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An investigator in a haunted home is spied on...

Do you want me to go upstairs?

...by a shadow figure.

I remember being like, "I don't know what that is."

I can't explain it and it's terrifying.

A man in Ohio records the mutterings...

...of a Bigfoot.

We got to get out of here. We're too close.

I've tried to figure it out myself.

I can't figure out what it's saying.

Is this door being manipulated...

Can you do it again?

...by the spirit of a nursing home patient?

Oh,.

It was amazing to see.

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

...to believe.

During the mid-19th century,

discoveries of gold around California and Nevada

led to an influx of eager prospectors from all over the world,

hoping to strike it rich.

Unfortunately, thousands of these hopefuls...

died in the process,

resulting in what many believe to be wide swaths

of paranormally active locales.

Recently, one paranormal investigator

explored an abandoned home in one of these former gold rush towns,

and seemed to connect with the souls...

living inside.

June 22nd, 2022, near Dayton, Nevada.

Paranormal investigator Patrick McQueary

is exploring an abandoned home

that sits near something called the Sutro Tunnel.

This house right behind me, the old Schultz house...

I'm Patrick McQueary, and this is my video.

The tunnel is like four miles long.

And they actually have the tunnel there that they're reconstructing, like, redoing.

The tunnel originally served neighboring gold mines

with ventilation and drainage,

until the gold dried up and everyone left,

essentially creating a ghost town.

Who's up there?

It sounds like it's coming from this room.

And as Patrick explores the house that lies within it...

I'm just here to talk to you, hear your story.

What the... What the hell was that?

"Ghost town" appears to be an apt description.

I was told that the family that lived there

experienced just an enormous amount of energy

and all kinds of activity.

And sure enough, as Patrick continues to try to communicate

with whatever may be here,

something makes an appearance.

Do you want me to go upstairs?

Oh, I heard something that sounded like a...

like....

Do you see it?

Watch very closely.

When Patrick points in the direction of the home's second floor,

a shadow leans over the banister in his direction.

It was like that darker kind of shadowy figure.

I did not see that in the moment.

I think that was one of the ones that actually got pointed out

after I had posted the video.

Unlike a shadow figure anomaly that we've seen in the past,

it doesn't seem like it retreats quickly.

Instead, if that's what it is, it is lingering there

as if it's really trying to get a good look of this guy.

A lot of times, I can debunk that stuff, and I'll put it in there.

I'll be like, "Oh, yeah, that... that could be this. That could be that."

In that instance, I remember being like, "I don't know what that is."

I can't explain it...

and it's terrifying.

And though he doesn't see that shadow in the moment,

what happens next...

is impossible to miss.

Whoa.

Whoa!

Did you move one of these chairs?

It's that, like, metal old-school, like, wheel on that hardwood.

There's no way that was anything other than one of those chairs moving.

Whoa.

That was, like, rolling like an inch or two or more,

so that was very terrifying as well.

I swear it sounded like one of these moved.

Yeah. That's almost exactly what I heard.

There's obviously objects in this house.

Objects can fall over, doors can blow open,

windows can bang and things like that.

But chairs don't just

rearrange themselves on their own.

That is not the effect of wind.

That would mean someone or something

coming through and messing with them.

Which it apparently continues to do.

Okay.

It feels like I'm playing hide-and-go-seek right now.

Do you want me to come and try and find you?

Ooh. Okay.

Patrick plays along and heads upstairs...

Are you back here?

How did that bird die?

...into something even more terrifying.

Is that your bird?

I heard your voice.

Listen again.

When Patrick asks whether or not the dead bird on the floor

belongs to anyone in the home...

Is that your bird?

To literally hear something that sounds not that far away

just go, "Yes," I'm like "Oh, hell, no."

That's crazy.

That was really an amazing capture right there.

When you get these clear responses to your questions,

you're dealing with something that's intelligent.

Which makes sense,

considering where the home is located.

There is the Stone Tape Theory within the paranormal,

which is especially applicable to mining towns such as Sutro,

and the theory has it that in areas

with especially rich deposits of minerals,

paranormal activity can effectively be recorded

by the ground, by the stones.

It's almost like a tape recorder

that is then played back on a loop.

Is that what we are seeing here within the Schultz house,

and in the Sutro region?

Possibly.

But for Patrick, as an experienced investigator,

whatever the reason,

the home is in his upper echelon.

The Schultz house absolutely, probably top five

of places I've ever investigated.

And, I mean, at this time, like I've done

over 2,000 investigations,

and I mean, it's definitely top five.

Okay.

Coming up,

a man on a walk with his young son...

eavesdrops on a Bigfoot.

The hallmarks of a potential Bigfoot sighting...

are fairly well known.

Usually, someone spots

a hairy, tall bipedal creature,

often shy,

living in reclusivity deep in the woods.

But a more obscure detail that has emerged

in some alleged Sasquatch encounters around the world...

is the way it communicates,

namely by using its own mysterious language.

That's what one man in Ohio believes he may have captured

when he spotted a tall, hairy bipedal creature

ripping a tree apart...

while seemingly talking up a storm.

January 2011, at the Salt Fork State Park near Lore City, Ohio.

Jeff Patterson is walking with his young son,

searching for a place to go sledding.

But as they approach a more densely-wooded area,

things take a turn... for the harrowing.

Holy crap.

My name is Jeff Patterson, and this is my video.

We started hearing a bunch of sticks breaking.

And the stick-breaking seemed like it was right in front of us,

and my son was only 11 years old at the time.

And I didn't want to go straight up in there or...

run in on who or whatever it was.

You know, we were trying to circle around behind it,

the tree-breaking, to see what it might have been.

I caught a glimpse of not one but two figures walking up the trail.

And I'm thinking, "It's got to be people."

But as Jeff and his son get closer and closer to the sounds,

they begin to realize...

...it's definitely not people.

Watch closely.

Watch again, zoomed in.

As a mysterious figure, dark and tall,

seems to aggressively and effortlessly

tug at a large tree in the distance.

But I could see the thing close up.

Standing right there, I was only, like, maybe 30, 35 feet from this thing.

Maybe 40 feet.

And he went over to that tree and started shaking this tree down.

It's probably about 40 feet tall, about 5 inches in diameter.

It just started shaking it.

And you can see the thing swaying back and forth up at the top.

And you can hear the roots cracking in this thing.

And I grabbed him by the arm and we...

ran back to the car in the parking lot.

Finally safe,

the reality of the situation sinks in.

Jeff and his son may have just seen Bigfoot.

I love, love, love this one.

The ability and the strength to actually do what this thing is doing...

is incredible.

You can make out what appears to be

a bipedal shape, quite dark in color,

tugging on the branch of a tree,

and it seems like this action would require

an immense amount of strength,

more strength than what is available

to the typical human.

If I was with my kids and a Bigfoot came by,

I would feel just as panicked as he was,

because now, you're thinking about it

as more so protecting your child, protecting your cub.

But beyond the size and strength of the figure,

or Jeff's fear in the moment,

perhaps what is most surprising about the encounter

are the sounds he hears.

Listen closely.

I've tried to figure it out myself.

I can't figure out what it's saying.

I've taken clips of just the voice

and sent it around to different people,

asking them if they can tell what it is.

Some people say it sounds Native American,

but nobody can figure out what it's saying.

I don't speak Bigfoot, but I have heard that a lot of people

believe they have their own language,

sort of like a human language, but not really.

I don't know what it would sound like, but this is really weird.

The talking you hear is something that not many people are familiar with.

It sounds like... almost like singing

and very equivalent to a Native American language.

It's called the Sierra sounds.

Ron Morehead and Al Berry captured something in Northern California.

Not many people have captured it,

but they've heard talking in the woods

between several individuals.

And perhaps not surprising is it's also been seemingly heard...

at Salt Fork State Park.

This footage was recorded in an area

that is known for Bigfoot sightings.

In fact, USA Today ranked the Salt Fork State Park

as one of the "squatchiest" places in the United States.

Which is perhaps a little too "squatchy" for Jeff.

It did kind of startle me and scared me a little bit,

especially with my son there,

and that's another place that,

well, we don't go back to.

Considering his capture, it's probably for the best.

Coming up,

a man in South Africa sees an apparition...

...reflected on his television screen.

Every human in the world, whether we like it or not,

experiences stress almost every day.

But for some, that stress

means a little more than an elevated heart rate.

Because for a very select few,

it could mean that, for a brief moment,

your body both exudes a type of force,

while also...

attracting paranormal activity.

Which is what may have happened to one man in South Africa

who, while working from home, alone on his couch,

looked at the reflection on his television screen

and saw something...

...staring back at him.

May 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa.

Pieter de Klerk is alone and working from home,

filing his end-of-month reports

with his TV on as background noise.

But when his TV turns itself off due to inactivity,

Pieter notices something both bizarre and alarming.

So, he picks up his phone,

turns the TV back on,

and while recording,

explains what just happened.

I was just at home, alone, working,

and my TV switched off in sleep mode.

Is it just me or is somebody sitting next to me on my freaking couch?

Watch again,

zoomed in this time.

Next to Pieter's reflection, which is here on the left,

a figure, immobile and transparent,

seems to be sitting next to him on the couch,

even though nothing is there.

Hi. I'm Pieter de Klerk. This is my video.

Because I can see myself, and it looks like

somebody else is sitting next to me.

Then I switched the off and on and it kept on staying there for quite a while.

Afterwards, I was quite freaked out about it,

and it keeps on lingering in the back of your mind

that there was something in your house, or something you can't explain.

Wow. I mean, there's clearly something sitting next to him,

and you can see that it is of...

more of, like, a darker shadow of nature,

and it doesn't seem to have

the exact human form as he does, if that makes any sense.

I think it's interesting that we didn't see anything on the couch next to him,

and he doesn't see anything with his naked eye.

And yet, we see this image of something or somebody sitting there

in the reflection on the TV screen.

I don't really believe that much in this type of stuff.

But seeing is believing.

That was actually the funny part about it.

It's like... It felt like it's okay with me knowing it's there.

And if it is okay with that, it could mean that it's a certain type of ghost.

What kind of really struck me about how close this thing was...

You know, when you see that reflection in the TV,

it almost looks like the person is...

cuddled up to him, just so close, you know?

And so, right away, as an investigator, you think,

"Okay, are we... are we witnessing proof of an attachment?

Or could it be a family member?"

You know, somebody that was so close to him

that this just felt natural to be that close.

This could have been a guardian angel sitting next to me.

I don't-- You never know.

Maybe. And the fact that this guardian angel, or whatever it is,

appeared by way of the television

may have something to do with Pieter's particular history

with electricity.

The lights would go out... a lot.

And my... It was in my bedroom.

When I drive through the streetlights,

my lights will go off when I'm angry or whatever, or under stress.

Sometimes people have their own supernatural abilities,

you know, and if he's got

a very high magnetic field around him

that gets amplified in times of stress or anger,

I mean, this is exactly the type of stuff that I'm telling people

like, causes haunts at a location.

Doesn't necessarily have to be someone that died there.

It could literally be coming from the individual.

He might have this ability to connect

with electromagnetic energy that he doesn't understand yet.

But it also kind of turns you into like a beacon

for other paranormal things like spirits and entities.

So that could be what's going on with him.

Whatever the reason,

the figure has yet to make another appearance...

but the incident has permanently opened Pieter's mind...

to the possibility that there's more to this world

than we know about.

Do I think there is definitely something else out there?

Yes.

There's too many people seeing stuff, and hearing stuff at night

which they can't explain.

So I definitely think there must be something supernatural or spiritual

that is definitely around us.

Coming up,

spirits in an abandoned care home...

Can you do it again?

...respond to an investigator.

Oh,.

Many believe that facilities

where numerous people have lived out their final days

are breeding grounds for spiritual activity.

And further, if one of those facilities

has a history of neglect, abuse and mistreatment...

the activity present could potentially be even more intense.

One man in England tested this theory

when he investigated an abandoned care home

with a reportedly dark past.

And what he caught on camera...

is terrifying.

November 2021, in Brighouse, England.

Paranormal investigators Danny Smith and Ernie Ward...

We'll see you on the inside.

...have just arrived at Elm Royd Care Home,

a nursing facility that was shut down in 2017

after numerous safety violations.

We have come to a location

which is an abandoned care home,

which is known to have paranormal activity, from talking, cries,

footsteps, guys, knocks and bangs.

Danny and Ernie are there

to confirm those claims for themselves.

The entrance is nice and easy for this place tonight.

I'm Danny Smith, and this is my video.

You can feel, like, the intensity

in the rooms when you're going in different places.

It was owned by a private sector company,

um, before it was closed down as it failed

unannounced visits, through negligence to the patients that lived there.

And some of the patients actually said it was like living in a prison.

This is unfortunately a very common story where a nursing home,

the conditions are like a prison,

and instead of the people there

living out their final days in comfort,

they're living it in fear and despair.

And these things leave a mark.

So even after the building ceases to be a nursing home,

that energy lingers.

Danny and Ernie split up to explore different parts of the building.

And as Danny investigates the abandoned living quarters,

he comes face-to-face

with a manifestation

of that lingering energy.

Did you catch that?

Watch the window closely as Danny pans around the room.

In the lower-right windowpane,

a face which Danny doesn't see

until he reviews the footage later.

When I looked back at the footage, I was shocked.

At first, it appears to be just a reflection in the window.

But if you freeze it and look closer,

it's almost like a ghostly face

looking in through the pane of glass.

It looked to me like some kind of greenish demon-like figure.

I mean, you can actually see the eyes.

Because he's unaware of the ghostly apparition at the time,

Danny continues to explore and breaks out a spirit box

in hopes of engaging with any energies

that might be present.

I've come here tonight to communicate with you.

I'm here looking for answers to what happened here.

Moments later...

What on earth caused that?

If that was you who did that to that door then, can you do it again?

Oh,.

He's getting that hit saying "hand" just after he got a name

and asking the door to close again.

There is no question at all that this is intelligent communication.

There is a spirit right in front of Danny in that facility.

It was amazing to see.

I tried... I tried to debunk it.

We're trying to figure out what could have caused this.

...the way it was positioned between the radiator and the edge of the door.

I was sort of gobsmacked,

and I don't think it was long after that

we decided to end the investigation.

Danny and Ernie leave the Elm Royd Care Home,

confident that they have made contact

with some of the now-deceased former residents.

Well, thank you. Thank you.

It is a bit upsetting knowing that they're still there

and they've not managed to cross over or go where they need to be.

Is there some un-sort-of-finished business

there for them that they're trying to do?

If so, let's hope they get their unfinished business settled soon

so they can move on...

for good.

Coming up,

a couple in Las Vegas

catch an early morning glimpse...

...of a mysterious object in the sky.

For all the ways throughout history

that mankind has attempted to communicate with alien life forms,

some believe our best chance at success

is to let them come to us.

And there is perhaps no more likely place for that to happen...

than Las Vegas.

A long-time UFO magnet,

not just because of its prime setup

for observing human behavior,

but also for its unique luminescence,

that many believe acts as a beacon of sorts.

And if one couple's footage is any indication,

if you happen to be up when the lights are going down,

you might be able to see one of those visitors...

for yourself.

May 26th, 2022.

On the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada.

It's 5:30 a.m.,

and Jason and Amanda Ray are preparing to head to the airport after a wedding.

But as they pack their suitcases,

Jason looks out the window

for one last glimpse at Sin City

as the dawn breaks, and catches sight of something bizarre.

In the distance, an object hovering over a nearby hotel,

and both Jason and Amanda are baffled.

Jesus. That is weird.

Hello, my name is Jason Ray.

- My name is Amanda Ray. - And this is our video.

Looking out, I see this object.

My mind is trying to make sense of it.

Because I'm going down the multiple-choice options of

"Is it this? Is it that?" and it just was too weird.

It was in three or four parts, really.

The topmost part was the cube shape itself.

Everything else seemed to kind of stay stationary,

but the cube seemed to swivel and turn and articulate.

And sometimes, from the distance,

it would even like, look like it was bending down.

Almost like a head or something.

You can tell the people who shot this have never seen anything like it before.

And I have to say that I haven't either.

Although it's hanging suspended in the sky,

it's not necessarily motionless.

It seems to be spinning like a top or a corkscrew.

So, what is it?

I considered balloons, drones, even a helicopter.

But unless this is some sort of controlled blimp,

the problem is, you have to have the payload balance exactly right.

Otherwise, a helium balloon,

a weather balloon is going to skyrocket up into the air

or it's going to descend and come down to the ground.

So how does it just kind of park itself and stay for several minutes?

I don't know.

I immediately sent the video to one of my friends

who's a meteorologist, just to rule out the possibility of

maybe it was some sort of weather monitoring device or drone

and he was like, "This is absolutely no weather technology at all."

So that really legitimized the experience to us as well.

So if it's not a balloon, drone, helicopter,

or some sort of weather-monitoring device, then what is it?

This thing...

This anomaly has what to me was

almost an organic feel. Not alive, per se.

I don't think this is like a creature necessarily floating in the sky.

But maybe something that isn't a craft.

Like maybe something that is part of a craft

or a came out of a craft or something

that used to be alive and is no longer.

Maybe it's out there doing recon.

It's gathering information.

It's reading information about altitude,

about what's below it, about mapping the area.

Maybe what resources we have, what could be under our soil?

Whatever it is, what better place to observe mankind

than Vegas?

When you fly into Vegas, you see nothing.

And then all of a sudden,

there's this huge ball of light that is the city of Vegas.

Imagine what that might be for something that's kind of coming to this planet,

wondering, "What is this?"

Certainly, it is a spectacle,

and spectacle draws spectators.

Look at it. It's spinning.

Oh, my God! Whoa! You're right.

For Jason and Amanda,

this possible recon mission was a perfect end to their visit.

When you see things like this,

it just kind of re-instills in you

that there's so much out there that's yet to be discovered

or to be figured out.

And it just kind of fills you with wonder and excitement

to wonder like, "My goodness."

You know, "What... what is going on in our skies right now?"

Coming up,

a woman in China is woken up

by a ghost in her living room.

Discovering a stranger in one's home

is terrifying.

Even more so

when you live alone.

And while one might think

the immediate assistance of police could alleviate that fear...

it does little good if the intruder in question...

is a ghost.

That's what might have happened to one woman in China.

And she has the home security footage

to prove it.

February 29th, 2024, in Chongqing, China.

It's 10:17 p.m.,

and a woman who lives alone

is falling asleep in her bed...

when her home security alarm suddenly goes off.

But when she jolts out of bed, she finds no intruders.

So she checks her home surveillance videos,

and sees this.

Watch again as a figure, black and see-through,

crosses right to left across her living room

and into her kitchen,

before disappearing for good.

Freaked out, the woman calls police.

And when they find no sign of an intruder,

the woman is understandably even more freaked out.

This is such a bizarre capture.

I mean, it is clearly a humanoid figure.

It seems to be the right height and stature to be a person,

but it's not a fully-formed human figure.

It's more of a sweeping, wispy mist.

It looks like the head is moving side-to-side,

like an undulating serpent going through the room.

And then you have the whole torso and everything which actually is missing.

I don't think this could be the afterburner image

of a person who walked through the room

because the path it takes is directly through furniture.

A person obviously can't do that.

I feel like we're seeing like, a slightly-manifested

paranormal being crossing right in front of the camera.

It looks like things I've personally captured on investigations,

so I go kind of by that, by my own experience.

But if this is, in fact, something paranormal,

where is it coming from?

And why is it here?

Perhaps somebody that used to live in this home

once upon a time that is just kind of going about their business,

back when things were different.

Furniture might not have been exactly where it is today,

and we're kind of just seeing that imprint playing out

and actually seeing it caught on camera.

If that's the case, then perhaps this capture,

while initially terrifying for the woman, is actually more of a gift

made possible by her home security system.

It's around us all the time, but we're not necessarily looking all the time.

But, you know, what is looking all the time are surveillance systems.

These cameras are capable of seeing into light spectrums

that the human eye can't convey.

A lot of these lenses are made out of a really fine and refined crystal quartz,

which has the ability to bend light.

And so I think that paired with the ability to see

into light spectrums that we cannot see, using lenses

created out of things that could expand electromagnetic energy,

is the reason why we're picking up a lot of this spirit video and photography.

And as our technology progresses,

our ability to peek into this other world

whenever we want to might be just around the corner.

It's just glowingly obvious

that there's so much happening around us all the time.

And the the wonder and the magic that's happening around us

if we just take a few moments

to sit and be silent and watch.

I bet you we would be mesmerized

to see what's interacting with us on a daily basis.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Is somebody sitting next to me on my freaking couch?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Check your footage.

And then...

Do you want me to go upstairs?

...check it again.

Trust that what you're seeing really is something paranormal.

We got to get outta here.

We're too close.

If you need anything...

Can you do it again?

...just ask.

Oh,.

And if you do catch something...

Your footage could be seen right here

on Paranormal: Caught On Camera.