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a shadow figure lurks behind an investigator at an abandoned prison.

Jackie's reviewing her video and she says, "Oh, my gosh.

You won't believe what we caught."

A young girl films a mysterious monster

hiding behind a tree.

Nana, what is that?

I had never heard of a hide behind until I posted that.

It was terrifying, actually.

A live streamer accidentally captures

a restless ghost in her kitchen.

I was definitely scared and when the second one dropped,

that's when I said, "I'm out. I'm out."

What on Earth is living in this Argentinian woman's home?

This is so frickin' weird and it's a tasty little morsel of creepiness. I love it.

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

Oh, my God. I'm catching a UFO right now.

...to believe.

In the world of the paranormal,

there are few subjects as stigmatized

as shadow figures.

Dark, soulless masses

that are typically seen ducking behind walls

or doorways.

And if those shadow figures

are witnessed in a location known to be filled with trauma,

that energy is thought to be all the more sinister.

At least, for most people.

Because two investigators in Nevada

have a very different perspective

and view the shadow figure they captured in an abandoned prison

through a decidedly

positive lens.

April 2021

in Carson City, Nevada.

Let's see what we catch.

Susan Bernard and Jackie Kleeb

are investigating the Nevada State Prison,

an abandoned penitentiary with a reputation.

- I'm Susan Bernard. - And I'm Jackie Kleeb.

And I took the video.

The prison used to be a hotel.

In 1862, it became a prison.

And then it closed in 2012.

I mean, I've been doing paranormal investigating for over 30 years.

I have to honestly say that this prison

is one of the most active places I've ever been to.

It's crazy.

Nevada State Prison

is one of the most notoriously haunted prisons in the US.

This one has such a colorful history.

It's burned down a few times.

A whole number of executions done there.

It was the first place in this country

to execute people with a gas chamber.

A lot of people incarcerated within these walls

were violent criminals

who not only lived their lives here

but in a lot of cases, died here as well.

It makes sense that this is a place that would be decidedly haunted.

Which is why Susan and Jackie

have investigated the prison

for years.

I've been trying to get the paranormal in there from 2013

and finally the board allowed me to start having paranormal come through.

So we just started doing that in 2016.

And over that time, they've captured their fair share

of bizarre activity.

Mostly surrounding the presence of orbs,

like on this night.

But that is nothing compared to what Susan and Jackie captured

one night in April 2021.

We were filming. Jackie goes, "Can I tape you?" I said, "Yeah."

So she's taping as I held my spirit box, saying, you know...

We get done, and we go, "God, it's kind of quiet here."

So we decide to come home.

We're sitting at this dining room table,

and Jackie's reviewing her video and she says,

"Oh, my gosh.

You won't believe what we caught."

As Susan attempts to communicate using her spirit box...

...watch the bars behind her head.

Did you catch it?

Watch again

as a dark, shadow-like figure

seems to peek its head around and almost through the cell bars

next to Susan's head.

You know how mercury moves?

How it splits up?

That's what this does.

I didn't even feel it

and my hair moves.

There seems to be some kind of dark figure lurking behind this woman.

You could see it peek out for a little bit,

and then it kind of goes back.

You can't make out any detail.

There's no skin color if you will.

It's just kind of this black void

that seems to have a human-type appearance with its movements.

If you notice, everything in the frame that we see

has detail and color.

You could see the outfit that the investigator is wearing.

You could even see just beyond her into the hallway,

past the cells

and it seems pretty well lit,

so why is it that this figure that comes in behind her is pitch black?

It's like, it's almost like anti-light. It's complete blackness.

It looks like a hand almost reaches through

and then kind of hangs on to the bars

and maybe even comes around the corner a little bit.

That was really, really freaky.

Freaky as it may seem to most people,

for Susan and Jackie,

who claim to have seen the same shadow figure at the prison

many times since the experience,

it's anything but.

Didn't scare us.

The blob. That's what we call it.

But he's all over the place.

I think it protects me.

I say that.

People look at me weird.

We don't get any bad feelings at all from the shadows.

No, no, no.

Shadow figures are often associated with the darker types of events,

sometimes even demonic, but it doesn't have to be that way.

If it's a spirit that passed from this world, just like those who are alive,

they have a mixture of both good and bad qualities.

It is really important to remember that even when we think of a place

as being associated with something bad or dangerous or frightening,

like a prison,

not necessarily everything there is bad.

Families of prisoners came to visit.

Innocent people were likely incarcerated.

There were wardens. There were guards.

There were people who worked there.

Even people who lived in the area.

The only reason why these energies

have the ability to interact with us and our gear on investigations

is because they're feeding off the energy you bring.

And so if you bring an energy source that they use as fuel,

and it's a positive energy fuel,

then you're going to get positive interactions.

And Susan and Jackie are nothing but positive.

Everything's not just demons.

These are spirits

and I tell everybody, who are we to label them, right?

We don't know who they are.

And we've never had a bad experience in there.

- No. - Nothing.

So I think our long goal, you know, is just to teach people

and let them know that

just because it was a prison, you know,

don't think they're bad.

Bad in life, but who knows what they're doing in the afterlife, right?

Coming up...

a grandmother and granddaughter in Oregon...

Nana, what is that?

...come face to face with a carnivorous beast.

As many paranormal experts are quick to point out,

just because you think you saw a cryptid,

doesn't mean you were in any danger.

Not all cryptids

are inherently malicious.

But the hide behind...

is.

It snatches you in the woods,

disembowels you

and eats you.

And if you think that sounds terrifying,

just imagine seeing one

across the street from your property.

Nana, what is that?

November 2021

in Glide, Oregon.

Kamiryn Eifert and her grandmother, Carol,

are in Carol's car and leaving their property,

which is locked by a gate.

When Carol exits their vehicle to close the gate behind them,

Kamiryn spots something strange across the road,

lit by the glow of the car's headlights.

So she grabs Carol's phone

and begins filming.

Nana, what is that?

Watch again

as a dark, mysterious figure peeks around a tree across the road

and stares directly

at Carol and Kamiryn.

What is that?

- I'm Carol. - And I'm Kamiryn and this is our video.

I just heard her being like, "Nana, what is that, what is that?"

And then I kind of glanced across there and I saw something black.

It was frightening. I couldn't figure out what it was.

Even when you try to zoom in, you can't really make out what it is.

The eyes weren't glowing.

That means it's not an animal and it had no face.

And it was a black figure.

Nana, what is that?

It's really hard to tell what this thing behind this tree is,

but nevertheless, it doesn't look like something

you'd want to go up and investigate a little closer.

It seems to be completely black

and it's peeking around the tree,

very similar to when we see images of shadow figures

that always seem to be lurking and hiding and looking at the living.

I don't know if this can be a shadow figure, to be honest.

It seems like it's something living.

It doesn't seem like it could be a shadow figure.

It's giving me bigfoot vibes.

It's giving me Skinwalker vibes.

So I definitely wouldn't get out of the car.

There's no way I'm getting out of the car

because, like, who knows what that thing is capable of.

I would guesstimate that the height of this might be eight or nine feet.

Maybe a little bit taller.

It wasn't short and I'm sure people will think this might be a bigfoot or a Sasquatch.

If it was a bigfoot, its mass would be wider than the tree itself.

It's not a bear, 'cause if it was a bear

and somebody came out and just started filming it,

I'm sure it would just, like, scurry off into the woods.

Nana, what is that?

I love that we get this commentary from the kid,

going, "Nana, what is it?"

And it's like, "Yeah, Nana, what is it? I want to know, too."

She may not have had any clue then,

but now, Kamiryn believes she knows exactly what she captured that night.

A hide behind.

I think it's a hide behind because of the black face it has

and the weird way it turns behind the tree

and, like, it disappears, basically, into nothing

when it goes behind.

A hide behind is a creature that comes to us out of logging camp folklore,

lumberjack folklore.

It's a creature that was often spotted by people, understandably,

spending a lot of time in densely wooded spaces of our country.

Hide behinds were said to prey on human beings

and even consume them.

They would hide behind a tree and grab a logger

and then drag them back to their lair where they would devour them.

A lot of times with these hide behinds,

they're also associated with people that go into the woods and never come out.

They get lost or they just disappear for some reason.

And some people believe these hide behinds

are one of the reasons these people just never come out of the woods again.

I had never heard of a hide behind until I posted that.

I have never even heard her talk about one.

But, you know, at 3:00 a.m. I was looking some of that stuff up

and it was terrifying, actually.

But if this is actually a hide behind,

where does it come from?

When we look at plant life and the trees,

we think that they're these stationary, biological things without any consciousness,

but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Trees, plants, grass, fungi, they all have root systems that communicate

and connect with each other.

When you touch a tree, that tree is understanding that touch.

So when you start going into a forest, cutting down all these trees,

you're creating this fight or flight response

of these very sentient plant beings.

And so they might have a way to defend themselves

by creating these elemental beings that annihilate the problem.

And that is man.

Terrifying.

Understandably,

Carol and Kamiryn didn't stick around long enough

to find out one way or another.

I immediately just got in the car and we took off.

I mean, but she was freaked... you know, she was...

- It was terrifying. - She was freaking out the whole way home.

And now, they're keeping an extra eye out.

When we're back at our property,

I actually hear weird noises in the forest, like bigfoot noises, kind of.

She swears bigfoot's out there.

And, I mean, people say that they've seen these things.

So I still don't really know what it was that night.

It was scary.

Nana, what is that?

Coming up, why does this tiny creature

keep popping up around the world?

In seemingly every corner of the globe,

there exists a legend

of a small, whimsical creature

that secretly inhabits the unexplored crevices

of people's homes.

And while it may be easy to dismiss the talk of such beings

as merely the product of folklore,

several recent accidental video captures in Argentina

may just be the legend's best evidence yet.

2011

in Santa Fe, Argentina.

A woman named Silvia

notices that her two-year-old son,

Benjamin, is acting uncharacteristically nervous.

Concerned, she takes out her phone, to record his strange behavior.

And at that very moment...

Watch again...

as a strange, diminutive creature

runs behind Benjamin...

quickly disappearing from the camera's view.

This is the kind of high strangeness I am here for.

This is so frickin' weird and it's a tasty little morsel of creepiness. I love it.

Looking at this, you can see what looks like pointed ears

and a hairless body.

Grey. It's been described, elves kind of having that different shaped ear.

It's unlike anything I've ever seen before.

Two years later, it makes another appearance in Silvia's home.

Watch the right side of your screen very closely.

Did you see that?

Watch again.

Over Benjamin's shoulder, under the bed,

the creature returns.

Once again, it seems to be this same, small creature.

Only this time, it's not running away from them.

It seems to be straddling part of the bedframe

and crawling along underneath it.

So...

The obvious question.

What on Earth is this thing?

Many people in South America believe in small, human-like creatures

like elves or gnomes and they're known as duendes.

There's a specific goblin named El Pombero.

Now, this little creature can run on all fours

and sometimes can go invisible, well, pretty much whenever it wants.

That makes it really easy to be mischievous.

The legend of El Pombero

may also explain two additional sightings in the area.

One near a construction site in 2015.

Then another, two years later, inside a restaurant.

And it's not just in South America.

Right away, this little guy fits a pattern of folklore across the globe.

It could be a house spirit or a domovoy from eastern Europe.

The duende is very popular in the Philippines, too.

I have a lot of family

who have encountered duende themselves.

They really do take a liking to children.

They're very playful, kind of like tricksters

and they usually bring about good luck,

but if you piss them off or make them angry in any way

then they might turn on you and cause you harm.

In that case, if you find aduende in your home,

perhaps it's best to stay in their good graces.

But if you choose to go on the offense,

play at your own risk.

I'm trying to trap it. I am trying to figure out how I can set a trap

and get it in a cage, because I can't let it take over my home.

It's me versus them.

And I have to win.

Coming up, a late night livestream...

What the?

...is interrupted by a ghost.

Cemeteries might seem like an obvious hotspot for the paranormal.

But they're not the only locations that house the dead.

There are morgues,

hospitals,

and even

the urn on the mantel.

Because while keeping a loved one's ashes in your home

doesn't guarantee a haunting,

some believe that it can tether a person's spirit to it

and in some cases,

cause that energy to lash out.

March 29th, 2022

in Ontario, Canada.

Laura Noyes and her son Max are live on social media,

talking to Laura's subscribers who typically tune in to watch her cook.

Oh, hi, sweetheart. I'm so glad you popped in.

Everybody say hello to each other. Let's all make some friends, okay?

As Laura tells everyone a story about her mother,

who passed away decades ago,

What the?

What was that?

So anyways...

Did you catch that?

Watch again

as a cabinet mysteriously opens...

What was that?

...and closes on its own.

So anyways...

Hi, I'm Max.

And I'm Laura and this is our video.

What was that?

I remember sitting here and, um, as we were talking, I heard a noise behind me.

And, um, it startled me a bit but I just continued telling the story.

And I looked down to read the comments as we're going through it

and just interacting with people

and one of my subscribers, Angie, said...

Is my house haunted? Why?

I don't know.

Sometimes I get a feeling there's something happening in my house, but...

Household objects being moved.

It doesn't seem particularly eerie

or even particularly meaningful communicatively

but it's a way of getting attention

that's accessible to something

that might not be able to, like, pick up a pen

and start writing ghostly letters like we see in a movie.

After one of her viewers fills her in

on what just happened...

What?

...Laura gets up to check it out.

Watch again

as an object flies out of the cabinet directly toward the camera.

It didn't seem like a casual falling out of an object.

It seemed like whatever was in there kind of flew straight out

with this trajectory that didn't make sense

if it were just, like, a loose object that fell over.

What was that?

But that's not all.

A cup inexplicably falls off the top shelf.

I was definitely scared.

And when the second one dropped too, that's when I said, "I'm out.

I'm out." I got up and I left and I think he ran after me.

What the...

I was looking at the chat, seeing what was going on.

And then I heard stuff flying behind me and something hit me on the shoulder.

So I just started running with it.

If something strange starts happening to you in your home,

my advice is to not freak out right away.

One reason is because if what you're dealing with is malicious,

which is very rare, they feed off your fear.

So your first response should not be fear.

You are just going to make things worse that way.

What the hell?

But when Laura and Max collect themselves,

they have a pretty good guess...

Oh, my God, guys.

...as to who it might be.

We were talking about my mother

and the funny thing is, is if you look right underneath my cabinet,

is where I've always kept my mother's ashes.

She's in almost all of my videos, if I film from that angle,

so it was just putting pieces together.

This video fits a pattern of paranormal activity

insofar as people have reported talking about a loved one

who has passed on and then experiencing strange occurrence around them.

Almost as if that loved one is making their presence known,

to say hi, to provide comfort,

or maybe even stir up a little bit of mischief.

The was that?

Even though they are frightened at the time,

if it is in fact Laura's mom,

they welcome her with open arms.

At first I was sort of shocked and scared

but after we sort of thought about it for a while,

we realized it wasn't really, like... it wasn't such a bad thing.

I think about the explanations of talking about my mom

and my mom's ashes under the counter

and it's comforting.

I don't feel like it was bad.

I think that it's a positive experience in the end.

It feels calm and peaceful and I'm okay with it.

Coming up...

a paranormal investigator chooses to live with his subject

and reaps the consequences.

Paranormal investigators are used to venturing into mysterious,

and sometimes dangerous locations

in order to study the paranormal.

But it takes an especially brave explorer

to not just visit the ghosts,

but live with them.

That's what one investigator in Japan chose to do

when he moved into a house that he had reason to believe was haunted.

And it didn't take long for those beliefs

to be confirmed.

November 2021

in Japan.

As part of his popular cat-themed YouTube channel,

a man films himself casually caressing his feline friend

when something strange happens.

Watch behind the cat's head.

An open door closes by itself,

clearly unnerving the man filming his cat.

Soon after,

perhaps because of this incident,

and other bizarre activity,

the man takes his cat

and moves out of the house completely.

But after hearing stories about the unusual events in the home,

a paranormal researcher named Meguro moves in,

hoping to investigate the supernatural goings on further.

And only weeks into his stay, Meguro gets what he came for.

Late one night, as he's going to bed,

listen closely.

A rhythmic knocking,

seemingly coming from a nearby closet.

But as Meguro approaches with phone in hand,

nothing.

Yet the knocking continues.

First from the now open closet

and then

from a downstairs bathroom.

And still

no visible source for it.

This is consistent, it's rhythmic,

and there appears to be no decipherable origin

as to where the noise is coming from.

It seems to be moving around the house.

A week later, around the same time of night,

whatever is in the house with Meguro

kicks it up a notch,

as a security camera films his bathroom.

Watch again

as the bathroom door not only closes,

but through its window,

a white, shadowy figure seems to manifest

and then disappears.

We see this frosted glass door

and you can see this outline.

It just looks bright.

It looks almost like what people would describe seeing a spirit,

almost having this whiteness or this glow to it.

It's obviously there.

Right on the other side.

And the fact that whatever presence is there

would actually appear as a figure in this space,

suggests that sort of individual intelligence.

A theory reinforced by what happens only a couple of months later

in the same bathroom.

The mirror opens by itself

and then

the shower and sink faucet go off at the same time,

which is significant, because as Meguro demonstrates...

We know that water is a conduit to the spirits.

They're able to kind of use that to kind of move about.

It makes you wonder, is that potentially what it was doing?

Was it kind of creating all of that water

for some other purpose, using that as a conduit?

Impossible to say.

The only thing for certain

is that whatever it is is preventing Meguro from sleeping.

And regardless of his interest in the activity,

something has to give.

In the West, when something happens like this, we blame a ghost,

maybe we blame a demon.

But in Japan, it very well could be a yurei,

which is a spirit who cannot rest for some reason.

It's something that they need to do,

something they need to accomplish

there's a message that needs to be delivered.

And for the most part, that kind of sounds the same

as things we deal with here at home.

But if this is a yurei,

it doesn't want him to sleep. It's trying to get his attention

with knocks, with raps.

So if Meguro is too tired to continue to deal with this yurei,

what should he do about it?

If this house is haunted by a yurei, then it is said

that performing certain Shinto or Buddhist rituals

will cleanse the location of that angry spirit.

The only way I think you can deal with this

is to deal with it as if it was a person, because that's what it is.

Deal with that person as you would any other person

and ask them to please, just leave me alone.

If that doesn't work, you're going to have to try something else.

Which is perhaps the most important thing for Meguro.

Trying something.

If you've identified something like that,

you're going to continue having this type of activity

and it's something that could haunt you for the rest of your life.

Coming up...

a UFO in Connecticut

enters the spin zone.

Oh, my God, look at it spinning.

Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.

There are specific regions of the United States,

that are pivotal to America's extraterrestrial history.

Like Area 51 in Nevada

and Roswell, New Mexico.

And though these west coast locations are the most famous,

a lesser known hotspot on the east coast is just as impressive.

Namely Waterbury, Connecticut,

where in 1916, a Scoville factory guard

watched as a large, mysterious craft zipped through the sky,

vanishing as quickly as it came.

Since then, the town has seen countless planetary visitors

including glowing orbs,

small, organized fleets,

and this.

Oh, my God, look at it spinning. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.

January 2021,

Waterbury, Connecticut.

Christine Lyons has stopped her car on the side of the road

because something ahead and way above has caught her eye.

Two glowing lights with more incoming.

They're too small to be a plane or a helicopter. What are these things?

They're not a Chinese lantern, they're nothing like that.

They're something, you know, very specific

at some type of a lower altitude,

but you really can't make it out.

You start to get more of them coming in and out.

Then you're like, "Oh, okay." These seem to have a certain level of intelligence to them.

Sensing the objects may be on their way to disappearing,

Christine gets back in her car and drives toward them

before they're completely gone.

Whoa.

But as she gets closer, the third light begins to do something

that blows her mind.

Oh, my God. Look at it spinning. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. I'm catching a UFO right now.

My instinctive read of this clip

is that we're seeing some sort of craft, an object.

But an object that moves in a totally unexpected way.

Either by a whole different set of laws of physics

or by some propulsion or technology

that we do not have access to or knowledge of.

It was a movement that I don't think I've ever seen before in a clip like this.

The people of Waterbury, however, have seen it before.

Possibly for a long, long time.

I spent some time in nearby Hudson Valley, New York

where a concentration of sightings happened in the 1980s

and Waterbury was a hotspot during many of those years

and continues even till today.

Some of the objects that were seen were large, blimp-like objects,

triangular formations,

and there's even photos of circular craft

that had spinning lights around the edges.

I always go back to hearing about

the biblical stories about the wheel within a wheel

that they were seeing these things way back then.

And these were made out of fire, out of light

and that's what we're witnessing here.

Eventually, the spiraling marvel disappears.

There it goes, it's fading out, look.

What the am I witnessing?

All the other ones are gone.

There's no other ones.

There it goes, it's gone.

But Christine's sighting adds to Waterbury's vast UFO history.

This is one of the best videos I've seen of anything like this.

It's an amazing capture.

Oh, my God. Look at it spinning.

Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.

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

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Check your footage and then check it again.

Do your own research, even if it scares you.

Nana, what is that?

Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.

Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.

And if you do catch something...

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