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...a haunted cabin in the woods attacks.

The family that owns that cabin

legitimately believes that that cabin is cursed.

Horrifying noises fill the sky all around the world.

This phenomena is incredibly unsettling.

It strikes at my core.

An apparition terrorizes a family.

Get the out of here.

Well, the apparition looked like something

straight out of "Ghostbusters."

It was flowing.

It looked like it was underwater.

Is this a victim of King Henry VIII's wrath?

If this is a ghost,

one of the best image captures of a ghost I've ever seen.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

...to believe.

The cabin in the woods.

The phrase has become something of a trope

in the telling of terrifying real-life stories.

And for good reason.

Cabins in the woods can be dark, secluded, and empty,

a perfect recipe for spooky and paranormal events.

Behold, the quintessential haunted cabin.

When this ghost-hunting team dared to investigate...

...one member encountered something so evil...

...he came under attack.

In September 2018, in the backwoods of West Virginia...

Whoa!

...Ryan Zacherl and the rest of the team

from "Paranormal Quest"

investigated a remote cabin with a dark history.

So, we are getting ready to go into the cabin.

My name is Ryan Zacherl, and I filmed this video.

The cabin actually became a case for "Paranormal Quest"

because Dave Gear,

one of our co-creators and investigators --

he actually had investigated there

about a decade ago with his mom.

That was the evil room there.

It's the room that they had all the funerals in, isn't it?

Yeah.

Not only did they experience some shadow figures,

some disembodied voices

that they said were absolutely chilling,

but they also had multiple experiences

where they believed that the cabin was

not only trying to drive them away,

but was actively trying to kill them inside this cabin.

That's one of the claims of this cabin,

is the owners and people who have been there and investigated

believe that the curse on this cabin

is that anyone that attempts to live there or stay there

will have some sort of health problem,

will have some sort of accident,

or will have some sort of dire situation

in which their life is in jeopardy.

The family that owns that cabin legitimately believes

that that cabin is cursed.

They've had so many family members

and so many friends who have lived in that cabin,

and then shortly after died,

that they themselves are terrified

to even go inside of it.

But why, exactly, is it cursed?

The owner's grandmother and grandfather built that cabin

shortly after the turn of the century,

between the 19th and the 20th century.

And they used the actual lumber from that land

that the cabin sits on.

They cut it down, they built it themselves out of that land.

They believe that that was some sort of sacred land

for a Native American tribe that lived there years ago.

And they believe that cutting down the timber

and building that cabin on that land

could have started some sort of anger or animosity

between the family that lives there

and the spirits of this tribe that used to live on this land.

Which is why the "Paranormal Quest" team

decided to investigate the curse for themselves.

Are you Native American and this was your land,

your burial ground?

Over the first several hours,

the group experienced limited paranormal activity,

from footsteps....

- What was that? - Footsteps.

...to unexplained mumbling.

Are you from the Cherokee tribe?

What was that?

So, you got the REM pod right there on the bed.

Then they pulled out the REM pod,

a device that radiates its own electro-magnetic field,

making it easier to detect the presence of entities.

Are you here now?

There you are.

And its reaction was off the charts.

Back up now!

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Something was in the room with them.

And it was powerful.

Keep your eyes on group member Jason

on the left side of the screen.

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There's scratch marks on your back.

You're -- .

Ryan, get over here, dude.

Jason has been scratched...

Oh, my, yeah....three times.

One, two, three.

The experience where Jason was scratched

is probably one that is going to stick with us for a long time.

I don't think any of us expected that to happen.

I could see just the shock on his face

to find out that he had these scratch marks on his back.

And I think that was a little bit more unsettling to me

knowing how concerned he was for his own safety.

I'm being completely honest, that shakes me up a little bit.

And maybe also influenced how concerned

I thought we should have been for our own safety.

So, it's really common on investigations for people

to find scratches or markings on them.

Usually, they come in threes,

and a lot of people tend to believe

that when something comes in threes,

it is a sign of a demonic entity

because it's mocking the holy trinity.

But if this is, in fact, the work of a demon,

why go after Jason?

When you go into a place

that has seen a lot of traumatic history

and you bring this very aggressive energy

in with you as an investigator...

Please stop.

...you are opening yourself up to these types of interactions,

and it's funny because

it's the timid observer that gets scratched.

And a lot of the times, this happens because

the energies are fearful of the antagonizer

and this person that has the aggressive attitude

towards them.

Back up now!

But they want to instill fear or ask them to leave, in a way,

by targeting the person that's considered most timid

or weaker in the group.

The scratching was enough to convince the team

that it was time to go.

Alright, well, I guess that means we're officially done

with this investigation of the cabin.

And that's when team member Renee suddenly made

a startling discovery.

What is this?

That is the coin that ended up in my left pocket

when we were finished filming in the basement.

We were packing up to leave.

She reached into her pocket,

and that is when she discovered that at some point over the past

two hours, this coin materialized in her pocket.

This was a coin that none of us had ever seen before --

even Renee.

Renee didn't even know what this coin was.

Steve was the first to bring up.

He said, "That coin is from Israel."

Now, none of us have ever been to Israel, ever, in our lives.

So how this coin from Israel got into Renee's pocket

at some point over that two-hour period of investigating,

I don't know.

In parapsychology, this phenomenon

is known as an apport.

It's when an object appears or disappears

from one location to another, or sometimes the same location.

It's usually very small. It could be rocks.

In this case, it's a coin.

I've been on an investigation where coins have

fallen out of the ceiling.

Something like this happening on an investigation

is not uncommon.

Coins are a very on-the-nose death reference.

Many years ago, and some still do,

people used to put coins on the eyes of the deceased

to help them get into Heaven.

So if you find a coin in your pocket

when dealing with a spirit that might be a little bit demonic,

that's not a great sign.

Three days after the investigation,

Renee was hospitalized with severe chest pains.

Doctors found nothing physically wrong.

Fearing her medical issues

might have something to do with the coin,

she gave it back to the team.

Once Renee had given it back to us, we sat down

and we tried to communicate with whatever energies

or spirits were attached to it.

As you can see, we have this setup going.

The coin is gonna go onto this mirror.

They set up a Spirit Box

to try to get some answers.

We're speaking to the entity or energy

that's attached to this coin right here.

It didn't take long to get a response.

Are you here with us? Let us know.

Whoa.

I'll count to 10. You hide inside --

That was a little girl's voice, dude. That was.

A voice of a little girl started to come through the Spirit Box.

You hide inside --

It's kind of interesting 'cause one of the stories

that the family had talked about in that cabin is

they had an experience with what they thought

was an apparition of a little girl.

But how can they be sure

that this is the spirit of a child?

Just because the Spirit Box sounds like a child

does not necessarily mean that it isa child

because a lot of the times, a demonic entity can trick you.

These spirits are trolls.

They will take on the voice of a child

because they know that it's the most disarming

and they know that it's the most vulnerable

and you are more likely to trust a child

because it's inherent goodness.

But that's not real.

That's not a child.

Children don't usually have malice towards people.

Children don't try and hurt people.

Children don't try and kill people.

Whether child, adult, or demon,

Ryan was forced to draw one conclusion.

I can say that that family is not crazy.

They are definitely not lying about what they're experiencing.

There is something there

that I think is legitimately dangerous.

We were physically scratched. We were tormented.

We had dreams about that place.

And Renee thought she was dying of a heart attack.

So I definitely can say there is something in this world

that we can't see or touch or experience

but can hurt us.

And that is a scary thing to think about.

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Coming up...

...a mother and her children are tormented by ghosts.

For many people, moving into a new home

represents a fresh start in life.

But sometimes, it isn't just a fresh start for you.

It's also a fresh start for the ghosts that are already there,

waiting for their new roommates.

That's exactly what happened to one single mother

of two young children

when she moved into her new place.

But when she tried to communicate with the spirits...

...she got the scare of her life.

- This door's stuck. - Get the out of here.

In July of 2016, single mother Veronica Shannon

moved into an apartment in Morris, Illinois,

with her two sons.

Not long after,

she began hearing creepy noises throughout the apartment.

Noises that were loud enough to wake her up...

...and keep her up in the middle of the night.

So she purchased security cameras,

hoping to capture visual evidence

of whatever was causing the noises.

But when she reviewed the footage,

she was shocked to discover they were not alone.

It started with the front door

opening by itself to let in guests.

But watch again closely.

The door's actually not opening on its own.

It's being pulled open by what appears to be a ghost.

In a separate incident, just a short while later,

another full-bodied apparition

of what appears to be an older woman

is seen directly behind another friend

as he is leaving the apartment.

McNEILL: This was awesome.

It is so rare to see a full-bodied apparition

caught on camera,

and yet this appears to be at least two distinct instances

of someone in that space.

It looks almost like they reach out,

the spirit reaches out and opens the door.

The person who's on the other side of the door,

who comes in -- their hand wasn't on the door.

That's not how it opened.

And then when we see it again,

sort of moving through that space...

that's incredible.

I was convinced.

It truly looks like there

is a person standing behind the door opening it for them.

But it's not a person.

It's a translucent figure,

but we can make out the human form.

It almost looks like somebody with a sweatshirt and a hood on.

It seems like a very, dare I say,

contemporary spirit.

Well, the apparition that actually seems to open the door

looked like something straight out of "Ghostbusters."

It was flowing.

It looked like it was underwater.

It didn't have a solid shape to it,

and certain parts of it was even see through.

There definitely is something in that room,

and it definitely looks like it goes to open the door.

But there's more.

Watch as flying orbs set off the motion-detecting cameras.

And Veronica's children start crying hysterically

at 3:00 a.m....

...every night.

Extremely disturbed and not knowing what else to do,

Veronica and a couple of friends

decide to confront whatever is in her apartment.

Are you here?

Are you in the boys' room?

Then at that very moment...

...the kids begin crying again, and when one of the friends

attempts to go into the boys room...

...he can't because the door is apparently blocked.

Freaked out, the three adults eventually force the door open,

causing damage to the frame.

But wait, there's more.

Throughout the entire event,

orbs fly past the cameras in both the living room

and the children's bedroom.

I'm telling you right now, this whole place is haunted.

You got doors being locked open.

You got full-body manifestations just walking around the room.

Orbs flying all over the place. It's crazy.

This footage is really stirring, and there is a lot of it,

and you can't help but sympathize

for this poor mother

whose children are distressed,

who is living amongst this activity,

and she doesn't know what to do.

That is incredibly relatable.

The fact that whatever is present here really

seems to be focusing on the kids to the point of apparently

locking the door to the kids room

so that the parents have to break it down --

that's probably a bad sign.

But if the children were being specifically targeted, why?

Children are easy targets because they're non-threatening.

They can't vocalize the threats that are happening

to them, other than, obviously, crying and things of that sort.

McNEILL: They sort of don't have the staunch, resolute rationality

that adults have that might dismiss that sort of evidence.

So it might be that kids are very receptive,

or it might be that kids are very vulnerable.

Or could it be that the spirit, or whatever it was,

was actually trying to be helpful?

I think it's notable that this is a single mother

because that's a vulnerable person.

Not to say that single mothers are incapable

or extra vulnerable,

but that's somebody who has, probably, a lot of,

like, personal stress, and that can invite some spirit.

And sometimes, it could be a helpful spirit.

Maybe the spirit is not attacking the family,

but maybe the spirit is protecting the family.

Maybe it doesn't like an element

or maybe even a person that has come in to their family.

It could be any number of motivations,

but if they really want to get down to the bottom of it,

they probably have to employ some investigators.

Which Veronica did, with inconclusive results.

So, what options did she have?

A lot of times, I would suggest to people

in situations like this

to try to live in harmony with this entity,

to communicate with it, to speak out to it,

and try to find some boundaries, but when kids are involved,

that's a completely different situation.

It's a lot harder for them to understand what's going on.

They get scarred so much more easily,

and my recommendation is for them to simply leave.

So they did. For good.

Coming up...

A royal ghost makes a surprise appearance.

King Henry VIII, the infamous ruler of England

from 1509 until his death in 1547,

had a notorious predilection for executing people,

including several of his friends and two of his wives --

Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard.

Among his many homes was Hampton Court Palace in London,

which today serves as a tourist destination,

attracting history buffs from around the world.

And due to its sordid past, there are many who believe that

Hampton Court Palace is haunted.

In 2003, a security camera captured something in a doorway

that may be the best proof yet.

For three straight days in October of 2003,

officials at Hampton Court Palace in London

were summoned after hours to close one particular fire door

that wasn't supposed to be open.

When reviewing security-camera footage,

the first and third days' incidents

show the door blowing open for no apparent reason.

But security footage from the second day the door blew open

show this.

Watch again in slow motion

as a skeleton-like figure dressed in period clothing

seems to throw open the doors

and then quickly close them again.

If this is a ghost, then it's one of the best image captures

of a ghost I've ever seen.

You can see so much detail in it.

You know, on the Internet, they call this guy Skeletor,

and it does sort of have a skeleton kind of vibe

to the face.

But it just doesn't look like a real person.

The arms are too long, or something about it

is just not right.

And according to security staff, there should have been nobody,

especially nobody in costume, in the building at the time.

Maybe it was the court jester for Henry VIII

who didn't make him laugh one day

and was murdered by the court.

Who knows?

Henry didn't behead any jesters as far as we know,

but could this have been another victim of Henry's wrath?

When you think about these executed wives of Henry VIII,

all I would want to do,

for the rest of my eternal immortal life,

is scare the out of men.

That's all I would want to do.

I would just imagine being obligated to marry

someone like King Henry VIII who has beheaded wives

for things like not being able to bear children,

for infidelity, and just knowing I'm going there

to lay in his bed for the rest of my life,

to just be, like, this baby-making machine

and to be completely abused by him,

that energy alone stains a location with just awful,

awful, negative psychological energy.

And what about the level of detail

of this particular spirit, right down to its clothing?

How is it possible to capture an entity so clearly?

I know a lot of times, we see something like this

and we think this is too good to be true.

But occasionally, it's so good becauseit's true.

And what I find so fascinating about this

is ghost stories of the 16th century

had these specters that were very lifelike

and could interact with humans and other ghosts.

And they could even wear suits of armor and go to battle.

So it's kind of cool that we see this footage,

this robed Skeletor,

showing up and appearing like a regular guy.

This entity has not been seen again since 2003,

but many believe that this sighting

was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to

all of the spirits that haunt these halls.

Henry VIII was...

Let's just say that he existed before the Me Too movement

and did not always have great relationships with his wives

or other people in his administration at the time,

and many of them were put to death.

So if there's any reason for a ghost to be anywhere,

this is really a good place to look for them, I think.

Coming up -- That cryptid in the rearview mirror...

...is closer than it appears.

In the world of the paranormal,

there is a fine line between curiosity and fear.

And there is, perhaps, no better example

of that razor-thin margin than the legend of Bigfoot.

Simply put, we want to know more about this elusive cryptid,

but the closer we get...

...the more terrified we become.

Then we panic.

This dynamic was in full display in Russia

when a car full of young people

came across a creature that intrigued them...

...until it threatened their very existence.

August 2, 2016, in Bashkortostan, Russia.

A group of friends are out for an early evening drive

in the country...

...when they suddenly spot something off in the distance.

It appears to be a large humanoid creature,

almost ape-like.

And it has apparently also spotted them.

Terrified, they pull away.

But they can't help themselves...

...and reverse the car to get a better shot

of whatever this thing is.

It's now just over to the left, about 20 feet away.

The driver stops again...

...and gets out for a better look...

...until...

Still in disbelief,

they stop again to get one more look.

But have now lost sight of it...

...when suddenly...

...it is right beside them.

This time, they keep driving.

In their minds, one thought.

"Was that really Bigfoot?"

This was scary.

Kids sell stuff.

Kids can sell the emotion of fear

so much better than adults can,

that I really felt like those kids thought

Bigfoot was coming to get them.

You just see something bounding towards them,

and it's taking large steps.

You see its upper body moving in time

with what are large steps, not just a stroll.

You see it in pursuit.

Like, you see it using its hands more than I ever have, at least.

You see it really using its entire body in pursuit.

So that's what's so striking about this, is that,

to me, it's clearly not human.

I can't always say that.

With Bigfoot evidence, sometimes I think

that is a person in a furry suit,

or, unfortunately, that's just a very furry person.

But in this case, I didn't see a human in that.

The people in the car --

their reaction is not only very believable,

but it's very understandable.

This creature, whatever it is,

does appear to be something that could do them harm.

But given what we know about Bigfoot,

isn't this aggressive behavior a bit out of character?

There are Bigfoot legends

in almost every corner of this globe.

Some of these are gentle forest giants.

They're claimed that if you run into them, they simply turn

and go the other direction, but places like Russia,

they've been known to be a little bit more ornery

and sometimes violent to the point

where they have claimed to kill certain people.

Because we don't really know much about

what a Yeti or a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot is

we can't really start pinning traits onto them,

unless we actually were able to have one with us

and to observe it in its natural environment,

which has been so obviously elusive to us.

Whatever this creature was,

one thing's for certain.

It was clearly not in the mood to be observed.

It's freezing. It's miserable.

So it is possible that we're just seeing, like,

an animal we haven't seen before

that is hunting and needs human blood to live.

Coming up...

Is this the sound of the end of the world?

Ghosts, UFOs, and cryptids can be scary

for different reasons.

Ghosts lurk in unexpected places and remind us of our mortality.

UFOs make us wonder if little green men

are about to invade Earth.

And the majority of cryptids

are said to be beastly and primal in nature.

But with all three of these things,

we have some idea of what we might be dealing with...

...and what might protect us.

What happens when you can only hear the sound of something...

...and you have no idea what is causing it?

That's when your fear turns into absolute terror.

September 19, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas.

A young man named Dillon Dickerson

was taking out the trash when he heard this horrifying sound.

It continued on and off for several minutes...

...until finally stopping altogether.

My name is Dillon Dickerson

and I am the one who filmed the video.

I was thinking it was, like, underground

or, like, solar flares, stuff going on in outer space

that was bouncing onto Earth's atmosphere.

Just, like, some extraterrestrial stuff.

This phenomena is incredibly unsettling to me.

It strikes at my core.

The sound we're hearing is terrifying.

It's extremely loud. There's a ton of bass.

There's no origin to these things.

It almost takes you to biblical references of the apocalypse.

Trumpets would be sounded to signal

the beginning of those end times.

This sounds like something

has opened up a portal to Hell or something

because it feels like it's the end of the world.

And this isn't the only example of this kind of noise.

Across the globe, people have reported hearing loud,

booming, trumpet-like noises.

Noises that appear out of nowhere

and continue uninterrupted for minutes

or even hours at a time...

like this one from January 21, 2012,

in Banff, Alberta, Canada...

...and this one from March 9, 2011,

in Tallahassee, Florida.

And from those who experience it live...

...to those who watch online...

it's freaking everyone out.

When you hear sounds in the sky, it's usually an indicator

that something bad is about to happen.

It's a warning.

But if so, what exactly are they warning us about?

A lot of people assume that they may be something

involved with earthquakes or the US government,

and other people think maybe aliens are at fault.

A very popular theory that explains what they are

is that it is the sound of an invisible UFO

that is hovering nearby.

I don't think it's, you know, alien invasions

because you don't see aliens, but, you know,

it's something definitely happening to the Earth.

Maybe the Earth is just, like, imploding.

Let's hope not.

But until we know more, we're left to wonder.

Well, there's something about these.

You're in your home, and it's engulfing your home.

Every door, every window you go out, there's the sound,

and it's loud and intrusive.

So I can completely understand why people are so put off

and so terrified by these things.

There's simply no explanation, and a lot of times,

no one ever gets an explanation.

We are conditioned to react fearfully to loud noises.

The emergency broadcast system, sirens, alarms.

Things that are loud and jarring put us on alert.

It gives us that fight-or-flight response

like, "Okay, something's happening.

What am I gonna do about it?"

Coming up...

A spirit attempts to get a man's attention.

What the?

...with his kitchen light.

Dude, it literally just stopped.

Have you ever seen an inanimate object move by itself?

Maybe you were home alone one night and,

out of the corner of your eye,

you swore you saw something come to life,

if only for a brief moment.

So brief, in fact, that you probably ignored it.

Didn't you?

Maybe you shouldn't have.

Because maybe, as one California man recently discovered,

that swinging light fixture was pushed by a ghost.

What the?

February 2018 in Elk Grove, California.

Richie McClure is in his home when he sees something

that totally freaks him out.

So he pulls out his phone to record it.

McCLURE: Oh, my God.

What the?

The light over his table is swinging back and forth,

and since the sliding door behind it is clearly shut,

preventing a draft,

it is apparently doing this on its own.

Dude, I'm literally shaking right now.

This is just...

Then it does something that freaks him out even more.

What the?

Dude, it literally has just, like, stopped.

But that's not all.

Watch closely.

Oh, God! There it goes again, dude.

There it goes again.

My name is Richie McClure,

and I am the guy that took the video.

I'll tell you this, I was scared.

Like, I was genuinely freaked out when I saw it.

This light had been swinging a few different times

since we had first moved into the house,

but you know, we always just assumed that it was,

like, the breeze or somebody knocked it when they got up

because of the table right underneath it.

But this time is clearly different.

I went in the kitchen, and I saw it swinging,

and I was, like, "Holy cow."

It was, like, going hard,

like harder than we'd ever seen it swinging before.

What the?

Dude, it literally has just, like, stopped.

I'm, like, thinking,

"I can't just stay back here and film it."

You know, I'm like, "I got to move up.

I got to just go get it. Whatever."

My heart was beating out of my chest.

What the?

The light finally comes to a full stop

a short while later.

Richie is stunned.

Before this happened, I was,

I would say, at least 90% skeptic,

and afterwards, I'm, like -- I'm definitely less skeptical.

How in the is this happening?

It could have been a ghost.

But if this was a ghost,

is this the extent of its haunting,

or is there more to come?

It's super possible that this is the beginning stages

of a more powerful haunting.

It's possible that this is a spirit

trying to communicate with you,

and the more energy you give it, the more it is able to give you.

Oh, God, there it goes again, dude.

There it goes again.

Maybe it's the light this time,

but it might be something else next time.

And the next thing you know, you have footsteps

and then moving objects,

and then you see a full-bodied apparition in your bathroom.

I definitely think if it is, you know, a spirit or a ghost,

something like that, then I think, you know,

undoubtedly, there'll probably me more activity.

There'll probably be more strange happenings.

Whatever happens, it seems that Richie

has taken the appropriate first steps.

I think the fact that he's paying attention

and he's acknowledging that something is there

is a good step.

Spirit typically just wants to pass along a message,

wants their story told,

so if he's ignoring them, I could understand

that there would be escalation.

In this case, I think he just needs to find a way

to translate what is being said.

Dude, I am tripping the out right now.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Be prepared for physical contact.

- You okay? - Something's right in my back.

Trust that what you're seeing really is paranormal.

Be curious...

...not foolhardy.

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com

and connect with us on social media.

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