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A ghost hunter gets a rude awakening.

When I woke up, you could just feel

the back hair on your neck stand up,

and it just felt like somebody's right here.

A massive cryptid stirs up a lake in Ireland.

When you see stuff that your brain

is not prepared to process, it's a very strange experience.

Haunted playgrounds from around the globe.

Hauntings don't only occur in creepy old buildings.

Sometimes they happen on a rather pleasant day

at a playground.

A nightmarish spirit invades a man's home in Mexico.

That was really, really terrifying.

Almost like a spiritual black hole, if you will.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe

The freak is happening?

Death across at home

more often than we'd like to think.

Usually a spirit has no problem

moving on and finding a way to the other side.

But if the death was unexpected or violent,

the spirit can find itself trapped in this world

in a perpetual limbo, destined to haunt the house

with odd noises and poltergeist-like scares...

What was that?

...forever.

That's what two ghost hunters encountered

when they conducted an overnight investigation.

And they will never forget it.

Holy Oh, my gosh.

Sonny?

That wasn't you then?

Yo, my freaking door just slammed, bro.

My door just slammed close.

Sussex County, Delaware.

In January 2020,

The Cronwell family invited ghost hunters

to spend the night at their house.

For a long while, the family has been tormented

by the sounds of slamming doors and creepy footsteps.

And the feeling that someone is watching them while they sleep.

But before moving out,

they've called upon Sonny Deeds and C.J. Faison

to see if there's anything that can be done.

All through the night tonight and tomorrow night,

this is all of ours to go and investigate,

explore around, see what we've come up with.

And again, this is about helping the family more than anything.

While the family spends the night at a hotel,

Sonny and C.J. begin their investigation

with a walk through.

My name is C.J. Faison, and this is my video.

When I first walked in, the first thing

that came to my mind was there's something

like around me, like very close proximity.

And it doesn't take long for whatever C.J.

is sensing to make its presence known.

That was back there.

That was back here.

Bro, that was back here.

The noise leads them to where they assume

is the heart of the haunting.

Hello.

The room where a previous resident died by suicide.

So instantly it's got to be 10 or 15 degrees colder

in this room than anywhere else inside the house.

It almost felt like walking out of a nice warm house,

out into maybe like a 40 degree, a little frigid temperature.

The common thought is that as a spirit is trying to manifest,

it has to draw upon the energy around.

And in that energy, it's drawing heat

from the air to try to coalesce.

So by it taking from the atmosphere,

that pocket is now colder.

My name is C.J. I'm here old my friend Sonny.

We want you to make a noise.

Hey, hey.

What was that?

More noise from down the hall?

While Sonny remains in place, C.J. follows the noise

and uses a spirit box phone app

to try to get the entity to communicate with him.

If there's any one who wants to talk to me,

speak through the spirit box

that I have on my phone right now, just speak through.

C.J. ends up in another bedroom

where he believes the noise was coming from.

Did something happen on this bed that I'm sitting on right now?

Was that a yes?

Hello?

Holy Holy

Holy

Oh, my gosh.

Sonny?

That wasn't you then?

Yo, my freaking door, bro.

My door just slam closed.

I felt trapped and very uneasy.

When a spirit is trying to connect with you,

usually it's in a friendly way.

You know, this door was closed slightly here.

When it is something violent,

that's when you really have to reevaluate.

Okay, do stay here and keep going

or do we call it quits for the night,

maybe come back another time.

Although C.J. is rattled,

they decide to soldier on when suddenly...

more noises upstairs.

Oh, my gosh.

Holy

Oh, my gosh.

I'm not eve messing with you right now.

I was just pulled down the stairs, bro.

I was really just pulled down the stairs.

Tell me, what it felt like when I was going up the stairs

that my leg was pulled up and straight out.

Oh, my God.

I'm thinking to myself, "Okay, maybe it was in a rush.

But the more I play it back, the more I know

that there's no accurate trip like that

and then coming straight downstairs.

I could of stop myself if I tripped.

Oh, my God.

Holy

Maybe something is just trying to get his attention

and instead it feels very aggressive

and feels like it's pulling him down the stairs.

Alternatively, it could be actually aggressive.

It could be something reacting violently

and not wanting him on that kitchen.

I'm deathly terrified right now

of what pulled me down the stairs

Well, I'd be nervous, too.

The door slams when the investigator's back is turned...

...and he's pulled down the stairs.

Oh, my God!

All of the timing kind of makes me feel like this being

is intentionally messing with them.

Oh, gosh. What was that?

Both C.J. and Sonny are terrified,

but feel they'd be letting the family down

if they gave up now.

As part of their investigation, they're spending the night.

They split up to sleep in separate rooms

and set up cameras to record any paranormal activity.

This is the camera in C.J.'s his room,

the same room where the former resident took her own life.

He's now been asleep for about two hours.

Then at approximately 4:00 in the morning...

When I woke up, I swear something...

You could just feel the back hair

on your next stand up and it just felt like

somebody was right here.

Obviously terrified, and started calling Sonny at that point.

I'm actually more terrified watching the footage back.

You know, it just...

freaks me out, it really does.

Sonny!

Sonny, Sonny, Sonny, Sonny, Sonny.

C.J. and Sonny decide

that it's no longer safe to be in the house.

They call it a night and go to a hotel.

For the investigators to say, "Look, it was so creepy,

I couldn't stay here."

You know, that might be a pretty big red flag to the homeowners,

and might cause them to really consider selling their property.

Which is exactly what they did.

As for C.J. and Sonny...

Holy...

...they continue to be haunted...

...by their experience.

Coming up, are these playgrounds...

...haunted by the dead.

The freak is happening?

Typically, when you see a playground,

it is full of laughing children swinging on swings,

sliding down slides or spinning around on a merry-go-round.

Now, imagine walking by a playground

with all of that activity

but no kids in sight.

That's what happened at three separate playgrounds

around the world.

And for the people who witnessed these events,

it was no laughing matter.

It's June 2018 in Delhi, India.

Two friends are walking by a playground in the city

when they spot something unusual.

Look at your holiday. You open up year.

A swing is moving gently back and forth

as if it's been pushed,

but there is no wind and no one around.

Then suddenly...

the swing starts to go crazy...

...as if an invisible being we're controlling it.

This video is inexplicable, because you have

to swings side by side.

It's test case A and B.

They're under the exact same circumstances

and one is swinging wildly,

and the other has no motion whatsoever.

If there was a breeze going on, there's no reason

why both of them wouldn't be moved at the same time.

Initially, my thought is that this could be residual

in nature, as if it's something locked in time,

just behaving on its own.

However, what's really cool about it

is as these guys are watching it

and commenting on this activity, it spikes.

It freaks out, and they freak out.

I got to say, I can't blame them.

Next up, Ecuador,

where Elizabeth Arteaga and her mother

had a similar experience in 2013

when they spotted an outdoor exercise machine

moving up and down by itself as if someone were working out

but there was no one in sight,

and every other unoccupied machine

in the area was perfectly still.

You could tell that this thing is pretty solid.

It's probably not so heavy that a kid

or whoever is in the playground couldn't move it,

but the fact that it's moving in such a way,

it looks like someone is operating it.

Wind is not going to do that, and if it were the culprit,

it would be affecting other things

in the environment, and it's not.

To investigate further,

Elizabeth's mother walks up to the machine

and waves her hand where a person would be.

Seconds later, the machine stops moving.

Why did this swing stop when the woman got close?

With a lot of these encounters,

spirits like to show themselves on their own terms.

They're not there to do tricks for us.

It wasn't doing it for her entertainment, apparently,

because when she got closer

and which could really observe it,

it just decided to stop.

And finally, in May 2019,

Philip Mitchell was walking past a park

in Greater Manchester, England

When he came upon not one, but two pieces of equipment

moving on their own accord,

Philip describes what he's seeing in real time.

We've been watching this for a good few minutes,

and it's just spinning on its own,

and now the swings.

That swing is just going on its own,

but it's going for ages.

For five minutes, Philip watched in disbelief

as the swing never slowed down and the merry-go-round

never stopped spinning.

Tell me the wind's doing this.

There's no wind. There's no wind.

The freak is happening.

I have seen merry-go-rounds pick up wind,

and they'll start going on their own.

Then you start looking at the trees,

and none of the trees are moving.

There is no wind.

Then you see the swing moving on its own.

I mean, I have no idea why that's moving by itself

if there's no evidence of any type of breeze happening.

Tell me the wind's doing this.

There's no wind. There's no wind.

There are blades of grass right next to it

that aren't even moving.

So if there is just the gentlest breeze

and it can do this to this merry go round,

I can't imagine what a real gust would do.

I mean, it would throw kids, you know,

left and right, right out of the playground.

To me, all of these hauntings definitely feel residual.

A residual haunting is where something is being repeated

on a loop, sort of.

So, you know, if swings are moving, carousels are turning,

it could just be these same children spirits who are just,

you know, doing it over and over again.

While these three incredible captures may seem unreal,

as it turns out, haunted playgrounds like these

are not at all that uncommon.

There's an infamously haunted playground

in the state of Illinois.

Back in 1925, a tornado came through and decimated a school,

killing many of the school children that attended.

It said that the ghost of those children

still haunt that playground.

They move on swings, that play on the merry-go-round,

they're inhabiting this playground to this day.

So that kind of thing can happen there,

I feel like it could happen anywhere.

So, the next time you go to a playground,

look around because you never know

when a spirit might be looking for a playmate.

Coming up, a UFO over the Emerald Isle.

I wouldn't consider myself an UFO,

but I don't know what it was.

Ireland is known for its emerald green landscapes

of lush rolling hills and rugged coastline,

but it's also known for the dreary weather,

with some areas of the country averaging up

to 225 days of rain per year.

So it must have been a bit odd that Irish luck

when on one of the few clear days a man happened

to look up into the sky and saw more than just the sun.

Cork, Ireland, November 10, 2018.

Donal Brady steps outside to enjoy a rare sunny afternoon

when something high up in the sky catches his attention.

A large, bright disk-like form moving a radically.

Donal is stunned.

My name is Donal Brady.

It was just an extremely bright, bright light in the sky

that was moving slowly, stopping,

and then it would move again.

While it did look like a high altitude plane

kind of reflecting sunlight, it wasn't moving that way.

It was kind of hovering, and then it would stop

and it kind of moves slowly sideways and stop again.

Donal was convinced that this was no ordinary aircraft,

and he should know because he lives right near Cork Airport

and sees all kinds of planes take off and land every day.

When I actually started shooting the video,

there another kind of low flying aircraft

came into the picture,

and that wasn't reflecting anything.

So I said, "Well, this is interesting."

You see just below it a passenger jet making a turn

as banks to the right, and comparing the two,

you see the vast difference in size.

Okay, this could be perspective, but at the same token,

typically, planes don't get so close to each other

because, you know, there's air safety,

air traffic control, things of that matter.

So, what is it?

Obviously, this isn't a plane or most likely not a helicopter

or a drone or anything like that.

The shape is wrong.

The flight behavior is wrong.

Outside of a helicopter, a drone,

nothing can hover like that.

Lasted for about maybe a minute, minute and a half.

Then it just disappears. Right?

Donal was intrigued,

but went about the rest of his weekend

without dwelling too much on what he had seen.

Until Monday morning, when he saw the news reports

and quickly realized he wasn't the only person

to witness the strange sight.

There was extensive online reports here in Soderbergh,

and Cork, Kerry region, two British airline pilots

and an Irish pilot had seen UFOs and reported UFOs

which was around the same time frame.

The fact that three separate pilots witnessed this anomaly

and reported it tells me that there was most likely

something crazy going on up there.

I can only imagine what these pilots

see day in and day out and don't report.

Even more puzzling is that Donal believes the UFO

he saw that day didn't show up on radar.

I think some people kind of look on some kind of sky maps

and stuff out air traffic that day.

nobody really pinpointed an airplane at that altitude.

The fact that this did not show up on radar,

it's interesting, and it seems to suggest

that something didn't want to be seen.

Nobody seemed to have a definitive answer

as to what the object might have been

until an astronomer released a statement

saying it could have been a meteorite

that had entered the earth's atmosphere.

But that conclusion didn't sit right

with the people who had witnessed it firsthand.

I think the pilots disregarded that completely,

not by the speed it was moving at,

the trajectory it was taking.

McNEILL: There's a sense that pilots kind of know

the range of typical experience.

These are people who know their stuff

and know their environment.

And if they say this is not how things move,

I'm inclined to believe them.

Donal might never know for certain what he saw,

but he was happy the clouds had parted on that particular day

and allowed him to catch a glimpse

of something extraordinary.

I wouldn't consider myself UFO,

but I don't know what it was.

Coming up, a little girl's stuffed animal.

haunts a man in Mexico.

There are few things more terrifying

than having to go to the hospital

for a life-threatening illness.

And if you're lucky enough to fully recover,

getting released should be the best feeling in the world,

but that wasn't the case for one man in Mexico.

His troubles only got worse once he left the hospital

when he apparently took something home with him

that no doctor could cure.

In spring of 2018, for Jorge Ortega

was in and out of consciousness for nearly a week

after suffering from heart failure.

During that time, he dreamt of a young girl

with a stuffed animal.

Amazingly, when Jorge finally awoke from this state,

the same stuffed animal was sitting next to him on the bed.

His wife told him that a girl in the hospital gave it to her

and said it was for Jorge so he could get better.

Once Jorge recovered,

he took the stuffed animal home with him.

That's when bizarre things started happening.

He had nightmares, heard whispers

and saw items like toys and picture frames move.

Then late one night after being woken up

by some commotion in his house,

Jorge took out his phone and began to record this.

Watch the left side of your screen carefully.

Did you catch that?

The handle of a child's scooter just turned, twice.

But that isn't the only thing that.

At his wits end, Jorge reached out to a medium for help,

and what she said freaked him out.

The medium believed the spirit of the little girl Jorge

saw at the hospital attached herself

to the stuffed animal he brought back home with him,

and now the spirit is here, sitting on a shelf in his home,

toying with him.

And from the looks of it,

it appears she's not going anywhere.

It's very common for younger energies,

energies of children to attach themselves to objects.

Maybe this was a little girl who possibly died

in the same hospital.

Maybe she just latched onto this little toy dog.

McNEILL: I could easily imagine the spirit of a child

who died in the hospital seeing this person as,

hey, I can help you out and then you can help me out.

I'm going to bring you back, and then you're gonna get me

out of here, and you're stuck with her.

A few nights later, with the medium's guidance,

Jorge attempts to communicate with the young girl.

He begins in the room with the scooter

where most of the activity is taking place.

Here on the pillow,

you can again see the stuffed animal that he was given.

Watch closely as the pillow

and the stuffed animal slowly slip down.

Then...

A toy car rolls from under the bed.

Someone is in the room.

To hear a disembodied voice is very weird.

I mean, you don't know where it's coming from.

It's almost like you think you're going insane.

Jorge is overwhelmed by this level of communication

and tries to end it,

at least until he can get the medium to come help him.

But it might not be entirely up to him.

The fear is almost unbearable, but Jorge is determined

to move beyond this once and for all.

The room is now in disarray.

But there's something else...

...there, sitting on the bed,

a shadow figure.

That was a really, really terrifying moment.

It's this dark mass in the shape of a human.

It seems so dark that no light can escape it,

almost like a spiritual black hole, if you will.

Shadow figures are kind of like a low-key spirit.

They're just trying to mess with you to the point

where you feel like you're going crazy,

and there's no other intention.

It's not trying to get you out of the house you're in,

it's not trying to communicate with you to the other side,

it's literally just trying to mess with you,

just taunting.

What's interesting about this one is it was captured

in a fairly well lit area

and also seemed more substantial than a lot of shadow figures

that I've heard about and that I have seen.

This seemed almost tangible,

and that was really striking to me.

It was creepy as hell, too.

The experience proved to be too much for Jorge.

He and his family move out soon after,

and he gets rid of the stuffed animal for good.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help.

Jorge is experiencing similar activity in his new house.

He's currently searching for solutions.

Coming up, something massive and mysterious

is making waves in this lake.

In 2003, the Irish Char Conservation Group

conducted a study on the rare fish

living in the lakes of Killarney, Ireland.

To gather data in Muckross Lake,

the deepest lake in the country,

which reaches a depth of up to 246 feet.

The scientists used sonar scans.

as they were surveying the Arctic Char,

the sonar picked up something massive

about the size of a two story house.

Unable to identify what the organism was

and after ruling out any possible computer errors,

the mysterious creature came to be known

as the Muckross monster, or Mucky.

Six years later, one man finally captured it on camera.

Look at this.

You can see something large and dark,

very, very fast moving like a torpedo.

In September 2009, Jon Downes,

the director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology,

was visiting the Killarney Lakes with some friends.

He was standing on a hillside about a quarter mile

from the shore of Upper Lake,

which is right next to Muckross Lake,

capturing some footage for his records

when it suddenly came alive with activity.

My name's Jon Downes and this is my video.

The thing that I find particularly interesting

was that when we got there the lake was completely empty.

Suddenly, all sorts of things started to appear on the lake,

perfectly normal things like birds,

geese streaming across the lake,

and things diving into the lake from the shore.

This thing in lake, I think it's a bird.

And then there was the, whatever it is,

swimming underwater from the middle.

Keep your eyes to the right hand side of the island

as something massive and long darts just beneath the water,

leaving a large wake behind it.

It's far too big to be a duck.

And in fact, if you look closely,

you'll see that there's nothing above the water.

It's something just under the surface.

Then about a minute later, Jon spots an even larger wake,

this time to the left of the island.

Could this be that uber predator?

Just look at the way it's moving.

It's far too big to be an unknown species

in that lake.

Jon kept his eyes on the water

to see if those were just currents or swells,

but soon became convinced

that whatever was making those waves in the lake

was something far more mysterious.

Look at this.

You can see something large and dark

and very, very fast moving like a torpedo

and leaving something like a torpedo trail in its wake

as it zooms right towards us and then bears to the right.

When you see stuff that your brain

is not prepared to process,

it's a very strange experience.

It was one of the more peculiar things

that I've seen in my life.

I feel immensely privileged to have been part of it.

So, is it possible that Jon captured proof

of the Muckross monster that day?

McNEILL: This was some really compelling footage.

To my eyes, this looked like something

very large and very dense

moving under the water.

What makes this clip notable is the perspective.

They're standing on a hillside fairly far away from the water,

but from their vantage point,

whatever's down in that lake appears to be huge.

If you were right up on that lake,

even standing on the shore, this thing would be immense.

It's been over a decade since Jon captured

this incredible footage.

And although he doesn't know what exactly was lurking

in the lake that day, he's still in awe

of his once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I think that that's one of the best pieces of footage

of an unknown creature that anyone's ever taken.

I'm very -- I'm very proud of it.

It's almost too good to be true.

This video is testament to the fact to that,

even in the 21st century, mankind is nowhere

as knowledgeable as we think we are,

and there are far more mysteries than most people like to accept.

And to me, that's a really exciting thing.

Coming up, did a couple in New York capture

the ghost of a child and their pet?

When a loved one passes away, you may look for a sign

or hope they send a signal

to let you know they are at peace.

Some believe the departed can visit you in your dreams

or make their presence known in your daily life

in a way only you can understand.

Other times, those who have crossed to the other side

may appear as something else entirely.

Like when a childlike apparition

showed up at a home in New York with a small, ghostly pet.

August 8, 2019. Long Island, New York.

Joey Nolan and his wife

are out for the evening when they log in remotely

to their home security camera to check in on their sick cat.

All seems well with the cat,

But there's something else that gives them pause.

Look at the bottom right hand side of your screen

as two apparitions come into view.

One resembles a child and the other a cat or small dog.

The childlike apparition goes down the stairs

while the animal remains.

Moments later, the childlike spirit reappears.

It's a fleeting glimpse, but there's enough detail in it

that you can sort of make out a human form.

It feels like these are conscious movements.

It's morphic.

It's kind of grotesque in its shape,

like it looks like it has limbs almost.

It definitely seems to have some sort of shape,

and in it's substantial.

Whatever this is, it doesn't seem to bother the cat

that's sitting five feet away.

Can you get a cat to pay attention to anything?

Cats don't care about people nor ghost.

They're cats, which is why they're superior

in a lot of ways.

The Nolan's incredible footage goes viral

and is picked up by the media.

And what makes their story even more compelling

is that a few weeks before they captured

the ghostlike figures on camera, both Joey and his wife

had the same exact dream about a child and a dog.

Joey and his wife experienced a shared dream,

And usually when these happen, it's a sign from an ancestor

or a message that they're trying

to communicate through your dream state.

Before we ever use devices, dreams were essentially

the way we communicated with spirits.

According to theory, it's when the soul

is the most awake,

it's when the veil is the thinnest

between the living and the dead.

So it happens all the time that people are visited

by dead loved ones or they encounter something

that is potentially paranormal in their sleep.

So the fact that they both had the same dream

means that they have some sort of correlating piece of evidence

that suggests something is going on in their home.

And while most people think these apparitions look

like a child and a dog, Joey has another theory.

He believes it could be his late grandfather,

mainly because this footage was captured

on the 20th anniversary of his death.

Just because somebody died in old age

does not necessarily mean that their spirit would come back

to this life at an advanced age.

It's often thought that people go back

to a time in their lives,

and that's not necessarily the time when they die.

As an investigator, I like to think that,

you know, if a spirit, again,

can come by anytime he feels like it

and be anywhere just by thinking of it,

you know, an anniversary that might mean something to us

is also going to mean something to the spirit.

There just a person without a body.

And maybe this was a Joey's grandfather

just coming in to say, "Hey, man, everything's good,

and I hope you're having a good life."

That would give me great comfort.

Joey does find comfort in thinking it was his grandfather

possibly in another form.

But even if it wasn't, the Nolan's aren't the least

bit bothered by the specters

that showed up in their home that night.

As human beings, we want that connection.

We want validation that, A, we're not alone,

B, that life goes on, and Cm

we will see our loved ones again.

What should you do in the event

you witnessed something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep your eyes on the skies.

Check all your footage for something strange.

Trust your instincts that what you're seeing

really is otherworldly.

The freak is happening.

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com

or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here on

"Paranormal Caught On Camera."