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An investigator in a Missouri cemetery...

...captures a dark entity on a tombstone.

When I slowed it down, I'm like, "Oh, my, that is creepy,"

and it don't look human either.

A young girl playing on her phone

catches a ghost...

...peeking in on her.

Just the way that it hovered over her, it definitely gave

me chills.

A home security camera in Tennessee

records a partially-manifested spirit...

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

Oh, thank you, I love you.

...to believe.

These days, many parents give their children cell phones,

primarily for safety and communication purposes,

but along with that peace of mind

comes worry

as to what their kids might be viewing online

when they aren't being monitored.

Or, in at least one case in Washington,

what their child might be capturing

with their phone's camera.

That was the concern of one young girl's uncle

who believes a video recorded by his niece

reveals something

that simply should not be there.

February 15th, 2023, Lake Forest Park, Washington.

A four-year-old named Ava is up late,

recording herself on her cell phone...

Alright.

...when,

just over her shoulder.

Don't miss it.

Did you see it?

Watch again,

as a featureless figure,

leans into frame on the left,

and then immediately

retreats, and as if that weren't disturbing enough,

seconds later...

...a noise as the figure returns momentarily

and seems to capture Ava's attention

before vanishing again.

Ava's uncle Matthew recalls when he and Ava's mother

discovered the video.

My name is Matthew, and this is my niece's video.

We were actually just going through photos on her phone,

trying to delete off memory and cleaning out her phone.

This video popped up and caught our attention.

I mean, it really kind of freaked me out.

At first, when it comes into the camera shot, you just see

it briefly.

And then I didn't think anything more of it,

but then when you see it come back into the camera shot

and her actually turn around and look at it,

is when we were like, whoa.

She actually sensed something was there.

Just the way that it hovered over her, it

definitely gave me chills.

And when they ask Ava if she remembers anything from

that night...

She just says that

she remembers thinking that

somebody had come into the room.

So she definitely sensed that it was there.

So what did Ava's cell phone capture that night?

This goes from cute and innocent to unsettling

real fast.

As a parent, this must be the moment where your kid's

screen time becomes your scream time.

To me, it seemed like whatever that figure is that enters from

the left side of the screen, it appears to be almost curious

to see what she's looking at.

And then it, you almost get the impression that it sees

itself appear in the camera and then pulls back away.

It just goes out of frame so fast.

And even that makes their hair stand up because,

you know, humans don't move that fast in that nature.

What's spooky about this is the actual detail of the face

when it comes back in for the second time.

It almost is as if it's shrouded.

It was like you could see the obvious eyes and cheeks

and chin and nose, but the mouth is missing, right?

It's almost obscured.

It's like the details of the face aren't there.

It's just implied.

And a lot of times when we're dealing with non-human energies,

they will kind of shapeshift into us the best way

they know how to interact with us.

It's like they created the human outline,

but none of the defining features.

I feel like we can't ignore the fact that we are hearing

other voices picked up on this recording that are not

emanating from the little girl.

She does not seem to be making the noise, but she does hear it

and responds to it.

So what was that that was causing that noise?

Matthew has an idea.

My dad passed about six years ago, so, I mean, it could have

been him coming back just to check on her, just to make sure

she was safe.

I don't know.

And while his niece was

initially scared by the footage she captured...,

...fortunately, now that several years have passed,

Ava doesn't seem to be too bothered by it.

We've received a lot of questions about what happens

when you die,

and, you know, we've had death in the family,

and so there are questions about, you know, "It could have

been grandma coming back to see me," or, you know,

"Was it grandpa that was coming back to see me?"

So she's definitely opened up a new world, I guess,

for her into that realm, so it's kind of neat to see.

Coming up, a home security camera in Tennessee

captures a partial

manifestation.

2 Depending on their own personal experiences,

those who have an ability for sensing the supernatural

either consider it to be a gift

or a burden,

because spirits can sometimes

be attracted to these individuals

and show up in their lives

for better...

...or worse.

Just ask one woman in Tennessee

whose capture of an entity passing through her hallway

was just par

for the course.

September 2nd, 2023. Walland, Tennessee.

Brandi Neely Burton has been having paranormal experiences

for most of her life.

From seeing shadow figures

to objects

being thrown across the room.

But tonight, her home security camera

catches something a little more

low-key.

Did you see it?

Watch again...

...as a translucent, headless figure

walks across her hallway,

which Brandi doesn't see until the following day

when she checks the footage

from her camera.

My name is Brandi, and this is my video.

I've had a few things throughout my lifetime happen,

and I think they're just some spirits that were just kind of

drawn to me.

And I've seen things since I was a little girl

and heard things.

So, we decided to put security cameras in the house just to

see what we find.

And I was just going through them, and I seen the shadow.

It's actually coming out of my bedroom and going

into the bathroom.

And to me, it looks like a lady or possibly a man, two

legs, a body, but you can see through it.

It's pretty scary, it's pretty wild,

but I was a little excited, actually, because I've captured

some things before, but nothing like this,

and it just kind of validated my experiences

whenever I see them.

This is the kind of evidence we love to see

in this field.

This is fantastic.

Literally, we're seeing what looks like

a full body apparition.

Everything but the head, which is interesting.

Shoulders, torso, legs, arms, all the way down.

However, translucent and almost oddly skeletal

in a way.

It's kind of unnerving how it looks.

If, in fact, this was a person in the house walking from room

to room across that hallway, I wouldn't expect it to show up

on video like this in this sort of misty apparition.

I mean, if it were a flesh and blood person, I would

expect maybe the camera would see them as more of a darker,

shadowy kind of a figure.

What's interesting as well is the time stamp says.

And most people are aware of that three to five,

that witching hour.

And a lot of researchers, paranormal and otherwise,

believe that this is a time when there is almost like this

liminal stage where spirits and ghosts, it's easier for

them to traverse between the spirit world

and the physical world and into our reality.

And so the timing of this just keeps on stacking up

and pointing in the direction that this is

a legitimate capture of a spirit.

And there's something else.

The apparition only appears on this particular camera,

and not a second one, which is pointed in the same direction.

These cameras are motion activated, so they're not

always running.

So the camera saw this and turned itself on.

But it was only on this camera.

We have another one.

It was in the bedroom, and it was coming out

into the hallway, and whenever you looked at that

camera, there was nothing.

So I don't think that camera even recognized it.

So if the second camera didn't pick up on it, one question I have is, why not?

Well, could it be that perhaps some of these anomalies

are unidimensional?

In other words, you have to be in the exact right position.

If you go to the left or go to the right, it disappears.

I've seen that actually quite frequently.

So has Brandi.

For nearly her whole life.

They just pass through.

I think if there's been one that's been kind of stable

throughout my lifetime, that's kind of followed me from

place to place.

So I get freaked out sometimes.

Sometimes it can be a very negative energy.

Sometimes they can get pretty scary and interfere with my

dreams and kind of interfere with my life a little bit.

But Brandi doesn't believe the figure in the hallway

has any malintent.

The lady that used to own the house

actually during this time

and they lived here for 40 years.

I kind of think it's her.

I don't think she's here all the time.

I think she just kind of came through or maybe a residual

part of her came through.

And as far as Brandi's concerned,

she's welcome to walk the halls

anytime.

Compared to most of my experiences, this was

definitely one of the most calmer.

I would always welcome her back,

if she wanted to come back and check on us again.

Coming up...

...did an investigator capture the Black Mist?

That's known to haunt a cemetery in Missouri.

2 There's a nearly 150-year-old cemetery in Missouri

where visitors have reported hearing children's voices,

seeing apparitions,

and even

a dark mist emitting from one of the graves,

activity which some believe has been stirred up by witchcraft

and rituals performed in the nearby woods.

After hearing the stories, a paranormal investigator went

there to see if she could reach out to some of

the disturbed deceased.

Is there anyone here who wants to talk to me?

And it seems at least one of them...

Can you show yourself?

...was willing to oblige.

January 2021, Imperial, Missouri.

Shannon Trump is a medium and has been exploring

Today, she is visiting St. Joseph's Cemetery.

They claim this cemetery

has malevolent and evil spirits in it.

So I thought I'd come check it out.

And she brought along an EMF meter

and a spirit box app to help any spirits communicate

with her.

Can you show me yourself?

You can talk into this camera

or into this machine I'm holding.

But though Shannon does manage to get a name on

her spirit box...

Michael?

Oh, there's a Michael.

Are you talking to me?

Her exploration reveals little else.

Is there anybody here?

Can you show yourself?

That is

until she's getting ready to leave.

Which grave is yours?

Did you see it?

Watch again,

as a dark shadow

appears on a gravestone,

then quickly retreats,

which Shannon doesn't see until

she's reviewing her footage later.

My name is Shannon, and this is my video.

At first, I'm like, "Oh, something's just blowing

in the wind," And then I looked at it, and I'm like,

"Well, it's not me because I'm in the shade."

And then when I slowed it down,

I'm like, "Oh my, that is creepy."

I just don't know what would have made that form.

And it don't look human either.

It could have been a shadow person.

I mean, I personally think it was.

Can you show yourself?

This isn't a hint of a shadow.

This is like an insanely obvious shadow form that moves

very clearly onto this stone and then back off of it again.

When I first saw the shadow, I tried to figure out if

perhaps it could be a tree casting the shadow or perhaps

a flag on a flagpole.

But there doesn't seem to be any breeze going on in

the trees that I see.

It's very rare to capture a shadow this dark, this solid,

in broad daylight.

That just doesn't typically happen.

Often see something like this.

So this is actually a pretty extraordinary find.

And it seems, whatever this shadow is,

is aware of Shannon's presence.

She asked for it to show itself...

Can you show yourself?

...and moments later, this shadow is captured

in front of that gravestone.

So there is a communication happening, and there is

a response or a reaction to her requesting for it to

show itself.

Can you show yourself?

That goes to show that it's intelligent because

it's giving her what she's asking for.

And it kind of coincides with one of the sightings of that

cemetery, which was people say it's a dark mist that comes

from a particular gravestone.

But at the end of the day, this could be, you know,

what that is, is this dark shadow on a headstone.

So, did Shannon capture evidence of the black mist

or any one of the other restless spirits known to haunt

St. Joseph's Cemetery?

While I think there might be something

to some cemeteries being haunted

with restless spirits that could be buried there,

more likely, I think it's the living that's bringing

in the activity, the energy, and maybe our own

attachments that we are essentially stirring up

the haunts in these hallowed grounds.

Cemeteries in general house all types of energy.

You have a place where you have thousands of people resting,

and these people walked all different types of lives.

I think it can drive all types of energy

and paranormal activity.

In this instance, Shannon's take is that

the energy she caught at the cemetery is decidedly

the dark kind.

I think it wanted to chase me out of there and scare me,

and it did kind of freak me out, I have to say.

And Shannon believes something

needs to be done about it.

I really wanted to go back and bring somebody with me

who can bless the place or maybe help the spirits

who are there find peace, because that's my goal when

speaking to human spirits, you know,

is to bring them some peace.

Which grave is yours?

Coming up, a cat feeder cam in Australia

captures a spirit

in a woman's living room.

2

As we've seen in previous cases,

certain professions lend themselves to experiencing

paranormal activity

a bit more than others,

like hotel staff,

funeral directors,

museum employees,

and of course, those in the medical field,

and while most of these experiences happen

exclusively while on the job,

be warned, there are some spirits

for which boundaries simply do not exist.

Case in point, a nurse from Australia who may have had

a recently deceased patient

follow her home.

September, 2025.

Melbourne, Australia.

Hayley Green has a cat feeder

that takes photos when it detects movement

in her living room,

which helps her keep an eye on her cat.

One day, when she is scrolling through the photos,

she sees one that was taken two nights earlier while she was

in bed.

That makes her blood run cold.

It's a figure of what appears to be a person

standing next to Haley's couch.

The problem is Haley lives alone.

My name is Hayley and these are my photos.

And so I was just flicking through my phone, because it

comes up on my phone,

And I was like, "What's going on here?"

And the cat was next to me on the bed.

So I knew she didn't set off the actual motion detector in

the cat feeder.

About a week later,

it happens again.

This time,

the figure appears in almost the exact same position.

And a week after that,

it's back again.

This time,

it seems to be sitting on the couch.

I was just really intrigued by the first one.

I was like, "I wonder if

it's just, you know, a trick of the light."

{camera shutter clicks]

And then when I got the other two, I was like, "No, this has

"to be some sort of spirit that's coming in and out of

the house, and I just happened to capture it."

But whose spirit could it be?

And why are they in Hayley's home?

To me, this presents more male based off of the build of

the body, and it looks odd because it looks like

it's standing in the middle of the couch or behind the couch

in a way that a body shouldn't be able to really exist without

a lot of contortion.

Make out a head, shoulders, a torso,

but what's odd is that they have no lower portion,

or at least the spatial logistics of this

don't seem to fit.

So is this just a time overlap, or is something trying to

manifest in this room?

One week later, this image was captured.

This is just as remarkable, but in different ways.

It seems now this male figure is seated on the couch,

and almost has its hand up like this, like perhaps

it's revealing something, or almost in an odd way,

like it's in mid-conversation.

It looked like a man sitting on their couch,

but he wasn't defined like a human.

It looked like some sort of apparition that had literally

just materialized.

Hayley has an idea as to who the apparition is,

and it has to do with her job.

A few days before,

because I work as a nurse in the hospital.

And I heard my name being called and like a conversation

going on behind me and turned around, nothing was there.

So then when I've seen this picture

come up on the cat feeder,

Because I have a very big belief in spirits.

The nurse connection is interesting because I do think

there are certain people who become guides to spirits,

either wittingly or unwittingly.

And when you're a nurse and you have a vocation dedicated to

helping the sick and dying, I wonder if someone who passes

on might get slightly confused and continue to see you as

a helper, maybe even following you home to seek

assistance or solace.

If a spirit did follow Hayley home,

it seems to have moved on,

because her cat feeder hasn't captured any more images since,

and regardless, Hayley isn't too concerned.

Rather, she finds comfort in having these images that

solidify her belief

in the afterlife.

It's definitely made me a stronger believer that there

is something after we pass, which is a good thing in my

eyes, because at least I know I can sort of continue on my way

as a spirit in the afterlife.

Coming up,

a woman in Colorado.

Give me a sign that you know I'm here, my love.

Gets a much-needed hello

from her deceased son.

Oh, Thank you, I love you.

2 Losing a loved one is

undoubtedly one of the most

difficult parts of life.

Even more so when that loved one

happens to be your child.

And while nothing can ever replace a loss like that,

for those who believe in an afterlife,

small signs of that loved one's continued presence

can be a world of comfort.

Just ask one woman in Colorado

who believes her deceased son has a subtle way of

communicating with her,

especially when she needs him the most.

June, 2023, Wheat Ridge, Colorado.

Christina Luna is at the cemetery visiting her son

Josiah's grave.

Give me a sign that you know I'm here, my love.

Make your things spin.

And while it may seem like the last place a mother would

want to be.

I love you.

Let me know that you're safe with Grandpa Len and Auntie

Vanessa, Grandma Ernie.

For Christina,

what happens here

is life-affirming.

Let me know that you're safe with them, Bean.

Spin it if you're safe.

Show me, baby.

Please show me a sign.

Aw, thank you, I love you.

My name is Christina, and this is my video.

Give me a sign that you know I'm here, my love.

I always sit there and talk with him.

He always gives me signs.

My goal was to actually capture my moment to share it

with the world.

Aw, thank you, I love you.

That moment was more like a mom-I'm-still-here moment.

I could feel the chills and I could feel, like, just this

warming sensation in my heart.

So, like, I think he was just trying to comfort me that day.

I was staring at the blue pinwheel.

That was where my eyes went first, and I was waiting for it

to move.

And so it was out of the corner of my eye...

Show me, baby.

...that I noticed a little movement from the other

pinwheel, the one on the left.

It was almost like a little engine revving up,

like a almost there, almost there.

The pinwheel just turns until we get a full solid spin...

Oh, thank you, I love you.

...and that other pinwheel didn't even budge.

If there was wind, both of those would be turning.

You have something else side by side as a comparison.

You can see that that's not being manipulated or affected...

Make your things spin.

...and so, you left with really only one answer there, is that

her son is communicating to her from the other side by

using that pinwheel

and actually causing that motion.

Christina later posts her remarkable video online,

where viewers point out another possible confirmation

of her son's presence.

Did you see it?

Watch again,

in slow motion,

as a wisp-like orb

flies past the camera

that some believe

to be Josiah.

I do definitely believe that orb was, you know,

just the extra check mark, like, "Hey, he was there,"

possibly even my dad or sister, who I was asking in the video

about, you know?

It definitely looked like something tried to

manifest itself while she was present.

I've been in situations before where I've seen the exact

same thing.

I didn't catch it in real time, but going back and looking at

the footage, you see what seems to be something supernatural

or paranormal presenting itself.

and Christina believes Josiah's spirit

is not only present at the cemetery.

Oh, I get crazy sights here at the house, too.

He actually likes to play with the electricity.

He has knocked pictures off of our wall in my daughter's room.

We see shadows go from my room to her room.

It does give you goosebumps, and it's also like he knows

that we know it's him, because we'll start to say,

"Josiah, enough," like when it starts to freak us out a little

bit, because then he'll stop.

But then he does it again,

and it's just, okay, he's joking with us now.

Spirits tend to hang out in the places they're most

familiar with in life, and then there could kind of

symbolic places where they might go.

So it makes sense that the same spirit could be in both places.

Though Christina believes that where Josiah shows up is less

about location

and more about being wherever he's needed most.

He knows when I'm really struggling.

I feel like he can sense it, even though he's no

longer here.

And knows when Mom needs a sign.

So when I talked to him and he did show me that sign,

it literally made me just bawl my eyes out.

It makes me feel like he's still with me.

Oh, thank you. I love you.

Coming up, is this creeping creature in South Carolina

a skinwalker on the hunt?

2 Capturing some kind of entity on camera,

around where you live,

can be terrifying,

because you not only have to figure out what, exactly,

it might be...

but also why exactly it is there.

Is it just passing through,

a result of some misguided ritual in the area,

or simply

on the hunt?

This is what one couple in South Carolina was left

to ponder

when they caught this

creeping around their tool shed.

July 3rd, 2023, Inman, South Carolina.

Crystal and her husband Donnie have been hearing strange

noises from their tool shed

night after night.

Thinking that someone has been breaking in,

they set up a security camera.

And tonight, just after pulling into their driveway,

Crystal watches the camera's live feed on her phone

while still in the car

and spots something truly bizarre.

Watch closely.

Watch again,

{tape rewinds]

as a strange spindly creature walks on four legs,

before appearing to become bipedal

and disappearing.

What did Crystal and Donnie, who have asked to have

their identities obscured,

capture on camera?

- My name is Crystal. - And my name is Donnie.

And this is our video.

Even more unsettling is what happens when Crystal

looks up from her phone,

toward the area the camera is pointed.

So, how could it be on camera

and yet nowhere in sight?

Now, if it's only showing up on camera and they're not

seeing it with the naked eye, it's not in the physical space,

then that would suggest

something more supernatural of nature.

There's definitely something walking

into the frame,

but it's not anything that I can recognize.

The form seems to be kind of fluid, as if it's changing as

this thing walks.

What really stands out and gives that supernatural

element to what we're seeing here is this "animal,"

air quotes, seems to be walking on four legs, but at the same

time, it looks more like a bipedal creature of some

sort, kind of hunched over and crawling.

It's trying to mimic the natural movements of

an animal, but obviously we're seeing the proof that this is

really not a normal animal walking in this clip.

That's an understatement.

Because to Crystal and Donnie, its behavior points to it being

something extremely not normal

and terrifying,

a skinwalker.

A skinwalker is a type of shapeshifter.

It's usually the result of witchcraft,

but a lot of the stories that we hear are stories that drive

home the potential negative impacts of this.

When transformation goes wrong, when a person maybe becomes

an animal only partway, or they find themselves in

an animal body but with their human brain and they

don't know how to work that animal body.

A lot of people say, when they can't describe

something that acts like an animal but, like, kind of

looks like a human, they automatically, like,

go skinwalker,

but I think this is more like a rake.

Rakes are just like the worst, a conglomeration of like

the most depraved human energies that exist and they

become embodied in like a grotesque animal.

I think it's what a lot of people would describe

as demon-like.

Even more frightening.

But whether a skinwalker, rake,

or something else entirely,

why here in South Carolina?

South Carolina is no stranger to cryptids.

What I've investigated there, we've looked into

the Lizard Man,

into Bigfoot.

A lot of different possible entities that might

be reported.

So this family, if they truly think they've captured

something like that, I'd say let's get some better cameras

out there and let's cover more areas.

That may work for another family,

but not for Crystal and Donnie,

because they have since moved,

though the experience

remains deep within them.

I really just want to spread the word to people that all

the stuff like that that you hear about, that a lot of

people don't believe in, I know for a fact

that this stuff is real.

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.

Which grave is yours?

Trust that what you're seeing

really is otherworldly.

Oh, thank you. I love you.

Don't stop recording.

Even if you're scared.

And, if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen right here

on Paranormal: Caught on Camera.