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I couldn't even wrap my mind around it.

Hundreds of fatalities, thousands of crashes...

...For no reason whatsoever.

It was a black shadow.

It did not want me there.

I saw it continuing to move forward towards me.

I was **** terrified.

I feel...A presence.

It's just my imagination.

And there was a boy just standing in the door

Looking at me.

You could see it plain as day.

I thought it was pretty creepy.

Scares me to death.

You don't want to go around telling people

That you saw a ghost.

Hello.

- Oh, my god! - 911.

- Please state your emergency. - I think it's a ghost!

Units on scene. Backup and fire are on their way.

Copy that.

Responding to the remote 911 call

Is police officer john hulton.

That evening I was working on the outskirts of the city.

We received a 911 call for a car that struck a tree.

Faced with poor road conditions,

The officer approaches the crash site with due caution.

Our rule when we show up to something like that,

Especially for the first on scene, is safety,

And keep in mind it was pretty slick that night.

Ems reports two victims -- driver and passenger.

The officer joins the ems crew already on site.

His job now is to secure the area.

As the police, when you're on scene, that's your scene.

You're in charge of what's going on there.

You sort of take a wide look at what's going on and sort of say,

"is it safe to approach this vehicle?

Is there a fire happening? Is there wires down?"

He learns the driver has survived

And is being transported to hospital.

But the passenger, pronounced dead on the scene,

Is still in the car.

I'm getting close to the car,

Trying to figure out what's going on.

Mommy! Help me!

I could see in the back seat of the vehicle a very young boy,

And I'd put him around 7 years old, around that time

'cause I had kids that age.

Officer hulton is suddenly overcome

By a series of stark images and an uneasy feeling.

I think this situation hit closer to home.

I can't even explain the feelings that go through you.

I have an 8-year-old at home.

Arriving home, he tries to put the disturbing experience

Out of his mind as he prepares himself for a few days off.

When I'm home, I hear footsteps.

I feel something.

I feel like I'm not there alone.

Mommy!

I'm just thinking that "it's just my imagination."

Following the incident, my wife went away up to her parents

For a christmas visit, and so left the dog and I alone.

With his wife and son away for the night,

Officer hulton tries to catch up on some much-needed sleep.

So, somewhere close to 4:00 in the morning...

...The dog was acting up.

The dog was barking down the hall,

And that's what woke me up.

And I got out of bed...

...And I walked down the hall.

I know the house is locked.

I have an alarm system, so nobody's in the house

That's got in the house that shouldn't be there.

But someone is most definitely up on the second floor...

...Where he is confronted

By some type of unexplained electrical glitch.

I figured it was just one of those situations

Where my psyche is playing games with me.

As I looked down the hallway,

I can see him.

It was the boy that I saw from the accident.

As I head down the hallway...

...He's not there anymore.

Scares me to death.

Days before christmas, police officer john hulton

Responds to a horrific car crash --

The result of the tragic death of a young boy...

...Who later appears to him at his house.

My emotions are high right now,

And part of me thinks that it's psychological.

So there's a little skepticism in my brain.

It's hard to talk to one of your police officers.

You don't want to go around telling people

That you saw a ghost 'cause they will judge you.

Puzzled by what he's seen,

The officer searches the rest of the house...

...And finds no further trace of the boy.

Unable to go back to sleep,

He heads to the kitchen to get an early start on the day...

- Morning. - Morning.

...Where he finds his friend

And overnight guest, perry bloom,

Also unable to sleep.

Me and a friend of mine were helping

John do trim in his kitchen that weekend,

So it was kind of an all-day event,

And just went late into the night.

Can't sleep? No.

Gotta tell you something, man.

Just saw the weirdest thing.

Woke me up. Can't sleep.

What? What'd you see?

I was sleeping in the living room

And I woke up out of a dead sleep.

I almost feel, like, a deep pit in your stomach kind of anxiety.

Kind of just had the feeling something was looking at me.

And there was a boy just standing in the door

Looking at me.

It was definitely around a 7 year old,

Blond hair, white shirt on.

You could see it plain as day.

By the time my mind could figure out

What it was looking at, it was gone.

He was all pale and shirt was glowing and...

Harry had no idea that I had seen this in the house.

He described the boy that I saw from the accident to a t.

It changed everything 'cause he gave it credence.

He put the link there.

I started putting the puzzle together.

Am I the last person he saw?

First person he saw after the accident?

After he went to after life? I don't know.

I have no idea how he attached to me.

With someone who has just died, there's usually a great

Emotional turbulence and a state of confusion,

And there standing in front of you

Is a police officer who we've all been taught

From a very early age that we can trust,

That we are safe with.

So it's entirely reasonable that the spirit

Would choose to associate itself with that police officer

And perhaps follow them home.

Where else do you go?

But with his family set to return,

The officer's main goal is to make the house safe

By figuring out what the dead boy wants.

So, I was like -- I yelled out, and I'm like,

"what are you doing here?" hey, I know you're here.

What do you want?

In this case, the officer felt actual tangible energy transfer

When the victim died.

You could easily bring in something

That's dark, negative, and evil.

Has the officer unknowingly brought something

Dangerous into his house?

It scares me to death thinking

That something's gonna happen to me or my family members.

Help me!

That's the fear I feel.

Does the dead boy intend to harm his family?

The dog started growling really bad.

The boy was gonna go in my son's room.

And it's a great fear because you're afraid to --

What would happen or, you know, what could happen?

Not all attachments are negative,

But all of them seem to be very frightening

To those that experience them.

As I head down the hallway,

The door's still shut to my son's room.

The fear for me was that I was going to see something

I didn't want to see.

And there's nobody else in the room.

And all of a sudden I go, "oh, my god,

I'm having mental-health issues

'cause I'm not really seeing a ghost.

This is something that's gone wrong in my brain."

That's what you think.

It was just my mind playing tricks on me.

He decides to go back to bed and clear his troubled mind.

Mommy!

But someone or something won't let him sleep.

I look down from my bed, I see him again.

What do you want?

When police officer john hulton

Responds to a fatal car crash...

...He's confronted by the ghost of the dead boy

Stalking him through his house.

He dismisses the sightings as hallucinations brought on

By the stress of the accident

Until his friend and overnight guest sees the same dead boy.

And with the ghost disappearing into his son's room,

He's reminded of what is now at stake --

The very safety of his family.

I'm thinking, "why did he end up at my house?"

And then I go, "what's gonna happen?"

It scares me to death thinking something's

Gonna happen to me or my family members.

I don't know, but that's the fear I feel.

He still doesn't know what the dead boy wants

Or what he's capable of.

A few days later, his neighbor brian turns up at his door.

There's something I have to tell you.

Brian says to me, "I have to tell you a story."

And I said, "what's going on, brian?"

He goes, "you remember roughly a few days ago?"

Brian tells the officer about letting himself

In through the back door

To drop off a batch of freshly-baked christmas cookies.

There was a little boy -- blond hair, white shirt.

You saw him?

Blond hair and a white shirt.

And then the boy was gone.

And he said, "I just got this really bad feeling through --

Just really bad."

Brian had no idea that I had seen this in the house.

He is not a believer in the supernatural.

This is what kept playing over and over in my mind

Is when brian sees the boy in front of him,

I think, "is something bad gonna happen?"

Well, he says the next morning he's getting ready for work.

He said, "I wasn't feeling really well."

Brian decides to return to his bedroom

To lay down for a while.

As he's walking up the stairs,

He hears footsteps behind him,

And he stops, looks around, doesn't see anybody.

So he continues up the stairs...

...And he hears three more steps --

Dut, dut, dut -- to the landing.

He says, "I feel like I'm not there alone."

He said, "john, the hair on the back of my neck stood up."

Suddenly, brian is gripped

By an intense tightness in his chest.

Stop.

Turn around.

He saw the boy.

No.

Basically, he told me to go to the hospital.

So, he said, "I just thought I should go to the hospital."

He saved my life.

What?

He was having a heart attack.

He went right from the emergency room to a quadruple bypass.

I would have just sat there and read the newspaper.

Who knows what would have happened.

And he says that he probably would have just went

Upstairs, sat down, and read the paper

And he probably would have died right there.

He said, "but because of that..."

And whatever reason he thought he should go to the hospital,

And it saved his life.

He truly believes that this was like an angel

Sent to him to save him.

This isn't an older person that's ready to die.

This is a child that has no real concept of death,

Has no idea what it is.

So when the poor child found itself in this state,

Out of the body in the middle of this horrific car crash,

It went straight to the officer.

Those who die with great fear, with great pain, with confusion,

Those that are in a state of shock

Often seem to be earth bound.

They don't know how to get to where they're going next,

And sometimes they need help.

While this is extremely sad,

It's also heartening to see the child knew who it could trust.

Officer hulton returns to the scene of the crash,

The last place the boy was alive,

Hoping to release his spirit.

I've never had any experiences in the paranormal

Before this occurrence.

Knowing what I know now, maybe he's in limbo somewhere.

He doesn't know where he is.

I want to be able to help him.

Police tend to be pretty skeptical people.

I would have never thought it really existed

Until you have an experience like this.

But now that there's true support to what I saw,

It really makes you think that there's a lot more out there

Than, you know, one wants to believe.

aah!

Dispatch to car 5, accident on highway us 17.

Working a patrol nearby,

Police officer joseph warner responds to the 911 call.

Single-vehicle collision.

Victim's unknown.

This was a very busy night for us.

There were a lot of motorists on the road.

10-4. Two minutes away.

-Fire and ems dispatched. - Copy that.

Officer warner is the first on the scene

With paramedics not far behind.

As I approached the vehicle...

...I observed the driver, who was a white male,

Sitting in the driver seat.

Sir? Sir?

Sir?

I realized he was already deceased.

It was one of my first fatalities

That I actually worked by myself,

So it was a lot to take in.

At that point, he grabbed my hand.

He was trying to say something.

Help is on the way.

Help is on the way.

I was talking to him, telling him that it would be okay.

Stay with me.

His arm went limp.

Something happened, I'm not sure what.

Something medically happened.

Sir?

Sir?

This does not look good.

And they pronounced him dead at the scene.

I was pretty emotional at that point.

Once the paramedics removed the body,

It's the officer's job to safeguard the scene

And document any evidence.

Every time that there's a traffic fatality,

It's considered a crime scene until we can determine

That it wasn't a crime.

You want to preserve any evidence,

Make sure a crime hasn't occurred.

That would equal looking for tire marks, any witnesses,

Anything to try to piece it together immediately

Because all that fresh evidence eventually goes away.

According to the witnesses, it was driving straight,

Going the speed limit,

And then just veered to the left and into the tree.

I was taking photographs of the vehicle.

I had just passed the driver's door.

I was in the process of taking a picture of the tree

That the vehicle hit.

Right before I took the photo, I got really anxious,

I got nauseous, I felt uncomfortable.

I didn't know what was going on.

I've never experienced anything like that

Before previously as a police officer.

As the officer continues to study the scene,

He's puzzled by the eyewitness reports

Stating there was no oncoming traffic.

So what caused the vehicle to suddenly drive off the road?

When you're investigating a traffic accident,

You need to take photographs of as many aspects of the scene

To include the vehicle, the roadway,

Any evidence including skid marks.

It just didn't make sense to me.

Car 5, can you read me?

Officer warner.

We have another crash on us 17, marker 22.

Copy that.

Before the officer can further ponder

The cause of the accident, he's called to another crash.

I received a 911 call about another vehicle

That ran off the road.

An area that's very close by.

If you draw a straight line

I would say it's about 15 miles from the other accident.

Once again, officer warner is the first

To arrive on the scene.

As I was approaching it, I was trying to get myself back

In the mind-set as a police officer

'cause I was still kind of emotional.

The accident scene in eerily similar to the one he just left.

Mind-set I had was, "not another one."

The one that I just finished up with was a pretty bad one.

So to have two in one night to work on

Is not the most ideal situation for a police officer.

I approached the vehicle and I saw the driver.

I realized he was already deceased.

This is officer warner on scene of the motor-vehicle accident.

One fatality.

Copy.

I just had that anxious feeling.

As paramedics remove the body,

The officer repeats the same protocol

As for the previous crash.

I was getting ready to take some photographs.

Most striking is the fact both victims have lost control

Of their vehicle for no apparent reason,

And then they were killed by crashing into a tree.

This is way beyond the norm.

I took about 60 photographs that night of that accident.

You're looking for any evidence that could show up in a photo

'cause if a crime did occur

It would be pertinent to show in court.

After gathering all the physical evidence he can,

The officer is drawn to what sounds like someone

In the nearby woods.

I believe that there is some type of energy

In that area that was not good.

I just wanted to get out of there.

And I just so happened to look over for the same area

Where the vehicle hit the tree, and I saw what I thought

Was a person on the other side of the trees.

Who's there?!

It's coming closer, getting bigger

And bigger and bigger.

I did feel like it meant me some harm,

And I also felt that it did not want me there.

While police officer joseph warner patrols

The back roads of a small town in the eastern us,

He's called to respond to two fatal accidents

With eerie similarities.

Both accidents occurred on the same stretch of highway,

Involved drivers

That were seemingly forced off the road for no reason,

And both victims died by crashing into a tree.

Worse still, something menacing is stalking him from dark woods.

It was a black shadow...

On the other side of the trees.

I could definitely see a head, shoulders,

Feet, legs, everything.

It started walking towards me,

Getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

It definitely scare the crap out of me.

I also felt that it did not want me there.

I couldn't even wrap my mind around it --

Where it came from or what it was.

I try to rationalize it, and I just assumed

It was just because of the night and the stress.

He reports to headquarters...

This is officer warner.

...But keeps his strange experiences to himself.

I didn't want to publicize it too much

'cause if it gets around --

It's like high school, you know -- you get made fun of.

Later that night, I had to download the photos

Onto our server for the police department.

So I started going through all the photographs.

I took about 60 photographs that night of that accident.

The pictures were coming across the screen pretty quickly,

And one grabbed my eye.

This photo was of the impact area

Of where the second vehicle struck the tree.

Within a second of looking at this photo,

I picked out a face looking directly at me.

I saw eyeglasses, I saw a nose, the outline of the head,

And it looked like it was looking down on me

While I was taking the photo.

It immediately reminded me of the driver

'cause it had the same facial features

That the driver had when I looked at him.

But there's something else in the photo.

I saw a distinct black figure to the right,

But it has the same features of a body --

The head, the body, the shoulders, the legs.

In my opinion, that black-figure mass

That I caught in that photo is the same figure

I saw go through the trees.

He's suddenly overcome by the same strange feelings

From the crash sites.

I immediately got the same uneasy feeling

Where I got that cold air, I got anxiety, nauseous.

Just super uncomfortable.

The feeling that I had that night

Was in the exact same spot from when I took that photograph.

I didn't know what I caught or what I saw.

I was dumbfounded.

Hey. What's up?

Would you take a look at this?

Yeah, sure.

I called one of the other police officers over.

I showed them the photo, and immediately,

They saw the same thing that I saw.

Weird.

It must have completely freaked you out.

To this day it still does.

The black mass is a fairly ubiquitous visual phenomenon

In the paranormal realm.

Their motives usually are not good.

One of the possibilities in this case

Is that the entities involved are elemental.

Rather than being human spirits,

These could be spirits of the trees that line the roadside.

These could be spirits protecting this

Particular stretch of ground.

I try to rationalize it.

I looked at every single photo I took that night.

No other picture had anything in it.

If there was light that would have manipulated the photos

In any way, with how fast I was taking the photos,

It should have been in multiple photographs,

Not just one random photograph.

But what rational explanation

Could possibly account for the photo?

Just kept thinking about the photo

And I kept thinking about, you know, what was there

'cause it just didn't make sense to me.

It's believed by some that photographs

Are a means of communication between our realm

And the spirit realm.

The eye may not be able to see those entities,

But the camera seems to be somehow able to detect them

If the circumstances are right

And they give us a window into that next realm.

With two fatal accidents on the same stretch of road,

The presence of a terrifying shadow lurking in the woods,

And a face of a dead man appearing from a solid tree,

Officer warner makes a horrifying connection.

All these crashes have something to do with this energy

Or this black mass that I saw and I felt.

I would take a significant amount of energy

To drive a vehicle off the road.

It's also possible that something was deliberately

Distracting the drivers and forcing them to crash.

Concerned that a dangerous entity is haunting the area

And that more lives are at stake,

The officer returns to the first crash site

Looking for a clue to try to explain the unexplainable.

When I returned back to the scene

Of the accident...

...I immediately got that anxiety feeling again.

What we find in cases of negative entities

Is that they tend to give precursor warning signs

To tell people that they don't want them in there.

So the entity was actually trying to get him to leave.

It was completely quiet.

You could hear a pin drop at this point.

I believe that there is some type of energy in that tree.

What's unclear is why the entity has claimed two lives

And how many more might follow?

I saw what I thought was a person.

Hello?

Who's there?!

I think it was on the other side of the trees.

I could see bits and pieces of it, not the whole thing.

And looking more closely, it was a black shadow.

I didn't know where it came from or what it was.

With two dead bodies in less than 24 hours,

How far will the entity go to protect its land?

When I saw it continuing to move forward towards me,

I was **** terrified.

While investigating two fatal accidents

On the same stretch of road, police officer

Joseph warner is shocked by the similarities between cases...

Hello? Who's there?!

...And a sinister territorial presence.

When photos later confirm something unnatural

Is lurking in the forest, he returns to the crash site.

When I looked at the photograph,

I still had trouble putting my mind around it.

I was dumbfounded.

As he nears the tree line,

He comes face to face with a dark mass.

And it was just me and this figure.

I believe it was the same black mass that I saw in the photo.

Whatever this was was definitely aware of me.

It was walking straight towards me.

It definitely had some kind of interest in me.

It started walking towards me

And getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

At this point, I actually saw it go through two sets of trees,

And when it came in front of the trees...

...I couldn't see the trees behind it anymore.

I think this is where it lived.

I was completely terrified.

I don't know what it wanted, but I don't think it liked me.

We've got something that seems to be very territorial

And very negative.

Negative entities seem to be able, on the whole,

To be able to manipulate their environment,

Including moving extremely heavy objects

To frighten the perceiver

Into feeling like they're out of control.

Police! I'm not here to hurt you!

It was just absolutely horrifying.

I am convinced that I was dealing with something

That was not good.

I wanted to avoid the area at all costs.

As I was driving away,

I actually put my lights and sirens on,

And I drove as fast as I could away from that scene.

This particular stretch of highway,

It could be protected by the spirits of the land.

Drivers report being driven,

Some cases actually pulled off the highway.

Elemental spirits are a manifestation of nature itself,

Protecting the environment from what it sees

As hostile intruders.

Us.

Aah!

And when I left the scene,

I felt like I didn't belong there and I needed to leave.

I just went back to the office

And just stayed by myself for a while.

It just didn't make sense to me.

So I started going back through all the photographs.

What suddenly stirred this ancient entity

Into deadly action, and why has it turned so evil?

When I look at the photo,

I still get the same nauseous anxiety

Feeling when I focus on that black figure.

This is the complete opposite logic of what I was ever taught.

The officer finds the answers to his questions

In a set of municipal plans

For an ongoing highway redevelopment project.

One of the big things that they were doing

Was they were removing the trees in the middle of the roadway.

That's where a lot of the fatalities would occur.

I believe that there is some type of energy in that tree.

It comes out in certain situations.

It's definitely protecting its territory

And causing very severe car accidents,

Some of them being fatalities.

When the natural environment is changed,

Spirits don't seem to like it,

And they will make their displeasure known.

The drive's something that's dark, negative, and evil.

Negative entities are really all about dominance.

There's often a willingness to drive out anybody

Who may interfere with the relationship

That it had built with that territory.

One of the nicknames I use for the area

Is the bermuda triangle.

Since then, I never did any traffic enforcement

Above the 25-mile marker.

I avoided mile markers 25 through 33

'cause every time I drove through there

To make sure no one was broken down...

...I just had that anxious feeling

Of I just want to get out of there.

If you've got a distraction that's going on in your space,

Not only can you injure yourself,

But you can injure the people around you.

So whenever we get paranormal activity like this in a vehicle,

It's always of concern.

This experience made me look at things in different ways.

It opened me up to the paranormal world itself.

So it makes more sense to me now than it did all those years ago.

But to this day...

It still bothers me.