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a powerful witch taunts a group of investigators in Mexico.

This is obviously an energy that's trying to lure these witch-hunters

to them.

A spirit takes a stroll

around a famous Kentucky distillery.

We believe we have caught a ghost on camera.

I mean, I was like, "No way, it can't be."

A man in Mississippi

gets up close and personal

with a legendary beast.

This is one of the most astounding videos

that I've seen of the alleged skunk ape.

A mysterious glowing object

appears alongside a passenger airplane.

Of course, the first thought you might get was,

"Well, well, well, I am filming a UFO."

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

to believe.

It seems obvious that locations with a great amount of negative energy

are likely to be haunted.

But, did you know that sometimes,

places with very joyful, positive histories

can also...

be extremely haunted.

Many believe it's because upon death,

intelligent spirits can choose to haunt wherever they want.

So, why not choose somewhere

that made you happiest in life?

Which may be the reason why this was spotted at a famous Kentucky distillery.

We believe we have caught a ghost on camera.

August, 2019.

At the Jim Beam American Stillhouse

in Clermont, Kentucky.

It's 1 a.m.

And Robin Skirvin and a fellow security guard

are monitoring cameras at their station

when Robin's coworker notices strange movement

coming from the Stillhouse's welcome center.

But when Robin goes to the welcome center in person to investigate,

he finds nothing.

Rejoining his coworker at their station,

they replay the footage

and are forced to draw one conclusion.

We believe we have caught a ghost on camera.

Take a look.

As Robin narrates while he films the monitor with his phone.

Okay, there it is. Right there.

Watch.

A small light anomaly

moves left to right on camera.

It goes all the way

across the camera.

Fading in and out of view

behind the beams of the welcome center.

And just watch this thing. It goes all the way across.

Having already investigated the area himself,

Robin knows no one is there

and is baffled.

And it's not a light

because there is no light back there, behind, you can see,

upon the hill back there, there is no light there.

There's nobody over here.

But, it's still going.

The anomaly finally fades away for good,

leaving just one obvious question.

What is it?

My name is Robin Skirvin

and I captured the video.

We didn't believe what we were seeing, honestly.

I mean, I was like, "No way, it can't be."

Okay, there it is. Right there,

Watch.

When I captured that video,

that was after I had went,

looked, checked it out, everything.

Nobody was around.

And that's when I was like, "Wait a minute.

Do we have a ghost here?"

'Cause if you pay attention to it,

when it's coming across, it almost looked like there was actual legs,

walking.

It's still going

across the camera.

And I had never seen one with my own eyes before.

That's something you see on TV.

It's not something that you see every day, you know.

This is one of the most peculiar pieces of footage

I have seen in quite some time.

What is it?

I haven't seen anything like this before.

It's almost sparkly.

And shiny. And as it walks past the camera,

it walks behind the columns.

Whatever this is, seems to be self-contained.

It's moving on its own pace.

And it moves in a way that seems to be free

from anything that's mechanical around there.

It looks like a person, for sure.

There's sort of an upright posture.

It's something that seems to be moving

kind of in an unconcerned pace.

This is not a creature that's darting from

shadow to shadow or that's attempting to go unseen.

This is almost a meandering walk across the parking lot.

Not really worried about whether or not anyone's going to notice.

It's moving very slowly.

Almost as if it's surveying the area,

you know, just taking a look around,

making sure everything's okay.

With that in mind, if this is an intelligent spirit,

who could we be looking at here?

When you look at this upright posture,

and see the stroll,

it looks like a masculine figure

taking its sweet own time.

Maybe, it's one of those old, Kentucky gentlemen

surveying his affairs.

And perhaps, a very specific Kentucky gentleman

with a keen interest

in the Jim Beam distillery.

I would assume that if this is a spirit,

it might be a pretty good chance this is the spirit

of one of the original founders of Jim Beam.

I do believe that spirits and ghosts, if you will,

when they decide to make an appearance or come back,

they come back to places where they are comfortable.

And come back where there is a strong emotional connection.

And what could be a bigger connection than your home?

And your distillery, your business, which is, you know,

incredibly successful.

It's also possible that this is simply

someone who enjoyed spending time in this place.

Maybe even someone who worked there.

Someone for whom this place

was a significant element of their lived experience.

And, for whatever reason, they have the ability to come back,

visit, maybe even keep an eye on things.

Maybe even, be sort of a protector watching over the area.

Whether it's one of the distillery's founders

or someone else entirely,

this isn't the first time

strange things have been reported

at the Stillhouse.

There are many reports of things happening there.

There's several buildings, you know, where people say they've seen apparitions,

they've heard footsteps,

they felt things touch 'em.

Being able to cross reference an existing body of narratives,

a set of stories about a place that is purported to be haunted

with this kind of closed circuit, unintended capture,

that really makes for a compelling argument that a place is haunted.

Whatever, or whoever made an appearance that day,

the experience has shifted Robin's thinking.

Before then, I didn't know what to believe.

You know, you hear everybody talk about it,

you see it on TV,

you don't know what to believe.

But when it happens to you, you know, it kind of changes your mind, you know,

I'm definitely more open-minded.

There's definitely things there that you don't understand,

or that you can't explain.

What is it?

Coming up,

a group of investigators chase a witch in Mexico.

The word, "witch" has different meanings to different people.

For some, they are the stuff of fairy tales.

Ghoulish creatures with pointy hats,

mixing potions in smoky cauldrons.

Others might think of the horrific with trials

in Salem during the late 17th century.

But for many in Mexico,

the type of witch that first comes to mind

is La Lechuza.

Part-bird, part-woman,

all-terrifying.

Recently, a group of explorers

followed reports of a witch into the Mexican woods.

And what they found may very well have been...

the legend herself.

November, 2020,

in Juventino Rosas,

Guanajuato, Mexico,

Juan Francisco Medrano and several colleagues

are in town to investigate reported sightings

of a witch.

My name is Juan Francisco Medrano.

Witches have always been prevalent in Mexican culture.

They've been around for hundreds of years.

Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're evil.

Here is the story of Mexico.

When they say that, "Yes, a witch resides here,"

this is someone to be avoided.

This is someone who works

on the evil end of things.

And around here,

they have a name for that kind of witch.

La Lechuza.

Lechuza was supposed to be a witch

that made a pact with the devil,

and the town folk decided to kill her, murder her.

She came back as a huge bird with a woman's head.

When La Lechuza goes hunting,

she acts very similar to an owl would,

you know, flying at night in the dark,

flying on tree tops.

Terrifying.

But despite the potential for that kind of encounter,

Juan Francisco and the team

press on into the darkness.

And it isn't long...

before they hear something.

Listen again...

...as a laugh can be heard in the distance.

That green light you see in the distance

is the team's laser pointer,

searching for the source of the laughter.

Moments later,

they hear the laugh again.

There's something to be said about these noises that sound like laughter.

It puts them at a disadvantage,

it puts them on guard, 'cause they feel like,

"All right. If something is laughing at us,

it clearly has the upper hand.

And out here, we are the prey, they're the predator."

And soon, the predator

begins taunting its prey.

Listen again,

as La Lechuza, or whatever is out there,

shouts "Come get me" in Spanish.

The thing that's really interesting was the fact that, like,

okay, you could hear, like, you know,

maybe people talking in the city in the background,

dogs barking, the sound of some animals,

or at least some of the noises I could be like, "Oh, that could be an animal."

But it's that moment where you hear that sentence where

it sounds like a women's voice saying...

This is obviously an energy that's trying

to lure these witch hunters to them.

If that's what it wants,

it's working, because the team

head straight toward the voice.

And then...

Do you see it?

A shadow above the trees.

Could it be...

Or perhaps

the evidence is simply being manipulated

by something even more terrifying.

This, to me, is more like an elemental energy,

because they're using the fear of witches

to lure this group of people to them.

And that's something you have to beware of.

I think these elemental energies

eventually use tropes like witches

to lure people to their demise.

And, to me, the way it's interacting with the trees,

the way it's luring in these witch hunters,

kind of comes off to me as this malevolent elemental energy.

Thankfully for Juan Francisco and his team,

the shadow, whatever it is,

eventually vanishes.

And they get out of there unscathed.

But he's learned an important lesson

from the experience.

Coming up.

Can this dog see...

...into the afterlife?

When it comes to pets,

there's no bond that exists

quite like that of humans and dogs.

It's often so powerful

many believe it lives on

even after death.

This special connection

combined with a dog's incredibly acute senses

of sight, smell, and hearing,

make them unparalleled when detecting the presence

of supernatural entities.

But don't take our word for it.

Take theirs.

February, 2019, in Surrey, England,

while he and his family sleep,

Liam Hansen runs a camera in his dining room

to keep an eye on his pugs overnight.

And at one point...

they both seem to sense something.

The bigger one eventually dismisses it.

But the smaller one is still tuned in.

Then, just moments later...

Watch again,

as two chairs are pushed

by someone, or something...

freaking out the smaller pug.

I don't know about these dogs,

but my dogs are typically sacked out in the middle of the night.

And yet there is something that is piquing the attention

of these two, especially the little one.

The interesting part about this video, for me,

is that-- the difference in reactions

between the older dog and the puppy.

Uh, when the chair moves,

the older dog sort of looks over at it,

takes it into account, and then goes back to scratching itself.

The younger dog is very alarmed and jumps back

as if in a defensive stance.

Uh, it makes me wonder if perhaps the older dog

is used to this kind of activity in the house,

and the younger one is just seeing it for the first time.

Strange. But not unique.

September, 2020, in Pennsylvania,

Kevin Eichelberger and his wife, Ibtissum,

have a dog named Fen,

who tends to stare at things

that Kevin and Ibtissum cannot see.

- So, one day... - Bye, Fen.

...in order to see if they can get some insight

as to what's going on,

they strap a camera to Fen's back,

and head out to the grocery store.

When they review the footage,

they're freaked out.

Listen carefully.

And keep in mind,

Fen is alone in the house.

Did you hear that?

It's a phantom whistle.

And there's more.

Strange noises.

And...

mysterious footsteps.

Clearly...

...Fen is a little concerned.

But what is it that he's hearing and sensing?

This sounds like the distinct noises that a human

or something with weight would make

as it is moving about.

But if it was someone that the dog knew or expected,

it would run to greet them

as opposed to holding back and being cautious.

When a dog whimpers, that's a form of communication.

They're not just doing that randomly.

A whimper is a sound to communicate with something or somebody else.

Um, we don't see anybody there, so it's curious.

What is this dog trying to communicate,

and to who, or what?

And sometimes, those attempts to communicate

can clue us into something we would not want to miss.

December, 2011, in Mesa, Arizona,

Zack Clark is filming his dog, Zoey,

because something isn't right.

Hi, I'm Zack Clark, and I filmed the videos.

My dog just started growling.

She's growling at something.

I did not know what was happening. It was strange behavior for Zoey.

She had never done anything like that before.

Uh, and so,

it got me kind of panicked.

But when Zack finally works up the courage

to see for himself...

...there's nothing.

Though it sounds like Zack is joking about it being a ghost,

there's actually a reason for him

to believe it really is one.

When that first happened,

it was recently after

my wife's mom had passed away.

And in that apartment, just before that incident,

my wife had a dream.

In the dream, her mom walked through the front door

and said, "It's okay. I'm not mad."

And my wife told me that she was worried

about her mom being upset with her over something.

And I'll never forget when my wife told me that dream.

She woke up as if it was real.

And the fact that it was in that apartment, and shortly thereafter,

my dog, Zoey,

had these strange experiences.

Barking at something that we couldn't see.

Um, you know, one...

one tends to think that there could be a connection there.

Dog's lives are very interconnected with human lives.

They are pack animals, um, and they're really,

to a large extent, dependent on humans,

and also in tune with them.

They have such heightened senses that,

uh, perhaps they're still in tune with humans that,

you know, we no longer have the opportunity

to interact with because they're dead.

And maybe it's as simple as that.

Our emotional ties to man's best friend

are so powerful

that they can't help but be attuned to our presence...

...even in the afterlife.

Coming up.

A man in Mississippi

stumbles upon a massive skunk ape.

For the most part,

cryptids that fall under the Bigfoot category,

such as Sasquatch and skunk ape,

are not known to be aggressive.

But if you are alone

and suddenly came across one in the middle of the woods,

what would you do?

Try to film it to prove you really saw one?

Or run away as fast as humanly possible?

That's the difficult decision

a man in Mississippi had to make

when he saw this.

It's October 24th, 2013,

near Tunica, Mississippi,

Josh Highcliff is out hunting hogs on his property

when he hears a noise up ahead.

Seconds later, he spots a large black hairy figure

about 50 yards away from him.

At first, he thinks it might be a bear.

But whatever this thing is...

isn't acting like a bear.

It soon becomes very apparent

that this large, furry beast

is unlike anything Josh has ever seen...

...because it's digging into the trunk of a tree with what appear to be hands.

Seconds later, it stands upright for a moment

and looks to be about seven feet tall.

Josh is getting freaked out.

so much so that when it stands again,

he runs away.

So, what did Josh just capture on camera?

Some believe it's a skunk ape,

a type of bigfoot that lives in the swamps of the south-eastern United States

This is one of the most astounding videos that I've seen

of the alleged skunk ape.

We don't just catch a fleeting glimpse

of some dark, tall, hulking figure walking through a swamp,

we have a pretty good look at what it's doing.

You can see it physically ripping parts of the bark off

to get to the inner tree.

Now, when he rips the bark off,

you can see the muscles, you can see the jerking motion.

You may think, "Well, this is simply a bear,"

or some other animal like that digging into the stumps,

but that's when this thing stands up and you get a great look

at the full layout of this creature,

and it's got arms, it's got legs, it's bipedal, it stands upright.

But it's completely covered in hair.

If this is a skunk ape, what is it doing to that tree?

One piece of evidence that many people have reported

as signs that a bigfoot-like cryptid, like a skunk ape, is present,

is the building of sort of natural shelters like almost a wickiup.

The small structure made out of sticks or twigs

that would provide basic shelter for a creature

that might need to sleep inside it.

- So, it's not too much of a leap to think... -

...this might be what's happening here.

It could be marking the tree

as if marking its territory, saying to other animals, "Stay away."

It could be searching for food. It could be trying to rip off the bark

to get an insect or other animal that's inside.

Or, maybe, it put something in there and it's trying to retrieve it.

Whatever it's doing, it appears to be strong.

And if it could tear apart a tree,

imagine what it could do to a person.

The minute that creature turns around

and sees someone filming them,

things could go downhill fast.

So, I think the fact that he immediately turns and runs once that creature stands up,

is smart regardless of how you interpret the situation.

We're seeing more and more activity and aggression

because there are more and more people going out there

investigating with their cameras,

trying to discover these creatures.

Thankfully, Josh walks away...

or rather runs away unharmed,

and with one of the best pieces of skunk ape footage to date.

You know, as far as bigfoot videos are concerned,

most of them are grainy or short or taken at a distance.

That's not the case with this video.

I gotta say that this is, if not he top, it's in the top three

of footage that's available to us today.

What the?

Coming up, a security camera in India

captures a mysterious apparition crossing a road.

When you think you may have witnessed something paranormal,

it's natural to second guess it and convince yourself...

it was just your imagination...

unless, of course, the experience was so startling and unusual...

that you simply can't let it go.

In that case, it might be worth it to dig a little deeper.

That's what happened to a man in India.

And when he found a video of the event he experienced,

it was clear that it really was something truly extraordinary.

August, 28, 2013. In Bangalore, India.

After putting in a long day at work,

a man named Raj is walking home alone late at night...

when he experiences something strange.

My name is Raj.

Which may be the reason for what happens next.

Raj can't explain it because,

at the time, he is so rattled.

He's sure he saw something.

But what he thinks he saw doesn't make sense.

So, Raj has a friend, Satya,

retrieve footage from a nearby CCTV camera.

And that CCTV footage shows this.

Watch closely as a figure, wispy and transparent,

slowly crosses the road,

and it's doing it seemingly unnoticed.

At one point, it flashes back to the middle and waits...

as passing vehicles seem to drive...

directly through it.

Seconds later, as another car drives by,

the figure vanishes.

After seeing the footage, Raj is stunned...

but sure that what he saw was a ghost.

This figure certainly appears to be a human form,

albeit a very ghostly human form.

I mean, it's sort of whitish, sort of transparent-opaque

um, and it moves just like a person

who would be walking into a street.

You kind of lose your breath when you see a car or vehicle approaching,

but then, kind of let loose when you realize

it goes right through the spirit and it keeps on walking.

At one point, it seems to glitch.

It moves from where it was, back just a little bit.

But it's not an element of a video recording...

because the other vehicles on the road at that time

don't glitch similarly. It's just that figure.

It's curious that this figure seemingly vanishes... into a car.

Did the driver unknowingly pick up a ghost rider?

Eventually, Raj and Satya discover

that this particular stretch of road

has had multiple sightings of the same apparition...

which, most in the area, believe to be a specific 70-year-old man

who committed suicide years earlier

following a property dispute over a nearby building.

The apparition does appear to be kind of hunched over a little bit

and is certainly moving incredibly slow across that street,

you know, in a way that you would expect

a 70-year-old man to possibly do.

It's often speculated that apparitions like this are

sort of going through a repetitive motion,

perhaps the last moments of their life, here on Earth,

um, and we're just seeing the residual images of that,

and then they'll repeat that over and over

as if they're sort of on a tape loop.

But that still leaves one lingering question.

Why did Raj see something that night

while other people drove right on through?

On a paranormal investigation,

my perception of something that happens

could be different than my fellow investigator.

Some people have more of a psychic perception in different arenas,

like some people are a little bit more clairvoyant,

or some people are empathic.

And Raj's apparent natural abilities,

combined with a well-placed CCTV camera,

made for the discovery of an incredible capture.

Coming up, what would you do

if you saw this UFO outside your plane's window?

These days, there are endless ways

to help pass the time on a long flight.

Movies, games, even a nice, relaxing nap.

But if you have a window seat, checking out the Earth and the sky

from 30,000 feet can be its own in-flight entertainment...

especially if you look out the window and see this.

December, 2020.

In the skies over the New Mexico-Arizona border,

Joseph Saul Portillo is on a flight he has taken many times,

Tampa to Los Angeles to visit family,

when out of his window, he spots this:

A strange object floating above the clouds.

Joseph zooms in for a better look...

and sees that the object appears to be

a cluster of four or five stationary lights hovering near his aircraft.

Joseph notes the elevation...

...and he is awestruck.

Eventually, the lights disappear into the clouds

right before another plane flies by in the opposite direction.

This is Joseph Saul Portillo and this is my video that I captured.

I don't know where... just bright, bright light.

And I looked at it for about a minute and a half,

and I realized I was looking at something completely different.

And I'm trying to rationalize everything

and I couldn't find an explanation.

And of course, you know, the first thought in my head was,

"Well, well, well, I am filming a UFO."

These lights are not just like your typical light anomaly.

Bright light that's blinding to look at,

and the shape that we're seeing, you know, these rectangular light clusters,

I mean, that's really unusual to spot,

and very hard to look at for extended periods of time just because it's so blinding.

If it was me and I was in that plane,

I would've been a little concerned about

what this thing is that's next to the plane I'm in.

What's it gonna do? Is it going to attack the plane?

Is it up there for some other nefarious reason?

Regardless of what this thing is,

the idea that it's up there in the sky in close proximity

to not only one plane, but two,

should send alarms through many travelers' minds.

So, whatever this thing is, whatever it's doing up there,

I think it's important that we, as a human race,

get to the bottom of it and figure out why-- what it is.

And a good place to start might be the location of the plane

when Joseph saw the mysterious lights.

The first thing I thought was,

"Okay, I'm flying over New Mexico or even Arizona where the military

has a lot of training, a lot of bases, a lot of secrecy."

So, I'm thinking this must be some sort of military aircraft

that happens to be floating up in the air while my plane is passing by.

But as I try to make out the shape of that aircraft,

I realize that, either, A, that is a one secret ship

that the Air Force is keeping from everybody,

or that is an aircraft or an object

that is really beyond human technology, beyond the military technology.

The world we live in is a very fast paced place

where we have amazing technology and vehicles,

and yet, when you say the words,

UFO, and New Mexico in the same sentence,

you're taken back to a time right after World War II.

You think about Roswell in New Mexico and the alleged UFO crash.

Are they coming back with different technology?

Are we seeing something different here?

Because this doesn't look like the saucer-shaped UFO that crashed in Roswell.

What we're seeing here are four to five rectangular objects,

highly illuminated.

So, this is a little bit different than the Roswell sighting.

Whatever it is,

military, extraterrestrial, or something else entirely,

Joseph is keeping his mind open.

We are a tiny dot out of this huge universe.

Anything is possible, everything is possible.

Are we alone? In my opinion, I don't think so.

I don't think we're alone.

But how can I explain what's beyond us? I just can't.

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

Here's some tips to get it all on camera.

Well, I don't know what that is.

Check your security cameras, and then, check them again.

We believe we have caught a ghost on camera.

Be brave but not too brave.

Trust your dog's instincts.

She's growling at something.

And if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal at gmail.com

or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here on Paranormal Caught On Camera.