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a poltergeist in the Philippines

terrorizes a nursing student,

Now that I have introduced myself to the patient--

I was really, really, really scared and shocked.

Is this small figure

on an Arizona man's property...

Go see what it is.

...a living, breathing garden gnome?

I was in shock

because I didn't believe it.

Spirits abound

in a haunted Texas hotel.

It's crazy.

He looked at me and said,

"We got a haunted building, huh?"

Was this manifestation of a sacred deity...

...created by thousands of insects?

I cannot get over the fact

that this termite mound

looks so incredibly like a sculpture.

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

...to believe.

Buying an old hotel,

is a big commitment.

And if that old hotel

happens to be haunted,

that's when things get really interesting.

Just ask one couple from Texas,

who bought a notoriously haunted hotel

almost a decade ago.

And have become quite close

with its permanent guests.

It's crazy.

May 2021,

Seguin, Texas.

Erin and Jim Gedhi

are owners of the Magnolia Hotel,

which has something of a past.

My name is Jim.

I'm Erin.

And these are our videos.

We bought the hotel in 2013.

It was built by a Texas Ranger, one of the original ones.

Then he was murdered by Comanches.

And it was the longest running stagecoach stop,

until the railroad came to town in 1874.

Towards the end, it started getting a little rough.

Then it became a brothel

but by then it was in pretty bad shape.

And so it sat, and open door to vandals and graffiti.

It has an incredible history.

And according to Erin and Jim,

this history has resulted in a hotel,

with a good amount of paranormal activity.

The very first day when we entered the building,

uh, we were--

Things started happening.

Very first day.

He had bought a bottle of champagne,

and as soon as he popped the cork,

and we started to pour the champagne...

all three doors went boom, boom, boom.

And then this ice cold breeze went right between the two of us.

And he looked at me and said,

"We got a haunted building, huh?"

More than they knew

because over the years,

the Ghedis would record all kinds of unexplainable, paranormal phenomena

throughout the hotel.

Why is it doing that?

From garden hose

with minds of their own...

That's crazy.

...to objects suddenly flying off shelves.

And even,

phantom footsteps.

So many things have happened here that I can't explain.

It's definitely something unique and interesting.

We call it our paranormal Disneyworld.

And perhaps no incident reflects this mindset more,

than the time they place a ball and two small REM-PODs,

devices that detect the presence of entities,

in a room that they suspect

is haunted by the ghost of a small child.

We brought it to her as a gift.

So, we put the two little REM balls next to her favorite ball

which is a ladybug ball.

We went outside to watch a wedding that was being held on the balcony.

And when we came back,

the balls had been moved.

So, we ran into the other room to look at the security camera

and when we did,

it was just amazing.

Watch closely.

One of the REM PODs lights up

just as the ball starts moving.

And then,

all three objects begin rolling.

While simultaneously from the doorway

a shadow crosses the room

and disappears.

We see these electronic REM-PODs going off.

Now, these are touch activated

but we don't see anybody in the room setting them off.

At the same time, there's this ball

that's rolling across the floor.

And not just rolling because something...

you know, a breeze blew on it or something knocked into it.

It rolls and then gains speed.

And changes direction.

When the larger balls heads over to the table and the wall

you see a shadow figure

run from the top left of that screen to the right.

Once I saw the shadow,

that was basically all I could see.

And the fact that we then see movement

in other parts of the room after it goes by,

really suggests that something

has walked into that room.

Terrifying.

But not to Erin and Jim.

They're used to ghosts.

A lot of ghosts.

We stopped counting at 13.

And we know pretty much every one of them

because we did a lot of research on the hotel.

We do have some that just

after they passed, they came back

because it was their favorite place on earth.

And each one, whenever they come forward, they have their own scents.

We actually can tell who is who,

- by the smells. - by the smells, yeah.

And because the Ghedis know

and actually like,

all their uninvited guests,

they're in no rush to check out.

I can't imagine living in any other home than this.

This is home for us.

Coming up,

is this small figure...

Go see what it is.

...a garden gnome come to life?

Garden gnomes,

or at least, the idea of them,

date all the way back to the Roman Empire

when second century emperor, Hadrian,

arranged for hermits to live in,

and tend to his garden.

A trend that would re-emerge in England in the 1700's.

When homeowners would require their hermits to keep themselves unkempt

and grow their beards long.

And it's that standard that eventually

led to what we know as garden gnomes today.

Mythical, diminutive, bearded creatures,

said to have magic powers,

and bring fortune and prosperity

to any landscape.

Which is why they are so popular as decorative statues.

But,

according to one man in Phoenix,

the gnome in his garden is no decorative statue.

It's the real thing.

Go see what it is.

2017 in Phoenix, Arizona,

after noticing items missing from his porch,

Joshua Taylor,

is having his friend, Alex, install a security camera

that will monitor the area.

And right after turning on the camera for the very first time,

they see this.

What the

Watch closely

as what appears to be a small, humanoid figure,

moves around in Joshua's garden.

Go see what it is.

And it gets even weirder.

Look, that's his face.

Watch again

as the figure seems to have some kind of glow

emanating from where it's eyes would be.

Joshua and Alex are totally freaked out.

Why don't you go see it? Like, open the door.

Somehow, Joshua manages to convince Alex

to go outside and check it out,

as Joshua stays inside,

and films the monitor.

Moments later,

Alex appears outside.

Just a few feet from where the bizarre figure is.

And incredibly,

he seems to see nothing.

Then, somehow...

the figure vanishes

right in front of them.

Where'd it go?

After checking out the area,

Alex returns to the house

dumbfounded.

Dude.

I'm Joshua Taylor and I'm the one who recorded the video.

I was a little bit nervous because I was like,

what the is that?

How can it just like, straight up disappear like that?

I was in shock because I didn't believe it

because nothing like that has ever happened to me before, ever.

When you first see this porch cam footage,

and you think, well, that's just a little person or perhaps a child.

What the

But you can tell by the voices of the two men watching this,

that that's no ordinary child or small person out there.

It doesn't look traditionally human to me.

The fact that we see what looks like glowing eyes looking back at the camera,

This doesn't look like two normal eyes.

I mean, it almost looks like...

maybe some kind of...

device or mask, or maybe even

eyes configured in a way we're not totally familiar with.

And as the figure turns away, it disappears.

Diminutive, glowing eyes,

standing in a garden,

and able to apparently disappear.

For Joshua,

one creature comes to mind.

I believe that it was a garden gnome, hardcore.

Because of how many plants I had in the yard,

I had sunflowers planted all the way around my yard.

And just the way that it was standing by my sunflowers, it was...

that's what made me think of a garden gnome.

Believe it or not,

this garden gnome theory might not be as 'out there' as you think.

Traditional folklore paints gnomes

both, as sort of helpful nature spirits,

and also as tricksters.

That like to sort of mess with human beings when they can.

So, the fact that there is some indicator of mischief,

that led to the acquisition of a security camera in the first place,

actually seems to tie in pretty well with the traditional understanding

of a garden gnome.

Traditionally, gnomes and fairies,

are attracted to...

healthy, vibrant gardens.

So, the more greenery you have in your home,

the more you invite these...

protective, elemental,

sprite-like, gnome-like energies to a home.

But if that's the case,

then why don't we see them more often?

Joshua has a theory about that as well.

I think there's more of them out there

and we just can't see them.

Like, the way I think now is like,

what we're told as kids,

it closes our minds off to being able to see them.

I believe there's stuff around us every day that we can't see.

And it's just because of society

has conditioned us to not believe it anymore.

There's a common perception, cross-culturally,

that children are actually more receptive

to the supernatural, to the paranormal than adults.

And whether or not that's a quality that people would retain

if it weren't taught out of them,

is an interesting question.

Joshua lived in the house another full year after the sighting.

And never saw the figure again.

But he's still grateful for the one night that he did.

That was the only time we ever caught it on camera.

And I made sure like, every night.

Like, I was looking at the camera screen like,

but I never caught anything else so maybe it's just pure luck.

Coming up,

a nursing student is stalked

Now that I have introduced myself to the patients--

by a ghost.

There is perhaps a no more traumatic human experience

than watching someone die.

But in the aftermath,

if trauma is all that you're carrying

consider yourself lucky.

Because sometimes,

what follows you home

isn't just emotional baggage.

It's the spirit of the deceased.

That's what one woman in the Philippines believes she is dealing with.

And it's making itself right at home...

in her bedroom.

May 2021,

in Tacloban, Philippines.

One, two, three, go.

Mary Therese Pagay,

an aspiring nurse,

is having her brother film her

as she performs a presentation for school...

Now that I have introduced myself to the patient, explained the proced--

...when something...

...strange happens.

Verify the client's identity and provide--

The bedroom light flickers above them

briefly startling Mary.

So, she begins again.

Now that I have introduced myself to the patient,

Oh, no.

Now that I have introduced myself to the patient--

Watch again in slow motion

as the closet door to Mary's right,

opens forcefully by itself,

terrifying Mary and her brother.

Hi,

my name is Mary Therese Pagay

and I was the one who filmed the video.

I was really, really, really scared and shocked.

I didn't know what to do.

I just shouted, "Mama!"

And my brother, he was also shocked

to see the closet forcefully open.

So, I ran to him.

We were standing in the corner

waiting for our mom to come,

because we were too scared to go near the closet

or even open the door.

This was not a door swinging open because it has a faulty hinge.

This was not the heat turning on and blowing something gently open.

This was definitely an aggressive movement,

that absolutely scared them.

And it scared me.

If you pause it at the exact moment

where Mary sees this closet door opening by itself,

you can see the terror in her face.

I think it's a real reaction that she is having.

We shall explain the procedure--

For me, what adds a level of credibility to this

is that when something initially goes awry,

she dismisses it.

She continues with her video.

But when the next thing happens with that closet,

she freaks out and gets out of there.

But for Mary,

it wasn't just the closet door opening

that startled her.

It's what she claims she saw come out.

I look over,

and there was sort of like a black shadow coming from the closet.

It felt more like a hand

passing through my eyes.

It was like a very short shadow, it looks like a hand.

After when I saw the hand coming out,

when I blinked,

it wasn't there.

It was gone already.

A lot of times we think about shadow figures

as being a full, human-like form.

But I have heard of...

partial shadow figures or even a shadow hand,

being seen by eyewitnesses.

The fact that it's a hand that shows up,

that that's what manifests

speaks to this desire for engagement.

I mean, it's a literal...

reaching out at someone.

Whether that's to touch them, to explore,

or to grab them.

It's kind of scary to think about.

Very scary.

Scary enough for Mary to set up a CCTV camera in her bedroom

hoping to capture more activity.

And one night, sure enough,

there is a strange mist.

And the fan,

turns on by itself.

The closet door...

swings open,

and slams shut.

And a chair,

moves on its own.

And if you look very closely,

you can see what appears to be

some kind of shadowy fingers,

slipping out of the closet for a moment,

right before the chair moves.

Sort of like a black hand.

My mother and my grandmother didn't believe us at first.

So, when we got the CCTV installed,

that is when they believe us.

Mary is convinced that the activity in her room

is paranormal.

And she thinks she knows

why it's happening.

Just this summer,

my boyfriend and I were on our way home,

and then we encountered this traffic accident

where many people were injured.

There was this one guy who was severely injured from the accident.

And my boyfriend is an EMS,

so he tried to save that guys life.

But unfortunately,

he died in front of our eyes.

So, I think that...

this man's spirit is following us home.

Because just a week from that accident,

that is when the presence started to...

appear in our house.

Stories of the spirits of recently deceased people

following EMTs and other emergency medical professionals,

is actually a really common type of story

that emergency medical technicians share with each other.

This is something that's been documented time and again.

Where someone was in a very close proximity to death,

maybe even a violent death or a traumatic death,

and then ends up having these sort of experiences in the days following.

However it got there,

Mary is sure she wants it gone.

And she's not taking any chances with her bedroom.

It's now locked.

And every morning, my grandmother blesses the room

with holy water.

Through the window.

I sleep in my parents room.

But she should proceed with caution.

You can't kick out an energy because then you kind of get bad blood with it.

Clean your room,

rearrange your space,

organize everything.

Set boundaries with that energy,

but don't try to kick it out.

And I think that's the best way you can you know, live with that type of energy.

Coming up,

who or what is trying to get out of this coffin?

As many of us know by now,

buildings with a dark history

are fertile ground for the paranormal.

Similarly, certain antiques tend to act as beacons

for those spirits that were somehow connected to them in life.

So, if you take one of those buildings,

and fill it with a bunch of antiques,

well,

now you're just asking for trouble.

Case in point,

a group of paranormal investigators in England,

recently visited such a place.

And found themselves surrounded

by the restless spirits of the dead.

May 2021,

in Hull, England.

Paranormal investigators, Ricky Beadle, Chloe Fothergill and Cameron Olson

are taking an overnight tour of a very peculiar hostel.

That is supposedly...

...haunted.

- My name's Ricky. - I'm Cameron.

I'm Chloe.

And we captured these videos.

So, 39 De Gray Street is called The Hostel.

It's been around for over 100 years.

There was a church built behind it as well.

It's got a very long history.

Then, the previous owner

had said, he was laying in bed one night,

and a young girl floated out of the fireplace,

looked at him and then disappeared.

And then, there was an official police report

of children in the windows.

So. the police raided the house, they burst the door open,

and there was nobody in there.

And then the owner came around

and told them that the house had been abandoned for a long time.

He doesn't live in it.

Also, the neighbors have heard noises, scratching,

things that can't be explained.

Woah.

And as the team quickly discovers,

it's not just the history of the place

that makes it eerie.

It's also...

the decor.

Walking around with the sheer amount of mannequins and dolls

up on the walls of every room and every hallway.

You cannot at all

feel like you're not being watched.

It felt weird.

I felt quite trapped going into it,

because it was really cluttered.

It just felt freaky.

But believe it or not,

dolls and mannequins,

aren't the creepiest antique items on the premises.

Not by a long shot.

There was like, another building behind it,

directly connected to the house.

And that's where we found this coffin.

This coffin itself was from a funeral parlor.

It was an antique coffin, Victorian-style.

So, we all got in it,

and then, made sure there was no funny business with it.

And then closed the lid back up.

Set up a motion-activated camera near the coffin.

Once the cameras have all been placed,

the team settles in for the night.

But aside from a few startling incidents,

the rest of the evening

is fairly uneventful.

Or so they think.

Because when they get home,

and review the footage from the camera that was left by the coffin,

they are totally freaked out.

Watch closely...

as the coffin lid

begins to move by itself.

As if someone or something,

is trying to get in.

Or out.

We knew that nobody was there. There was nothing.

The coffin hadn't been tweaked in any way.

And that's why we were quite excited

because it's some of the most real paranormal footage we've got from the scene.

For something to actually move this lid,

up and shift around,

has to have a lot of force and strength to do this.

And for a spirit to harness this type of energy,

this is pretty incredible.

What's really strange is if you look just to the left of it,

while this motion is taking place,

you can kind of see this dark shadow standing there

as if it's trying to lift the lid.

Seeing this coffin move is no surprise to me.

I don't think that coffins particularly...

tend to be haunted by people that were in them.

You know, I think it's just some sort of curious object

for spirit energy.

And that's kind of what ghosts are,

it's this kind of memory...

of that moment when they lost their lives.

And so maybe seeing something like a coffin within a room,

triggers the memory that they might actually be dead,

which can be very upsetting for energies.

Though the team doesn't know exactly what caused the coffin to move,

they do know it's legit.

We look at things from a scientific point of view.

So then, when we get credible evidence, it's real.

So, we didn't believe any of the stories.

We went into it just with an open mind

and then we found out

that there may actually be some credibility to what people are saying.

Enough credibility for them to come to one definite conclusion.

It's probably the most paranormal place that we've ever investigated.

Coming up,

more evidence that the government has known about UFOs

for a long, long time.

Recently, the United States government shocked the world

by releasing classified reports of unidentified flying objects,

captured by the infrared cameras

of a military aircraft.

But nearly 30 years ago,

long before government leaders admitted any uncertainty

about what we see in the skies,

a similar case was leaked to a television program.

And the footage, just as inexplicable,

may be proof

that this sort of thing...

happens a lot more often

than previously thought.

Fall of 1994,

at the Nellis Test Range,

outside Las Vegas, Nevada,

located in the desolate Mojave Desert,

the range is home to 5,000 square miles of restricted airspace,

where highly classified,

ultra-high-tech military testing takes place.

Just before sunset,

a team of air force contract workers

are scanning the airspace with radar

to ensure that nothing interferes with the bomb testing

being carried out at the base.

When suddenly,

they detect a peculiar object

hovering above a mountaintop in the distance.

Despite their sophisticated equipment,

it's not immediately clear to the contractors

what exactly they are witnessing.

And though they attempt an initial guess,

they ultimately,

yield to the confusion.

The military personnel at this facility are familiar with

every flying object in the air force arsenal.

Yet, you can hear the confusion as they watch this video.

They have absolutely no idea what this thing is.

Then, when the camera operator zooms in on the object,

things get truly weird.

Once we get a zoomed in view of what this thing is,

it almost becomes more baffling rather than more clear.

Because if I had to describe it,

I would probably say,

it looked like a giant kernel of popcorn in the sky.

What could something like this be?

Either it's an international technology that is flying in our airspace,

or maybe it's one of our own.

A secret government operation.

But why would these guys be reacting that way?

So, is the other alternative...

that this could be extra-terrestrial in origin?

Unfortunately, we may never know.

Because the government is traditionally tight-lipped

about what goes on at these testing sites.

And, in fact,

the only reason we're seeing this footage,

is because it was reportedly smuggled off-site.

Eventually, landing in the hands of the producers

of the television program, Hard Copy,

which aired a segment about the mysterious craft.

Sometimes, there has to be that one person

that comes forth and warns the masses

of things that we were kept in the dark about.

And we have whistleblowers like this,

regardless of the status that they have in the military

because they find it unfair that...

the masses of people,

or even the entire human species on this planet,

is being kept in the dark about the reality of extra-terrestrials.

But given recent developments,

maybe that secrecy is coming close to its end point.

I think that we are currently in a period

of information release and disclosure.

I mean, it's already been happening.

There are discussions about it in circles

where people are interested in these sorts of phenomena.

I think we are going to see an increasing amount of information

about unexplained phenomena being shared with the general public.

In the meantime,

if anyone has anything to share,

you know where to find us.

Coming up,

a sacred Buddhist deity,

made by something that defies explanation.

Kuman Thong.

It's a holy deity from Thai folklore,

associated with Buddhism,

that has the appearance of a young boy,

and brings believers luck and fortune.

But despite its benevolent tidings,

it's origins...

are extremely dark and twisted.

Usually, at least.

Because recently,

within the backwoods of a small town in Thailand,

some locals believe

they have discovered a representation of the deity.

Created by something...

that will blow your mind.

January 2021,

in Surin, Thailand,

villagers flock to what appears to be

a naturally occurring sculpture in the forest.

It looks like a young boy,

sitting in a peaceful pose.

And what makes it even more startling,

is that it seems to have been created

by termites.

Because it is, in fact,

a termite nest.

As a paranormal investigator, I'm very aware

of the human tendency

to look for other humanoid shapes and faces in objects.

And that's called pareidolia.

But I cannot get over the fact that this termite mound

looks so incredibly like a sculpture.

There's no denying it.

We can see a head with a face, eyes, a mouth, shoulders...

It definitely looks like a boy sitting there.

I have never seen something

this three-dimensional, this compelling,

where a termite mound

doesn't just look like something from one angle,

it looks exactly like a statue of a human being.

But according to some locals,

this sculpture isn't of a human being.

It's of a divine one.

It's a manifestation of Kuman Thong.

A deity in the form of a small boy.

Said to bring good luck and fortune,

if appropriately worshipped.

So, the Kuman Thong is really interesting.

Because it's generally considered a mucky spirit,

or a protective spirit, the golden boy.

But the history behind the Kuman Thong is really dark.

So, the way that you acquire this protective spirit

is by slow-roasting a human fetus

until it's dried out.

And then you cover it in gold leaf,

And then you keep that object with you as an amulet.

And the spirit, the protective spirit,

this luck-bringing spirit

comes from that object.

The fact that the earth, through the work of termites

manifested a Kuman Thong on its own,

way, way better method of achieving that sort of protective spirit

than the traditional method.

That is an understatement.

But regardless of how the sculpture came into being,

perhaps the real power of it

lies in the belief that it inspires.

Even if this began as a quirk of nature,

that fact that these villagers

are finding such deep significance in this formation

could, in theory, imbue it

with a certain kind of supernatural energy.

I believe that all that good intention,

that energy will come back out of this object

and hopefully give good fortune to the people that live in the village

around this area.

Here's hoping.

And until we know for sure,

it might be good to play it safe.

If I were in Thailand and I came across this,

I would probably set down a couple of

like, mala beads and incense there too.

You know, just in case.

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

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

It's crazy.

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Or else...

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Go see what it is.

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