All language subtitles for Paranormal Witness s01e02 Haunted Highway.eng

[Police siren wailing]

- There was
something pulling me...

[Eerie indistinct whispering]

Up the mountain.

- Chris would come
back from the grave

just to protect him.

- I really don't
know what it was.

I can't explain it.

- I said, "nobody's gonna
believe what's happening."

[Eerie voice whispering]

- She had premonitions
before, but this was so real.

- Whoa!

- She died on impact.

- [Crying]

- I'm bringing us back around.

It's behind us.

[Eerie whispering]

- We'd been visiting
family in Sacramento.

I had just sat up in bed
and had this thing inside me

that I needed to go home,

and I needed to go home then.

I just felt like there was
something pulling me

up the mountain.

We jumped in the car. We drove.

It was late.

We're on highway 50.

I don't like traveling the
mountain at nighttime.

It's a really windy
and twisty road.

You can go off the road.

I was looking out the window.

And as we're going
around bullion bend,

on the side of the road, I
see this blackish white thing.

And I didn't know what it was.

And when I was right up on it,

I could tell that
it was a woman.

She was naked, totally naked,

and really white.

I know that I saw
her on that road.

[Delicate instrumental music]

♪ ♪

[Indistinct echoey voices]

- All right, keep going.

- What do you think grandpa is?
- [Giggles]

- I have two kids.
Christine was the oldest.

- It's a little slippy.

- Christine was very
bubbly, very outgoing,

very independent.

- Careful of the branch.
- Oh, hold on!

- Chris has a little boy, Nick.

- Oh, you okay?
- I got it.

- She was a mother that every
little boy would love to have.

Both: One, two, three, Whoo!

[Laughter]

- Chris was really ambitious.

She worked a couple jobs
and put herself through college.

And when she finally graduated,
she got a job as a paralegal

600 miles away down
in southern California.

- Oh, you guys have fun, huh?

- All right, I really gotta go.
- Okay.

- Finally the time came
where she had to leave.

- Love you. Okay, have fun.

- It was kind of sad...
- Okay.

- To see them go,
but it was a happy time

because she had
what she worked for

for so hard.

- I'll see you guys later.

[Together] All right, bye!

- Drive safe!
- See you!

- Chris said she would
call us in a couple days.

And we said, "okay, no problem."

[Telephone ringing]

- [Groans]
- Who is that?

- Wednesday morning, we
got a call from a friend of Chris.

- Hello?

- She said, "hey,
Chris isn't here.

She was supposed to be
here. Don't you guys care?"

And I said, "well, what
are you talking about?"

- She's made her way
down to southern California.

- And she goes, "well, she was
supposed to be here Monday,

and here it's
Wednesday morning."

- Yes, yes, I'm trying to
track down my daughter.

- Then, you know, we
started getting a little worried.

They could be anywhere.

- I'm wondering if
you have records...

- Called the hospitals.

We called the police department.

- Yeah, I'd like to
report a missing person.

- Their response was,
"well, that's only 48 hours,

and we get 200
calls like that a week."

They more or less said,
"well, she'll show up.

Don't worry about it."

- The first time I
heard about this case,

I was working for the El dorado
county sheriff's department.

And my assignment at the
time was working patrol...

Graveyard patrol shift.

- We got a missing person.

We got an adult female
traveling with a young boy.

Unknown direction of travel.

- The case with
Christine initially was just

a mother and her son who were
moving to southern California.

- The family has no idea
where they might have gone.

- There's people reported
missing all the time...

You know, every day
throughout this country.

- Also got an
assault with a knife.

- There was nothing
out of the ordinary.

I thought it was just
another... I hate to say it...

But a routine missing
persons report.

- It was like, "okay,
what do we do now?"

We were handing out fliers,

and we went to every place...

Whether it was a
restaurant, a home,

gas station, shopping markets.

We told people that our
daughter's been missing

for three days.

And if they had seen her,

please call us.

- [Gasping]

[Telephone ringing]

- We were at home
when the phone rang,

and it was my sister-in-law,
600 miles away.

- Hi, Karen.

- Dave? I just had
an awful dream.

- She calls kind of frantic

and said she had a dream.

- It was dark. There was lights.

- She could see Nicky,

some lights, she said.

- No, Chrissy wasn't
in it. It was just Nicky.

And the number 16 kept
popping up over and over.

It was, like, two, three times,
I kept seeing this number 16.

- She kept seeing a
number 16 popping up.

At the time, I didn't
know what "16" meant.

- Just try to stay calm.

- The dream was vivid
enough that she believed in it.

- Yeah, but I have to
come down to see you.

- She had premonitions
before, but this was so real,

she knew that she
was gonna find them.

[Indistinct radio transmission]

- On Friday, I was
approached by the detective

that had been
assigned to this case.

And he suspected that perhaps

she stopped at one of the
all-night, 24-hour gas stations

in placerville
to fill up her car.

There was, I believe,
four gas stations

in this immediate area
we were looking for.

And I began asking them
if they had any recollection

of seeing this
girl, this vehicle,

if anything sounded
familiar or similar to them.

I remember going to the
gas station in placerville,

and I specifically recall
going in and the clerk...

He was a younger
guy that worked there.

- This area about
two, three days ago.

- Oh, yeah, yeah. I
remember seeing them.

- You saw them.
- Yeah.

He remembered her.

- When?
- Uh, a few days ago?

- And he recalled the car.

He remembered a
little boy was with her.

- Her son just
waited in the car.

- He didn't know
the license plate.

He didn't know if it
matched, but the girl,

the picture that
was on the flier,

seemed to resemble the girl
that he remembered having

a conversation with.

- Reported to come by this
area two or three days ago.

- Oh, yeah, yeah. I
remember seeing them.

- You saw them?
- Yeah.

- He remembered
her. He recalled the car.

He remembered a
little boy was with her.

- Hello. How are you tonight?

- He said that she
bought a couple sodas,

and they had some small
talk... "where are you off to?"

- I'm going to
California for a new job.

- And he remembers her
saying she's really tired,

but she's got to make the drive.

She's gonna go up and
see a friend, you know,

and having to make
that drive up highway 50.

He remembered specifically
two things in particular:

Her being tired and
her having to drive

through these windy
mountain roads to go up there

to go see a friend.

- Thanks.

- All kinds of things
entered my mind.

She could have been
involved in an accident.

She could've
driven off the road.

She could've had car trouble,

and somebody else could've,
you know, stopped to help her,

and ended up taking
her and the car.

We were concerned that, did
she maybe get into an accident?

Did she meet with
some foul play?

I mean, any number of
things could've happened.

[Eerie whispering]

- [Sighs]

- We'd been visiting
family in Sacramento.

And around 2:00, I
woke my husband up

and told him I
needed to go home.

I literally started
shaking him awake.

- We need to go.
- What? What for?

- I need to go home.
- Can't we just go tomorrow?

- And he was saying, "well,
can't we wait until tomorrow?"

And I said, "no, I
want to go now."

- What's the matter?
- I don't know.

- I needed to leave right now.

Normally I would've
just went back to sleep,

but I just...

Kept bothering him
until he finally said okay.

- Okay, we'll go.

- I just felt like there
was something pulling me

up the mountain.

When you drive from
Sacramento to lake Tahoe,

it turns into the mountains.

We're on highway 50.

It was odd because I don't
like traveling the mountain

at nighttime.

It's really a windy
and twisty road.

And you can go off the road.

I was looking out the window.

And as we're going
around bullion bend,

on the side of the road, I
see this blackish white thing.

And I didn't know what it was.

And when I was right up on it,

I could tell that
it was a woman.

She was naked, totally naked,

and really white.

I can see her body,

and I can see that
it was a woman...

But I could not see her shadow.

- I just saw a dead woman
on the side of the road!

- What? What?

Do you want me to stop?

- My husband wanted to stop.

And he said he was gonna go back

'cause he could
probably help her.

What if she wasn't
dead, and I'd told him,

no, I didn't want to go back.

She may be a ploy, you know.

What if somebody was in
the woods waiting to come out

and then take our car,
or take us with the car,

or kill us?

I asked him to please
find the nearest phone.

- There's a phone right here.

- We drove on about
another quarter mile.

There's a ranger station
up on the mountain.

And I called 911.

- Hi, I'd like to,
uh... Report a...

A body on the side of the road.

- They told me somebody would
be there and to get in the truck

and lock the door.

- [Crying]

- We sat in the
car, and we waited,

which seemed like hours,
which was probably just minutes.

[Police siren blares]

The cop car pulled up.

And I jumped out of
the car and I told them

that I had seen a naked
lady on the side of the road,

and she was really white,
and I thought she was dead.

The officer told
me, "take us there,

but stay back 200 yards."

We pulled out of the
parking lot, and we drove.

And then I said,
"Nicky, this is it.

There's bullion bend up ahead."

He had a big spotlight,
and he was looking.

And then he came back down

and told me that they
hadn't found anything

and that we should go home.

And I even told my
husband that I didn't think

that they believed me and
that they thought I was crazy,

and they probably
just stopped the search.

But I know that I
saw her on that road.

- Hey, guys.

- Hey, how are you?
- How's it going?

- Not bad.

- Later in the shift that
night, I met up with the officers

that had gone up to the
call that Deborah hoyt made.

- What's going on with
bullion bend, seriously?

- We were speculating.

I mean, maybe
she's imagining it;

maybe it's a practical joke.

- Okay, so was she
nuts? I mean, was she...

- No, she was very convincing.

Like, she saw something.

- They believed her.

It wasn't like they'd dismissed
her as being a whack job,

but they believed her.

- We got in the house,

and I just laid on my
bed and kept crying.

I kept trying to
go to sleep, but...

She kept popping in my head.

The vision of her just
kept popping in my head,

and when it did, I
would wake up and cry.

- I got a call to go back
to the sheriff's department.

I met with the aunt and
uncle of Christine skubish,

who had just spent all
night driving up to placerville

from southern California.

- Okay, well, we want to
help. Where can we go?

- They were
concerned, obviously,

for Christine and for Nicky,

because nobody had
seen or heard from them.

And they'd indicated
to me that they wanted

to start their own search.

- Highway 50, okay.
We're gonna go there now.

- No, you can't go there.

- And I recommended
that they get some rest.

They were both very tired.

Get some sleep and start
fresh when the sun is up.

As I was talking to them, I
was becoming more suspicious

that there could
be some connection

between this naked woman
and Christine skubish.

I just had a sixth sense.

I thought, "I'm gonna go up
into that area and search myself."

[Haunting instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- And I was desperate to
find her, along with my wife.

As the time was clicking on,

we started getting
more and more worried.

We knew that
something had happened,

but we didn't know what.

[Intense instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- As I drove up there,
obviously the sun is rising.

It's getting brighter.

I approached the
bullion bend area.

This is the area that Deborah
hoyt had told the officers

where she'd seen
this naked woman.

I was looking for anything
that was out of the ordinary.

It could've been
debris on the roadway

that ordinarily
wouldn't be there.

It could be skid marks
off the side of the road.

Anything that isn't
ordinarily on the highway,

I was gonna stop
and investigate.

Once I got into the bullion
bend area, I slowed my car down.

I saw a small tennis shoe,
like a child's tennis shoe,

on the road.

I'm thinking, "what are the
odds that this is Nicky's shoe?"

I mean, this is
exactly the location

that I had been told
Deborah hoyt said

she saw a naked
woman on the shoulder.

- I could look down
and actually see

that this was a
very steep drop-off.

And there was, you
know, big pine trees

all intermingled there.

And as I'm looking down,
I started to see debris.

That's when I saw the red car.

The whole roof had been
peeled back on this car,

and so the entire top
part of the car was missing.

It was gone.

[Tense instrumental music]

♪ ♪

I came around to see if
there was anybody in there.

I realize at that point

this is in fact
Christine skubish.

I reached, and I tried
to feel for a pulse.

At that point, I knew
that she had died.

She was deceased.

What bothered me
the most about this,

not that seeing
Christine like that,

but looking across the car...

That's what really got me.

He had basically
the look of death.

He didn't have any
life, looking at him.

I took my light, and I
shined my light in his eyes

to see if there's any reaction.

And I saw no reaction,
no pupil change.

I didn't feel a pulse.

I believed that
Nicky, too, was dead.

- [Raspy gasp]

- And then I noticed
that his chest,

as he's laying, his
chest Rose a little bit,

like he took a breath.

- [Raspy breathing]

- And I thought my mind
was playing tricks on me.

I thought I was seeing things.

And then I got down close,

and I could actually
feel shallow breaths.

- [Raspy breathing]

- And I said, "oh,
my god. He's alive."

- Nicky, stay with me.

Nicky, stay with me.

- I immediately
got on the radio.

- I need an e.M.T. Down
here as soon as possible.

- I tried to hold his hand.

I said, "Nicky, if you can
hear me, squeeze my hand."

- Stay with me,
now. Stay with me.

- I tried to get him
to interact with me.

- Come on, Nicky.

- I just continued
to repeat his name.

- Stay with me.

- And I told him,
"you're gonna be okay."

Another deputy showed up,

and I called him
down to where I was.

I told him who Nicky was,

and I said, "you got
to stay here with him.

You know, I'm afraid
the family's coming."

I didn't want them to see

the condition of
Christine or Nicky.

And sure enough, Karen arrived.

- Stay back, please.
- [Sobbing]

- Nicky's okay.

- And I had to put up
my hands and say, "stop."

- Stay back, stay back.
Let's go back up the hill.

- I kind of held Karen,
and I looked her in the face,

and I told her, "the
car's down here.

I found both
Christine and Nicky."

- Watch your step,
watch your step.

- And then I had to tell her.

I said, "Christine
didn't make it.

Christine died."

- It's okay, it's
okay. It's okay.

- Oh, my god, Christine!

- "But Nicky is alive."

- You're okay, buddy.
- Okay.

All right.
- Let's get you home, buddy.

- Everybody ready?
One, two, three.

- It's okay, Nicky.

We'll get you home safe.

- The firefighters,
the paramedics,

they did all the treatments,
the neck support, everything,

and put him on a flat back
board to get him out of there

and load him into an ambulance.

[Indistinct radio transmission]

- We got the phone call.

They found Chris and Nick.

And my wife kept saying,
"well, how are they?

Are they okay?"

And I had to tell her...

"Brenda, Chris is dead."

- Earlier today police responded

to a fatal car accident
on highway 50.

- My mother came to tell me

I needed to see something on TV.

- 23-year-old Christine
skubish and her son, Nicky,

went missing five days ago.

Their car was found in a ravine.

Christine was pronounced
dead at the scene.

- I looked up, and
I saw the woman

that I had saw on
the side of the road.

- Remarkably Nicky
survived for five days

without food or water.

She had the same soft face,

and if you can imagine
her eyes closed,

that would've been her.

- The woman that
Deborah hoyt saw

could not have been
Christine skubish

because the night that
Deborah hoyt saw this woman,

Christine skubish had
already been dead for five days.

- The coroner's report indicated
that death was immediate

and that she died on impact.

Christine skubish never
took off her clothes,

never climbed up the hill,

never lied on the
side of the road,

never went back
down and got redressed

and put herself back in the car.

None of that happened.

She was lying dead
in that car for five days

before Deborah hoyt ever saw
anybody on the side of the road.

- When I walk into the
room, I could see him there,

and he was trying to hold
his hands up, like, "papa."

- Papa!

- [Laughing] Nicky, look at you.

- And he was pale, skinny,

but he had a smile on his face.

I walked over there,

and not grabbing
him hard or tight,

but just held him as
gently... Like a baby.

[Clapping]

And it's like we were happy.

Although we lost our daughter,

we were happy that
Nicky was still there.

- Roughly about 17
years have passed

since the accident happened.

Most of the things
that I do remember

are just lots of
flashes, mostly pictures.

They're very vivid.

The earliest ones...
I do remember being

at my grandparents'
house with my mother.

I remember them
having a conversation.

I don't exactly know
what it was about.

That's about the earliest
memory that I have.

The closest memory
that occurs after that

is of the accident itself.

I remember
tumbling down the hill.

[Crashing and glass breaking]

It's just tree after
tree after tree.

We were just
hitting them head-on.

I just remember waking up
and being in the passenger seat

next to my mother.

I remember not
knowing what to think.

Looking at my mom and just
kind of thinking she was asleep.

I didn't think anything
more than that...

At least, not that I remember.

I remember seeing lights.

And I just remember that
there was something there.

There was something right
next to the car the entire time

next to my mom.

I have a very distinct
and vivid picture of it

in my head.

I mean, it was just a light.

It was a big light.

And then through the
back window of the car itself,

I could also see the
same thing next to the road.

And it had a silhouette.

There was no specific features,

but I saw a lighted
outline of a body.

[Eerie indistinct whispering]

It was never something
that scared me.

And I didn't feel
afraid when I saw it.

- Two weeks later, Brenda and
I decided to go to the crash site

to see if there was anything
else that was left down there

behind that were Chris's.

We wanted to make sure that
we got everything out of there.

As I got out of the car,
there was a little mile marker

it said "16 miles" with an
arrow pointing to placerville.

Then I knew that my
sister didn't have a dream.

It was a premonition.

- The number 16 kept popping up.

- And it all started
making sense

as I started adding the pieces.

- When you put all of the
pieces of the puzzle together...

You take the dream
that my aunt had,

the apparition sighting
that Debra hoyt did see...

- I just saw a dead woman
on the side of the road.

And the lights that I
did see around the car...

It had to have been an angel.

Whether it was god's hand

or just a mother
looking after her son,

I honestly don't know,
but it was something.

It was something
greater than me,

greater than anything
that I've ever believed.

- I absolutely think something
special happened here.

People have asked before,

"is this some
kind of a miracle?"

Yeah, I think it is a miracle.

It's a whole number of series
of events that I can't explain.

And I don't know. I've
often thought about it.

I just don't have the answers.

- I would come into the heliport

and preflight the helicopter.

Then we would settle
in and try to Gauge,

listening to the police radio,

of how the day was going.

- Alex, you copy?

- I was working with a new
crew member, Kenny downs.

He did not have
any flight experience,

and my job was to kind of guide
him and show him the ropes.

- I'd only been in the
unit a couple weeks.

So it was like having
a brand-new job.

We noticed very quickly
it was a very quiet night.

Around 10:30 or
11:00 that night...

- engine's on.

- We decided that we
should take the helicopter up

and do our routine patrol.

- Requesting
permission to take off.

- Make our presence known.

- Air one, this is north tower.
You are clear to hover taxi.

- Copy that.

- Get us in town,
see what's happening.

- Kenny and I were flying.

Kenny was shining the light,

checking for anything
that may be unusual.

Checking rooftops of
businesses, school grounds,

and the expressways
and roadways.

- Expressway
looks fine. No traffic.

Not much, Kenny.

All clear right now.

- The radio was quiet.

There wasn't a lot of
activity on the streets.

- Let's head a little further
out and see what's going on.

- There was virtually
nothing in the sky.

It was just a slow
night all the way around.

- So you wouldn't think that
that night would be a night

that you'd remember
for the rest of your life.

- Over to the west, we'll
head over and we'll check in

on the container yard.

Swing your light
around that side.

Let's keep an eye out
for what's happening.

- We had been flying for
about 45 minutes to an hour.

- Air one, we have a
burglary in progress

on beutil road.

- Copy that.

- A call came out that there
was a burglary in progress.

- And it's about three
miles up north, I believe.

- Then as we got nearer,

which was only about
a couple minutes,

three minutes away,

I saw a light flickering.

The officer was
shining his flashlight,

turning it off and on,

and I could tell
where we were going.

- All right, this is beutil
coming up right over here.

- We were almost there.

- Be advised, all personnel,
that is a false alarm.

- And they told us that
it was a false alarm.

- Copy that.

False alarm, Kenny.

- All right, I'm gonna
bring us around then.

We'll head back to
base if that's the case.

- We decided that we would
just head back to the heliport

and take a break.

- Kentucky a.T.C.,
this is air one.

We are four miles
due southwest of...

- Roger that, air one.
You are clear to land

on helipad three.

- En route back to the heliport,

we went over a group of trees.

We cleared this clump of trees,

and I saw something
very unusual.

- What's that?
- What's what?

- Look over to your left.

- I recall Kenny saying to me,

"Kenny, when did that
tower get out there?"

And I said, "tower? What tower?"

"Yeah, that tower
with the light on it."

- There is no tower there.

- He said, "what are
you talking about?"

I said, "that right there."
So I shined the light on it.

- And I looked over and
saw a glowing object.

And I said, "what is that?"

- That's definitely
not a light on a tower.

- I got lower
and a little closer.

- It was very bright.

It had a pear shape.

It just set there.

So we were kind of
facing off with each other.

It was looking at us,
and we were looking at it.

I kept asking Kenny,
"what is this thing?"

- Look at that.

- We just couldn't believe
what we were seeing.

It started gaining altitude...

Coming up to about our altitude.

It stopped for a second.

It kind of looked at
us, kind of faced off,

and then it started
going to the right...

And then to the left.

- Wow, I've never
seen anything like it.

- Okay.

- It kind of hovered
like we were doing.

So we were kind of
faced off with each other.

And then all of a sudden, it
just takes off at warp speed.

[Sonic boom]

And just goes, like, a
mile and a half in a second.

- Oh, my god.
- It took off.

- As it disappeared
from my sight,

it had to be going
600 miles an hour.

- We just couldn't believe it.

What is this thing?

It would leave, and
it would be right back.

[Sharp hissing]

- I saw a helicopter hovering
over the g.E. Property.

I could tell that it was
a police helicopter.

- What do you got
going on over at g.E.?

I'm across the
street in the park.

- I said, "guys, you all
need to come over here.

We've got something chasing
us. We're in g.E. Parking lot."

- You know, I moved onto
the property to get a better look.

And, you know, I
see the helicopter,

and then off to one side I
see kind of a faint glowing light.

- Joe, we're seeing this
orange glow up in the sky here.

Do you see what
we're seeing, Joe?

- I see it all around you.

- You know, I'm talking
to Kenny on the radio,

and you know, we're
basically asking him,

"hey, what is it, guys?" You
know, "what are you seeing?"

- It's behind us! Behind us.

- I hear, "Kenny,
it's chasing us!

It's chasing us!"

- I'm bringing us back around.
Bringing us back around.

- Air one, I have
no idea what that is.

- I'm thinking, "this thing
is gonna hit our tail rotor."

- Keeps going behind.
I can't keep it in front.

- I turn into it.

- Stand by, air one. I
have no idea what that is.

- We're chasing after it.

I was looking out my windshield.

I want to know what it is.

The whole time, you know,

I'm chasing this
object and everything,

things are flashing
through my mind.

Is it a plane, a balloon?

Some kind of aircraft?

I can't keep my eye on
it 'cause they're moving,

and I'm having to
move to try to keep up

and get a closer look at it.

I'm driving pretty fast...

As I'm zigzagging
through the buildings.

It started getting farther
and farther away from me

where I couldn't
keep up with it.

- The last moment,
it was unbelievable.

- It's hovering
right in front of us.

- It's hovering.
- Whoa!

- What the hell is that?

- Oh, my god.

All of a sudden, there
come the fireballs.

- Whoa!

- Where'd it go?

- When it fired out,

they stayed equal
distance to each other.

- Look at that.
- There's another one.

- When they shot
these fireballs out,

one never passed the other one.

It was just right in line.

- At that same time,

I'm banking the helicopter
hard to the left and turning

because I didn't want
these objects to hit us.

- I see these faint fireballs
just kind of spurt out.

- By then, I'm coming
back up and around

to see where it went.

And it was gone.

- Where'd it go? Kenny? Kenny?

Where'd it go?
- I-I don't know.

- And we were
saying, "where is it?"

- Kenny, you see anything?
I don't see anything.

- There was nothing.
It just vanished.

We circled the area and could
not find any trace of anything.

Just as it appeared
in the beginning,

it was gone in an instant.

- Once the unidentified
flying object disappeared,

we decided to head in.

There wasn't a
lot of conversation.

- At that point, I'm just
kind of baffled, you know.

What was it?

We're trying to say
that this was not a u.F.O.

And we couldn't do it.

- Do I believe in
u.F.O.S? Absolutely.

- I really don't
know what it was.

And I can't explain it.

But I did see an
unidentified flying object.

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