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An intrepid paranormal investigator...

Hello?

...is confronted by something evil.

A terrifying cryptid emerges

from a man's toilet.

It looks like sludge. It looks like living sludge.

Ominous lights appear in the sky

over San Diego.

When you see a light or seven in a line,

It leads me to believe, it could be something extra-terrestrial.

Is this the sound...

... of a skin-walker?

There was that gut feeling that something was just wrong.

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

... to believe.

There's a mythical being in Native American folklore

that many believe to be evil incarnate.

It's called, "the skin-walker."

They reportedly originate from shaman

who attempt to gain heightened powers by forsaking their ability to heal

and committing heinous acts of violence.

They can shape-shift into the form of different creatures.

And lure their victims

by mimicking animal sounds and even human voices.

Recently, a man working on a remote ranch in Arizona

believes he is being stalked by one.

...and has the video to prove it.

October, 2020.

Eloy, Arizona.

John Soto is a cowboy,

who works in a remote ranch about 20 minutes outside of town.

Lately, he's noticed some very disturbing things happening

around the property.

Disembodied voices,

extremely odd animal sounds and behavior.

And even the recurring odor

of rotting flesh from an unknown source.

One day, John is riding horseback,

setting up trail cameras around the ranch,

when he spots something strange and quickly takes out his phone.

And things are about to get a whole lot weirder.

My name is John.

I am a working cowboy in Southern Arizona.

And I captured these videos on one of the ranches I work at.

What I heard was what sounded to me to be the word, "Hey."

Like, something calling me.

It was a... Sounded like a female voice, not panicked.

And that made it more eerie.

Almost, like, it was trying to call me into the bush.

Hey!

My horse is a working cow horse.

He's not scared easily

and whatever that was made him stop in his tracks.

And then a second one came.

And that's when he spun around,

and went into that gait.

Once I got back into the yard,

I calmed my horse down

and I walked back up towards the tree line,

calling out, in case there was somebody that needed help.

And when I did that, there was no response.

Six days later,

John is driving his pickup truck on the ranch,

when something runs across the road in front of him.

He pulls over to see what it is.

Just saw... Looked almost like a coyote

run right across here.

Suddenly, from out of the darkness...

That sounded like a kid.

Or a goat.

When I said a kid or a goat, I didn't mean a kid, like a baby goat.

I meant a child, it sounded like a child.

And then my brain trying to make sense of it.

It was like or it may have been a goat or it...

You know what, I'm trying to think of what it could have been.

It seemed like it was trying to get me to come off of the roadway.

But again, there was that gut feeling

that something was just wrong.

John's inclination is spot-on.

My family is Native American

and when I ran it past my family members,

they immediately told me to speak to a medicine man.

That's what when things sort of got concerning.

Concerning, because the family's advice seemed to imply

that John may have been interacting

with one of the most feared entities

in Native American folklore,

the skin-walker.

Everything just seems to line up.

It being a trickster of sorts, trying to lure us out,

the sounds...

I do think it's the entity in question here.

I do think that's what it is.

A skin-walker is an evil person.

A person who has put themselves ahead of their community.

They have to do certain things.

They have to sacrifice certain loved ones,

to gain the ability to shape-shift into an animal.

And so the stories that we encounter of skin-walkers

are almost always as an animal that is giving away

the fact that it's not a natural animal.

It's actually an unnatural transformed human,

who has become this thing

out of a malevolent desire to do evil.

I do think that very first, "Hey," that spooks the horse.

sounds very feminine and female like.

But then that second one sounded more like

a baby lamb or goat or something.

Not a human.

Skinwalkers are, in a way,

halfway between a human and an animal.

So it makes sense that they might make a sound

that sounds right smack in the middle between those two things.

It could be a human

or could be an animal.

We have no idea.

John brings a medicine man to the ranch shortly after.

And he confirms John's fears.

I showed him the clips and when he heard it...

- Hey! - He said he could feel the energy

that he knew what it was.

So, he proceeded with his ceremony.

He gave me a small pouch filled with white ash,

to keep with me.

We put it on all the firearms.

We blessed the animals.

So, I have a pouch that I keep with me when I'm out there.

It's supposed to help, keep it at bay.

The question of what it wants is

really the most frightening thing here.

Hey!

Because we don't know.

- This is an ongoing problem. - Hey!

This is not something where there's an obvious,

easily known remedy that exists for everyone.

For now, John is remaining extremely cautious

while at the ranch.

I keep my head on a swivel, so to speak.

Just kind of looking around, watching everything,

listening to all the sounds, just a little more

vigilant than I already was.

And he's learning to live with his new perspective,

on everything.

They have changed me. Now, I believe in more things

than I did before. I didn't believe in any of it.

I wasn't having any of it.

And then it's almost like once you experience something like this,

then you believe, all of a sudden.

Coming up, a man on a smoke break

is spied on by a ghost.

A ghost with unfinished business,

keeping its essence among the living.

A spirit, whose life ended tragically,

doomed to haunt the site of its traumatic demise.

The Japanese have a term for such apparitions.

"The Yurei."

Mystical visions draped in white,

who are unable to move into the afterlife.

People have spoken about these ethereal beings

for hundreds of years.

And recently, one of them

may have been caught

on a rooftop security camera.

August, 2009.

Tokyo, Japan.

A man is on the roof of his office building,

taking a cigarette break.

And he's about to get some company.

Watch the window in the door,

as a shadow approaches.

Followed by what appears to be

a person.

Whoever it is stands in the doorway

and seems to watch the man outside,

who is apparently completely unaware.

The man finishes his cigarette.

And here is where it gets really creepy.

Did you see that?

Watch again.

As the man opens the door,

the figure somehow

vanishes.

How is this possible?

Okay, this is creepy.

Emphasis on "eep."

What I find especially unsettling about this

is how mundane everything appears to be for the man.

He is just out having a smoke break,

as something watches him, unnoticed.

My favorite thing about this clip

is that we get to compare the woman

who appears in the doorway to the man, who appears in the doorway before her.

So we see them approach the door.

We see him come out, we see him stand outside.

We have a clear sense of what a corporeal human looks like

when approaching that door and coming through it.

And when he turns to open the door,

I'm waiting for this person to come forward.

And when no one is there,

that moment you realize that you are looking at potentially a spirit

in this doorway and to see it disappear was pretty amazing.

So, what kind of spirit would be hanging out

by the doorway to a roof?

This looks like a classic Yurei from Japanese belief.

Meaning faint spirit,

it is an umbrella term for ghosts

who appear in a white burial kimono

with long black hanging hair.

And they are spirits

who do not have a peaceful afterlife.

There's a great theory behind place memory hauntings that

an area can absorb that energy.

And when the time is right, we don't know what the triggers are

or what the situation has to be, but that energy can be released.

What typically results in a haunting

is when somebody's life is cut short

in a very traumatic way.

So, typically that tends to be by homicide

or by suicide.

And in fact, just a few years earlier,

a young woman reportedly committed suicide on this roof.

I find that the majority of

the places that I go to investigate involve suicides.

Because those are the energies that tend to be the stickiest,

just because of that mental strain

that happens in those final moments before they decide to take their lives.

If this is the spirit of the woman who died here,

why would she choose this man's smoking break to suddenly appear?

We don't know why he's there

but maybe he's thinking about something,

maybe he has problems and stresses of his own.

Even though we don't see a physical interaction between these two,

who knows? Maybe there is their own personal version of

It's a Wonderful Life going on

in that moment between her and him.

Maybe that helps her to move on, to cross over.

Whether the Yurei was here to help someone,

repeat a past traumatic event

or do something else entirely, we may never know.

But perhaps the most important takeaway here is this.

No matter how alone you think you are,

there's always someone

or something

watching.

Coming up,

a paranormal investigator, crosses paths with something evil...

...in the woods of England.

The Winter Hill region of England

has seen its fair share

of tragic and bizarre happenings.

Murder,

plane crashes,

even UFO sightings.

The leftover energy from each and every event

is forever baked into the storied English countryside.

Now, add to that a mysterious structure,

said to be the site of gruesome executions,

sometime during the Roman occupation of England,

almost 2000 years ago.

And what you have is

a breeding ground for paranormal activity.

Which is what brought one daring explorer to the area,

to investigate.

A decision that he would almost immediately

come to regret.

February, 2020.

In Winter Hill, Bolton, UK.

It's a damp winter night,

and Danny Duffy is traveling alone through the wet woods,

with one destination in mind.

My name is Danny

and I am the person who filmed the video.

If people were executed on this property

It would give it a real reason to be haunted.

And sure enough, before Danny even reaches the hut,

he hears this.

What the hell was that?

Followed shortly after by another.

What the hell?

The British woods are ancient,

and they're enchanting and intimidating.

But the sounds of these screams

which seem to be emanating at a close proximity

with a deafening sound,

it sent a chill down my spine.

What the hell?

Danny is terrified,

but continues on.

And finally arrives.

This place looks terrifying,

Throw ghosts out of the equation.

This place is spooky from the get-go.

In order to contact, whatever spirits may be living at the hut,

Danny forgoes modern-day gadgets

and attempts something a little more old-school.

It definitely seemed that this is a space

for ritual purposes.

And Danny himself did this. He lit candles in the hut.

He understood that this was the sort of place where you cast out

questions or intentions.

And you get responses back if you're lucky

or unlucky as the case may be.

The phantom scream again.

This time, as if it's coming from inside the hut.

But there's no one else here.

At least no other human beings.

Oh!

I have heard of investigators

encountering a disembodied scream in haunted locations.

And I personally have experienced this phenomenon.

Automatically, it makes me think of the banshee,

from Irish folklore.

Now, this woman of fairy mounds

was said to moan,

mournfully, at the time that a death was imminent.

Whatever this thing is,

Danny is too freaked out to stay inside the hut.

So he leaves and starts to head back to his car.

But it's not over yet.

Watch again,

as some kind of shadowy figure

passes by in the distance.

Knowing this place's back story

and then going in there willingly,

putting yourself in that vulnerable position,

I would be terrified.

Even if you know what you're doing,

even if you've heard the stories, nothing can prepare you for

experiencing it.

There comes a time on an investigation

where you need to get out of there

Whoa! What the hell? And this is the time.

Danny made the right call.

Coming up...

A line of UFOs strikes fear in San Diego.

When confronted by the extraordinary,

our brains automatically

start to formulate a rational explanation

to keep us calm.

But, in those rare instances

when the situation is so overwhelming

that our minds are unable to explain it away,

our instincts kick in.

And we shift into survival mode.

One couple in San Diego

found themselves in one of these terrifying situations.

It is completely strange.

And they're still reeling

from the experience.

April 1st, 2020.

San Diego, California.

Stuart Clark and his wife Harper are sitting on their deck,

enjoying the evening view of the city,

when they both notice some strange lights hovering in the distance,

near the Pacific Ocean.

Soon, even more begin to appear.

And they continue to multiply.

There's a fourth one.

Yeah.

My name is Stuart, and this is my video.

Yes, it was something that we've never seen before, obviously.

And it was worth filming.

They just flickered on and appeared very bright.

And relatively close to each other.

Seemed like they were precisely spaced.

And they didn't move.

Wow.

It's completely strange.

Kind of a running joke in our family where

my wife is known as the risk analysis person.

Her first go to is to question if this is going to be safe or not.

This is definitely a risk analysis moment.

In today's culture,

we assume that we're very savvy. We've got our finger on the pulse of what's going on.

But when you see something like this,

something very primal emerges. It's fear.

Fear of the unknown.

Six, six!

I think that the commentary we get saying,

"Hey, this is not good. Someone is attacking us,"

is a testament to how real these experiences are.

This looks terrifying.

I'll be honest. I might have felt the same way in that same situation.

When Harper checks the local news,

she finds nothing.

And the phenomenon

shows no signs of slowing down.

Seven!

On the brink of sheer panic,

Harper turns to Stuart,

who takes his best, logical guess.

I think they're flares.

I think they're illumination flares,

You see something just kind of appear in the sky.

So it could have been a signal or some thing

and the only thing that I could think of would have been a flare.

But, this guess quickly starts to unravel.

They're very far apart though.

The elevation being the same is extraordinarily precise.

I didn't see them descending at all.

They were in line with each other.

Which I don't know how you can maintain a light

in a pre-positioned elevation for

any amount of time, without gravity taking effect.

What goes up must come down.

And these just,

turned on,

and turned off.

Often times, people will mistake

these type of strange balls of light, these UFOs,

as paper lanterns or some kind of flares.

And flares typically will burn out over a period of time.

We see that these lights

are continuing to move on and they're flying together in unison,

hovering there,

but they have a consistency and a make up

of something that doesn't seem to be of this Earth.

Eventually the bizarre balls of light

fade back into the darkness.

One remains,

shortly to extinguish.

And when they're gone,

Stuart allows himself one last thought.

Hope it wasn't aliens.

We're so infinitesimally small in this giant, unfathomable universe.

It's not lost on me how big it is out there.

When you see a light,

or seven,

in a line,

I've got no frame of reference of what that could be,

it leads me to believe it could be something extraterrestrial.

Even to this day,

Stuart remains baffled by this peculiar encounter.

Nobody in our neighborhood saw it.

You know, it was definitely one of those things that if I didn't film it,

I wouldn't have believed it.

Coming up, a mysterious figure in India

terrorizes a car full of friends.

Zombies, skin-walkers, wraiths.

All creatures that can appear human from a distance.

But get a little closer and it becomes very clear

that they are decidedly not human.

When it comes to these encounters,

the ability to discern between the normal and paranormal

could mean the difference between life and death.

Such was the case one night in India,

when some friends came upon a bizarre figure in the road,

and knew almost immediately that whatever it was,

it was not of this world.

December, 2020,

somewhere on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam, India.

Amartej Merla is on a late night joyride with a group of friends.

Around 1:00 a.m., they turn on to a remote stretch of road

in a densely forested and unlit area,

And come upon this.

Some kind of figure, possibly naked,

sitting in an odd position in the middle of the road.

And they are unable to tell

whether the figure is sitting backwards or forwards.

Amartej and his friends are a little freaked out.

But they haven't seen anything yet.

Watch closely,

as the figure pops up and begins to walk...

backwards.

Until it comes to the edge of the forest,

stands there for a moment,

and eventually disappears into the brush.

What just happened?

I'm out! That is my response to this.

I'm out, I would drive away, I would run away.

I would not be there.

That is too weird, too weird.

As a person that works at night consistently,

I am driving on highways alone at like

1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning pretty frequently.

And I try to put myself in the position of these people.

If I were to see something like this off the road,

I wouldn't know what to do.

Yes, it's definitely creepy.

But first things first.

Is this figure human?

If this is a human being,

something other than a human

is controlling that body because it was using it wrong.

But I'm not even convinced that this was a human body that we were seeing.

There's a distinct possibility that this could be a feral human.

Now this is a very rare phenomenon but it has happened,

and it actually has happened in India where

children will somehow find themselves alone in the forest

and through the help of possibly animals or just their own efforts,

they managed to survive into adulthood.

But, if this is a human,

feral or otherwise,

why is it moving backwards?

Initially I thought that maybe this clip was playing in reverse,

because it just seemed very unnatural.

But I did watch it in reverse, and that seemed even more unnatural.

The motion almost seemed to be floating.

Walking backwards but in such a way that it seemed to be effortless

as if they're naturally walking this way all the time.

According to other beliefs,

speaking backwards or saying the Lord's Prayer backwards,

or walking backwards

are associated with evil intent,

even Satan.

I'm seeing someone who could potentially be possessed by

a very powerful non-human energy.

And if not a possessed human,

could it be something even more terrifying?

Is this maybe a creature?

Something that is humanoid in nature,

or maybe something more nefarious

like a skin-walker.

A shape-shifter that maybe got stuck

in a certain form. Maybe who hasn't completed the transformation.

There are spirits known as Chudailin India.

And they have feet that face the opposite way

and part of why they do that is to leave footprints that

go the other direction so they

can fool people of where they're going.

The thing I have seen most recently that

looked like this is the Rake.

I mean, a creature that comes to us almost entirely from

Creepy Pasta, from digital folklore.

The Rake is a pale, spindly creature

that looks like it's sort of crawling with you know maybe

overly jointed elbows and knees

and very very pale skin.

So many possibilities, none of which

you want to run into on a road late at night.

The encounter scared Amartej and his friends so much

that they haven't been back to the area since.

Which is most definitely for the best.

This is one of the creepiest

pieces of footage I've ever seen on the show.

And I've seen a lot of really creepy things, and this one is just...

It's not vague.

It's not ambiguous.

It's not hard to tell what's happening.

It's just wrong.

Coming up, a cryptid, born in the sewer.

When someone witnesses a cryptid,

it's a shocking and often terrifying experience

that is forever burned into their memory.

But those encounters are most often

in wide open spaces,

with plenty of distance between you and the creature.

Now, just imagine if you came across one of these cryptids

in a tightly confined space.

Like say, the bathroom in your own home.

That's what happened to a couple in Malaysia,

when something slithered out of their toilet

and into their lives.

October 6th, 2017.

Alor Setar, Malaysia.

Zul Hanif Anip and his wife Puteri

are home with their child,

when they hear odd noises coming from the bathroom.

So Zul goes to check it out

and sees this.

A six and a half foot, slimy,

extremely grotesque creature,

slithering out of their toilet.

Zul and Puteri are stunned.

It resembles a snake.

But most definitely is not.

So, what is this thing?

I mean... Whatever it is,

I wouldn't want to be sitting on that toilet

when it decides to make its appearance.

What kind of plumbing do they have there?

I mean this thing is thick, big around.

I mean as thick as a boa constrictor.

And it's got this tiny little head.

And it doesn't move like a snake, if anything it's...

It's more like a giant sea slug or something.

It sort of looks thicker in body

like I might expect an alligator or some sort of large lizard to look but...

It's not clear that it looks like sludge.

It looks like living sludge.

In that area there is local legend

and precedence to say that what's being seen

might point to something else entirely.

A creature of legend known as the Nabau,

which in Malaysian culture is a huge,

serpentine, aquatic creature

and it was said to have the head of a dragon,

seven nostrils, hundred feet in length, immense.

What makes this even creepier is that

it may have been lurking in disturbingly close proximity

for quite some time.

Because when Zul checks the pipes,

he can't find any entry point for it to have gotten in from the outside.

Which leads him to believe that the cryptid

grew up inside the pipes.

Just that idea alone

removes any sense of safety that living in a structure

with electricity and plumbing and all of the

niceties of contemporary life.

All that security, out the window.

Monsters might be living in there.

Bathrooms are supposed to be like a safe haven to do things,

and you don't want to see this thing crawling out of the toilet, I mean,

I would freak out.

If this is some sort of new creature

from another planet, alien, you know,

and it's procreating on its own

and we know that there are female species on this planet that can do that.

I think that there's a likelihood

that there could be more of this creature

wherever it came from.

And that being said there's probably going to be some plumbing issues,

serious ones, down the line.

And plumbing issues may be the least of the worries.

What makes this really terrifying

is the fact that you're not out in the middle of the woods

or the jungle or the swamp.

You're in your own home and this creature

is quite large, it's quite big, we don't know if it's poisonous or not.

So, this is a really terrifying moment for

someone to experience this in their own home.

Though they don't know exactly what this thing is,

Zul and Puteri don't waste any more time trying to figure it out.

They quickly and carefully put the slimy creature into a sack

and release it into a nearby river.

Because even mysterious cryptids

deserve a second chance.

Thanks for this. Now I can never use the toilet again.

What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Be brave.

But not too brave.

What the hell is that?

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

We're getting attacked, honey.

Listen carefully...

Hey!

Very carefully.

Hey!

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