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Was this dog's collar unlatched...

by a ghost?

It took me back a little bit trying to understand it.

I just couldn't.

A man in Virginia captures evidence of what could be...

- A shadow figure.

I don't even know what it is still, even when I watch it.

Ghost hunters are confronted by an angry spirit...

Can you tap three times?

No!

...inside a haunted hotel.

Something just totally touched my head.

Honestly, it was a pretty terrifying moment.

A man in Mexico captures what could be

the hand of a long-dead prisoner.

It's a hand. He saw a hand. And I found myself thinking,

"He's not alone on that island."

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

- Holy! - ...to believe.

As most of us know by now,

dogs...

seem to have an uncanny ability

to sense the supernatural.

But, did you know that the supernatural

can conversely also sense the presence of dogs?

And in very rare cases,

- even...

...physically interact with them?

- Don't believe it? Okay.

Then, who or what

did this?

2019. In Chandler, Arizona.

It's the middle of the day.

And Jason Doyle has just returned home from his job...

...when he notices something different

about one of his two dogs, Kira.

My name is Jason Doyle. And my indoor security camera caught this footage.

It was a normal day. Nothing out of the ordinary, and then...

Came home. And noticed that Kira, her...

collar was laying at the bottom of her crate

and her bed was, kind of, pushed up around.

And I was kinda like, "Okay. You know, how'd you get your collar off, puppy?"

Let 'em out. You know, grabbed her collar.

Everything on the collar worked fine still.

Clasp, everything, it was functional.

So, it was kinda strange...

So, pulled the footage and I'm like, "'Kay, let's see how this happened 'cause...

no thumbs. I don't know how you got your collar off."

And when he reviews the footage of Kira, and his other dog, Ralph,

Jason is stunned.

The dogs bark steadily for about 20 seconds.

Before suddenly...

...stopping.

Kira and Ralph stay silent and motionless

for a few additional moments.

Then... Watch closely.

Watch again.

As some invisible force appears to remove Kira's collar...

...causing her to recoil to the back of the cage.

The collar just comes off.

And after closely looking at the video,

trying to explain and somehow, you know, you can see...

You know, the collar moves. You know, in a way that it defies gravity

in terms of the way it was on the dog's neck.

So, I was kind of, like, shocked and like, in awe of what was happening.

It took me back.

You know, a little, trying to understand it and I just couldn't.

At the beginning of this video, we don't know what they're barking at.

But all we hear is this incessant barking

of these two dogs.

And then, all of a sudden...

silence.

That is seriously uncanny.

The dogs seem aware of something. Something has changed,

something's entered the room.

I thought the video paused by itself, by accident.

And then, the collar...

seems to unlatch itself and falls down.

I watched this video a few times.

I wanted to make sure the dog's collar wasn't caught on the bar in the cage.

'Cause sometimes dogs have breakaway collars. Obviously, this wasn't.

The dog is visibly confused. It goes over

and sniffs at its collar. Like, what the heck just happened there?

That's what I'm left wondering, too. "What the heck just happened there?"

So...

What the heck did just happen?

For Jason, given the footage,

he's forced to consider something

that seems impossible.

Some kind of paranormal entity.

There's no other logical reason I can come up with to try and explain this

and, yeah. Now, you know, the only thing I have left is, you know...

Kinda have to be open minded and believe that, "Yeah, maybe there was something there."

Once you take away all the possible,

the impossible becomes possible. So...

Animals have a heightened awareness of a lot of things.

Because their senses are so much finer tuned than ours.

They can see, smell, hear better than us.

And they react in different ways or they act strangely.

So is that the case here with these dogs acting strangely?

Because they knew something was going to happen?

I've always kind of had the idea, like, "Oh, you know, dogs sense things

and feel things that we don't." So...

That was in my mind of, you know, what is she sensing

that's causing her to react this way?

But if this is a ghost,

where did it come from?

Jason has some idea.

And it has to do with two objects

that Kira brought in from the backyard.

A ceramic tile, and small leather ball.

Both of which had strange symbols on them.

This leather ball thing had symbols and images on it that

weren't identifiable to anything I've ever seen.

Don't know where she dug it up or where she got it.

And my wife, Tara, said she threw it away.

And now, like, a week and a half later...

it's in the backyard again and Kira's bringing it up to us.

So, it was just very, very weird.

The burying of different symbolic objects is a major way

that a lot of folk magic is carried out.

What do dogs do? They like to dig in the yard. It's entirely possible

that this dog is finding, sort of, leftovers or detritus

of magical practice that's been taking place.

And bringing it inside. Along with maybe, whatever

those rituals were meant to invoke.

A theory which might make some sense,

considering all of the other things Jason and his wife, Tara,

have experienced in the house.

Loud bangs.

Stuff shutting off for a second, then turning back on.

Our dogs at times have just, like...

stared at a blank wall. Like, two feet from the wall.

There's nothing there.

So, it's kind of unsettling knowing that there could be a presence in here

that we have no control over and don't know anything about.

So, little unsettling.

But despite it all, until further notice,

Jason is maintaining a positive attitude.

Nothing dangerous, or drastic, or violent has happened to this point.

No plans on moving and just kind of...

See what happens and kinda go with it. Hope...

Hope nothing dangerous comes of it.

Coming up...

A man's backyard in Virginia

is home to a shadow figure.

Your backyard may feel like an extension of your home.

But make no mistake.

It's not.

Because while your home provides security

simply by being in an enclosed space,

your backyard is always going to be subject to the elements.

Whatever those elements might be.

And as one man in Virginia found out,

when those elements

come in the form of a shadow person,

all bets are off.

September 2019 in Stephens City, Virginia.

It's 10:00 p.m.

And William Sperry is in his kitchen with his friend, Austin.

When from the backyard...

Austin, do you hear down, dude?

...they begin to hear noises.

- What is it? - Don't you hear that?

It's like, banging outside, but...

My neighbors are one of those, or something.

And when William goes outside to investigate...

Watch closely.

Did you see it?

Watch again in slow motion.

As William shines a flashlight across the back of his yard,

he seems to catch

a dark, featureless figure

ducking behind the shed.

My name is William and I filmed the video.

I saw the movement, but I didn't get a good look at it.

It was so dark out when I saw the movement. I was like, "Nope. I'm going back inside.

"I'm not messing around with this right now."

When I went back inside, I was like,

"No, I definitely saw something."

And then we all watched it a couple times to try to figure it out.

I had no idea what could've been behind

the shed thing.

It's just like, a mass.

I don't even know what it is still, even when I watch it.

Without a doubt, you can clearly see

a form here. It appears shrouded in shadow

as it's peeking around the shed.

There's no definition in it. There's no facial features. There's no clothing.

It's completely inky black.

One detail that stood out to me upon re-watching the video...

as they do the pan, looking around the backyard,

there's the light from the porch. So...

Everything in the backyard, chairs, the fixtures

are casting a shadow onto the fence.

Then you get to this...

figure, whatever it is.

It's not casting a shadow. None.

If I had to put a name on it, I would definitely say Shadow Figure.

Once someone utters the words

"Shadow person" or "Shadow form,"

all sorts of things come to mind.

These type of entities are an enigma in the paranormal world.

We don't really know what they are.

We almost never see a positive interpretation of a shadow figure.

So, that's a very...

stereotyped impression that we have that something that is uh,

a void.

That is, the absence of light must somehow be malevolent or something like that.

It's probably a pretty unfair stereotype to make of Shadow People.

Who, as far as we can tell, really just want a peek around corners

and see what we're doing.

It doesn't feel like it's, like, malicious.

It doesn't feel like it's trying to harm anybody.

It just kinda seems like it's here.

And though it may seem a little strange,

there may be a very logical reason

for this figure to be hanging out in a backyard.

We do see a lot of videos from people

taken in their backyards, which makes you kind of wonder. It's like,

are these creatures, these entities out there

observing us from, sort of, beyond the boundary of light

where we live?

They're right on the edge, they're where our private safe space

starts to blend with the public space of the road,

and the town, and neighbor's houses and things like that. So...

it seems to be almost an unspoken barrier.

I think that these places are left alone

and if these spirits wanna be left alone,

these are ideal locations for them to just be by themselves.

Except, apparently,

when they wanna get a good look at you.

Meanwhile, shadow figure or not,

William seems to be handling it okay.

For now...

As long as it's not knocking things over

and like, trying to harm, then I'm not really gonna

mess with it.

It's just one of those things where I'm gonna be like,

yeah, I just won't tell the new homebuyers that something happened.

Just gonna move on out. Whenever that time comes.

That's kind of my plan. Just kinda let it ride.

Coming up...

A team of ghost hunters

are driven out of a haunted hotel.

Can you tap three times?

By the spirits who dwell there.

No! Something just touched my head. -

For many people,

building a new home

becomes something of a passion project.

And because of the blood, sweat and tears required to build it,

in many ways...

it becomes a part of you.

Even in death.

That's what one group of paranormal investigators may have found out

when they visited an old hotel.

And may have been confronted by the spirit of the man who built it.

No!

September 2021.

In Old Town, San Diego, California.

Kelsie Davies, a psychic medium,

and three fellow paranormal investigators,

Amanda, Mackie and Joey,

are exploring the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Wow, look at this.

Which has something of a reputation.

We're at a super-haunted-ass hotel.

The Cosmopolitan Hotel in San Diego.

My name is Kelsie Davies and I am the person who filmed the video.

Mackie and Amanda visited the hotel previously and they said that it was

probably one of the most haunted places they've ever been.

So, then, I was like, "Well, I wanna go and see, and check it out.

"See if we get anything."

There's a lot of antiques in this hotel

and they say that the spirits attach to antiques.

I have spent a lot of time in San Diego, and I've visited the Cosmopolitan Hotel

on more than one occasion.

And it is a structure with a really interesting history.

The building dates back to 1827, before California was a state.

And the person who built it was a rancher named, Don Juan Bandini.

Don Juan Bandini eventually had to sell off the property and his house

went through a number of transformations and was used for several different

purposes over the years.

Eventually becoming the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

What the heck?

You just feel it with that hotel. There's something so strong about it,

it's definitely a very strongly active paranormal hotspot.

It's like, it's pretty nuts. This is crazy.

And no part of the hotel is reported to be more of a hotspot

than the room that Joey has booked for the evening.

Joey rented the most haunted room and...

I don't know. You just felt someone in there that was angry for some reason.

Someone was just, like,

so active and really wanting us to know that they were there.

And sure enough,

just moments after attempting to contact whatever might be in there...

Can you tap three times?

No!

Something just totally touched my head at that exact moment.

Something touched my friend, Amanda.

Something touched her head, and like, her hair, you can see was all...

frizzled up. Like, it looked like someone, like, literally

ran their fingers through her hair.

Guys, something... Literally, just touched me.

- Like, not like... Oh, my God! - You're not allowed to touch us.

I've never seen her freak out like that. Ever.

I'm like, genuinely freaked out.

Any time the spirit manifests physically,

and actually touches someone,

that's such a surge of energy that clearly,

some sort of successful resonance is taking place.

To have something like that literally, mess with her hair,

and make it static-y, it was...

Honestly, it was a pretty terrifying moment.

But not terrifying enough

to dissuade the group from pushing things,

a little bit further.

Thinking about... Yeah.

The Estes method is basically when you put a spirit box of any kind,

and you put headphones on, so you can't hear your surroundings,

you can't hear what people are saying, you can only hear the voices of the spirit.

We're going to say without knowing what the questions are,

what answers we hear come through out of this spirit box.

The Estes method is a fascinating investigative tactic.

The theory is that

without being influenced by any outsider,

you can provide an objective response to what you are hearing.

And what they are hearing, shakes them to their core.

Neither Kelsie, nor Amanda can hear the questions being asked.

- Yes. Get out. - Yes.

Something is trying to communicate with the group.

And possibly, warn them.

Yes.

It was so weird watching back the footage, 'cause they were all matching up,

and I didn't realize this until I watched the footage.

Because I wasn't experiencing it

like Mackie and Joey were. So, they were freaking out.

Okay, I think we need to stop. - Guys, stop.

I just always look out for myself. I make sure that I am staying safe

and I'm not pushing any boundaries.

And I feel like we were pushing it a little bit there.

So, that's why I decided not to stay there the night.

Smart move.

But what was this negative energy?

And why was it seemingly so hostile to the group?

Kelsie thinks she knows.

Because she believes she caught sight of what could have been

the spirit of the home's former owner,

Don Juan Bandini, earlier in the evening.

I saw this man in the bathroom with this super-long, old, uh, coat on.

And he was tall, he was, like,

I don't know. He just really creeped me out.

But I'm not sure why he would be so upset and so angry.

Perhaps, the circumstances of how he lost the house

gives us a clue.

This hotel began its life

as one man's dream home.

This is where he was going to live out his days.

This is where his family was going to reside.

And he got himself into such bad debt

that he had to sell off this property.

Him, his descendants,

anyone living between then and now who's connected to him,

might seek out this place as the ancestral homestead.

It was kinda like, we were in his house.

Like, we were in his space.

We weren't allowed in there, like, he was very upset that we were there.

But it still isn't enough

to keep Kelsie from coming back...

someday.

I feel like I would go back.

I would definitely stay in a different room.

Probably not that one, because I don't think I would be able to sleep.

But I do plan on going back and experiencing

whatever else in a different room, hopefully.

No!

Coming up...

A man in Mexico explores an abandoned prison.

And inadvertently, captures the hand of one of its former prisoners.

The Mezcala Island prison,

known to some as the Mexican Alcatraz.

This now-abandoned facility,

sits in the middle of Mexico's largest lake,

and has a gruesome history.

Built in the early 19th century,

the prison contains dungeons,

some of which were said to hold hundreds of prisoners at a time,

leading to death by starvation, malnutrition, or attempts to escape.

That, and the fact that some of these prisoners

may have been wrongly convicted,

a horror in its own right,

has led some to believe that today

the prison is haunted.

One paranormal investigator

recently had the opportunity to tour the facility.

And when he later reviewed his footage,

he realized he captured, first hand,

compelling evidence of a ghostly spirit.

March 2021 in Jalisco, Mexico.

While in the area for a business opportunity,

Isaak Destrovyka, and his girlfriend, Fatima,

take some time to explore Mezcala island.

Specifically,

its infamous prison.

Isaak and Fatima walk around the prison.

And when they get to the entrance of a dungeon,

where phantom echoes of prisoners are allegedly heard,

something strange happens.

Watch closely.

Did you catch that?

Watch... as Isaak enters the doorway.

Someone, or something,

seems to grasp the edge of the door with its hand.

Isaak doesn't notice,

until he reviews the footage later,

and he is amazed.

My name is Isaak and this is my video.

When we were there, there was no one.

I am more a skeptical person than a believer person.

So, the first time I reviewed it, I said, like,

"Someone is trying to make a joke on us."

But the more he views it,

the more clear it becomes.

That this... was no joke.

It's a hand. You saw a hand

reaching around the door and just pulling it slightly open

as the investigator passes through.

And I found myself thinking,

"He's not alone on that island!"

The fingers, although they're obviously human,

don't necessarily look like living human fingers.

I don't know. There's something, sort of, discolored about them.

Not necessarily living flesh and blood.

And if you look closely,

it seems to be the hand of somebody who's a little bit older.

A weathered hand, you know? Someone that has seen

some things, has worked with some things.

It almost seemed inviting to this guy

and it happened at the right time.

Guy's walking through the door, hand comes around from the door,

open it up a little bit wider for him.

But if it is a ghostly hand,

whose was it?

And why so welcoming?

I think it's fairly unequivocal

that this would be the spirit of a past prisoner.

Someone who is stuck. Maybe trapped as they were in life,

incarcerated in this space.

These people were locked away from the rest of the world,

sometimes under false pretenses.

You can imagine their displeasure

if they had to live out the remainder of their life in a brutal place like this.

It's not out of the realm of the conceivable

that maybe the strong emotions experienced there

have left behind a psychic residue.

Or maybe, there are intelligent haunts there

that invite others in to say, "Please,

"remember us. Tell our story."

They were prisoners who died because of the punishments of the police.

I mean, if you were there,

you were going to die.

And if that's the case, the haunting

and the phantom hand make sense.

Of course, you would imagine that if a prisoner does die in a prison,

this would be their chance to flee.

The fact that there might still be this spirit there,

makes you wonder if they're still imprisoned there,

even after death.

If consciousness survives bodily death,

and one of these prisoners comes back to where he passed away,

possibly in a violent way,

you're gonna experience an apparitional haunting. You might see something.

And if you don't, maybe just like Isaak,

your camera will.

Coming up...

Is this waterfall a vision

of the Virgin Mary?

Regardless of one's beliefs,

it is undeniable that most people,

above all else, crave order in the universe.

And part of that, whether we know it or not,

is looking for signs.

And while the interpretation of those signs

may vary...

one thing is certain.

Every once in a while...

...they are awe-inspiring.

March 2019, in Agropoli, Italy.

Alfredo Lobrudo is on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

When, as the setting sun peeks through the clouds above him,

he sees this.

A sunlight silhouette.

One that unmistakably looks very much like...

Jesus on the Cross.

In this photo, we see what looks like a man,

with his arms outstretched in the sky, glowing

as if on fire.

That looks like someone with hands.

You can see fingers and you can see, almost as if they're wearing

some sort of a robe.

This is a pose that we see Jesus in, and here it is

manifested in the sky through the sunlight.

Struck by its beauty,

Alfredo immediately puts it on social media.

Where it seems to strike the same nerve with the public,

quickly going viral.

It's almost like a religious experience

seeing something like this, thinking to yourself,

"Oh my God. Is that Jesus in the sun?"

And to some people, that's very comforting.

Particularly perhaps in times of peril.

November 2020.

In Baguio, Benguet, The Philippines.

Myla Pazziuagan Abuzo

is in the area as part of a clearing crew

following a tragic landslide.

When nearby,

she spots something.

A waterfall that incredibly

resembles another religious figure.

The Virgin Mary.

I am Myla Pazziuagan Abuzo.

When I see this waterfall,

it so instantly reminds me of

the image of the Virgin Mary.

The waterfall almost, kind of, creates this look, like,

you know, the Virgin Mary has that shawl,

you know, that goes and falls over her head and shoulders.

There was a tragedy that struck just before this.

So, maybe the people viewing this

need that. They need that re-assurance that

even though bad things happen,

there are those that are around to protect them.

Maybe. But not all signs offer such re-assurance.

2007, in Vale, Oregon.

As part of a private company,

protecting a wooden structure for a rancher,

firefighter David Konyndyk

is enacting a controlled burn on a small area of the forest.

Once the fire gets going,

he starts taking photos.

And captures this.

An image that looks almost exactly

like the Devil himself.

Hi, my name's David Konyndyk.

I took this photo in Vale, Oregon in 2007.

It must have been around midnight when we lit this backfire.

I started snapping photos.

And I looked down at the screen, I saw that figure right away.

You know, we've all seen figures in fire before,

but this one looks particularly... striking.

The contrast and the way the figure looks like it has some texture to it,

it kinda speaks to you. It kind of, uh, shouts out at you, like,

"This is weird."

Weird... and terrifying.

It's archetypical for everything that we characterize

the devil's appearance as being.

We can see the reddish...

fiery face. The long horns.

I am a science guy. I have a degree in physics and...

I look at things with a skeptical eye.

Um, but I can also tell you what science doesn't know.

And, uh, there's, there's quite a world out there

that we don't quite understand yet.

Fortunately, the burn went off without a hitch.

And maybe whatever is happening in the clouds,

the water and the fire

is less about understanding,

and more about being open to all possibilities.

We romanticize an openness to belief in children.

And we pathologize a belief in adults.

We think adults should be over that by now.

And that's incredibly unfortunate that we do that because,

belief stands to be one of the most therapeutic tools we have.

And if we could get over this inclination to either totally oversell it,

or totally over-pathologize it,

um, we might actually be able to do something really important and useful with it.

Coming up...

A night vision camera captures strange objects in the skies above Colorado.

Holy!

Night vision cameras

were invented by the Hungarian physicist,

Kalman Tihanyi in 1929.

And re-used only a decade later in World War II.

The technology reads the infrared light bouncing off objects.

Allowing users to see those objects

in total darkness.

And while it's obvious

why that might be helpful in combat situations,

many also believe...

that it is very useful in the detection

of UFO's in the night sky.

See that? Open your eyes. It's coming right over us.

And there's no more appropriate example of that,

than two recent videos from Colorado.

Holy!

May 2021. In Aurora, Colorado.

Jason Sirachi and a friend are outside

equipped with a special pair of night vision goggles

which are capable of capturing video.

When in the distance...

they spot something.

What the hell is that?

An object shaped like a white line

shooting straight up into the sky.

And as Jason notes...

What the? That thing is getting longer.

It seems to be elongating

as it ascends, blowing Jason's mind.

Holy!

Then, once the object reaches the clouds...

- What the? - What's that?

It's going into the clouds. It's disappearing.

- It's gone. It's gone. - No, it's not.

Whatever it is, it's gone.

This is very dissimilar to any other UFO footage

that I've seen before.

What we have here is not necessarily an Unidentified Flying Object,

but an Unidentified "Ascending" Object.

This shape where it's vertical, moving upward,

growing brighter...

Until it simply disappears. Clearly within our atmosphere

as the people making the video point out.

This is really a unique, sort of, thing.

Two nights later, things get even weirder.

See that? Open your eyes. It's coming right over us.

Using the same binoculars,

Jason captures more phenomena.

And this time,

he has something to compare it to.

A passing airplane.

See how much higher the airplane is than this object?

That just proved that that thing is not a satellite.

Then, this object too, eventually heads up.

And disappears without a trace.

It needs to get bright again. See once... Oh! - Oh!

It didn't seem to trigger a massive alarm

in the plane that was flying past it. It seems impossible

that the person flying the plane, if not the passengers in it

wouldn't have seen whatever that orb was, and then...

Suddenly, it just moves up and disappears.

This is not the way that known objects in the sky behave.

But who's to say it's even an object in the first place?

I believe that there are forms of light beings

and that they get lumped in the category of UFO.

It's a type of light

that uses a form of

consciousness download to connect with conscious individuals.

Several individuals that I know are these types of contactees.

So, they believe that these light UFOs, as we call them, are really not crafts,

but beings coming to download

information into conscious individuals to help with human ascension.

And so, these downloads are given to certain individuals

that have the ability...

to raise the consciousness level in mass.

Whoa!

Well, whatever Jason caught that week in May,

one thing's for sure...

They're absolutely mesmerizing.

Holy!

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

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

- Check your security footage.

And then, check it again.

Investigate any noises in your yard.

Be careful about who or what...

Can you tap three times?

...you try to contact.

No! Something just touched my head. -

And if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

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