[Paul Kaup] Next on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
a shadow figure lurks behind an investigator at an abandoned prison.
[Bernard speaking]
[Bernard] Jackie's reviewing her video and she says, "Oh, my gosh.
You won't believe what we caught."
[Kaup] A young girl films a mysterious monster
hiding behind a tree.
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
[Carol] I had never heard of a hide behind until I posted that.
It was terrifying, actually.
[Kaup] A live streamer accidentally captures
a restless ghost in her kitchen.
[screams]
[Laura] I was definitely scared and when the second one dropped,
that's when I said, "I'm out. I'm out."
[Kaup] What on Earth is living in this Argentinian woman's home?
[Silvia speaking Spanish]
This is so frickin' weird and it's a tasty little morsel of creepiness. I love it.
[Kaup] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[Christine] Oh, my God. I'm catching a UFO right now.
...to believe.
[theme music playing]
In the world of the paranormal,
there are few subjects as stigmatized
as shadow figures.
Dark, soulless masses
that are typically seen ducking behind walls
or doorways.
And if those shadow figures
are witnessed in a location known to be filled with trauma,
that energy is thought to be all the more sinister.
At least, for most people.
Because two investigators in Nevada
have a very different perspective
and view the shadow figure they captured in an abandoned prison
through a decidedly
positive lens.
[Bernard speaking]
[Kaup] April 2021
in Carson City, Nevada.
[Bernard] Let's see what we catch.
[Kaup] Susan Bernard and Jackie Kleeb
are investigating the Nevada State Prison,
an abandoned penitentiary with a reputation.
[Bernard speaking]
-I'm Susan Bernard. -[Jackie] And I'm Jackie Kleeb.
And I took the video.
[Bernard] The prison used to be a hotel.
In 1862, it became a prison.
And then it closed in 2012.
[Jackie] I mean, I've been doing paranormal investigating for over 30 years.
I have to honestly say that this prison
is one of the most active places I've ever been to.
It's crazy.
Nevada State Prison
is one of the most notoriously haunted prisons in the US.
This one has such a colorful history.
[Lynne McNeill] It's burned down a few times.
A whole number of executions done there.
It was the first place in this country
to execute people with a gas chamber.
[Mark Moran] A lot of people incarcerated within these walls
were violent criminals
who not only lived their lives here
but in a lot of cases, died here as well.
It makes sense that this is a place that would be decidedly haunted.
[Kaup] Which is why Susan and Jackie
have investigated the prison
for years.
I've been trying to get the paranormal in there from 2013
and finally the board allowed me to start having paranormal come through.
So we just started doing that in 2016.
[Kaup] And over that time, they've captured their fair share
of bizarre activity.
Mostly surrounding the presence of orbs,
like on this night.
[Bernard speaking]
[Kaup] But that is nothing compared to what Susan and Jackie captured
one night in April 2021.
We were filming. Jackie goes, "Can I tape you?" I said, "Yeah."
So she's taping as I held my spirit box, saying, you know...
We get done, and we go, "God, it's kind of quiet here."
So we decide to come home.
We're sitting at this dining room table,
and Jackie's reviewing her video and she says,
"Oh, my gosh.
You won't believe what we caught."
[Kaup] As Susan attempts to communicate using her spirit box...
...watch the bars behind her head.
Did you catch it?
Watch again
as a dark, shadow-like figure
seems to peek its head around and almost through the cell bars
next to Susan's head.
[Bernard] You know how mercury moves?
How it splits up?
That's what this does.
I didn't even feel it
and my hair moves.
There seems to be some kind of dark figure lurking behind this woman.
You could see it peek out for a little bit,
and then it kind of goes back.
[Steve Shippy] You can't make out any detail.
There's no skin color if you will.
It's just kind of this black void
that seems to have a human-type appearance with its movements.
[Slaughter] If you notice, everything in the frame that we see
has detail and color.
You could see the outfit that the investigator is wearing.
You could even see just beyond her into the hallway,
past the cells
and it seems pretty well lit,
so why is it that this figure that comes in behind her is pitch black?
It's like, it's almost like anti-light. It's complete blackness.
[Lynne] It looks like a hand almost reaches through
and then kind of hangs on to the bars
and maybe even comes around the corner a little bit.
That was really, really freaky.
[Kaup] Freaky as it may seem to most people,
for Susan and Jackie,
who claim to have seen the same shadow figure at the prison
many times since the experience,
it's anything but.
Didn't scare us.
[Bernard] The blob. That's what we call it.
But he's all over the place.
I think it protects me.
I say that.
People look at me weird.
We don't get any bad feelings at all from the shadows.
No, no, no.
[Ben Hansen] Shadow figures are often associated with the darker types of events,
sometimes even demonic, but it doesn't have to be that way.
If it's a spirit that passed from this world, just like those who are alive,
they have a mixture of both good and bad qualities.
[Lynne] It is really important to remember that even when we think of a place
as being associated with something bad or dangerous or frightening,
like a prison,
not necessarily everything there is bad.
Families of prisoners came to visit.
Innocent people were likely incarcerated.
There were wardens. There were guards.
There were people who worked there.
Even people who lived in the area.
[Slaughter] The only reason why these energies
have the ability to interact with us and our gear on investigations
is because they're feeding off the energy you bring.
And so if you bring an energy source that they use as fuel,
and it's a positive energy fuel,
then you're going to get positive interactions.
[Kaup] And Susan and Jackie are nothing but positive.
[Bernard] Everything's not just demons.
These are spirits
and I tell everybody, who are we to label them, right?
We don't know who they are.
And we've never had a bad experience in there.
-[Jackie] No. -[Bernard] Nothing.
So I think our long goal, you know, is just to teach people
and let them know that
just because it was a prison, you know,
don't think they're bad.
Bad in life, but who knows what they're doing in the afterlife, right?
[Kaup] Coming up...
a grandmother and granddaughter in Oregon...
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
...come face to face with a carnivorous beast.
As many paranormal experts are quick to point out,
just because you think you saw a cryptid,
doesn't mean you were in any danger.
Not all cryptids
are inherently malicious.
But the hide behind...
is.
It snatches you in the woods,
disembowels you
and eats you.
And if you think that sounds terrifying,
just imagine seeing one
across the street from your property.
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
[Kaup] November 2021
in Glide, Oregon.
Kamiryn Eifert and her grandmother, Carol,
are in Carol's car and leaving their property,
which is locked by a gate.
When Carol exits their vehicle to close the gate behind them,
Kamiryn spots something strange across the road,
lit by the glow of the car's headlights.
So she grabs Carol's phone
and begins filming.
-[Carol speaking] -[Kamiryn speaking]
[Carol speaking]
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
[Carol speaking]
[Kaup] Watch again
as a dark, mysterious figure peeks around a tree across the road
and stares directly
at Carol and Kamiryn.
[Kamiryn] What is that?
-I'm Carol. -And I'm Kamiryn and this is our video.
[Carol] I just heard her being like, "Nana, what is that, what is that?"
And then I kind of glanced across there and I saw something black.
It was frightening. I couldn't figure out what it was.
Even when you try to zoom in, you can't really make out what it is.
The eyes weren't glowing.
That means it's not an animal and it had no face.
And it was a black figure.
Nana, what is that?
It's really hard to tell what this thing behind this tree is,
but nevertheless, it doesn't look like something
you'd want to go up and investigate a little closer.
It seems to be completely black
and it's peeking around the tree,
very similar to when we see images of shadow figures
that always seem to be lurking and hiding and looking at the living.
I don't know if this can be a shadow figure, to be honest.
It seems like it's something living.
It doesn't seem like it could be a shadow figure.
It's giving me bigfoot vibes.
It's giving me Skinwalker vibes.
So I definitely wouldn't get out of the car.
There's no way I'm getting out of the car
because, like, who knows what that thing is capable of.
I would guesstimate that the height of this might be eight or nine feet.
Maybe a little bit taller.
It wasn't short and I'm sure people will think this might be a bigfoot or a Sasquatch.
[Sceurman] If it was a bigfoot, its mass would be wider than the tree itself.
It's not a bear, 'cause if it was a bear
and somebody came out and just started filming it,
I'm sure it would just, like, scurry off into the woods.
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
[Lynne] I love that we get this commentary from the kid,
going, "Nana, what is it?"
And it's like, "Yeah, Nana, what is it? I want to know, too."
[Kaup] She may not have had any clue then,
but now, Kamiryn believes she knows exactly what she captured that night.
A hide behind.
I think it's a hide behind because of the black face it has
and the weird way it turns behind the tree
and, like, it disappears, basically, into nothing
when it goes behind.
[Lynne] A hide behind is a creature that comes to us out of logging camp folklore,
lumberjack folklore.
It's a creature that was often spotted by people, understandably,
spending a lot of time in densely wooded spaces of our country.
[Moran] Hide behinds were said to prey on human beings
and even consume them.
They would hide behind a tree and grab a logger
and then drag them back to their lair where they would devour them.
[Sceurman] A lot of times with these hide behinds,
they're also associated with people that go into the woods and never come out.
They get lost or they just disappear for some reason.
And some people believe these hide behinds
are one of the reasons these people just never come out of the woods again.
I had never heard of a hide behind until I posted that.
I have never even heard her talk about one.
But, you know, at 3:00 a.m. I was looking some of that stuff up
and it was terrifying, actually.
[Kaup] But if this is actually a hide behind,
where does it come from?
[Slaughter] When we look at plant life and the trees,
we think that they're these stationary, biological things without any consciousness,
but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Trees, plants, grass, fungi, they all have root systems that communicate
and connect with each other.
When you touch a tree, that tree is understanding that touch.
So when you start going into a forest, cutting down all these trees,
you're creating this fight or flight response
of these very sentient plant beings.
And so they might have a way to defend themselves
by creating these elemental beings that annihilate the problem.
And that is man.
[Kaup] Terrifying.
Understandably,
Carol and Kamiryn didn't stick around long enough
to find out one way or another.
I immediately just got in the car and we took off.
I mean, but she was freaked... you know, she was...
-It was terrifying. -She was freaking out the whole way home.
[Kaup] And now, they're keeping an extra eye out.
When we're back at our property,
I actually hear weird noises in the forest, like bigfoot noises, kind of.
[Carol] She swears bigfoot's out there.
And, I mean, people say that they've seen these things.
So I still don't really know what it was that night.
It was scary.
Nana, what is that?
[Kaup] Coming up, why does this tiny creature
keep popping up around the world?
In seemingly every corner of the globe,
there exists a legend
of a small, whimsical creature
that secretly inhabits the unexplored crevices
of people's homes.
And while it may be easy to dismiss the talk of such beings
as merely the product of folklore,
several recent accidental video captures in Argentina
may just be the legend's best evidence yet.
[Silvia speaking Spanish]
[Kaup] 2011
in Santa Fe, Argentina.
A woman named Silvia
notices that her two-year-old son,
Benjamin, is acting uncharacteristically nervous.
Concerned, she takes out her phone, to record his strange behavior.
[Silvia speaking Spanish]
[narrator in English] And at that very moment...
[Silvia speaking Spanish]
[narrator in English] Watch again...
as a strange, diminutive creature
runs behind Benjamin...
quickly disappearing from the camera's view.
This is the kind of high strangeness I am here for.
This is so frickin' weird and it's a tasty little morsel of creepiness. I love it.
[Ronny LeBlanc] Looking at this, you can see what looks like pointed ears
and a hairless body.
Grey. It's been described, elves kind of having that different shaped ear.
It's unlike anything I've ever seen before.
[Kaup] Two years later, it makes another appearance in Silvia's home.
Watch the right side of your screen very closely.
[Silvia speaking Spanish]
[narrator in English] Did you see that?
Watch again.
Over Benjamin's shoulder, under the bed,
the creature returns.
Once again, it seems to be this same, small creature.
Only this time, it's not running away from them.
It seems to be straddling part of the bedframe
and crawling along underneath it.
[Kaup] So...
The obvious question.
What on Earth is this thing?
Many people in South America believe in small, human-like creatures
like elves or gnomes and they're known as duendes.
There's a specific goblin named El Pombero.
Now, this little creature can run on all fours
and sometimes can go invisible, well, pretty much whenever it wants.
That makes it really easy to be mischievous.
[Kaup] The legend of El Pombero
may also explain two additional sightings in the area.
One near a construction site in 2015.
Then another, two years later, inside a restaurant.
And it's not just in South America.
Right away, this little guy fits a pattern of folklore across the globe.
It could be a house spirit or a domovoy from eastern Europe.
The duende is very popular in the Philippines, too.
I have a lot of family
who have encountered duende themselves.
They really do take a liking to children.
They're very playful, kind of like tricksters
and they usually bring about good luck,
but if you piss them off or make them angry in any way
then they might turn on you and cause you harm.
[Kaup] In that case, if you find aduende in your home,
perhaps it's best to stay in their good graces.
But if you choose to go on the offense,
play at your own risk.
I'm trying to trap it. I am trying to figure out how I can set a trap
and get it in a cage, because I can't let it take over my home.
It's me versus them.
And I have to win.
[Silvia speaking Spanish, gasping]
[narrator in English] Coming up, a late night livestream...
What the [bleep]?
...is interrupted by a ghost.
[screams]
[Kaup] Cemeteries might seem like an obvious hotspot for the paranormal.
But they're not the only locations that house the dead.
There are morgues,
hospitals,
and even
the urn on the mantel.
Because while keeping a loved one's ashes in your home
doesn't guarantee a haunting,
some believe that it can tether a person's spirit to it
and in some cases,
cause that energy to lash out.
[screams]
March 29th, 2022
in Ontario, Canada.
Laura Noyes and her son Max are live on social media,
talking to Laura's subscribers who typically tune in to watch her cook.
Oh, hi, sweetheart. I'm so glad you popped in.
Everybody say hello to each other. Let's all make some friends, okay?
As Laura tells everyone a story about her mother,
who passed away decades ago,
[laughing] What the [bleep]?
[gasps] What was that?
So anyways...
[Kaup] Did you catch that?
Watch again
as a cabinet mysteriously opens...
[gasps] What was that?
...and closes on its own.
So anyways...
Hi, I'm Max.
And I'm Laura and this is our video.
What was that?
I remember sitting here and, um, as we were talking, I heard a noise behind me.
And, um, it startled me a bit but I just continued telling the story.
[laughing]
And I looked down to read the comments as we're going through it
and just interacting with people
and one of my subscribers, Angie, said...
Is my house haunted? Why?
I don't know.
Sometimes I get a feeling there's something happening in my house, but...
[Lynne] Household objects being moved.
It doesn't seem particularly eerie
or even particularly meaningful communicatively
but it's a way of getting attention
that's accessible to something
that might not be able to, like, pick up a pen
and start writing ghostly letters like we see in a movie.
[Kaup] After one of her viewers fills her in
on what just happened...
What?
...Laura gets up to check it out.
[screams]
[Kaup] Watch again
as an object flies out of the cabinet directly toward the camera.
It didn't seem like a casual falling out of an object.
It seemed like whatever was in there kind of flew straight out
with this trajectory that didn't make sense
if it were just, like, a loose object that fell over.
What was that?
[Kaup] But that's not all.
[screams]
[Kaup] A cup inexplicably falls off the top shelf.
I was definitely scared.
And when the second one dropped too, that's when I said, "I'm out.
I'm out." I got up and I left and I think he ran after me.
[screams]
[Max] What the...
I was looking at the chat, seeing what was going on.
And then I heard stuff flying behind me and something hit me on the shoulder.
So I just started running with it.
[Sapphire] If something strange starts happening to you in your home,
my advice is to not freak out right away.
One reason is because if what you're dealing with is malicious,
which is very rare, they feed off your fear.
[Laura speaking]
So your first response should not be fear.
You are just going to make things worse that way.
[Max] What the hell?
[Kaup] But when Laura and Max collect themselves,
they have a pretty good guess...
Oh, my God, guys.
...as to who it might be.
We were talking about my mother
and the funny thing is, is if you look right underneath my cabinet,
is where I've always kept my mother's ashes.
She's in almost all of my videos, if I film from that angle,
so it was just putting pieces together.
This video fits a pattern of paranormal activity
insofar as people have reported talking about a loved one
who has passed on and then experiencing strange occurrence around them.
Almost as if that loved one is making their presence known,
to say hi, to provide comfort,
or maybe even stir up a little bit of mischief.
[screams]
The [bleep] was that?
[Kaup] Even though they are frightened at the time,
if it is in fact Laura's mom,
they welcome her with open arms.
At first I was sort of shocked and scared
but after we sort of thought about it for a while,
we realized it wasn't really, like... it wasn't such a bad thing.
[Laura] I think about the explanations of talking about my mom
and my mom's ashes under the counter
and it's comforting.
I don't feel like it was bad.
I think that it's a positive experience in the end.
It feels calm and peaceful and I'm okay with it.
[screams]
[Kaup] Coming up...
a paranormal investigator chooses to live with his subject
and reaps the consequences.
Paranormal investigators are used to venturing into mysterious,
and sometimes dangerous locations
in order to study the paranormal.
But it takes an especially brave explorer
to not just visit the ghosts,
but live with them.
That's what one investigator in Japan chose to do
when he moved into a house that he had reason to believe was haunted.
And it didn't take long for those beliefs
to be confirmed.
November 2021
in Japan.
As part of his popular cat-themed YouTube channel,
a man films himself casually caressing his feline friend
when something strange happens.
Watch behind the cat's head.
An open door closes by itself,
clearly unnerving the man filming his cat.
Soon after,
perhaps because of this incident,
and other bizarre activity,
the man takes his cat
and moves out of the house completely.
But after hearing stories about the unusual events in the home,
a paranormal researcher named Meguro moves in,
hoping to investigate the supernatural goings on further.
And only weeks into his stay, Meguro gets what he came for.
Late one night, as he's going to bed,
listen closely.
A rhythmic knocking,
seemingly coming from a nearby closet.
But as Meguro approaches with phone in hand,
nothing.
Yet the knocking continues.
First from the now open closet
and then
from a downstairs bathroom.
And still
no visible source for it.
This is consistent, it's rhythmic,
and there appears to be no decipherable origin
as to where the noise is coming from.
It seems to be moving around the house.
[Kaup] A week later, around the same time of night,
whatever is in the house with Meguro
kicks it up a notch,
as a security camera films his bathroom.
Watch again
as the bathroom door not only closes,
but through its window,
a white, shadowy figure seems to manifest
and then disappears.
We see this frosted glass door
and you can see this outline.
It just looks bright.
It looks almost like what people would describe seeing a spirit,
almost having this whiteness or this glow to it.
[Lynne] It's obviously there.
Right on the other side.
And the fact that whatever presence is there
would actually appear as a figure in this space,
suggests that sort of individual intelligence.
[Kaup] A theory reinforced by what happens only a couple of months later
in the same bathroom.
The mirror opens by itself
and then
the shower and sink faucet go off at the same time,
which is significant, because as Meguro demonstrates...
[Meguro speaking Japanese]
We know that water is a conduit to the spirits.
They're able to kind of use that to kind of move about.
It makes you wonder, is that potentially what it was doing?
Was it kind of creating all of that water
for some other purpose, using that as a conduit?
[Kaup] Impossible to say.
The only thing for certain
is that whatever it is is preventing Meguro from sleeping.
And regardless of his interest in the activity,
something has to give.
In the West, when something happens like this, we blame a ghost,
maybe we blame a demon.
But in Japan, it very well could be a yurei,
which is a spirit who cannot rest for some reason.
It's something that they need to do,
something they need to accomplish
there's a message that needs to be delivered.
And for the most part, that kind of sounds the same
as things we deal with here at home.
But if this is a yurei,
it doesn't want him to sleep. It's trying to get his attention
with knocks, with raps.
[Kaup] So if Meguro is too tired to continue to deal with this yurei,
what should he do about it?
If this house is haunted by a yurei, then it is said
that performing certain Shinto or Buddhist rituals
will cleanse the location of that angry spirit.
[all chanting]
The only way I think you can deal with this
is to deal with it as if it was a person, because that's what it is.
Deal with that person as you would any other person
and ask them to please, just leave me alone.
If that doesn't work, you're going to have to try something else.
[Kaup] Which is perhaps the most important thing for Meguro.
Trying something.
[Ronny] If you've identified something like that,
you're going to continue having this type of activity
and it's something that could haunt you for the rest of your life.
[Kaup] Coming up...
a UFO in Connecticut
enters the spin zone.
[Christine] Oh, my God, look at it spinning.
Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.
[Kaup] There are specific regions of the United States,
that are pivotal to America's extraterrestrial history.
Like Area 51 in Nevada
and Roswell, New Mexico.
And though these west coast locations are the most famous,
a lesser known hotspot on the east coast is just as impressive.
Namely Waterbury, Connecticut,
where in 1916, a Scoville factory guard
watched as a large, mysterious craft zipped through the sky,
vanishing as quickly as it came.
Since then, the town has seen countless planetary visitors
including glowing orbs,
small, organized fleets,
and this.
[Christine] Oh, my God, look at it spinning. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.
[Kaup] January 2021,
Waterbury, Connecticut.
Christine Lyons has stopped her car on the side of the road
because something ahead and way above has caught her eye.
[Christine speaking]
[Kaup] Two glowing lights with more incoming.
[Christine speaking]
[Steve] They're too small to be a plane or a helicopter. What are these things?
They're not a Chinese lantern, they're nothing like that.
They're something, you know, very specific
at some type of a lower altitude,
but you really can't make it out.
[Christine speaking]
[Juwan] You start to get more of them coming in and out.
Then you're like, "Oh, okay." These seem to have a certain level of intelligence to them.
[Kaup] Sensing the objects may be on their way to disappearing,
Christine gets back in her car and drives toward them
before they're completely gone.
[Christine speaking]
Whoa.
[Kaup] But as she gets closer, the third light begins to do something
that blows her mind.
[Christine] Oh, my God. Look at it spinning. Oh, my God.
I'm catching a UFO right now.
[Lynne] My instinctive read of this clip
is that we're seeing some sort of craft, an object.
But an object that moves in a totally unexpected way.
Either by a whole different set of laws of physics
or by some propulsion or technology
that we do not have access to or knowledge of.
It was a movement that I don't think I've ever seen before in a clip like this.
[Christine speaking]
[Kaup] The people of Waterbury, however, have seen it before.
Possibly for a long, long time.
[Ben] I spent some time in nearby Hudson Valley, New York
where a concentration of sightings happened in the 1980s
and Waterbury was a hotspot during many of those years
and continues even till today.
Some of the objects that were seen were large, blimp-like objects,
triangular formations,
and there's even photos of circular craft
that had spinning lights around the edges.
[Ronny] I always go back to hearing about
the biblical stories about the wheel within a wheel
that they were seeing these things way back then.
And these were made out of fire, out of light
and that's what we're witnessing here.
[Kaup] Eventually, the spiraling marvel disappears.
[Christine] There it goes, it's fading out, look.
What the [bleep] am I witnessing?
All the other ones are gone.
There's no other ones.
There it goes, it's gone.
[Kaup] But Christine's sighting adds to Waterbury's vast UFO history.
[Ronny] This is one of the best videos I've seen of anything like this.
It's an amazing capture.
[Christine] Oh, my God. Look at it spinning.
Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.
[Kaup] What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Check your footage and then check it again.
Do your own research, even if it scares you.
[Kamiryn] Nana, what is that?
[Kaup] Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.
[Christine] Oh, my God, I'm catching a UFO right now.
[Kaup] And if you do catch something...
[screams]
[Kaup reading]
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