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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

a group of teens driving down a haunted road...

...are pursued by bizarre and terrifying phantom...

...truck?

He's stopping again. He's turning around.

You can tell in the girls' voices,

we all knew something was abnormal with the situation.

An evil entity peeks out from another dimension.

McCLAIN: Oh, my God. Dude, it's in there just staring at us.

That's demonic.Look at its eyes.

McCLAIN: We witnessed a demon in the mirror,

and that blew my mind.

A cryptid sighting that will challenge

everything you think you know.

This was not a movie monster. This was no giant monkey man.

This was a very dark-skinned man covered with hair.

A five-pound muffin jar

is no match for the spirit haunting a New Hampshire store.

I found this video so interesting

that right after I saw it,

I hopped in the car, went to New Hampshire,

because I had to see it for myself.

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

We just witnessed a UFO.

...to believe.

If you're a fan of paranormal lore...

...or simply grew up in New Jersey,

you've probably heard the legend of Clinton Road.

The 10-mile stretch in West Milford

has a well-earned reputation for ghostly happenings.

People have reported seeing all sorts of strange phenomena

when traveling along the notorious thoroughfare

from ghost children to hellhounds,

Satanists to monkey-like creatures,

and even...

Roll up your window.

...believe it or not...What is wrong with you, Kevin?

...phantom trucks.

He's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming.

Dave! My God, Dave.

Just go straight. Just go straight.

It's 1:00 a.m. on February 6, 2016,

in West Milford, New Jersey.

In an attempt to experience a late-night bit of adventure,

Dave Paprota and a few friends

decide to journey down Clinton Road,

the dark and infamous 10-mile passageway in north Jersey.

My name's Dave Paprota,

and I was the one driving the vehicle.

I used my dash cam to record.

When you're 17, 18 years old, hanging out with your friends,

you want to do something at night

and you live in New Jersey, a popular thing to do

is travel up to Clinton Road.

Right there. Take a right.

And once their tires touch this deserted rural road,

it doesn't take long for the nightmare to begin.

I think this is the couch.

No.

- Oh, my God. - No way.

Dave and his three friends are freaking out

because they are sure that that same white pickup truck

has passed by them twice already.

No way.

I got that heart-sinking feeling before they even said anything.

I felt like a sinking feeling in my chest.

It was an older white truck. The windows were black tinted.

Couldn't see if anyone was in there or what the deal was,

but clearly saw a white truck.

- No, he's stopped. - Turn around.

No, no, don't turn around. He's stopped.

It was cold outside, but it was a different kind of cold

that I felt as we were driving.

You can't get out of here.

He's reversing. He's reversing.

- I swear to - Turn around, Dave.

Slow down. Slow down, slow down.

The teens have seen enough.

Panicked, they turn around,

only to see the pickup truck pass them again.

He's coming. He's coming. He's coming.

Dave! Oh, my God, Dave!

Just go straight. Just go straight.

You can tell in the girls voices...

He's stopping again. He's turning around.

Dave! Dave!

Hold up. I want to see this.

We all knew something was abnormal with the situation.

Wait for him to catch up.

Get on a straightaway and wait for him to catch up.

Finally, the end of the road.

Dave and his friends have made their great escape.

But who was in that white truck?

And was it actually from this world or was it a phantom truck?

Could it somehow be connected to the legend of Clinton Road?

When I got home, I did a lot more research on Clinton Road

and found that there actually is a legend of a pickup truck

chasing you out.

And that's when I was freaked out.

One of the aspects of this story always involves

this mysterious pickup truck.

This truck will follow you to the point of turning around

when you pass it.

He's coming. He's coming. He's coming.

Dave! Oh, my God, Dave!

Dave, just go straight. Just go straight.

Just go straight. Just go straight.

Sometimes on this 10-mile stretch of lonely road,

you'll seem to pass the same truck over and over again.

He's stopping again. He's turning around.

Dave!

Hold up, hold up!

This is scary. This is legitimately scary.

There is a heightened level of energy in that vehicle.

And then suddenly to see themselves pursued

by the same vehicle that they passed moments ago

and continue passing --

that is a setup for a horror movie.

He's coming. He's coming. He's coming.

Dave! Oh, my God, Dave!

Dave, just go straight. Just go straight.

I'm not a huge ghost person.

I used to not believe in that stuff,

but stuff like this changed my mind on that.

Usually when we think of apparitions and ghosts

and spirits, we tend to think that

they are limited to just things that were once alive.

You know, people, animals.

It sort of makes you wonder

do vehicles also count as an apparition or ghost

or are they something totally different?

Some people believe that these phantom vehicles

are actually part of some, like, alien dimension.

You know, not necessarily a ghost.

The goal seems to be to take you somewhere

and then you never come back.

So, you know, maybe these phantom trucks,

if they do catch up to you,

maybe you'll never be seen again.

While Dave and his friends

may have escaped unharmed,

his dashboard camera wasn't so lucky.

The most interesting part to me is the fact

that I have my dash cam plugged in,

hard wired to my car,

and it has a backup battery so that when I have the car off,

it still records like motion detection.

And while we were driving right after when that clip ends,

my dash cam shut off.

It said low battery and it died.

Even though it was plugged in. Everything was on.

And that's that's why the video cut off.

Any sort of electronic interference,

especially at a place that has multiple sources

of spiritual energy,

yeah, your electronics are done for.

That's them stealing your energy to manifest itself.

That's the mystery of Clinton Road.

Things like that happen on that road.

You know, it's not a pleasant road to ride on,

you know, in the middle of the night.

It's rural.

It's pitch black.

There's no houses on it.

When something like that happens,

you automatically just get freaked out

and you think something supernatural is going to happen.

Which means there's only one piece of advice to heed.

All I'm going to say is if I'm driving down Clinton Road,

I'm going to continue going.

Because if you stop your car for too long, you're gonna die.

He's coming. He's coming. He's coming.

Dave! Oh, my God, Dave!

Dave, just go straight. Just go straight.

Just go straight. Just go straight.

Coming up, strange sightings in the Chicago skies.

That's that UFO they were talking about.

There have been countless UFO sightings

all over the world...

What is this thing?

...most of them in rural settings --

over cornfields,

over country roads,

and even, for some strange reason, over cows.

So imagine the surprise of two men when they spotted a UFO....

...over the great city...

of Chicago.

May 2019, in Chicago, Illinois,

Ken Ross is sitting on his front porch,

enjoying the day,

when suddenly he and a neighbor see this overhead.

It's moving too slow.

Look at the way it's moving.

Yeah.

A black, amorphous unidentified flying object

soaring through the sky above,

positively baffling both Ken and his neighbor.

I don't know what the that is.

Yeah.

Ken had heard of this sort of thing before

but had never actually seen one in person until now.

That's that UFO they were talking about.

Eventually, the object is joined by a second, smaller entity

that looks just like it.

I don't know, man, there's two of them.

One of them's following the other one.

The other one's way, way up there.

Not the way that moving.

Approximately 30 minutes later,

the objects finally disappear into the clouds.

Man, we just witnessed a UFO around this

My name is Ken Ross.

Yes, I'm the one that filmed the video.

I was in awe, you know?

You see the excitement from the video.

We jumped off the porch

and, like, "Man, a UFO," you know what I'm saying?

So it was something exciting to us

to bear witness to something like that.

Look at the way it's moving.

Yeah.

We from urban area of Chicago.

Excuse my profanity which you heard on the video.

That's that UFO they were talking about.

It was like something shocking, you know what I'm saying,

for us to witness something like that.

You know, you hear about it all the time in rural places,

you know, Wyoming, Arizona, some places like that.

But in Chicago? The east side of Chicago?

You know, it was something strange and unknown.

The unidentified flying object in this clip

sort of looks to be silvery on the top,

vaguely flying-saucer shaped, very dark on the bottom.

It's difficult to see what we're actually looking at

because these dark objects seemed to change shape

every couple frames.

I don't know if it's a tumbling object

or if it's just so weirdly shaped

that every little corner looks different.

But it's definitely disorienting.

The shape of it is very peculiar.

It doesn't look like a plane or a helicopter,

like something recognizable.

It's also too stiff and too big to be a bird.

And also, the way that it's moving,

it looks like it's moving very, very fast across the sky.

It wasn't nothing manmade as far as airplane,

you know, helicopter, balloons, or anything like that.

Even the way it was moving, the distance that it was flying,

it wasn't a drone.

Drones usually, you know,

they're level and they move around.

These things seem to be like kind of all over the place.

But just because it isn't any of those things

doesn't mean that it's necessarily extraterrestrial.

And given its location, believe it or not,

it could be something even more bizarre.

Looks like a cryptid to me.

Do you see that it was in motion

and that the shape of it was moving with the motion?

It seemed to be flapping in some weird way.

There have been a lot of sightings in the Chicago area

of these winged-like creatures and these sightings,

there has been dozens of them over the last two years.

And we don't know what they are.

I'm going to go out on the limb here.

This is a little bit crazy,

but there have been Mothman sightings in Chicago.

I don't know who was flying over those skies,

but that was what came to mind when I was watching this.

Whatever it was,

it was clearly something most people

never get the chance to see in their lifetime.

That's that UFO they were talking about.

And both Ken and his neighbor feel fortunate

to now be a part of an exclusive group.

You know, you hear about it,

but now you're witnessing it.

So, you know, that makes me more of a firm believer.

When you see it yourself,

you know, that's the only conclusion I could come with.

That was a UFO.

I don't know what the that is.

Coming up, two men reckon with the evil spirits

trapped in a haunted church.

Whether or not you consider yourself religious,

there is no denying the sanctity of a church.

For many, as soon as they walk through a church's doors,

a tremendous sense of peace washes over them,

which is why it is all the more unsettling

when that peace is disturbed,

especially when that disturbance is caused

by something paranormal.

Two ghost hunters found this out firsthand

when they investigated an abandoned church in Mississippi

and heard...

saw...

In the mirror.

...and felt things...

...that left them shaken for days.

January 2020 in Wayne County, Mississippi --

two paranormal investigators set off to explore

an abandoned church in the woods.

The church was allegedly once the site

of an attempted demonic conjuring

and is now haunted by an evil presence.

Kevin and Bob are here to see

if there is any truth to that story.

They begin with Bob holding some dowsing rods

used by some investigators as a simple way

to detect a presence.

McCLAIN: Anybody want to communicate?

At first, they get no response.

But then listen carefully.

You hear something?

That's my camera.

What the did that just say, dude? Unh-unh.

Right after Kevin's camera

gives off a low-battery notification...

You hear something?

...a disembodied voice calls out for help.

"I'm stuck in here."

That's my camera.

What the did that just say, dude? Unh-unh.

Where was that at?

No, that's that same dark, demonic voice, dude.

That's that same demonic voice.

My name is Kevin McClain, and I filmed the video.

The voice happened.

And we both about to have heart attacks

because number one, you think somebody

has come in on you, a human being.

And then number two, you realize it's not a human being.

Number three, you don't realize if it's good or bad.

And so it was very scary. It was very scary.

I went and saw the camcorder, but the battery was drained.

And immediately I put two and two together and figured,

you know, hey, it probably drew the energy

from the camcorder to speak like that.

You know, battery drainage is a pretty common effect

on an investigation.

The theory being that the entity needs as much energy

as it can get a hold of to manifest or communicate somehow.

These guys heard the disembodied voice with their ears.

What the did that just say, dude? Unh-unh.

Somehow the spirit had to generate enough energy

to it to create a voice.

Kevin and Bob are freaked out

but determined to make further contact.

Can you speak again?

What did you say?

We heard you speak.

Did you say you're stuck in here?

Did you say something?

As they move deeper into the church,

they suddenly come upon a mirror said to be used by demons

as doorways to hell.

Ooh.

Yeah.

Do you want to come out that mirror?

You want to show yourself?

Watch the top portion of the mirror closely.

Something just flashed in front of me.

Do you see it?

There's something growing out of the mirror.

A haunted demonic face begins to appear.

Oh, my God, dude.

It's sitting there just staring at us.

That's demonic.

That is -- Look at its eyes.

...and that blew my mind.

Oh, God.

Why are you just standing there looking at us?

You see a face kind of coming out

at three-quarters of a profile at the top of the mirror.

You start seeing its features gets sharper

and sharper and deeper and deeper,

and then you start making out eyes and cheeks

and the facial structure.

And this investigator is doing

a hell of a job just focusing in.

And you could hear his voice.

He's like, "I'm trying not to move.

I'm trying not to panic."

Oh, my God, dude.

It's sitting there just staring at us.

Then as the face becomes clearer and clearer,

it starts invoking a sense of fear within him.

I don't know how long I can keep this.

I'm fixing to have a panic attack watching this.

That to me shows a parasitic energy

that has been invoked for negative fear-mongering

purposes to feed off of things like fear.

But if this is the face of a demon

or parasitic energy,

how did it get to the church in the first place?

Kevin believes the answer to that question lies in something

he found in the church during a previous visit.

The investigator that was there with me that day kept telling me

he had been there before,

and he kept telling me, "Man, you got to check this place out.

It's haunted."

I said, "No, it's a church. It's probably not haunted."

And so we were gonna go investigate that night.

And so I went that day just to check it out.

And that's when I found a circle of salt

with a candle and the mirror.

And so it's kind of rumor, you know,

but rumor becomes reality once we start investigating it.

So the objects that were found in this church --

a mirror, candles, and circles of salt --

to me, it means that whatever people were here,

they were probably doing mirror scrying,

which is when you summon a demon

or some sort of, like, wise entity in the mirror

so that you can communicate with them.

If you're practicing black magic with red candles,

you're trying to invoke anger.

You're invoking, you know, danger and bodily harm.

And in fact, just a few minutes later,

Bob has a very sudden and painful physical sensation.

Oh, my God.

When he pulled his shirt up,

there was probably 40 scratches

up, down, sideways, everywhere.

They were everywhere.

And we were together the entire time.

Multiple scratches could imply that they are "legion."

It's multiple demonic spirits coming through.

I mean, they were horizontal and vertical all over the place.

I mean, what can do that in a few seconds?

It seems very aggressive. It seems violent.

And if he felt threatened, it would suggest

that there was a threatening presence in the room.

Kevin and Bob have all the evidence they need

to convince them that this church

is indeed haunted by a malevolent entity.

They get out while the getting is good.

McCLAIN: It's amazing what they've unleashed

here in a church.

You had to ask the question, why would you come in

and do that in a church?

They've unleashed something, and it ain't good.

What the did that just say, dude?

Coming up, think this is Bigfoot?

Think again.

When someone tells you a story

about having seen a large, hairy bipedal ape-like creature

hiding in the woods,

there's probably one word that immediately comes to mind.

Bigfoot.

That's why the research conducted by one man

is so controversial.

Because if you ask him,

the large, hairy bipedal ape-like creatures he has seen

aren't Bigfoot at all...

...but something even more mind-blowing.

2018 in Nova Scotia, Canada,

a man named Leo A. Frank

is camping in the woods near his home

when he hears some rustling up ahead,

so he pulls out his phone to record and captures this.

Watch again in slow motion as an ape-like creature

crosses Leo's path and runs further into the woods.

Leo follows the creature and finally spots him again,

hiding by a tree.

The creature eventually takes off,

but just weeks later, Leo is in the same woods

when he again witnesses the silhouette of another

ape-like creature through the trees.

Then, incredibly, a short time later,

Leo comes across another one,

this time climbing a tree in the same woods.

For most people, this would be a bizarre run of luck.

But for Leo, capturing footage like this

has been his life's work for more than two decades.

My name's Leo A. Frank, and these are my videos.

In late August of 1997,

I had camped out at my grandmother's property.

So I'm walking up the brook and I see

what I think is a black bear.

The problem was the black bear stood up on two legs

and turned around and look straight at me.

This was not a movie monster.

This was no giant monkey man.

This was a very dark-skinned man covered with hair,

slightly over six foot,

maybe 6'3", 6'4", and that's being generous.

Everybody that I talked to said

"It sounds like you saw Bigfoot."

Leo was fascinated and wanted to know more

about these legendary creatures.

So he continued to stake out the woods

where he first encountered them.

Basically, I started gifting,

which means you take in a tribute.

I gifted what was available in the area.

And that included salmon,

apples, and pears for the most part.

And that's still what I use today is apples and pears.

It didn't take long for Leo to come across the creatures again.

And he was eventually able to get close enough

to one of them

to get this incredible shot of its face.

An unprecedented accomplishment.

But perhaps what is most intriguing

about this phenomenal photo and Leo's 22 years of research

is the conclusion he has drawn from all of it.

That this isn't Bigfoot at all.

In fact, it isn't any kind of cryptic.

It is a human,

specifically a prehistoric human left over from the past.

They're ancient hair-covered people

that we used to live beside.

And we chose to move into the concrete jungle.

They said, "Good luck, guys, but we're staying here."

It's as simple as that.

People try to make it more complicated.

They want it to be more complicated.

They want this to be a monster chase.

It's really not that complicated

and not that difficult.

We are so used to what we have.

We don't understand how we ever did without.

They live off the land. They hunt. They fish.

They do everything that we used to do.

There's some Sasquatch researchers out there that think

that Sasquatch is it's necessarily an ape

or an undiscovered animal of any kind.

It's simply undeveloped man, Neanderthal, if you will,

that just chose to remain elusive

and live in the woods rather than join society.

I knew what I saw was a man.

I can't say that enough.

The most interesting shot that Leo caught

was the face.

That's most convincing to me.

You see the color of the hair, the way the hair sits

on the head and face, the size of the nose

compared to the size of the eyes.

It kind of reminds me a lot of the illustrations

you would see in South America about the Pombero

or the illustrations you would see about the trolls in Sweden.

And I like that it's, you know,

not the traditional Sasquatch face

that we've been led to believe throughout all these years.

Though Leo might be in the minority

with his belief about this creature,

he is determined to stay the course

and learn as much as he can while he can.

My goal is just to continue learning.

With my knees and my back and other health conditions,

I've got maybe two seasons left in me,

and I'm okay with that.

What I needed to know was that what I saw 22 years ago

was not a movie monster.

That I was right. It was a man.

Coming up, a ghost who wants a muffin.

Across the world of the paranormal,

we've seen ample evidence of full-bodied apparitions...

...cryptids, aliens, and shadow figures.

Holy Oh, my --

But every so often, the most unsettling events,

the ones that make your blood run coldest,

are the simple ones.

An exploding glass.

A moving chair.

Impressive and inexplicable.

And clear proof that the place is haunted.

March 2014 in Guilford, New Hampshire.

During a slower moment at a store

near Lake Winnipesaukee, a CCTV camera captures

an employee walking away from the front desk.

Now, keep your eyes on this covered tray of muffins.

Watch again in slow motion as the glass dome

flies off the tray and shatters on the ground.

Hearing the crash of the glass,

the employee quickly returns to the front desk and is baffled.

She tells the owner,

who immediately reviews the security footage.

My name is Steve Buzzotta.

I own the video.

It came out of my camera in my store.

When I first saw it,

I was like, "Well, what the heck was that?"

I put the pie plate there.

I knew how heavy it was.

So I kept watching it.

And I was like this, "Well, this just isn't right."

There were actual muffins.

It's hard to see that in the actual video.

But there were some muffins in the case.

The glass top, which is very heavy,

actually came up over the muffins and blew up.

Didn't touch the muffins.

The top was like five pounds.

So it wasn't like --

There's no way.

I mean, you know, you had trouble lifting it off by hand.

I couldn't explain it.

The way that this object moves off the counter

and onto the ground is very unnatural

and definitely feels like something was moving it.

It didn't look like this glass container slid

off the counter and smashed.

It looked like it got picked up,

moved across in midair, and then fell and shattered.

I found this video so interesting

that literally right after I saw it, I hopped in the car,

went to New Hampshire because I had to see it for myself.

Now, this glass cover was pretty heavy.

I actually felt one that they had to replace it.

It was heavy glass.

So it wasn't something that, say, air or a vibration

from a passing car or something

would just cause it to flip over.

I don't see how that happens naturally in any way.

There's no wind.

There's nothing that's going to move that thing.

That has to be paranormal, in my opinion.

But if it is paranormal,

then who or what did this?

Steve has an idea.

One of whom was a Maine-based

paranormal investigative team

who offered to look into the incident.

One of the things the ghost people did was...

And they found...

...and that she got killed by a horse

back in that late 1700s.

I'm pretty sure that she's there

and evidently dad got killed by a horse there too.

And he's in the building too, and some other people.

But why did the ghost choose that moment to act out?

The paranormal investigative team from Maine

set up a spirit box session in the store

and got a definitive answer.

I had just done a remodel in the store.

And the first question that the ghost people asked was,

"Are you upset with Steve remodeling the store

and changing the flow of the building?"

That was the first question, and the answer was yes.

Kind of freaked me right out.

People have made this mistake where they remodel their home

and then days, weeks later, they start experiencing

this strange activity.

Now, believe it or not, this is a very common.

Couple of different ideas why that happens.

If it's a place memory type of haunting,

maybe moving the structure or taking structures down

releases this energy that is absorbed by the structure.

Or maybe you've got some spirits

that enjoy being in that area,

and they don't appreciate you changing things

that they're comfortable with.

Whatever the reason,

Steve is convinced that a ghost is in the store.

It was March. It was slow. It was quiet.

There's no wind. There's no trucks going by.

There's no vibrations. There's nothing going on.

And the muffins inside the case were never touched.

So the glass case actually had to come up and move off.

Not fall off.

There's no way that pie plate would have came off

the way it did without help.

Coming up,

is Saudi Arabia being invaded by aliens?

What is it that makes seeing a UFO

so deeply unsettling?

Could it be the long list of possibilities

associated with aliens and UFOs

like alien abduction,

possible experimentation,

and warfare.

If you ask Paul Smith,

all of these possibilities and more were on the table

when he saw these bizarre lights one night

outside of his office in Saudi Arabia.

November 2018 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Paul Smith steps outside for his 6:00 p.m. break at work,

looks up, and sees a flashing light in the sky.

Which quickly becomes two flashing lights in the sky

and then three forming a perfect triangle.

The lights disappear and return on and off for minutes,

attracting the attention of several of Paul's coworkers.

Then just before they disappear for good,

a fourth light flashes into view.

The entire encounter lasted just a few minutes.

But Paul was convinced this was alien in nature

and a warning.

My name is Paul, and I filmed that video.

I was wowed by this clip,

not only how clear it appears,

but how the lights actually seemed to shift

towards the end of it.

And I can't explain that.

I was incredibly fascinated.

They can't be airplanes.

Airplanes fly. They don't just hang there in a single spot.

They can't be helicopters.

It's very unlikely that they're drones,

because drones aren't stationary either.

It certainly doesn't seem to be weather balloons or sky lanterns

or anything like that.

So what we have are these three very bright lights

that seem to be hovering over something there for,

I would imagine. some purpose.

Paul claims that just a few minutes after

the lights flickered out of view,

jets from the Saudi Air Force showed up.

To me, when I see the interaction of government,

that just validates the fact that

that's not something we were supposed to see.

This is one of the interesting elements of UFO narratives

is this question of who's in the know.

So it's not just what is the truth?

The question becomes who knows the truth

and who's keeping it from us?

What do they know that they're not telling us?

So when we start to see military involvement,

government involvement, or would appear

to be those things with UFOs, we start to say,

"Hey, wait a minute, maybe this is a real thing."

As for Paul, his mind is sufficiently blown

and he feels at this point, anything can happen -- anything.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Proceed with caution.

Trust your gut that what you're seeing really is paranormal.

That's that UFO they were talking about.

Understand that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

And if you do catch something, e-mail us

at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

And connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."