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Next on "Paranormal Caught On Camera"...

...the haunting of a war-torn ship...

Spirits just want to have their stories told.

...a cryptid plays hide-and-seek in Thailand...

It looked like something out of this world.

...an evil spirit pays a nighttime visit

to an infant...

There's a belief that if you have three scratches on you,

that is a sign of a demonic entity.

...a rooftop encounter with an unknown creature...

I don't know what I'm looking at,

other than the fact that it seems to be a head,

it seems to have eyes, and it's on a roof.

...plus even more paranormal footage you have to see...

- Check that out. - ...to believe.

Thailand is a country rich in a Buddhist tradition of folklore

where semi-divine demi creatures take various shapes

and are said to possess supernatural powers.

It is such a large part of the Thai culture

that there are countless festivals

that take place throughout Thailand

celebrating these powerful beings,

but you don't have to be at a festival

or even from Thailand

to witness one of these entities in person.

In fact, for one Belgian man spending some time

taking in the views of Thailand,

all he had to do was ride a bike to the top of a mountain.

Belgium native Damien Mink had been living

and working in Bangkok for three years when, in 2015,

he decided to visit the resort city of Hua Hin,

about a three-hour drive south.

Oh, yeah.

My name is Damien Mink,

and I shot a video about five years ago in Thailand

in a city called Hua Hin.

Yeah, good job.

Damien and his friend rented bikes

in order to reach a mountain view of the city.

There we are.

Hello, Hua Hin!

Once we arrived at the top of the mountain,

we had a GoPro on the helmet, so we stopped at a viewpoint.

We admired the view,

took off the helmet, put the helmet on the rock.

And then a strange sound caught Damien's attention.

It was a very strident sound,

almost like a woman screaming for help.

What they saw next would only deepen

the mystery of the sound they had heard.

I was not sure what it was.

I saw something moving.

At first, I thought it was someone,

but then I saw, like...

It didn't seem like a person.

I mean, it had the form a little bit like a person,

but it was, like, green-colored.

Also, you couldn't see it well because it was, like,

matching with the color of the nature.

I didn't even notice it until it was moving --

meant that its camouflage reflex was very good.

And as it sank down, I still had a hard time

separating it from the background.

Motion was the only reason I was able to track it.

It's amazing this thing was caught on video

for just those few seconds.

That thing looked bizarre.

It looked like something out of this world.

I couldn't explain what it was.

Like, even the hands look like --

it was like frog hands or something.

It was -- what was it?

This thing was definitely not human, but it was alive.

Hearts pounding, they decided to investigate further.

We ran to see what it was,

but when we arrived there, there was nothing.

It was gone.

Obviously, it looked like it was trying to hide

from these people, you know?

It didn't really want to be recognized.

It was going down like this, so, you know...

And who knows what this was doing out there?

And although it may have seemingly disappeared

before their eyes, the pair were confident

that they had at least caught some part of it on camera.

We were, like, very excited to come back

and play the image back and slow it down,

and when we slow it down, and we saw that, it was like,

"Oh, my God. What is that?"

And it's weird. It has a reptilian face.

It seems to have scales.

It has this large hand, long fingers.

We are in the "Land of the Lost" right now.

It has all the earmarks of

the cryptid known as Lizard Man.

The ones we have here in America are in semitropical areas,

as well as heavily forested areas,

so maybe that is the habitat

where it's best place to be looking for these.

Despite the odd lizard-like appearance of the cryptid,

Damien still wishes he was able to get just a little bit closer

when he had the chance.

What's that?

You know, it happened so quickly,

and we didn't really have, like, a confrontation,

so I didn't feel danger.

I think it was scared and ran away,

so I think it felt more in danger than we did.

You don't know how fast these things can move, so...

I mean, you'd be surprised by reptiles.

They are not as sluggish as they may appear.

I think they got as close to a Lizard Man

as I would ever want to get.

Whatever this thing is, I think that's close enough.

Close enough may be wise advice

as iguanas are known to run as fast as 20 miles per hour.

McNEILL: Reptilian creatures already are a little,

tiny bit monstrous to us.

We're more ready to go like, "Yeah, no,

that is a thing that I don't want to interact with

and snuggle with or anything like that."

Since shooting this video five years ago,

Damien has moved to Hua Hin,

affording him frequent visits to this mountain vista

in his continuing search for another

potentially supernatural encounter.

I try to look for some clues or for some leftover

or some skin or anything, but I couldn't find anything.

But perhaps all Damien really needs to do

to catch sight of one of these lizard people again

is look at whomever happens to be standing in front of him

at any given time.

There's this conspiracy theory going around that

there's a race of reptilians,

of lizard-like people across the globe,

that are infiltrating human activity --

politics, sports, religion, entertainment.

So perhaps this is one of those strange creatures.

These reptilian humanoids can shape-shift,

so they live among us,

and you don't know who can be a reptile or not.

There is something weird there, and I kind of want to know more.

We'll probably never know what it is,

so big disappointment.

I would like to know more.

There's so many unanswered questions,

so many possibilities.

All we have is this brief moment,

but that moment is enough

to spark our imagination into asking,

"What was that?"

Coming up -- terror in the nursery

as an evil apparition leaves its mark on a baby.

New parents often put great effort

into baby-proofing their homes --

locking cabinet doors, covering sharp corners,

blocking electrical sockets, securing bookcases.

In short, parents do everything in their power

to protect their children against anything

that could possibly harm them,

but there are some dangers that even the most attentive parent

would never even think to protect against,

like, say, an evil entity.

We begin with what seems like a happy story --

Heather and Josh building a family

with their adorable baby in bucolic Highland, Michigan,

but then something strange happens.

They get up one morning, and their little baby --

1 year old -- had purple scratches on her cheek.

We all know that babies wear little mitts

because they tend to scratch themselves,

but she's starting to fear that this is

more than just the baby accidentally scratching herself

because these are much larger, more deep scratches

than she can inflict on her own.

Assuming the marks were caused during the night,

they set up a camera while the baby slept

to see what exactly was happening.

When they reviewed the footage, they were horrified.

They do catch a figure of a person

walking through the room.

Doesn't slow down. It walks fairly quick.

But what's interesting is the baby sits up,

and she seems to notice it.

Something catches her attention.

That was really, really interesting.

And if you look closely, you can actually see the infant

rise up out of the crib and look in the direction of this figure,

which would imply that it's something actually in the room,

physical, rather than an artifact

on the actual film or video.

You see that the child is aware that something's in the room

because it stands up in its cot and kind of is looking around.

Babies and toddlers tend to be

more sensitive to spirits

since they're learning so much.

They're soaking up everything,

and they see the world differently than adults do.

So the timing is pretty convincing.

So the apparition in the video appeared, to me,

to be humanoid in shape.

It certainly looked about the right height and width.

The problem with it was, there was no definition.

There was no way to tell exactly what it was made up of.

It's not just a trick of light.

It's not just a flying dust speck or something.

This is clearly something other than that that's captured.

That they caught something paranormal passing

by their child was certainly alarming to the couple,

but even more alarming was the thought

that this entity might have been the cause of the scratches.

There's a belief that if you have three scratches on you,

that is a sign of a demonic entity

because three is mocking the Holy Trinity,

so maybe it was a demonic entity in that room,

or maybe it was just something trying to scratch up the baby.

Heather and Josh decided to research

the history of the house to see if they could gain any insight

as to what kind of being they were dealing with.

They were not comforted by what they found.

A woman was found dead at the bottom of the stairs.

Her hip was broken.

She had lain there for several days unfound,

so an accidental death could cause a mental state of,

maybe she didn't know she was dead,

or a feeling of unjustness that, "I died too soon.

I still have things to do."

And since she wasn't found,

maybe she didn't get the proper burial,

the proper rest, whatever,

and the state of this spirit, if earthbound,

might not be entirely healthy.

Would a person who's having difficulties like that be...

You know, if they were alive, would they take exception

to a new family in your house?

"Here's a little baby. Maybe it's my room."

Who knows if that brought on that kind of interaction

between this figure and the child?

Don't feel like scratches necessarily mean

negative attachments or energies.

Babies tend to be a lot more receptive

to paranormal phenomena than adults,

and this baby notices this ghost,

and the ghost is like, "Wow. This baby notices me.

I'm having a connection with this infant."

Imagine not having hands or a body,

trying to pick up a baby.

They're trying so hard to interact with something living

that their grasp becomes too strong,

and they accidentally hurt the flesh bodies that we have.

But the baby wasn't the only one

experiencing supernatural interactions.

The child's mother soon started hearing inexplicable screaming

and stomping around the house late at night.

Fear could help energize it.

Fear can give it what it needs to get stronger

and continue terrorizing the families.

It's very hard to keep a calm head about you,

but to give in to panic is only giving it more fuel.

Anytime there's children involved,

I think it escalates the case.

In this particular instance,

the child is actually being harmed,

and there's all kinds of seemingly violent activity

taking place, or at least reported, at night.

So in my particular opinion here,

I would say that they should probably relocate

or, at the very least, get the child out of the home.

Whatever is in their house

caused physical harm to their baby,

so I would recommend finding another home

because you don't want to stick around

and see how much worse it can get.

Maybe that was the spirit's plan all along, you know?

"I want to get these people out, so what do I have to do?"

Soon after, Heather and Josh

started looking for a new place to live.

Coming up -- the echoes of past wars

haunt a legendary battleship.

The aircraft carrier USS Hornet

served in multiple wars and witnessed countless battles

filled with death and destruction.

Today, the decommissioned ship is permanently docked

at a port in Alameda, California,

serving as a historic landmark and museum.

But for many who visit the Hornet,

a lesson in wartime history

is not the only thing that they encounter.

The darker side of the Hornet

tells a story of some 300 servicemen

that lost their lives on the ship,

some to war, some to battle,

some to accidents, and even more to suicides.

And when you're living encompassed

in a giant hunk of steel, dealing with guilt,

dealing with stress, dealing with anxiety,

a lot of that energy gets trapped inside of the vessel.

The USS Hornetwas also the aircraft carrier

that picked up the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969

after their historic journey

landing the first humans on the moon.

It's been involved in our exploration of our universe,

and I think that's amazing.

The carnage of war combined with this connection

to a place far beyond the Earth itself

perhaps provides a bridge to an otherworldly experience.

After hearing of the ship's supposed haunting,

one ghost-hunting couple set out to explore

the USS Hornetthemselves

to see if there was any truth to the rumors.

My name is Keith Weldon,

and I was the cameraman on the USS Hornet.

I'm Carissa Simpson.

I'm a paranormal investigator.

We've heard rumors that the ship was haunted,

so we wanted to explore and investigate

and see what types of evidence we could gather.

Evidence began to surface as soon as Carissa

passed through the ship's sleeping quarters.

We were on our own, just walking around

when, boom, I felt that tingle.

I stopped in my tracks.

I'm feeling a tingling, like, right in my arm

and then in my foot.

I'm not kidding. I have to go this way.

Her hand was tingling, and I think she was sort of

letting that guide her, which is really, really smart.

As an investigator, you have these different feelings,

and a lot of times, somebody might get freaked out

about them and hold back,

but she was letting that take her where she needed to be.

Often, you see investigators having a physical reaction

to the presence of the spirits

that they're there to investigate.

In this case, it's a sort of a tingling sensation

that she's getting.

Some people have theorized that that's the spirit

sort of drawing a bit of the life force

out of the individual that they're interacting with

or they're in close proximity with.

I felt the tingle in my foot, as well.

That is when the energy started rising in the room,

and we just stopped and started communicating

with spirits right there.

Is there anybody here?

At that moment, Carissa and Keith heard

a rhythmic tapping.

It sounded like someone was in the room with us,

just tapping on the side of the bed.

They have these metal railings,

and it just sounded like someone

maybe a row over from us just sitting there tapping.

What is that tapping noise?

I thought that was pretty weird.

It wasn't like some off-distance sound that we were hearing.

It felt like it was right next to us.

When it comes to paranormal investigating,

one of the old-time tried-and-true methods

of communication

is the tap -- the ghost rap, the spirit tapping.

And on the ship when you hear tapping...

...it brings to mind a specific form of communication.

When we reviewed it and we played it over

and over and over again, and we realized,

"There's a pattern here."

"This is Morse code."

If you're a ghost with military background,

and you know Morse code,

it's a very effective way to communicate.

It would require a lot less energy to manifest

to let the living know that you're there.

When Carissa and Keith later reviewed

the tapping sounds on the footage

and did a little Morse code research,

they discovered that it was spelling out "Hi,"

and then the letters "I," "T," which they interpreted

as an acronym for information technicians,

the men responsible for Morse code communication

during wartime.

As they continued through the ship,

they picked up still more communications,

this time through their EVP, a device that picks up sounds

that are not always apparent to the human ear.

And what they heard was startling.

At this moment, my camera's microphone captured an EVP.

Though it's hard to make out, it sounds like it says...

They did catch an electronic voice phenomena

with a digital recorder that sounds like it says,

"Survival is basic."

I would think this was an appropriate string of words

because this was a warship, and lives were lost,

and lives were taken because of the ship.

In the heat of war, I mean, what's the most basic instinct?

It's to survive.

"Survival is so basic."

What kind of a message is that? Is it hopeful?

Perhaps it's a little existential that in battle,

in wartime, all they have is survival.

They don't know if they're gonna make it to the next day.

They don't know what tomorrow brings, but you know what?

Survival -- that's what we do.

As Keith and Carissa delved even deeper

into this labyrinth of steel, their recorders picked up

still more apparent echoes of times past.

We are in the engine room,

where there have been a couple deaths.

This time, the message was even more intense.

- Did you hear that? - I heard that.

I heard that.

- Did you hear that? - I heard that.

The EVP that we got said, "We're under attack."

When you think about the moment

that somebody realized they were under attack

and the fear and, you know, the emotion behind that,

that left an imprint, for sure.

It could very well be a residual thing,

especially on a vessel like this if it saw battle.

You might hear orders. You might hear shouting.

You might hear things that occurred during wartime.

Well, it's just energy that's remained behind

that's playing over and over again.

Do you know the name of the ship that we are on right now?

"U.S. Navy." Did you hear that?

That said, "U.S. Navy," very clearly.

It's not just random messages.

It seems to be that there's a dialogue going on.

The spirit seems to want to have this conversation.

Spirits just want to have their stories told.

They either have information to pass on

or just want to communicate -- just a basic human need

of letting someone know you're there, to exist.

And at this point, whatever was on this ship

seemed to do just that.

Over here.

Came from up here.

When you really allow yourself to be uncomfortable

and to live in the possibilities,

you know, you can get really excited about,

you know, what we don't know in this world

and in other worlds.

It's a real perfect storm of things.

You've got some place-memory hauntings going on.

You've got apparitional or intelligent,

you know, communication going back and forth,

so, you know, you got a little bit of everything,

and there's so much history with this ship.

Why not a little bit of everything?

Any one thing alone could be suspect.

It could be a coincidence.

But once you start overlapping things,

seeing the incidence of potential Morse code...

...and EVP...

...or feeling, like, little cold, like, shivers,

like her body was tingling...

...all these things together might be indications

that, yeah, the USS Hornetis very haunted.

What?

Coming up --

the most endearing cryptid ever caught on camera.

We've seen it many times before.

A home-security system designed to safeguard our possessions

inadvertently captures something inexplicable --

a moving shadow in a corner,

entities that enter and disappear without warning,

a ball of light or smoke-like vapor

that looks like a spirit trying to communicate.

Any or all of these captures can cause the hair

on the back of our collective necks to stand at attention

and make our hearts beat a little bit faster,

but every once in a while,

there's a capture that pushes us beyond traditional fear

and enters a realm reserved

only for the very rarest of paranormal experiences,

something that can only be described as...

kind of adorable.

I'm Vivian Gomez, and I captured the creature

on my video camera outside of my home.

When Vivian woke up in her Colorado home

on June 2nd, 2019,

she did what most of us do first thing in the morning.

She checked her phone.

In the morning, I woke up,

and I saw a notification from one of the cameras,

and it said there was activity.

So I looked at it,

and I saw the video of what was in my driveway.

What Vivian saw defied explanation.

I showed my son, and we just kind of looked at each other,

and he said, "What is that?"

We kept watching it over and over.

We didn't know what it was.

I have never had any other...

anything else come up on my camera that was strange.

What the heck is this thing?

Is it wearing something on its head?

Is its head actually that shape?

We don't know.

Well, we can say it's humanlike, in that it has a head.

It has arms and legs.

Do those body parts move like a human does?

No, not at all.

It's unnaturally gangly.

Its joints are very sort of rubbery.

I don't think a person could move that way

even if they wanted to.

It seems too spindly to be a person.

This is a real unique video.

It's funny that it's doing, like, a little jig and dance.

It's, like, happy, it's... and it's unexplainable.

Because the security camera notes

the exact time a clip is captured,

Vivian was able to recall precisely where she was

when the cryptid appeared in her driveway.

It was only 8:59 p.m. at that point.

It was dark, but my son and I

tend to have a routine on Saturday evenings.

We watch TV.

We fall asleep on the couch, and we tend to go to bed early.

So at that point,

I'm sure we were asleep on the couch.

Security cameras just have a higher chance

of recording something really strange

because they're always on when we're not around,

and to me, that's really freaky just because it shows us

what's happening when we're not looking.

Yeah, it was kind of unsettling when we saw it.

It looked like it had opened my door and closed it,

and at the time, my screen door --

the lock was broke, so I couldn't lock it.

I believe it was trying to get into my home.

I think that's the scariest part.

Is it dangerous?

Is it something she should be concerned about?

Well, it doesn't seem to be doing any damage

to the house, the car.

It doesn't seem destructive,

so I don't think she should be worried at all.

Looking for more input as to what this creature could be,

Vivian posted the video online and got a huge response.

Though certainly unexpected and seemingly unique,

it also carried with it a vague sense of familiarity

for many who viewed it.

I have no idea exactly what this is,

but it does look really similar to Dobby from "Harry Potter."

Oh, there are legends of elves and brownies and nymphs

and that kind of thing all across the globe,

So this could fall in line with one of those strange entities.

McNEILL: The idea of a house-elf is absolutely

a traditional construct.

J.K. Rowling used a lot of traditional folk creatures

and folk beliefs in the writing of "Harry Potter,"

and that really helped, I think,

give it that resonance for a lot of people.

Without fairy tales

and without the "Harry Potter" films,

this video may have gone unnoticed,

but because of its association with something

that we're all familiar with,

and especially a beloved character like Dobby,

its legend --

his introduction into real life --

Dobby is real now.

Dobby is free!

And as with any fairy tale,

there usually is a nugget of truth at the center.

Vivian has her own theories

about what her camera captured.

I think it was something not from this world.

That's what I think.

Across the street is a large empty field.

I believe it could go in the field.

I believe it could live in the field.

There's a lot of trees and brush.

Her living in proximity to this large field --

perhaps this is a beast of that field

or an alien that dropped in on the other side of her house.

I don't believe this creature came to do harm to anyone,

just by the way it acted and danced around.

That's my gut feeling.

I feel it's friendly and seemed like a happy little thing.

This is the first paranormal clip

I've ever seen that actually made me laugh,

and I hope if ever get visited by something like this

in my house, it's as funny as this was.

Coming up --

angels may be real and closer than you think.

Archangel, the Angel of Light,

Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel,

cherubs -- the list is long

and dates back thousands of years in the telling.

Found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,

the mythology and tales recount angels

as positive and benevolent.

Often, the angel is thought of

as a messenger from beyond or a watchful spirit,

but that doesn't make seeing one of these heavenly bodies

any less startling.

Typically, when I think of an angel,

I think of a man or a woman,

usually, like, golden-haired, fair-skinned,

white flowing robes, wings, a halo, that kind of thing.

A lot of times when people claim to have seen angels

or something angelic, it's a stressful situation.

They're injured, they're hurt,

or they're dying or sick.

Every religion on the planet

has some form of being that watches over us.

Whatever the name, whatever the classification,

whatever the task or title that we're giving it,

there's always a watchful spirit.

It touches upon that very basic need

we have for something greater.

And in these clips, our belief is tested

and, for some, rewarded, in that there's the proof.

Because angels are very different

from any other paranormal beings,

it's not something that you can hunt for or actively seek out.

Angels are supposed to come to you.

And apparently, that's exactly what happened

in October of 2016 in Camden, South Carolina.

Nobody will believe me if I didn't do this live,

but I want you to look at this cloud in the sky.

Check that out.

This video is set up by someone who says,

"Guys, you're not gonna believe this.

I have to show it to you because if I just told you,

you would never believe it. Look at that."

Look at this cloud in the sky.

Is that not an angel or what?

When he zooms in, you see what looks exactly like an angel,

and you see what looks like wings.

You see a faint shape of a head and a body

and legs that kind of, like, taper down.

I mean, you can almost, like, see a face.

Isn't that amazing?

I'm seeing angel.

I don't know if anybody sees anything different.

The fascinating thing about this is that

unlike most clouds that just morph from one shape

into another as the wind blows,

this stays as is, intact, for a very long period of time.

So you can really study the form of it

and see a lot of the detail.

'Cause maybe he is getting messages and signs

from his, like, spirit guides and ancestors.

It means that you're being guided.

It means that you're being protected.

And it's something that, as humans,

we really yearn to connect with that.

We want to know that, even though we are alone,

that we're being guided and watched over.

Now, this might not literally bean angel.

Perhaps it's not possible for us to see them.

But it could be a powerful message froman angel --

enough to say that, "Yes, I'm here.

I'm watching over you."

And that's probably how this gentleman felt, that,

"Okay. There's something looking out for me.

I'm protected.

There is an angel watching over me."

This is my angel that I saw when I walked out of the office.

Hope y'all enjoyed it as much as I did.

Peace out.

Not every angel sighting requires an eyewitness.

Take what happened in Russia in 2013

when a security camera caught what appeared to be

an angelic figure hovering over a small child.

In that security footage,

there's a child running across the screen,

and then immediately after, you see kind of these misty lights.

Maybe it's a guardian angel that's there.

It coalesces. It moves.

It seems to expand and manifest and open up to a way

where the interpretation was, "This is angelic."

Now, if there was ever a capture of an angel on video,

I think that's what it would look like.

It would look like a floating starfish or something like that,

which is what this video does.

The real meaning behind these angelic images

may just reside within the eye of the beholder.

Angel sightings, as far as I understand them,

tend to be a little bit up for interpretation.

It's supposed to be kind of personal

to whoever is receiving the message.

Of course, you're going to ask,

"Well, what's the message?

Why are they coming? Are they here to protect us?

Are they here to deliver a message?"

Why would an angel appear?

It probably appears when you least expect it

and probably when you would need it most.

Is that not an angel or what?

Coming up -- a mysterious entity's

stalking gaze strikes fear in a homeowner.

There's an old adage

about things that go bump in the night,

which captures the fear we feel

about unknown noises in the dark.

The line's origin is from a traditional Scottish poem

written in the early 20th century,

but it is still in use today.

It could be the nighttime creaking of floorboards,

a bang on a pipe,

or mysterious sounds outside.

And while most things that go bump turn out to be nothing,

there are cases when they lead to something all too real,

like this unearthly entity spotted on a roof.

Living in the Pacific Northwest,

Tom Collins' home bordered a heavily wooded forest,

and in June 2016, he started to hear strange noises

in the middle of the night.

And on one night in particular

when the noises seemed even more intense than usual,

he decided to do something about it.

Hi. I'm Tom Collins.

I am actually the one who filmed the video,

and you can hear me in the video talking.

I mean, we hear noises out here pretty often

but nothing like what we just heard.

At the time, I had been hearing all kinds of crazy noises,

and we've been kept up late at night, just by, you know --

'cause we didn't have air-conditioning,

so we always had the windows open.

So, you know, we'd be sleeping.

3:00, 4:00 in the morning, we'd be woken up,

just by some crazy noise outside.

It was almost right in the middle

between animal and human.

It was too, like, guttural to be human, but at the same time,

it sounded like a...

it sounded like a yell, like, out of a man, so...

More curious than afraid,

Tom decided to bring his camera and flashlight outside

in hopes of capturing some evidence.

I can't really describe exactly what it sounded like,

but almost like some kind of a screech.

We've been hearing it so long.

I just wanted to get it on camera so bad

'cause I had been telling my friends,

and I had been telling family members,

but they all looked at me like I was kind of crazy.

Unable to find any evidence on the ground,

Tom then turned his attention and flashlight to the roof.

is that?

What in the?

When he finally looks up and sees

that there's something on the rooftop,

it's not what you expected.

It's not what I expected.

I don't even know what to call it.

Is it alien? Is it...

What is it?

I don't know what I'm looking at,

other than the fact that it seems to be a head,

it seems to have eyes,

and it's on a roof.

Hey.

Doesn't really look like a cryptid, per se, to me.

It looks like something, like, maybe like out of this world

or maybe one of those, like, Japanese anime characters

with the huge, big eyes.

It's crazy.

I've had a few different experiences with,

you know, scary things in the past,

and I've just never really experienced

anything else like it.

What in the?

It seems to signal with a hand or a sleeve

and very hard to speculate what this might be.

Hey.

What the?

Tom rushed into the house to let his girlfriend know

what he had just witnessed.

- Should I go out there? - No. No, please.

But if there's something on the roof,

I need -- like, I got to figure out what it is.

Like, we can't just leave it up there.

It could climb in the window

in the middle of the night and kill us.

You might think, "All right. This is a bad idea.

You don't want to go out onto a ledge.

You don't want to go on a rooftop.

That's dangerous."

But if he didn't do that,

all of us at home would look at this video and go,

"Oh, you should've gone on the roof.

You should've gone out and investigated."

So damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Okay. Here we go.

Against his girlfriend's wishes,

Tom ventured onto the roof

to confront whatever it was that he saw.

I don't like being up there to clean my gutters,

let alone chase some unknown entity

that you don't know what its physical prowess might be.

Where the hell did it go?

Startled, Tom stumbled

and dropped his camera off the roof

and then immediately went back inside.

Despite losing track of whatever was out there,

the evidence he had collected was fortunately not destroyed.

The camera itself I had to take in to get fixed,

but luckily, the SD card was fine,

so I was able to get the video from it.

Whatever it is doesn't seem to move.

It doesn't flee.

It doesn't react to him in any way

other than maybe curiosity.

I'm sure, just like we find cryptids to be so interesting,

I'm sure they find us to be so interesting

or just completely terrified of us or plotting our deaths

because we've been just taking over all of their habitat.

And maybe that's the root of the problem.

You know, it was seeking something.

I really don't know what it was --

you know, food, water, shelter or what,

but it definitely seemed like it was looking for something.

In fact, a few weeks prior to shooting this video,

Tom had left his garage door up,

and boxes of stored dry food had been ripped open.

Something got in here and tore a big hole

in the side of some of those boxes.

I think, you know, that if it was in fact looking for food,

that it found whatever it was looking for,

and that would be all the reason for it to keep coming back,

so it's possible, yeah.

Probably the last thing he expected to see

was something alien,

and by alien I mean something that he wasn't expecting.

It wasn't a bird.

It wasn't a squirrel or a raccoon.

It wasn't even a prowler.

It wasn't somebody walking around on his roof.

It was a thing.

is that?

What that thing was is unknown at this point.

This one video actually defies all categories,

so I don't know what it is.

If they still have this thing going around their house,

they better do something about it.

And that's exactly what they did.

At the end of that summer, we actually sold the house,

and I don't know if the person who moved into the house

is having the same problem, but we got away from it.

Since moving,

Tom's nights have been considerably more peaceful.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Trust your feelings.

I'm feeling a tingling, like, right in my arm and my foot.

Don't be afraid to get up close and personal.

Review all of your footage.

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