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A man is trapped inside a home...

So --

...with the ghost of a murderer.

Oh, no way.

No way!

I felt like whatever

was holding me against my will was evil.

A shadow figure appears on a staircase in Chile.

No one really seems to know exactly what these things are,

where they come from, or what their intentions are.

A man who speaks to aliens...

Hey up there.

...with his mind.

Thanks for coming to see me tonight.

I've had hundreds of interactions

with the intelligences,

from just that one thought experiment.

Is this corpse waving goodbye?

What the is that?

What was that?

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

Whoa!

...to believe.

Many believe that there is no greater cause

for a haunting at a specific location

than a traumatic or violent event...

...taking place there.

Like, say, a murder.

Whether it's the negative energy reverberating off of the walls

or the presence of the intelligent spirit

of the victim,

these locations are affected -- sometimes forever.

Which might be why paranormal investigator Chris Lamia

reacted like this...

No way!

...when he visited a home

in which a murder-suicide once took place.

Hello?!

And found himself somehow...

Oh, my God!

...trapped inside.

Oh, my God!

Let me out of here please, God!

August 2019, in Pasco County, Florida.

Chris Lamia is exploring an abandoned house

with a particularly dark history.

I'm a little to a lot freaked out.

In this room back here, I think I already heard something.

Anyway, let's do this, guys.

My name's Chris Lamia and I filmed this video.

Can you tell me your name? And who you are?

The guy who owned the home killed his wife,

put her underneath the stairs, went upstairs,

and then he killed himself.

And I believe that they weren't found for a few days.

Are you upstairs?

Sometimes, when you go into a home,

you automatically -- you sense that something's not right.

Were you harmed in this house?

It's just one of those places, man.

It's just -- it's fire.

It's crazy.

If you're in this room

and you were harmed in this house,

can you tell me?

And sure enough, after just a few minutes of walking around,

Chris begins to experience the telltale signs of a haunting.

I think I heard something.

This is insane. This is absolutely insane.

Knock if you're a female.

I hear it. I hear. I hear it.

The activity surrounding him

is already starting to exhaust Chris.

Alright, uh...

This is crazy.

Regardless, he heads to where he feels the center

of the haunting is -- the closet under the stairs.

Alright. I'm going to head in this closet...

...where the murder victim was found.

What a weird feeling, being in here.

My legs are just... trembling.

Then, suddenly...

So--

...the door to the closet slams behind Chris...

Oh, no way.

No way! No way.

...and won't open.

As if someone -- or something -- is behind it.

Hello?!

Oh, no. No way.

Oh, it's happening.

Oh.

And it's about to get a whole lot worse.

Oh, my God.

Pounding...

Oh, my God. Let me out of here please, God!

...from all sides of the room.

Alright. I'm not gonna hurt you, so please stop!

My initial thought was, "Uh-oh, I'm in trouble."

And I felt like

whatever was holding me against my will was evil,

you know, and it was it was horrifying to me.

This was incredibly intense.

I just found myself clutching my metaphorical pearls

the entire time, screaming at my screen like,

"Let me get him out of there!"

Chris is freaking out.

But is he in any real danger from whatever entity is outside,

or perhaps inside, of this room?

OK, let's just assume that the murder victim

is trapped here.

This is not a spirit

that necessarily wants to take vengeance or is angry.

It could be stuck in the emotional state

it was when it died --

fear, confusion, terror --

and it's just acting out in essentially self-defense.

The spirit that's there with him

is probably just as scared.

So I feel like they might

be creating this feedback loop of fear

and just escalating everything together.

Let me out of here please, God!

But Chris doesn't believe

he was just dealing with the victim of the crime.

Alright. I'm not going to hurt you, so please stop!

I definitely think there were two spirits in that home.

There was something sweet there that was trying to get out,

and then I think it was just, there was something else there

that was battling the sweetness.

I promise I'm not here to hurt you. Please stop!

What happened was, is he empathized

with the victim situation

and therefore triggered the energy of the predator

to follow suit.

What's going on in this house

didn't lead any evidence to the fact

that the girl was haunting this home.

It lead evidence the fact that the thing haunting this home

was the negative aspect consciousness and energy

of the predator that lived there.

Then, finally...

I think maybe whatever it was

that locked me up in the closet

might have sensed that I was just so worn down.

I think they just realized that's enough,

and, lo and behold, I'm able to get out of there.

Chris leaves immediately

with no plans to return.

This is definitely a place that I don't even want

to drive down this same street that that house is on.

It was probably one of my top three scariest homes

I've ever been into,

but by far it was the scariest situation I've ever been into.

Oh, my God. Let me out of here please, God!

Coming up...

A terrifying shadow figure stalks a man in his home.

Spirit boards may seem like a harmless game.

After all, it's just a board with some letters and numbers.

A planchette and you and a friend.

But be warned,

while you may be trying to contact someone specific,

once you've opened that door, there's simply no way to know

who or what is going to walk through it.

And if the experience of Franco Villegas Escobar

is any indication,

whatever does walk through that door might never leave.

May 2020 in Iquique, Chile.

Franco Villegas Escobar is playing with his cat

when suddenly...

Did you catch that? Watch again in slow motion.

First, a sound from the staircase.

Then, a shadow figure.

It's gone.

But then, Franco's bedroom door slams by itself.

This incident is just one example

of the terrifying paranormal phenomena

that Franco has captured in his home.

And it's been happening for years.

My name is Franco Villegas Escobar.

And lately, the activity

seems to have picked up.

Watch as just two weeks later, the shadow figure reappears.

This time, even more boldly.

Before, again, disappearing.

And there was more,

including an incident involving the shower in Franco's bathroom.

Franco is terrified.

This is such a reciprocal entity that requests to do things --

the turning on the shower.

The really clear shadow right in the corner of the staircase

that then disappears when he goes and looks at it.

And you could see its glowing eyes,

and at first I thought, "OK, that's the cat."

But then it seemed to rear up and gained height,

something that that cat with its color of fur

wouldn't have done -- couldn't have done.

And he was too quick. He was on it.

The shadow man phenomenon is really interesting

because it's hard to pin down

exactly what their motive would be.

Oftentimes you simply see them slipping from one darkness

to the other, the shadowy corner to this shadowy corner,

that sort of thing, out of the peripheral your eye.

But nobody really seems to know exactly what these things are,

where they come from, or what their intentions are.

But they're certainly terrifying.

The second I saw the shower video,

I assumed that there was a person hiding out of frame,

turning it off and on.

And then, when he goes deeper into the shower

and you can see clearly that there is nobody there --

You got yourself a haunting.

And Franco believes he knows exactly the reason why.

A spirit board -- used by his father

and his father's friends a decade ago,

A lot of people who believe in the practice

of using spirit boards

say that when you invite an entity into your living space,

you have to actually ask them to leave

before you close the session with them.

Otherwise, they could be here to stay.

Of course, even after you ask them to go,

it's still up to them whether they want to or not.

If this entity has been in the home for 10 years,

it's possible that it's grown some significant power,

and anyone that's spent time in a haunted house

knows that a powerful entity is a dangerous entity.

Thankfully, Franco says,

the activity has finally started to cool down.

But that doesn't mean he's not on edge.

Coming up...

Did this dead body

just come back to life?

McNEILL: It looks like a hand.

It looks like it's lifted in farewell

and then it looks like it stays there.

Zombies --

reanimated corpses of the dead.

They're entrenched in almost every aspect

of our popular culture

because they're bloodthirsty, terrifying,

and, fortunately, not real.

Or so we'd like to tell ourselves.

Because someone in Indonesia may have captured proof

that the dead are coming back to life.

May 2020 in Manado, Indonesia.

A mourning family surrounds a coffin

that's just been lowered into the ground when...

Did you see it?

Watch the coffin's window closely

as the deceased's hand

seems to suddenly appear and press against it.

What the is that?!

It looks like a hand, it looks like it's lifted in farewell,

and then it looks like it stays there.

If it had been a blurry movement

across the front of that window,

that would have been frightening enough,

but the lifting of a hand and then holding it there,

I think, made this 900 times scarier.

What could possibly have caused this alarming movement?

Is this poor person in this coffin

suddenly waking up to see all their loved ones

standing around them as dirt is being piled on?

The thought is just nerve-racking.

Obviously, the first logical answer you would

think of would be, it's probably rigor mortis.

But that's really not right in this case,

because rigor mortis is a very temporary condition that sets in

as the ligaments and tendons sort of set in the corpse.

And once they have set, they remain stationary.

How could rigor mortis make your hand go up?

If it's down, it would have already been up

and then you'd have to put it down,

and then would go up immediately.

There's no delayed reaction in rigor mortis.

I am blown away and really freaked out.

OK, so if it's nothing natural that's causing this,

what does that leave us with?

I think when people see a video like this,

the first thing that comes to mind is a zombie apocalypse.

McNEILL: Or is this some sort of classic vampire scenario

where a dead body has achieved new life?

Clearly, if it's a dead person coming back to life,

the last thing you want to do

is open the lid on that coffin.

If that dude's dead, we have things to worry about.

Or could it simply be a mischievous spirit?

Maybe even the newly-freed spirit of the corpse

in the coffin.

In the paranormal, we're often interested

or even obsessed with the concept of the spirit

leaving the body -- when does the soul vacate the body?

And if it is nearby, say,

at a funeral or a wake...

...can it retake residence in its former body?

If we're going to go with the theory

that spirit can manipulate the physical world

and interact with the physical world...

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

...we have to say that a spirit

can manipulate their former body.

And I'm going to tell you right now,

that is something that I'm going to try to do when my time comes,

because how cool would that be?

Whatever is happening here,

it's absolutely terrifying.

I wanted it to be a reflection on the glass.

That's what I wanted.

I wanted it to be that someone standing over the grave

had, like, stuck their hand out, and I was seeing a reflection,

but we can see the people standing over the grave.

That clearly didn't happen.

Sheesh. This one stresses me out.

Coming up...

something creepy is happening on this hotel bed,

This does not look like one hotel bed

that you're going to get a good night's sleep on the road in.

From a paranormal perspective,

the hobby of antiquing can be a little risky.

Because despite how quirky and unique a particular piece

might seem, the fact remains you don't know where it's been.

Or, more importantly, what might be attached to it.

One man may have learned that lesson the hard way

when he brought home an odd antique

and some kind of entity tagged along.

February 2020, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

TJ Bunch, a member of a touring show,

is at a hotel during some off time,

sitting on the edge of his bed playing video games

when all of a sudden, he senses something behind him,

turns around,

and sees this.

The hotel bed sheets move up and down on their own,

with nothing in sight that might be causing it.

Watch again, zoomed in.

TJ is sure his mind is playing tricks on him,

so he turns on the light by the bed to get a better look.

But it's still happening

and TJ is totally freaked out.

I'm TJ Bunch, and I filmed the video.

When I turned around, it was like that

instant shock, like, holy crap.

Like I did all these checks after just to make sure,

like, "OK, I did see what I saw."

I looked around the bed and I looked to see like,

is there a possible way, like, it was moving

and the air vent was all the way by the door

and through this, like, little hallway thing,

so I was like, "OK, it can't be the air vent."

This does not look like one hotel bed

that you're going to get a good night's sleep on the road in.

This was very unsettling. I have absolutely no idea

what that is and I've never seen it before.

The movement feels like breathing,

like it's inhaling, exhaling, and it's very, very creepy.

TJ posted the footage on his social media

and his followers were freaked too.

He was sure it was something paranormal,

but had no idea why it was happening to him.

Then, while re-watching the footage, it suddenly hit him.

At the time, I was traveling with a touring show,

which is really great, because I get

to collect antiques and cool things on the way,

and I went to this one antique store, got a few things,

and I actually have the thing right here

that I got before the events start happening.

It was mummified bat.

A mummified bat,

which just so happened to be on the nightstand

right next to where the activity was happening.

And as TJ brought the bat from hotel to hotel,

the activity seemed to move with it.

After that, some, like, really weird stuff

started happening the next few weeks

in several more hotels, whether it was that or not.

Like, I would place something down, go to work,

and then it would be moved. Or, like, just certain

like little knickknacks I have that are usually around my room

just completely vanished. Never saw them again.

So could this taxidermied bat

somehow be the cause of the activity

that seemed to be following TJ around?

Any time you have antiques,

taxidermy,

weird objects,

a lot of times there's attachment there

that you don't even know about until you get it home

and find out the hard way.

And you gotta be careful what you pick up in antique stores.

It's not like bringing home a stray dog,

you're going to bring home something

that you're not going to like.

Finally, after a few weeks,

all of the bizarre activity stopped.

And TJ hasn't experienced anything similar since.

All of a sudden, it just kind of went away.

Nothing ever happened after that.

It was like, "Oh, OK, this is actually happening.

This is what I'm seeing right now."

And then it was just kind of like this, I don't know,

calm sensation after everything that happened.

McNEILL: It may be that a haunting disappears

once it no longer has an impact,

if that entity or that energy has communicated

what needs to be communicated, which maybe is just,

"Hey, I'm here," then it may not have

a need to communicate anything further beyond that.

Or, we become desensitized to it,

which is probably the more likely explanation.

We are so consciously aware of things that we don't understand,

things that make us anxious, things that worry us.

And the minute we've resolved those things in our mind,

we move on to new things to be anxious about.

Coming up...

A man who communicates...

Hey, my friends.

...with UFOs.

Thanks for coming to see me tonight.

I've seen many different kinds of craft, from a small football

three or four feet long, to an office-building-sized craft

in the shape of a cross and crescent.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like

when extraterrestrial life finally makes contact with us?

It would mark one of the most historic and significant moments

in the history of humankind.

But one issue would need to be figured out immediately --

how exactly would we communicate with each other?

One man in Georgia thinks he already has the answer...

So good to see you, my friends. Thank you.

and it's not as out there as you might think.

March 2019, in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Sitting on a picnic table at a water park near his home,

John Martin looks up in the sky and sees this.

Two white orbs, seemingly dancing with each other

in unison.

September 2019, from the same picnic table,

John looks up again and sees this --

more flying orbs,

this time a bit further apart,

seemingly with minds of their own.

Once again, John expresses his gratitude.

May 2020, same spot.

It's nighttime now, but when John looks up in the sky,

he sees the same orbs and feels the same feelings.

Hey, sweet friend. Thank you. So good to see you, my friends.

Thank you.

If it seems like John is used to these visitations,

it's because he is.

He's been seeing these objects for years

and believes he has a very special relationship with them.

Hey. Hey there. Thank you.

My name is John Martin

and I'm the person that recorded these videos.

I've seen many different kinds of craft, from a small football

three or four feet long to the office-building-sized craft

in the shape of a cross and crescent.

Hey. Hey up there.

Thanks for coming to see me tonight.

Just the feeling of love

and the universal connection that we make

is unparalleled, in my experience.

One of the things that was interesting about the videos

from this individual were that two of them

were set during the day and one was at night.

So we got sort of a nice range of examples.

The ones during the day appeared like bright white objects

in the sky

that moved sort of in tandem with each other.

At first I'm like, "Oh, that could be,

like, two balloons together."

But as he starts to follow these two little crafts

that are constantly rotating around each other,

you start looking closer

and you see what looks kind of like this little,

I don't know, but like little sonic resonation around them.

And what's perhaps even more interesting

is how John claims these extraterrestrial interactions

came about in his life.

I started in 2013.

John used his experience as a classically-trained guitarist

to musically communicate with the universe.

And to John, the results were undeniable.

This is one of his compositions.

I can use my guitar, but I can also just play

these same pieces in my mind and it has the same effect,

and they can recognize that, and they know it's me,

and they come in, and we interact.

Whoa. Hey.

Hey, beautiful friends. Thank you for that.

In the Voyager, we sent music --

"Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry -- into space,

hoping to communicate to the aliens,

"This is who we are as people,

and I hope that these sounds translate that to you."

If they don't understand the English language,

they will at least understand the intent --

the feeling behind music,

and that's what John is trying to communicate to.

We all have something that's very dear to us,

that we commit our lives to --

use that and go outside

and project what you've dedicated your life to

into the universe in a positive way,

and you will be greatly rewarded.

To me, that is the biggest message

that I would like to send.

Oh, how bright and wonderful is that?

Thank you, beautiful friends.

Thank you, my friends. That was very cool.

Coming up...

ghost hunters go toe-to-toe...

Whoa!

...with an evil spirit.

It just felt like somebody was in the room with me,

and then all hell broke loose.

This place is really creepy.

What makes a haunting go from scary...

Holy. The door's opening.

Oh, my God!

...to absolutely terrifying.

Holy!

It's when the haunting takes that final,

incomprehensible step

from happening around you

to happening within you.

Such was the case with an unfortunate man in Indiana,

and when a group of paranormal investigators

tried to rid his home of the parasite...

. Whoa!

...they came face-to-face with its wrath.

Spring 2018, in Muncie, Indiana.

Josh Fourman, his two brothers, and a friend

are investigating a home

that has its current residents spooked.

My name is Josh Fourman,

and I'm the one that filmed the video.

I was contacted by a family

that were experiencing all kinds of activity inside their house,

and it seemed like a lot of the activity

was focused more towards the basement.

And as we got to speaking with the homeowners,

that's when we found out the history of the house.

Josh spoke to Kevin, the father of the family,

who informed him of the house's dark past,

centered around the mysterious death of a man

in the basement.

The basement --

and even talking to previous owners of the house --

everybody that's ever lived there

was afraid of the basement.

And the guy that had passed away,

he was always afraid to go down to the basement,

and for whatever reason, the day that he passed away,

he went to the basement,

and that's where they found his body.

Kevin also described the bizarre things that were happening

to him since moving in --

burning sensations,

headaches, sleep paralysis, and scratches on his body.

But it was Kevin's emotional state

that was the most concerning.

Once Kevin started talking about the darkness of his dreams

and his suicidal thoughts,

we knew immediately that we had to get Kevin and his family

some help, because his life really did depend on it.

This is an example of a really dangerous haunting, if you will.

Sometimes you get an entity that seems to focus

on one person -- singles one person out.

It makes that person feel terrible --

mood swings, depression,

thoughts of self-harm or suicide --

these kind of things can happen to one particular person

in a home while everyone else seems to be completely fine.

It's really a scary phenomenon when it does take place.

Walking inside the house for the first time,

you really got this dark and ominous feeling,

and you just knew in the back of your mind

that something wasn't right with the place.

Once we shut the lights off,

it's like somebody flipped a switch

and the activity just took off.

Are you recording?

The group begins by setting up a baby monitor

in the basement and listening from upstairs,

and just a few minutes later...

My God!

Listen again.

The sounds of something dragging on the ground

in the basement are picked up by the monitor,

while the camera in the basement shows nothing.

Creepy.

But it's not until Josh goes into the basement by himself...

My name is Josh, can you tell me your name, please?

...the rest of the team listening from the living room,

that the entity truly makes itself known.

Gentleman who died in this basement...

Josh tries to ask the entity questions.

...can you communicate with me.

And as he's waiting for a response...

! Whoa!

Watch again from another angle

as the pipe is dragged off the table.

! Whoa!

The scariest part for me

was definitely the pipe moving.

I remember right before the pipe fell, the temperature dropped.

It just felt like somebody was in the room with me,

and then, you know, all hell broke loose.

! Whoa!

That pipe falling off was the sign that

that investigator asked for,

and was also what the spirit wanted to convey --

to scare the investigator away from that location,

because it was pretty evident

that whoever was still haunting that house

was someone that didn't want the investigators there.

! Whoa!

I didn't realize, when I was having

all these experiences alone in the basement,

my brothers, you know, they were having these mysterious voices

come across the device up in the living room.

In fact, less than 30 seconds

after the pipe falls in the basement,

the group upstairs records a terrifying EVP.

Did you hear that?

. .

Listen again as something on the baby monitor says,

"Get out of this house."

Did you hear that?

. .

McNEILL: This is a cool scenario...

. That about gave me a heart attack.

...the narrative evidence from the person who's experiencing

these hauntings really sort of clicks

with what the investigators find.

They got some compelling footage --

that pipe sort of slithering down off the table

when nobody touches it.

Whoa!

The EVP saying, "Get out of this house" --

this idea of a malevolent presence in the basement

that does not want anyone messing with it.

Which is why the group cleansed the place before they left.

Any and all spirits, you must now exit through this doorway

and never return.

After the investigation,

we did do a cleansing on the home, and, fortunately,

Kevin and his family stopped experiencing activity.

So I believe whatever was in the basement

just needed to cross over.

! Whoa!

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Hey! Hey!

Expect the unexpected,

So--

invest in coffin windows,

spread positive vibes,

So good to see you, my friends. Thank you.

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."