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A paranormal investigator

is possessed...

...by the spirit of a lost child.

I didn't know who I was back then.

I didn't know Bex anymore.

Bex is gone.

Two separate apparitions

are captured by a medium

in a haunted graveyard.

I'm a bit of a ghost magnet,

for some strange reason, I just am.

A man spots this

from his airplane window seat.

It looks strange. It looks beetle-shaped.

It looks like it's just hovering there.

- What creature... - Hey.

...is trapped in this barn in Russia?

The sounds that are coming from this barn

are unlike anything I personally heard before.

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

...to believe.

Life as a psychic medium

can be challenging,

because for many of them,

seeing dead people is a regular occurrence,

especially if you decide to spend your time

in certain dead-friendly places,

like say a centuries old graveyard.

Consider the story of one medium in England

who livestreamed her visit to a medieval graveyard

and caught the attention of not just one,

but two curious ghosts.

June 2020,

in Wilmslow Cheshire, England,

Deborah Davies is livestreaming her walk

through the graveyard of a local church,

hoping to capture any paranormal experience

that she might have on camera

for her online followers.

Hi. My name is Deborah Davies, and I filmed these videos.

The church where I was actually filming

goes back to the 12th century

and it's known for being quite haunted locally.

That, and the fact that Deborah is a psychic medium

means that she fully expects to see some ghost today.

As a medium, I actually see people who've gone

on a daily basis,

so seeing a ghost isn't really unusual for me.

I'm a bit of a ghost magnet,

for some strange reason, I just am.

On the one hand, a medium is someone

with an exceptional level of receptivity,

an ability to see or to be the vessel

through which something manifests.

But there's also a sense

that mediums are the people

to whom these presences are also drawn.

So, it's not simply an ability

to see what others can't see.

It's an ability to be seen as well,

to get the attention

of whatever it is that might be out there.

And sure enough,

as Deborah is livestreaming among the graves,

she and her camera

catch something peculiar moving around.

Did you see it?

Watch again, zoomed in,

as a figure runs behind a few gravestones

in the distance.

As I walked around the church and turned a corner,

something caught my eye, and it was very small,

it was white,

and it kind of looked as though this was

a little toddler running along through the grave.

Without a doubt, this looks like

a small humanlike form that is ducking quickly

behind these gravestones.

You might miss it initially,

but once you see it,

you can't take your eyes off it.

It looks to me that we're seeing

almost this white glow all the way through,

but you can see distinct features of a head,

and a torso, a face,

almost as if it's wearing some kind of a white gown

or a white shirt.

It immediately struck me

that this was a very small child,

somebody that wasn't older than two years old,

had to have been a toddler,

just because of how tall it stood

against the gravestones.

I couldn't see the detail of it

at the time.

It could have been a bird crawling in at that moment,

but my followers, of course, are absolutely just,

you know, they're there, they're on it,

they're watching, and they recognized straightaway

that this looked like a child.

So, when I came home, I reviewed it,

you know, went back to the livestream

and had another look, and yeah, wow,

you can see the legs actually moving with this baby.

Two days after capturing

the childlike apparition,

Deborah returns to the graveyard.

This is where she was seen

coming from around over there, I think,

and she came through.

By then, obviously, I realized

that I've accidentally caught this baby, this toddler,

running through the graves,

and I wanted to see if there was anything else there

that I could capture or maybe catch the baby again.

And only minutes into the investigation,

as Deborah speaks to camera...

Let's turn this around.

Did you catch that?

Watch to the left of Deborah's head,

as a figure moves just off camera

in the distance.

One of the livestreams that I was doing

just got cut short for no reason whatsoever.

I then restarted my livestream

and I stood there shaking my head

with my followers, like, why did that happen?

And again, they all started saying,

"Debby, there's something in the background.

It's an old man, and he's moving."

And I missed it. I haven't seen it.

I was too busy looking at the comments.

But when I went back and looked, there he was.

He was moving right behind me.

It looks like an old man to me.

It looks like he's wearing some kind of jacket

and a lighter shirt.

And, uh, it even looks like it turns

and looks at her for a moment

as it's walking past.

I think the old man goes back

to maybe in the 17th century,

really, or mid-17th century

looking at the way he's dressed.

Could that long history be one reason

why this particular graveyard is so active?

It's really fascinating to think about one location

containing the dead from several centuries.

Perhaps, all of those energies combined

create layers of a potential paranormal situation.

I think graveyards could be haunted

whether they're 200-years-old or, you know, fairly recent.

Maybe these people, uh, you know,

just have never got to the other side.

They've never seen the light.

Or perhaps the setting,

whether an old reportedly haunted graveyard

or the local grocery store, doesn't even matter

when you're a psychic medium.

I can pretty much go into any graveyards,

any cemetery, or a hotel, or wherever,

and you can guarantee there will be something

that happens or is seen on camera.

People who are mediums

or have any type of psychic abilities,

they're sort of like a beacon for spirits.

Spirits can tell if you are a person

who has a sixth sense.

And so, it's not necessarily because she's in a graveyard

that these spirits occurred.

I think that spirits

probably just followed her no matter what.

Which might sound daunting for some,

but not for Deborah.

No, not at all.

I love it. I absolutely love it.

It's my world. It's my life.

I don't know any difference.

Coming up.

The spirit of a child takes possession...

...of a paranormal investigator.

Most people associate the idea of possession

with demonic entities,

but possession doesn't have to have anything to do

with the devil.

Depending on the time, place, and person,

any intelligent spirit can channel the living.

And when it happens, it's just as terrifying

as anything demonic.

Just ask a pair of paranormal investigators from England.

- One of whom was briefly... - Hello.

...possessed by a lost child.

August 2016, in New Mills, England,

following several reports of strange activity,

including some that involved a spirit of a young girl,

paranormal investigators Bex and Sean Reynolds,

and a few colleagues have been invited

to the New Mills Art Theatre.

I'm Bex.

And I'm Sean.

And we filmed this video.

Can you use your voice and communicate with us?

I just wanna speak into this device.

We went to New Mills Art Theatre,

because the owner was quite worried

that some of the reports backstage

when people were staying there and performing,

they were being terrified

with some of the activity that was happening.

There was shadowing people,

people who are actually witnessing apparitions there as well.

Well, he was getting so many reports

from the people that worked there in the theatre

that he thought, "I've got to do something."

Oh, I got goosebumps.

I rarely get goosebumps.

But as soon as we arrived,

we could feel there was something weird in the air.

There was an energy that we couldn't explain.

And whatever that energy is,

seems to lead them

toward the back dressing rooms.

As we went to the back, there was some staircase

leading upstairs into some of the dressing rooms,

where we heard some noise

coming up from the left-hand dressing room

at the top of the stairs.

They followed the noise

all the way up to the dressing room

and it is here that they feel

they have the best chance to make contact

with whatever is in the theatre.

You can play with the dolly.

Bex opens the lines of communication

and this is when things

start to get a little bizarre.

My ribs hurt.

- Your ribs hurt? - Yeah.

Like, something is just pushing your ribs?

My ribs hurt.

It felt like I was gonna faint,

so I sat down and then, uh, I held out the doll, I think.

And then that's when it all happened.

Bex suddenly seems to shut down...

...startling Sean.

Bex is completely unresponsive.

Then, she appears to become...

...a completely different... -

...and apparently much younger person.

The team is freaked out

and call for the assistance of another team member.

Enough. I said enough.

I feel like the majority of paranormal investigators

have been in this state before where they get overcome

by an energy and lose touch of themselves.

In a case like this, it could be a very scary scenario

when you're not prepared

to share your human vessel with another energy.

So, watching Bex go under is just...

It's just very familiar to me because it's a kind

of something that happens to me a lot on investigations.

- What's the matter? - Mommy.

It's not Bex.

Their colleague, Paul,

has now arrived to assist.

I feel like the fact

that this may be a child spirit

is very relevant.

Just as we have children who might play with an animal

and play too rough, play too hard

because it doesn't know its own strength.

Maybe that's the case here

and that when this particular person died,

they are now in a state of confusion.

I didn't know who I was back then.

I didn't know Bex anymore.

Bex is gone.

At this point, Shawn and Paul believed

that Bex may be possessed

by the spirit of the little girl

who's been seen around the theater.

And they fear they are in danger of losing Bex.

So, they take a more assertive approach.

There we go. Hear me.

Push this person away from you.

We need you back.

Come forward, Bex.

Push this little girl out.

Push this little girl out.

Come forward. Come on, Bex.

Okay. Oh, oh, oh.

Are you okay? Yeah, we got it.

- All right. - It's over.

- Are you all right? - What happened?

Don't know, but we need to get you out of this room.

Yeah, let's get you out.

When she's sort of being helped out

of this state of possession towards the end...

- Hear me. - ...the person who was talking to her is saying,

"You need to do it. You need to push this child out,"

and all I could think was like giving birth?

Like, get this child out of your body,

only in this spiritual sense rather than the, you know,

much more common physical sense.

Come on, Bex.

Okay. Oh, oh, oh.

I felt tired.

I felt really drained,

and I felt like I needed to sleep for a week,

that's the best that I can put it.

So, was Bex possessed

by the spirit of the young girl?

And if so, how?

When we hear the word possessed,

you know, we all know where our mind goes to.

We start thinking religious and possessed by the devil,

but it seems that people who have an ability...

Uh, a medium shift ability,

it seems that sometimes they can allow themselves

to be taken over by the spirit

of somebody who has passed over.

It's unclear exactly who the little girl is.

Bex believes she knows why she was the one...

...the little girl chose to possess.

I do believe the little girl

came to me because I'm a mother

and I think she could sense that she wants to feel safe.

I think that's what she was looking for.

Mummy?

Perhaps it is just trying to reach out for help.

And when you look at it that way,

it's quite sad and very tragic.

Come on, Bex.

Okay. Oh, oh, oh.

Whatever the reason for the sudden possession,

Shawn and Bex are totally wiped out by the experience.

They leave the theater soon after.

All I wanted to do that night was just sit still

and just contemplate at what had just happened to me?

It was a... it was a bizarre feeling, definitely it was.

Coming up.

A father and daughter in Chile

spot what they believe to be...

...a witch flying on a broomstick.

It is perhaps the most common trope

of the Halloween season.

A witch, dressed in all black

flying through the moonlit sky

on a broomstick.

But even for those who believe

that real witches possessed some kind of magical power,

the idea of them getting around on a broomstick

is frankly absurd, right?

Right?

September 2019, in Santiago, Chile.

It's dusk, and a man named Angel

is in his apartment with his daughter

when they see something out the window

that freaks them both out.

It's a figure, all black,

floating through the evening sky

on what looks like a stick.

Angel's daughter takes a guess

as to what or who it could be.

But to Angel, this isn't Santa Claus.

This is something far more unsettling.

A witch on a broomstick.

Unquestionably, this looks like a figure

flying across the sky on a broom.

It takes me right back to childhood

with an image off of the front of a Halloween card.

We could not ask for a more classic depiction

of witch flying through the sky

than sort of a clothed figure hunched over

sitting on a broomstick.

This is one of those ones that's almost so obvious

that you a little bit forget that that's like

an incredibly weird, rare thing to see

because it's just so clearly what it is.

Chile is very mountainous,

and we're probably already seeing people

viewing this witch at a high altitude,

and then to see it even higher than that,

this could be at the same altitude

that some aircraft would fly at.

And to see this in the sky

is very unusual.

As I'm watching this footage,

I can't help but think that this, uh, figure

looks really similar to another clip

that we featured here on the show

several seasons back.

And that was the witch in Monterrey, Mexico.

Now, if you remember, this was another

humanoid creature that appeared to be

possibly sitting on a broomstick

floating over a set of, uh, cliffs and canyons

silhouetted by the sun.

It's called the flying witch phenomena.

People see these things that looked like

your typical Halloween witch on a broom

flying across the sky.

But nobody can really explain why they're there.

And for whatever reason,

the sighting seemed to be centralized

in one particular area of the world.

Witches are a phenomena worldwide.

I mean, almost every culture has some,

sort of, incarnation of the witch.

But one place that really seems to be,

uh, really entrenched in that, sort of, legend

is Central and South America.

Now, these legends of witches

are, uh, pretty engrained in the culture down there.

And they're said to have powers, abilities,

some can fly, uh, some kill people,

uh, some are extremely violent.

It's almost as if they're a super human

or a human with exceptional powers.

Still, flying broomsticks?

Really?

No, it's not traditional

across the world that witches fly on brooms,

but one thing that is unexpectedly traditional

is that witches usurp domestic tools

to be used toward unnatural ends.

So yes, in a lot of traditions,

we have a broom or a broomstick,

normally used to clean out a house,

being used as a tool to fly with.

But Baba Yaga, the famous Russian witch,

she flew around in a mortar and pestle.

So again, they see a domestic household tool

being re-appropriated for some unnatural purpose.

And that's really

the traditional element of witchcraft is this,

I'm gonna use a thing that usually a woman

would normally use in one context

and I'm gonna really freak you out by how I use it.

If that's the intention,

mission accomplished,

at least in this case.

But that doesn't mean there's any reason

to be truly afraid,

just wary.

Witches reside on both the light and dark spectrum of magic,

so witches, depending on what their intentions are

and the types of magic they practice,

can be something to truly fear.

But at the same time,

I believe the majority of the people

that practice magic and witchcraft

do it on a level to make their lives

and the lives of other people better.

So, yes, just like there's good people,

there are bad people, same with witches.

Coming up...

What terrifying creature

is lurking inside...

...this man's barn?

Have you ever heard of the drekavac?

It's a hideous, terrifying figure

originally from South Slavic Folklore.

And though exact physical description of the creature

vary depending on who you talk to,

there is one defining feature

that everyone agrees on,

it's chilling screams.

So, when one Russian man heard this

coming from his barn...

...he couldn't help

but be just a little bit concerned.

December 2020

in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia,

it's night time and a man named Alexey

hear a strange animalistic sounds...

...that appeared to be

coming from his barn.

But the closer he gets,

the clearer it becomes

that whatever is making these noises...

is not just any animal.

Hey.

Watch again.

As whatever is in the barn,

throws a pot towards Alexey.

Hey.

Whatever this thing is,

one thing seems certain...

Whoo.

...it wants to be left alone.

Whoo.

The sounds that are coming from this barn

are unlike anything I personally heard before.

It doesn't sound like an animal,

doesn't sound like a human.

Uh, it is just really weird sounding.

They are high pitched and shrill,

and they sound like something between

a growl and a shriek.

I'm impressed with how long

this guy stayed there filming.

I would have been back in the safety of my home

calling the police in a heartbeat.

But Alexey is too intrigued

to run away just yet.

He wants to get a look at it,

so he heads over to a small window

and peeks in.

Did you catch it?

Watch again.

Zoomed in,

as a face darts away

after a split second.

And it apparently doesn't like

that it was caught on camera.

But still, Alexey is undeterred

and goes back to get another look.

There it is again.

What on earth are we seeing here?

The eyes tell me that this is probably

some sort of nocturnal creatures,

seems to be reflecting with the light

suggesting that it's has some sort of night vision.

To me, the first thing that came to mind

is the moth man

with the descriptions that we got of the moth man

from, uh, Eastern Ohio

is of this, sort of, the bird like creature

with these glowing eyes.

Possibly, or could it be something

a little more indigenous to this part of the world?

Hearing these sounds and seeing what's going on,

seeing that things are being thrown here locally

in this part of Russia,

he might be dealing with a drekavac.

The drekavac is a creature

with long spindly legs

and sometimes narrowed horns,

and they're typically associated

with the souls of the dead or sinners

that have been transformed into these creatures.

Its name means, the screecher,

the one who screeches.

So, that's certainly fits here.

And the time of year this is happening

certainly fits as well.

It's believes that

for a portion of December,

there is some sort of portal

for the drekavac to come

into our dimensional existence

and wreak havoc.

Because a lot of these...

non-human corporeal creatures

that might have come through

dimensional time slips

or have come through forms of portals

that we have yet to discover or understand

from other dimensions,

it's like being thrown unequipped

into our atmosphere.

And in fact, there have been other

similar creatures spotted recently

that seem to behave in the same way

like this one in a barn in Poland.

And this one

spotted in a factory

in Birobidzhan, Russia.

One of the most common characteristics

of all things supernatural

is the idea of liminality,

the idea that supernatural creatures exist

in very in-between ways,

say, between life and death,

between presence and non-presence,

between this world and another world.

So, the fact that we so often encounter them,

not in the middle of our homes,

in the living room or the kitchen,

and not even necessarily

way out in the center of the wilderness,

but on the outbuildings.

In our barns.

In our sheds,

at the edge of our property,

on the edge of the forest.

That's really the place where these creatures

fit the best.

Thankfully for Alexey,

the drekavac or whatever it is,

eventually disappears from his barn

without a trace,

at least for the time being.

Hey.

Coming up...

Imagine looking out your airplane window

and seeing this UFO flying below.

While the experience of seeing a UFO

varies from person to person,

the story, for the most part,

remains the same.

Someone looks to the skies above

and sees something strange.

But the story from a man in Mexico

is significantly different than that.

Because in his case,

he didn't look up

and see a bizarre flying object.

He looked down.

November 2020,

in the sky over Mexico,

Luis Cabrera is on a commercial flight

travelling from Tijuana to Morelia when...

out his window, he sees something unusual.

So, he takes out his phone and captures this,

a white object floating beneath his plane.

Luis zooms in, hoping for a better look.

But despite the clearer view,

he isn't any closer

to figuring out what this thing is.

For the next 30 seconds,

the object drifts underneath the clouds below,

passing in and out of view from Luis' plane.

Before finally, disappearing for good.

My name is Luis Manuel Cabrera

and I recorded the video from the plane.

We can all relate to being on that window seat

feeling pretty cramped

and just looking out at the clouds.

But then seeing something

that is not supposed to be there,

now that is a head-scratcher.

And it catches your attention.

This craft looks strange,

it looks beetle-shaped,

it looks like it's just hovering there.

It looks metallic,

it almost looks like a crumpled up

piece of tin foil.

And it seems to be below the plane a little bit,

but, uh, it's moving... It...

What seems like the same speed as the plane.

If you notice in this video,

sometimes this thing

goes in-between the clouds where you can't see it.

I mean, is it kind of hiding itself

from the airplane or is it just observing?

This is not shaped like anything...

I've ever seen.

It's not a disk,

it's not a sphere,

so what is this?

Hard to say.

But according to Luis,

it's becoming more and more common

to see UFOs in Mexico.

And maybe the reason for all these sightings

is based in Mexico's storied history.

Since Mayan civilization,

they have been seeing UFOs.

We're talking more about UFOs now

because there's less of a stigma around it.

That whole area of Mexico,

I argue all of Central America,

from the Aztec and Mayan cultures,

all recognized extraterrestrials and UFOs

from thousands of years ago.

You can even include Texas, and Arizona,

and New Mexico into that, as well.

If there is any hotbed of UFO activity,

um, that is the hottest bed.

And it's not just this specific area

of the world that is seeing increasing UFO activity.

It's also this particular vantage point.

Only a month later, this object

was also spotted from a plane.

This time, flying over the southern United States.

We are getting a lot of videos coming in

from non-military bystanders on commercial aircrafts.

And that might have something to do with the fact

that now we're able to use

our phones in cabin, you know.

Before, as a civilian going on an airplane,

they make you put your phone away

and they scold you if it's even out for a second.

So, now we have the ability

to use our phones and have internet on the airplanes.

Now that they're permitted

and we're allowed to use these cameras,

we're gonna see a lot of more of these videos

in years to come.

As for Luis, after this sighting,

his thinking on the subject has evolved.

Coming up...

how does this black cat

start this fire?

What is it about black cats

that freak some people out?

It could be their association with bad luck.

Or their longstanding and somewhat say unfair

connection to Satan,

the mystical arts,

and of course witchcraft.

In fact, during the middle ages,

many believed that black cats were not just

the frequent companions of witches,

but perhaps even the witches themselves in disguise.

But these days, most people realize

that black cats are just like any other cat.

They purr.

Cuddle, and...

in very, very rare cases,

start fires

with their black magic witch powers.

April, 2021, Egypt,

a security camera captures a seemingly normal day

on a narrow stretch of road,

but keep an eye on this black cat.

Did you see that?

Watch it again in slow motion.

As the cat approaches a pile of rubbish in the corner,

the pile suddenly...

bursts into flames.

The cat then somehow manages to quickly slip away

before anyone seems to notice it or the fire.

What on earth did we just see?

Holy cat, this is thing is crazy to see.

This black cat start a fire.

This seems so supernaturally crazy

to witness on video,

but this was astounding to see.

I've never seen anything like this before

and at first glance,

it certainly looks like this cat had something to do

with this fire that was started.

And it's so clear

that the fire doesn't start

until the cat has gone over to it.

If there were a fire already beginning,

cats are smart enough to not stick their face

in the middle of it.

So, it very definitely seems

that the cat walks over,

checks out this pile of stuff,

somehow lights it on fire,

and then walks off.

But if this fire was started by the black cat,

how?

Black cats throughout history have had

a very uneven relationship with mankind.

Back in ancient Egypt, they were worshipped,

they were revered.

Then, in the 1500 and 1600s, we turned on them.

They were seen as companions to witches.

They're

they're agents of mischief and chaos.

Some people fear black cats

because they believe that witches have the ability

to transform into one,

so maybe what we're seeing here is actually

a witch in disguise roaming around.

Maybe.

Or could we be witnessing something else entirely,

though, equally mind-blowing?

If there is anything unusual

happening in the environment

when it comes to, like, spiritual energy, cats

notice it first.

So, I believe that this cat was observing an entity

that was doing something,

that was manifesting something there.

And just as it was starting to pique this cat's interest

to the point where it was about to crescendo

into some form of energy,

the cat comes to intervene.

I don't think the cat started the fire.

I think the cat saw who did.

Whether the cat started the fire on its own,

was a witch in disguise,

or simply observed another supernatural entity

engaging in mischief,

the evidence suggest that one thing is for sure,

black cats are special.

We certainly can't say if black cats have,

uh, particular power, but...

uh, given what I've seen in this video...

I certainly wouldn't question it if I saw it again.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

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

Check your footage,

then check it again.

Understand what you're getting yourself into.

Mommy?

Believe in the legend.

And if you do catch something...

Or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here on...