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Next, on "Paranormal Caught On Camera"...

a notorious South American cryptid...

...is caught prowling through a neighborhood.

If this is a Duende,

I suggest that all the parents

keep their kids locked inside at night.

A government camera records an astonishing UFO.

Now, this, to me, is a real flying saucer

in every respect of the word.

A grocery store is haunted by a prankster ghost.

Seems like a ghost that I would be friends with.

A massive machine

that seems to be operated by the dead.

I think I was trying to sort of rationalize,

"Okay, what am I exactly seeing here,

and why is this thing moving?

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

...to believe.

There's a house in England called the Ivy House that,

once you're inside...

instantly brings you decades into the past.

Because following the purported death of its owner in the 1970s,

the house remains completely abandoned

and its contents left almost untouched

for the decades that followed,

frozen forever in time.

Some locals believe the reason for this...

...is that the owner refused

to vacate the premises...

...even in death.

Which was the reason paranormal investigator

Danny Smith recently visited the house.

And as he looked around,

it was clear that he was not welcome.

June, 2020 in Warrington, England.

Danny Smith has come

to investigate the Ivy House,

long rumored to be haunted by its former owner.

My name's Danny Smith, and I recorded the footage.

McNEILL: The thing that stands out about this particular property

is how much stuff is still in it.

McNEILL: Objects that the people who lived there

engaged with on a regular basis.

It brings their energy into the space

in a really undeniable way.

Every object, to some degree,

retains some sort of psychic energy,

whether that's from the person who owned it,

people who have used it.

Every object has that, so when you have a location

that has a lot of possessions of a family,

it will increase the likelihood of strange things happening.

And the strange things begin within the first three minutes.

Look at that.

First, on Danny's K-II meter --

a device that detects the presence of spiritual energy.

So, the K-II meter is actually a device

that measures electromagnetic fields and radio frequencies.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And a lot of paranormal investigators believe

that ghosts or spirits --

whatever you want to call them --

emit these different frequencies.

But the meter wasn't the only indication

of a spiritual presence.

There were phantom odors...

...and the sounds of movement nearby.

A lot of people report smelling the perfume

that their grandmother wore.

The smell of chocolate cake

that their mother used to bake.

Smell is very much tied with memory,

and so, it makes sense that the memories of these people

would also be attached to the smell.

So, let's say you had a gentleman

living in a home that smoke cigars

every night after dinner.

You might actually capture residual smells

or phantom smells of cigar smoke.

Then, moments later...

actual contact.

And, finally, one more show of force.

Watch again...

as a glass jar is thrown to the ground.

At this point, it was clear to Danny

that he was not welcome in this house.

Oh, no.

In addition to the electromagnetic readings

that this investigator is getting,

there also seems to be some more tangible evidence...

...in the bumping and knocking sounds

that there doesn't seem to be any easy explanation for.

They actually have the capability

of moving inanimate objects, and you see this clearly

when they move that jar across the room.

But if this really is the residual spirits

of the people who used to live here...

...why so...

SMITH:!

...unwelcoming?

I believe the energies that reside in this home --

the couple that used to live there --

are offended by the people

that just allow themselves into the home.

If they're intelligent enough

to interact with paranormal gadgets and investigators,

they're aware of the things that are going on in their home.

Once you start hearing, like, the knocks

and things getting thrown around,

that's definitely the spirits getting agitated

that somebody is invading their home.

So, it seems like they want him out of there.

A request which Danny is all too happy to oblige.

I'm gonna leave the spirits now in this property.

Coming up,

is this evidence

of a legendary South American monster?

Meet the Duende --

a hideous elf-like supernatural creature

well-known in Latin American folklore

that stands no more than two- to three-feet tall

and is known to cause trouble...

...for humans.

From stealing thumbs...

of all things...

to stealing children.

And though the Duende is officially only a legend...

videos like this...

...seem to prove otherwise.

August, 2020,

in San Ramón, Bolivia.

A man is enjoying the night on his front porch

when he spots an odd creature

walking around the neighborhood.

He keeps his eyes on it, and when it finally disappears,

he runs back inside

to review his home security camera footage,

because he can't believe what he thinks he just saw.

Watch closely as he talks us through it.

A miniature figure appears in the street,

walking with what seems to be a peculiar gait.

It walks into a neighboring driveway

and, finally, into the darkness of the night.

The man notes its wardrobe.

He plays the footage back again,

this time, zoomed in on the creature,

and he again is compelled to note its movement

and its wardrobe.

He is deeply concerned.

This is a freaky little video.

What we see here...

I could only describe as a sort of a --

a gnome or a troll walking down the street.

It's very short if you look at it

next to the truck that's parked there.

I'd say maybe 2 1/2, 3 feet tall at best.

If you look closely...

The limbs do not look like a child,

and the movement itself doesn't look human.

The way in which it was holding

its shoulders and arms -- the way it moved --

everything about it was inhuman.

The size, his mannerisms --

even wearing a poncho.

So, what on earth could this stout, inhuman,

poncho-wearing creature be?

The man who witnessed it

could only think of one thing.

El Duende is an elf-like entity --

a creature, if you will --

of Central American, South American,

and Filipino folklore.

Now, this creature is said to be about three feet tall.

It looks like a weathered or haggard old man.

A beard, pointy hat.

Big feet, big hands,

big eyes, big nose,

but, like, small bodies.

Very troll-like, and they walk very peculiar

because they have strange, flat feet

that seem to be backward.

We see stories of Duendes leading people astray,

leading children into the woods.

It's been reported that men would go missing

while they're working either in farms or fields,

only to be returned in a zombie-like state

with no memory of who they are or where they came from.

These are not just stories in a lot of cultures.

I've actually had a lot of family members

who have had encounters with Duende,

so it's very real to us.

But if they are real

and this is one of them,

why would it allow itself to be captured so completely on video?

Perhaps they have to change, too.

Perhaps they have to evolve with us

and with the advent of technology

and cameras being everywhere.

Perhaps this is the time where they choose to be seen --

where they say, "Okay...

we're gonna allow ourselves to be photographed

so that we can reintroduce our purpose to mankind."

The point of folklore is to teach lessons,

and the story of the El Duende is to keep children in line.

It's a child-snatcher.

Is this just a story told to children at night,

or is it derived from something very real?

Well, according to this video...

it's both.

For now, the only recourse is to keep your eyes open

and take any potential sighting very seriously.

If this is a Duende, I suggest that

all the parents keep their kids

locked inside at night.

Coming up,

is this machine powered by the dead?

Many mental institutions of the past --

now abandoned -- are said to be haunted,

often due to all the negative energy and trauma

that happened within their walls...

...which naturally makes them a popular destination

for curious ghost hunters.

But be warned...

once you're inside these creepy, decrepit buildings,

the curiosity can quickly give way...

...to absolute terror.

That's what happened to one man from Long Island

whose exploration of an abandoned mental institution

brought him face to face

with something that could not be explained.

June, 2020, in Kings Park, New York.

Anthony Brienza and two friends

are walking through an abandoned mental institution,

exploring the space,

when they hear a loud grinding noise

coming from the building's attic.

Tracking the sound,

they finally come upon this.

A massive piece of machinery

whose wheel or handle is moving at a rapid pace

completely by itself.

Anthony is freaked out, but intrigued,

so he moves closer,

trying to make sense of what he's seeing.

And when he gets to the back of the device...

Nothing.

No motor or visible means of making the wheel turn.

How can this be?

My name is Anthony Brienza, and I filmed the video.

I think I was generally maybe a little bit scared --

mostly unsettled --

and I think even my voice in the video --

I'm kind of going through a checklist.

I'm like, "All right, there's no strings."

There's no one around us. There's no power.

I think trying to, like, sort of rationalize --

"Okay, what am I exactly seeing here,

and why is this thing moving?"

Once we went around back

and we saw that there was really no reason, mechanically,

for that thing to be moving at all...

I think it became a whole lot more real to me.

This is a hunking piece of metal

that's been rusted over and just corroding

moving smoothly on its own.

It's so eerie,

the consistency with which this wheel is turning.

It's not gently rotating in the breeze.

It is spinning purposefully and intentionally...

McNEILL: ...but with no power source.

There's no electricity to the building.

There's no wind blowing.

There's no gear or paddles outside

turning the crank to make the wheel spin inside.

It is spinning entirely on its own.

I can only imagine the amount of energy it would take

to turn this wheel at such a great speed

for such a long time.

To further confirm

the authenticity of this activity,

Anthony and his friends conduct an experiment.

They try to stop the wheel.

It was maybe right after I stopped filming

that we tried to stop it, and it kept going.

It didn't, like, keep going in a pattern.

It did slow down, but it never fully stopped,

and it just sort of started up again.

It was sort of at the same pace.

it didn't really go any faster or any slower.

It just kind of built up to the same speed.

If this were simply residual movement

from a strong wind that happened before they arrived,

it would have stayed stopped.

The fact that it starts up again

suggests that it is somehow being powered

from some outside force that we can't see.

I would attribute this type of mechanical manipulation

to somebody that used to work there --

someone that knew how to operate this piece of machinery.

Whatever is happening here,

one thing is for sure --

this type of activity is consistent

for a haunted asylum.

In a mental institution at the turn of the century,

there were a lot of practices

that, today, we would find absolutely abhorrent.

Things like electric shock therapy.

Things like patients being given lobotomies to calm them down.

McNEILL: Practices that, nowadays, we look askance at,

but in the past were very, very common

as a means of treatment.

When we walk into a place like this --

when you kind of feel bad vibe.

When people say, "Oh, my God,

I feel like this place has a bad energy."

Where there's a reason that we're feeling that --

and I believe that reason is,

all that energy is soaked into the environment --

into the structure itself, into the land.

As for Anthony...

Okay?

...he had seen enough.

I was like, "Okay, this is something

that I can't really explain,

and it's enough to make me go home.

At that point, I think my curiosity for the unknown

was pretty much quelled.

I was like, "All right, I'm good.

I'm out."

Coming up,

an infrared government camera

captures this incredible UFO.

Of the thousands of UFO sightings every year,

most are probably just a case of mistaken identity.

Maybe it's a weather balloon...

a Chinese lantern...

or some kind of light-up drone.

After all, the human eye --

and even high-definition cellphone cameras --

can often be deceiving.

But there is one source

that is decidedly less open to interpretation --

US government infrared cameras.

So you can be sure that when one of those captures

something like this...

...there's only one logical conclusion.

It's a UFO.

April 25th, 2013,

in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

At around 9:20 P.M.

at the Rafael Hernández International Airport,

a United States Customs and Border Patrol plane

captures this on its infrared camera.

A low-flying, incredibly fast-moving object

that seemingly comes out of nowhere

and is headed straight for the airport's runways.

The plane's camera operator zooms in for a closer look...

...and is able to capture the object in much greater detail

as it flies unencumbered

and without the aid of any lights,

despite the darkness.

It continues at a high rate of speed,

moving past the runways and toward the coast,

where it descends to just above the ocean's surface

before -- incredibly -- diving in.

Then, seconds later, it returns to the surface,

this time, seemingly, with another UFO by its side.

The plane's camera loses sight of the objects

after a few minutes.

Afterward, upon reviewing the footage,

no official had a clue

as to what they had just witnessed.

So, what on earth did that government plane catch

on its infrared camera that night?

I'd never seen this video before, and I am amazed.

Now, this, to me, is a real flying saucer

in every respect of the word.

McNEILL: The way that this object is moving --

going into the water and coming out of the water --

the way it moves in these strange, aberrant patterns,

like it's maybe changing shape or changing form.

It's moving through our atmosphere

as if there is no atmosphere.

It's disappearing and reappearing

like it's submerging in water and then un-submerged.

It's moving with incredible speed,

and then, incredibly still.

Like, it doesn't follow our laws of physics.

At one point, it almost seems to skip on the water

like a rock,

but other times, it seems to submerge

with no disturbance of the water,

which makes me wonder,

"Is it phasing in and out of our reality?

Is this an optical illusion?

Is it the result of a cloaking device

that is perhaps damaged

and is turning on and off?

At one point, as it strikes the water,

it seems to break into two parts.

So I'm wondering,

"Is this the normal operation of this vehicle,

or is it in trouble?

Is it in danger?"

Impossible to say,

but its relationship with the water

is especially noteworthy.

In addition to UFOs,

there's the phenomenon known as USOs --

Unidentified Submerged Objects.

And this one, ironically, goes from UFO to USO to UFO,

then back to USO, and then disappears.

So there could be all kinds of explanations going on here.

It's possible that aliens have been on this earth

for thousands of years.

It's possible that maybe they actually stay

underneath the oceans so they can't be seen.

McNEILL: To watch an unidentified flying object

become an unidentified submerged object

is really exciting.

To be able to say, "Is that where it's coming from?

Is that where it's being made?

Is that where it's being worked on?

Is that how it's gone, perhaps, unnoticed for so long,

is that it has the secret place to go back to

when whatever tests are being run are finished?"

I think that's maybe one of the most intriguing parts

of this video.

But perhaps the most intriguing part

is where this video comes from --

a government-operated infrared camera.

McNEILL: When we get hints like this --

when we get these little clips

of obviously official documentation of something

that is apparently officially agreed upon

to be unidentified --

it starts to make us wonder, "What's happening here?

What is our government or our military working on

that we don't know about?"

Or, "What discoveries have they made

about objects from other points of origin

that we're not hearing about or learning about?"

And this isn't the only recent piece

of government-sourced UFO footage that we've seen.

This one is from 2015 off the coast of Florida.

20 knots to the west.

And this one from the same year,

further up the eastern seaboard.

A part of me thinks that maybe

they are releasing a very select handful of videos

sort of just to lull us

into some false sense of comfort --

thinking, like, "Oh, wow.

They're showing these

formerly-classified videos to us.

They're being honest with us."

But, really, what if it's just to distract us

from all of the other things

that they do have and are not showing us?

Shooting, shooting.

Some people think that this footage

is part of a trickle towards disclosure,

but I almost wonder if that trickle

will suddenly be shut off,

and the government decides, "They've seen enough."

You just know that they're sitting on more...

...and I need it.

For now, the videos we already do have

are more than enough fuel for the fire.

Coming up, a paranormal investigator...

Are there any other spirits here with you?

...gets some terrifying responses

from a spirit.

That's a hardyes.

By their very nature,

hotels give shelter to a greater variety of people

than almost any other type of building.

Every day, in every room, a new life enters,

bringing its own unique emotional energy

that is often absorbs directly into the walls.

Now, imagine adding to that

the stress of a traumatic event --

like, say, a murder.

That combination can make the location

exceptionally ripe for a haunting.

Which is what drew paranormal investigator Celina Myers...

to a supposedly haunted hotel in Canada.

This is so dark.

...and gave her one of the most terrifying nights...

Are there bad spirits in the inn?

That's a hardyes.

...of her life.

May, 2018, in Stratford, Canada.

Celina Myers has checked in

to a supposedly haunted local hotel

where at least one of the rooms

is alleged to have a sinister past.

Here I am back in my hotel room.

My name is Celina Myers,

and I'm the one who filmed this video.

I just knew that the hotel was off the beaten path,

and when I reached out in Facebook groups

about the town, people who had worked there

were the ones that told me the little stories.

When I called, I was like,

"Can I have the most haunted room?

I heard it's this room. Is it true?"

She's like, "Yes," and I'm like, "Okay.

I'd love to stay there all alone."

The story that I was told was actually that

a prostitute was murdered in that room

in the early 1900s.

Celina waits until the witching hour

to begin her investigation...

Can you see?

It is 3:16 A.M.,

and I'm ready to do this.

Okay.

...and pulls out an old-school method of contact.

I've always really loved dowsing rods

'cause I liked the literal physical holding of it.

When there's, like, a Spirit Box and stuff,

yes, spirit can manipulate sounds.

It can manipulate radio waves.

But when you're holding something

and it's against you and you are not moving,

it just feels so much more real and more connected.

The original purpose of dowsing rods

was to find sources of water.

The idea is that you hold them,

and then, the rods will cross

when you are over an area that has water.

But now, people use it on investigations,

and so, when the rods will cross,

people take that as a yes.

And then, if they spread out, it's a no.

And it doesn't take long

for Celina to get both yes and no answers

from whatever is in the room with her.

Are you a child?

Are there any other spirits here with you?

Yes.

Have you been here for a really long time?

No.

I'm gonna reset the rods.

I should do that.

One of the things I thought was coolest

about her use of dowsing rods

is that she put them in pipes in her hands,

and one of the things that that does

is it prevents unconscious

or unintentional manipulation of the rods

by your own skin contact.

And the fact that she is getting such dramatic responses

from the dowsing rods,

even with them in pipes, I thought, was really telling.

But the most dramatic response is yet to come.

Are there bad spirits in the inn?

That's a hardyes.

If there was anything in that room with her,

my guess is that maybe it was something intelligent

that was intentionally trying to mess with her

because it knew that that's what she wanted.

That's a hardyes.

When I ask a question like that

and then something like that happens...

It was so real to me.

Like, it felt so real,

and I just remember days after that,

I had nightmares about the dowsing rods.

I felt sick for days after.

I couldn't stop thinking about them.

Celina is now both terrified and exhausted

by what's been happening,

and decides to try to get some sleep.

Usually, I don't get this kind of

really scared feeling, but --

Like, you know when you just have that feeling,

and you just know something's up and wrong

and making you want to barf?

There was absolutely no way

that I was sleeping with the lights off

after the dowsing rods,

so I had set up, and I put everything on the bed.

My bags were kind of packed, 'cause I was like,

I'm gonna get up early and I'm gonna go home.

I'm just too tired to leave right now."

But whatever is in that room

isn't finished with Celina.

Watch the suitcase on the side of her bed...

...as it seems to be lifted up

by some unseen force...

before, finally...

Celina immediately wakes up.

You can kind of see that there is a slight draft

from a air conditioner

that's blowing the dust ruffle on on the bottom of the bed,

but that doesn't seem to be enough of a force

to sort of make this suitcase move around on the bed.

She seems to be completely still,

so it doesn't seem like her legs are kicking it or anything.

But it moves around for a pretty good amount of time

before eventually falling off the bed.

And I was just like, "Okay, you were, like,

this far away from my body."

Celina is freaked out.

She packs up her things and leaves right away.

I hate to do this, but I'm super bailing.

I go into it, and I'm like, "Yeah, I'm gonna stay all night.

It's gonna be great."

When you're sitting alone in a hotel room

in the earliest morning hours,

you're like, "Okay, I am alone.

What if the things that happened in the movie are real...

...and I'm about to get, you know,

yeeted down the hallway or something?"

Whatever we're seeing is like 1/10th

of what that person is actually experiencing in that place,

and if their gut says, "Get out,"

that's the right thing to do.

That's a hardyes.

Coming up,

a grocery store's resident ghost

claims her latest victim.

In Scotland, there's a grocery store

that is home to a woman named Stacy.

She spends her days and nights

wandering aimlessly through the aisles

and has never, ever -- as far as anyone can tell --

left the building.

And if you ask those who know her best,

Stacy has an unflappable reputation for causing mischief.

Oh, one other thing about Stacy...

...she's a ghost...

...and this is the kind of prank she pulls.

January, 2020, in Irvine, Scotland.

At the Bourtreehill Supermarket,

employee Elise Mullen is restocking some items...

when...

Watch again,

a little more closely.

The crate moves...

...seemingly by itself.

One more time in super slow motion.

See that?

But, surprisingly,

Elise isn't too disturbed by what just happened.

In fact, she half expected it...

because this grocery store is haunted

by a mischievous ghost named Stacy.

McNEILL: This is one of those instances

where we want to give full credit to the people

who live and work every day in that particular place.

They know what happens on their premises --

within their property --

and if they say, "Hey, we've got a ghost.

Her name is Stacy.

"She does things like this all the time."

They're probably right.

I really love this clip.

If you watch the crate, it moves on its own.

She doesn't kick it.

It doesn't slide. It moved.

Somebody or something pushes that crate.

It seems like a real troll.

I love it.

Seems like a ghost that I would be friends with.

I mean, it's not nice to hurt people, if she is hurt.

I'm sure she's okay.

But I love a prank.

I love a little prank.

100% of the time, I'm always like,

"No, I do not fear energies.

I don't fear spirits."

But there is one instance

where spirits can be incredibly dangerous...

...and that is in the event

that these energies know how to move objects.

Stacy is such a regular presence

that most of the staff just treat her

like another coworker --

albeit one that causes a lot of trouble.

Many times, in hauntings of places,

there is a certain familiarity

that people come to with the spirit

that might be haunting a place, whether it be a house or a bar

or, in this case, a grocery store.

But who was Stacy in the real world

long before she haunted the frozen section?

And why such a troublemaker?

You hear this kind of thing a lot

with the little grocery stores

and markets -- that kind of thing --

where people have worked for 50, 60 years,

and then suddenly pass away,

They still seem to come to work every day.

It's actually really common for spirits

to kind of be a little bit bitter.

I mean, they are still here

because they have unresolved issues.

So, you know, it wouldn't really be a surprise

that somebody who had issues when they were alive

might still carry those issues with them in death.

So, if you're ever in Irvine, Scotland,

and need to make a run to the grocery store,

one word of advice...

Maybe just steer clear of Stacy,

because she seems to have a lot of attitude.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Know when you're welcome...

Hello?

... and when you're not.

What the flippin' heck's that?

Review all your footage closely.

El Duende.

Beware of dead coworkers.

And if you do catch something,

email us at SubmitParanormal@gmail.com,

and connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here on

"Paranormal Caught On Camera."