there.

I know it sounds crazy, but this is not the only sighting

that we have seen of this sort of

flying jellyfish-like cell

floating in the sky.

We've had reports very similar to this

and seen video, even, from Philadelphia, Oregon.

It's not something I can explain.

But Peter believes he can.

It's kind of my understanding that extraterrestrials

would not even be probably 5% of what's going on.

Some of these beings are coming from completely different

realms where even planets are nonexistent.

These things are popping in and out from not just, you know,

other civilizations that we can see through through the Hubble,

but places that we're not even aware of yet

on a multidimensional existence,

and we have the same sort of thing

with the paranormal aspect,

where we've got residual and intelligent hauntings.

These things are sort of residing right next to us,

so it's hard to sort of just pigeon hole it,

but there are extraterrestrial civilizations,

but then these other beings, which are a majority,

it's really a mixed bag.

It's not just black and white with the answer.

There's a lot of gray area with what's going on.

Coming up, why man's best friend

might also be man's best paranormal detective.

If you suspect your home is haunted

but still aren't 100% sure,

your best investment might not be a paranormal investigator

or a medium.

It might be a dog.

Take it from Tia Jolly, who filmed her canine pal

barking ferociously at an empty doorway

for seemingly no reason at all.

What is it, honey?

That is, until she reviewed the footage

and connected the nefarious dots.

Oh, yep. Look. Look at that right there.

What is that?

In 2014, Jolly,

a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire,

was enjoying a low-key day with her dog, Buffy,

when something unseen seemed to catch Buffy's attention.

I'm Tia Jolly, and I filmed the video.

That day, I was just watching TV and crocheting, and my dog was,

you know, sitting on the bed right next to me.

All of a sudden, she just started barking out

into the hallway, and I'm like, "What are you barking at?"

You know?

Animals sense a lot of things that we can't explain.

I mean, they have sensitivity to seismic activity.

They have certain sensitivities to danger,

and we don't know how their sensitivities work, necessarily.

So I grabbed the camera and started filming her.

All of a sudden, she jumps up and starts going crazy

and starts just really barking like crazy,

like, you know, something came into view.

It's all right. What is it, honey?

It's okay.

She's always seen stuff in there

and always started barking at stuff.

I kind of figured, you know, it would just be a good idea

just to get it on camera.

Tia didn't think too much of it

until she decided to dissect

the video she had recorded frame by frame.

I've had that video since 2015,

and I've looked at it so many times,

and I could never really see what she was barking at,

but I just decided to go back and take a closer look at it.

And that's when she finally saw something,

making a second video to highlight her discoveries.

Watch the far left of the doorway as an apparition

or a series of apparitions seems to materialize around the wall,

almost taunting the dog.

And then you're gonna see, like, a head poke out

right over here.

When she slowed that video down,

you did see some kind of movement outside the door.

It's hard to say if that's what the dog was reacting to,

but he was reacting to something.

It looks like gremlins looking out

the side of the doorway. It's, like, weird.

It's like they're popping their head in and out.

There was something moving outside that door.

See that right there? What is that?

It's a strange way of how energies

that are trying to muster up enough energy to manifest,

you see little bits and pieces form and dissipate,

and you're seeing here

what looks like an apparition doing that.

Like, it starts gathering enough energy

to kind of manifest its face and head but then dissipate,

and then you start seeing, like, the lower half,

and then the arms a little bit just kind of come in and out.

When I actually saw stuff on there, I was just --

I was in shock.

I was like, "Oh, my god. She really did see something."

I'd never seen anything like that, like, with my own eyes.

Dogs bark at everything.

Is the mailman outside? The wind blows.

It's hard to say that, "All right.

This bark means there's a ghost."

But whatever it is, it seems like he's defending the room.

They're not illogical animals.

They've been bred to perform certain functions,

so the dog is sensing something,

and you could tell by its demeanor

that it's sensing something

that's perhaps threatening in some way.

Oh, I know she's barking

at something paranormal or abnormal.

I think it was affecting her.

Since she was able to see and sense everything,

I think it was, like, kind of stressing her out.

I don't know.

I didn't know if it could, like, physically harm her or anything,

but so much stuff has happened in that place.

It's unreal.

What kind of stuff?

It's a building where older people live,

and, like, the majority of the people

are over 60 or 70 years old,

so there has been a lot of deaths.

There have been times where I'd be standing in my kitchen,

and there would be, like, a bang right underneath my feet,

and I would think it's the person downstairs,

but there wouldn't even be anybody home.

There would be banging on the walls,

on the ceiling, footsteps following me into the bathroom.

The toilet would flush every time I'd go in there,

or the tub would turn on and turn off.

I'd be woken up in the middle of the night with sounds

of, like, marbles or pennies

or something thrown on the floor,

and it would wake both me and my dog up.

I've heard growling.

Oh, boy, just so much stuff.

If there were deaths in this house

and this woman is having experiences,

absolutely the dog could be reacting to that.

If there are creaks in the house or whispers,

dogs will hear it before we would.

Now, the one advantage that dogs have over humans

is that their hearing is better,

their sense of smell, and their eyesight.

We all have similar overlapping sensitivity

to certain types of light, but other animals, dogs, cats,

can see a little better than we can,

so sometimes your dog or cat might be looking at something,

and you would think, "He's just looking at nothing."

Maybe they are seeing something that we don't,

and in this case, the dog is reacting.

He says, "Yeah, not on my watch."

It felt like I couldn't control my surroundings

to keep her safe, so I just -- I had to leave.

So leave she did,

to an apartment across the street.

I've been here three years, so I don't know,

but we're doing good so far.

Coming up, one more terrifying reason

to take extra caution on the bike baths.

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If you're heading out on your mountain bike,

it's important to be prepared for the unexpected.

One must have a plan for inclement weather,

getting lost in the wilderness,

or even a run-in with a wild animal,

but nothing could prepare

even the most experienced outdoorsman for this.

A mountain bike rider set out to make a video

showcasing a trail in the Hungarian countryside.

His ride was mostly quiet and serene.

That is, until he was passing between two garden walls

when he was suddenly ambushed by an unidentifiable creature.

He seems to be jumped by some sort of genetically mutated

or altered humanoid monkey type creature.

It's ripped.

It's got tons of muscles, super muscular,

and it's kind of, like, a grayish-black color.

If you really slow it down and freeze-frame it

and look at the physical features,

it doesn't seem to have that bushy hair

that a monkey would have.

It seems larger.

It seems kind of gray and smooth rather than brown and hairy.

And the fact that it disappears

so quickly leads to a whole other series of questions

you want to ask.

Whatever it was jumped right out and back over the wall again.

That wall looks like it's about 7 feet high.

That's an insane jump to do,

so whatever it is, it travels fast,

and it could jump really high.

If I was the bike rider in this case,

I would not have stopped like he did.

You got to book it out of there

if you see something that doesn't belong.

And since there are no nonhuman

primates native to this region,

one is left to wonder.

Exactly what kind of creature could this agile attacker be?

Surprisingly, this wouldn't be the first time

a monkey human hybrid-type creature has run amok.

In fact, in 2001 in New Delhi,

a creature known as the New Delhi Monkey man

terrorized residents for several months.

Police were actually trying to track this thing down,

and nothing was ever discovered.

One of the cryptids that has been seen and mentioned

more often recently around the Arizona region

is something called a demon monkey.

The descriptions paint a creature

that resembles a baboon, a baboon that's crazed,

a little more gaunt,

a little more wild, if you will.

Right here in New Jersey,

I've been long documenting the Hoboken Monkey-Man.

This was a story that was so shocking

at the time that the schools were all closed,

and the children were sent home

because of the stories of this Monkey-Man

that was sighted in the city.

The biker heard rustling in the bushes

just after the creature disappeared from sight,

but otherwise never saw any sign of it again,

and given what little we know about it,

that might not be a bad thing.

This guy is lucky that he got away from it

before it ripped his face off, and I know for a fact,

you mess with animals in the wild,

whether they're of this Earth or not,

and your face, it's gonna be gone.

Coming up...

I'm hearing something talk in my voice.

...a ghostly stalker

uses a particularly terrifying method

of haunting its prey.

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

Last season, we explored the terrifying ordeal

being waged upon Mattie Smith-Clark

and her husband, Devon,

as they attempted the document the sights

and sounds of a mysterious creature outside their home.

I felt something.

Like, I felt eyes on me, and I just felt,

like, this, like, danger.

At that time, there was no consensus

regarding what exactly this creature was.

I guess this would fall under the category of a shadow person.

What this reminded me of was a hidebehind.

I'm seeing a lot of people suggest that it's a rake.

Months later, Mattie is no closer to determining

exactly what she and Devon were, and still are, dealing with.

But what they lack in certainty,

they make up for in brand-new video evidence,

which they're hoping will eventually lead to some answers.

Hello?

Oh,.

Following her initial encounters in late 2018...

Mattie, a resident of Burlington, North Carolina,

set up security cameras

attempting to gather further information with no results.

Then, a few weeks later, a major discovery.

What is that?

My name is Mattie, and I'm the one that filmed the videos.

My husband went out to our back building,

and he was gonna weed eat and stuff like that,

and it's a very tight spot between the bush and the fence,

so it was a spot that he had to take the weedwacker

or whatever to, and that's when he saw the footprints.

Look at that.

It had rained the night before, so, like,

wherever there was, like, not grass, it was muddy.

There was footprints, but we lost the, like,

trail of it in the grass, like, pretty quickly.

I've never seen a footprint like that before.

The heel of the foot is just -- It's weird.

It didn't look like a human footprint.

Where the heel would be, where the toes would be seemed,

all right, in the general right area,

but in the middle it seemed like it thinned out

so much more than a human foot would

or even a sneaker or a shoe or any kind of footwear.

14 inches.

It's obviously humanoid-looking, but definitely not human.

They look like very skinny, very curved-out, bowlegged feet,

and they're very long, which kind of gives suggestion

that this thing is very tall.

See that?

I had a cryptozoologist reach out

and give me, like, their analysis.

I do remember them saying that it was big.

Like, it was a really tall, most likely thin creature.

If that is the actual footprint

of what's coming around their house at night,

I wouldn't even want to meet that thing.

But Mattie's biggest fright was yet to come,

when one evening, about a month later,

while relaxing on her back porch,

she heard a strange yet oddly

familiar sound coming from the woods

and immediately started recording with her phone.

I heard my voice, but it was almost, like,

it was really low and seemingly far away,

so I wasn't sure it was my voice.

I didn't know for certain, but, like,

I just felt like it was me talking.

Hello?

Hello?

Oh,.

It was so much louder and so much closer

than what I was hearing before, so it's --

Like, it scared the crap out of me.

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

There are quite a lot of cryptids

that are known for mimicking voices --

the wendigo, which can mimic the voice of a loved one

to try and lure you to them.

There's a bubak, which mimics a baby's cry,

same reason, to trick you into coming closer.

The Pope Lick Monster of Mud Creek,

that's known to mimic the voices of family members

that ultimately will lead you to a bridge,

and then once you're on the bridge,

a train comes through,

and you end up jumping to your death.

It's a very common power in mythology.

But is voice mimicry limited to just cryptids?

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

When a human-sounding voice

seems to be repeating things that she says,

it takes it out of the sort of realm of this

being a cryptid animal.

It becomes more of a paranormal spirit demon

type of a question.

I've had cases where I've gotten EVPs

that I hear someone's voice, and I said, "Oh, that was you,"

and that person was nowhere near.

That person wasn't even in the building,

yet their voice was on the recorder.

Now, how did that happen? Mimicking.

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

Having had enough of the creepy late-night visitor,

they rented out the house and moved away.

After a few weeks, the friend they rented to reported back

to them with some news.

He and the neighbors have both said

that every piece of activity

that was happening has stopped since we moved.

Then, a sudden terrifying realization --

the Clarks' mysterious stalker might have moved with them.

My car alarm started going off every night

between, like, 3 and 4 a.m.,

despite the fact that there's, like,

20 plus other cars parked out there.

Only my car alarm goes off, and then we've been hearing

this, like, abnormal scratching on our back wall.

Just like a house could be haunted,

sometimes a person could be haunted,

and no matter where they go,

no matter how many times they move,

that attachment will follow them.

- Hello? - Hello?

Oh,.

I think they have to bring this to an end.

They can't just say, "I'm not gonna worry

about it anymore."

So something has to be done for them

to figure out what this thing is.

The paranormal toolbox is filled up with many items

and things that are designed to help lessen energy

or clear up negative energy.

If you're talking sage, that's there to clear negative energy.

If you're talking holy water, that's more of a blessing,

and it's connected to your faith.

If it's taking domain of your house

just by asserting yourself in a manner that says,

"You are not allowed to be here,"

that's your own energy enacting upon the location,

so it could be many different things,

and sometimes you need to try all three.

Hello?

Oh,.

Coming up, terror at the door,

and it's trying to get in.

You're scaring the hell out of

me and my family, and you need to stop it.

Perhaps the most inherently sinister aspect

of paranormal phenomena

is its utterly indiscriminate nature.

To be sure, that rickety old mansion

at the end of your street covered in vines, cobwebs,

and memories might just in fact be haunted,

but so could anything and anyone else for no reason at all,

and even the most innocuous activity, like,

say, taking a shower,

can trigger an interested spirit.

No one knows that better

than the family of Brittney Michaelis.

That door is still shaking.

Michaelis, who lived with her family

in Tenino, Washington,

had begun to pick up on a particularly bizarre

phenomenon related to her little sister

that finally forced their mother to take action.

Whatever it is, you're scaring the hell

out of me and my family, and you need to stop it.

My name is Brittney, and it was my mom who filmed the video.

About 10 years ago, we moved into the house that we lived in.

My little sister, every time

that she would get in the shower...

- Mom? - Yes, honey.

Okay.

The door would start rattling.

It wasn't that hard at first, that noticeable,

but over time, it got what sounded like louder or harder.

Oh, my god.

- You guys aren't touching it? - No. We're not touching it.

Okay, I had to make sure that my kids weren't touching.

- Oh, god! - It's okay, honey.

Ghosts seem to like manipulating doors, windows.

It doesn't take a lot of physical force

for them to do it,

and if you believe in poltergeists,

sound is really what they're trying to achieve.

They move things specifically so that they can make a sound.

It happened with me once and with my other sister once,

- but with my little sister... - Mom?

...almost every time for a good year, almost every time.

It was the weirdest thing.

It's funny that this only happens

when the youngest daughter is taking a shower.

Oh, my god.

Perhaps this entity is somehow attached to her

or wants to be around her all the time.

- Oh, god! - It's okay, honey.

Obviously, young people have a lot more energy

than us old folks.

I think everyone can attest to that,

and because of that, ghosts may attach themselves

to said young person to drain their energy

to be able to communicate with the real world.

In this case, this ghost wants to communicate via the door.

So Brittney's mom set up an age-old system

to get some answers.

Okay. I need to ask questions.

Can you shake the door once for yes, two for no?

When the mother used the door as a tool for communication,

she set guidelines --

shake once for yes, twice for no.

She established exactly how she's gonna use the door,

and then she used it...

I need to ask questions.

...to have questions answered.

Now, this is paranormal investigating 101.

Are you friendly?

Do you want us out of the house?

Does anybody in my family know you?

No, nobody in my family knows you?

Back in the early spiritualist movement in the mid-1800s,

the Fox sisters, upstate New York,

who sort of started the spiritualist movement,

they would communicate with people

just through knocks on the wall,

knocks on the table...

...knocks on the floor, so, yeah,

that's old-school communication in the paranormal field.

Intrigued and a little spooked,

Brittney and the rest of her family

crowded around the other side of the door

to listen to the back-and-forth.

We don't know you.

Hold on again.

You didn't touch the door?

It was really scary because, I mean, we were all

just watching, and it was -- I don't know.

It still gives me the chills.

And after several minutes of questioning...

Are you a male? No.

Are you a female?

...and several specific guesses...

Is it Grandma Phyllis? No.

Is it Grandma Dina? No.

...Brittney's mother finally determined

what she believed to be the identity...

Okay, so you're a female?

...of the mysterious spirit.

Janelle?

It's Janelle,

My cousin Janelle.

Are you kidding me?

Oh, my god. Holy.

Janelle actually died not long after my second sister

was born in '93.

Janelle used to always pick on my mom.

She would always mess with my mom when --

after I was born,

Janelle decided to bring over a giant Big Bird

that made a lot of noise just to annoy my mom.

Most times she loved it.

But is there a chance this spirit

was not exactly telling the truth?

Are you a female?

Brittney reluctantly suspects that may be the case.

I think that it was mimicking her

or pretending to be her or something.

Janelle?

I just have the oddest feeling that it was just pretending,

just in some way to mess with her --

My cousin Janelle?

...or something because Janelle was one of her favorite cousins.

Well, if you pay close attention,

early on in the video, they actually ask the question,

"Is this a family member, or do you know our family?"

And the entity answers no to both of those questions.

But does anybody in my family know you?

No. Nobody in my family knows you?

So in my mind, whatever this thing is, if it is an entity,

it is lying through its teeth.

Regardless, Brittney and her family

decided not to stick around long enough to find out for sure.

We moved out of that house four years ago,

and it hasn't happened since that particular house.

But the question remains,

why was one particular family member

the subject of this haunt?

If this only happens when this one girl is in the shower --

- Mom? - Yes, honey.

Okay.

...that means that she's being targeted.

Oh, god!

It's okay, honey.

Usually when you have inhuman haunts,

which tend to lie about their identity,

a lot of the times they target specific beings in the family

because they have a trait or an attribute to them

that they could feed off of, and in this case,

the little girl seems to be fearful of this energy.

Oh, god!

And just like a lot of inhuman energies kind of start out,

it feeds off of fear.

It would scare my little sister enough.

Oh, my god.

She felt like she was being almost punished for something,

and she didn't know what she did wrong.

That door is still shaking.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Hello?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Don't be afraid, but know when it's time to go.

Ah!

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