[narrator] Next, on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
A shadow figure
creeps around a 13th century church
in England.
This is probably one of the more compelling videos
I've seen in a long while.
[narrator] A dash cam in Australia
captures footage of a mysterious entity.
[Aaron Sagers] It's almost as if
it manifests as the vehicle is closing in on it.
[narrator] A poltergeist
haunts a house in Texas.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
I'm standing there, and I'm like,
"This is unbelievable. This is not real.
This is not real."
[narrator] What is spying on investigators
at an abandoned sanatorium in Pennsylvania?
It almost looked like an elongated face
that was peeking up from around the corner, looking at us.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[Ethan speaking]
[narrator] ...to believe.
[theme music playing]
SCI Cresson in western Pennsylvania
was originally built as a tuberculosis sanatorium
in 1912, where countless patients died.
In 1956, it was repurposed
as a state hospital for the mentally disabled.
[woman screaming]
[narrator] And in 1982, it became a medium security prison,
which not only housed a serial killer,
but also multiple inmates who died by suicide,
before it was shut down in 2013.
And though most of the buildings now appear empty,
according to some who've been there to visit,
many areas are still quite full...
[heartbeat thumping]
[narrator] ...of spirits, looking to communicate.
January 2022, just outside Cresson, Pennsylvania.
Mike Richey and Ethan Quinlan have just arrived at SCI Cresson
to conduct an investigation.
And just a few minutes after walking through its halls,
something seems to reach out.
Listen, very closely.
[Mike speaking]
Shh, shh, shh.
That's wind.
That was not...
[narrator] Listen again,
as what Mike believes to be a woman's voice
echoes through the hallway.
I'm Mike Richey and this is my video.
I combed through that for hours.
I filtered the audio.
I did everything I could to it.
And it sounded like a woman singing or chanting.
[narrator] And Mike believes that singing is saying something.
[Mike] That's wind.
[narrator] "Don't be scared of me."
[Aaron] Why might a spirit utilize their energy
to project a voice saying, "Don't be scared of me?"
Especially in what is, objectively, a very creepy location.
Perhaps they have some sort of need,
and they wish to interact with us
or reach out to us
to communicate some sort of message,
or simply to have the company of a fellow human.
[Ethan speaking]
[narrator] And that creepiness continues,
as they head to another part of the complex
that Mike believes to be the most haunted,
to begin an Estes method session,
hoping to get even more discernible responses
from whatever is present.
[Ethan speaking]
[spirit speaking through Mike]
[Ben] The Estes method involves sensory deprivation.
So, one investigator wears blindfold, earplugs or a headset.
They pipe in, like, the static from a spirit box,
and the other one asks the questions.
The person asking the questions
doesn't know what the responses are
from the sensory deprived person
until the very end.
So, what you get is somebody acting, sort of like a conduit,
and they're only concentrating on the impressions
or the audio they're hearing and giving the answers.
[narrator] Ethan is asking the questions
as Mike is acting as the conduit.
[spirit speaking through Mike]
[Ethan speaking]
[spirit speaking through Mike]
There were moments where I got very scared.
Definitely, the Estes, being handcuffed to a chair, that wasn't fun.
I think having the right people with you and being in the right mindset
can definitely make a difference.
[narrator] That theory...
[handcuffs clatter]
[narrator] ...is about to be put to the test.
[Mike speaking]
[narrator] Something is here.
And just moments later...
[Ethan speaking]
[narrator] ...Ethan also gets touched.
[Ethan speaking]
[narrator] Both immediately head to the facility's barbershop
to catch their breath.
And while there,
inadvertently capture something remarkable.
Did you see it?
Watch again in slow motion.
What looks like a head peeks in from the doorframe.
Which they don't see until later, when reviewing the footage.
I absolutely lost it.
I was ecstatic.
I stared at it for hours.
It almost looked like an elongated face
that was peeking up from around the corner, looking at us.
[Steve] Whatever it was, was kind of
looking at them watching them, but didn't wanna be seen.
Didn't really want to have that encounter.
And it does have kind of a face and a head.
I think it's a good capture, you know?
Kudos to them. They got something there.
[narrator] And catching that something
and everything else on this evening
has exhausted them.
So, Mike and Ethan wrap up their investigation.
But they leave hoping they were able to give
whatever spirits linger in SCI Cresson
a chance to be heard.
I firmly believe that there is something after this, when we're gone.
And I couldn't imagine
getting through an entire lifetime,
and then getting to the end and realizing
something was left undone.
[spirit speaking through Mike]
If I can help them and they can move on,
which I have done before,
I think that that's a good approach to all of this.
[narrator] Coming up, a security camera in Florida
captures a misty, human shaped form.
For many people,
the thought of seeing a ghost within or around where they live
is terrifying.
Because most believe that a ghost is the remaining spirit
of someone who is dead.
And death can be very scary.
But there are also those
who believe that what we perceive as ghosts
could just be trails of residual energy
left over by continually repeated activities
worn into the ethosphere.
[dog barking]
[narrator] Which, though no less astounding,
is certainly less threatening.
The only problem is
differentiating one from the other
is essentially impossible.
Fall, 2023.
St. Petersburg, Florida.
It's late at night,
and Casey Cothran receives a cell phone alert from his home security camera,
notifying him that something is moving outside his front door.
Concerned about the work tools that are in his truck,
Casey immediately checks the footage and sees this.
Watch closely,
as what appears to be a misty line moves towards his truck.
But when a neighbor's car's headlights approach,
the image moves back across the yard,
and seems to take the form of a person.
My name is Casey, and this is my video.
I went outside to see what was going on,
and I didn't see anybody out there.
There wasn't anyone around walking down the street,
so I went back inside and looked at the footage again.
And I was like, "Wow, check that out. I wonder what I got on camera."
[narrator] Casey checks in with the neighbor whose car pulled up in the video.
[Casey] She said she didn't notice anything,
but when I showed her the video,
it definitely gave her chills as well, too.
She was way closer to the ghost than I was. I was in my kitchen.
[narrator] He and his friends also tried to debunk the video
after the fact.
[Casey] One of my friends tried to mention,
"Well, what if your sprinkler was moving?"
And I go, "Well, my sprinklers don't move."
There was no breeze that day, and there also, you know,
my sprinklers don't rotate or move around.
[narrator] Leaving Casey mystified
and more than just a little bit unsettled.
[Dalen] What's interesting about this clip,
it doesn't seem like your typical shadow figure.
It looks like a white mist.
But you can see the structure of the person walking in the mist.
A lot of times that could be a camera error,
like, it could really be a person, sometimes.
Like overexposure.
But this doesn't seem like that.
This seems like that camera
actually caught something paranormal
gliding through the scene.
[Lynne] At first, there was a sort of subtle shifting of the light.
And I kind of thought, "I don't know.
"Looks like maybe a car is pulling into a driveway down the street."
And then, of course, a car pulls into the driveway.
Exactly what it looked like.
And then...
the apparition walks down the sidewalk.
And it was suddenly so clear. It was like,
"Oh, oh. That's what I'm looking at."
[narrator] And though Casey is a little freaked out,
the fact that it could be some kind of apparition creeping around his home
isn't totally out of left field.
I have a very old, Spanish-style mansion next to me,
that was built in the 1920s.
So, you know, maybe there was some disturbance that happened there,
and this ghost is wandering around the neighborhood,
trying to figure out its purpose.
And my house, back in the early '60s and '70s,
was actually a surfer who actually was a drug runner.
So, I don't know if anything really nefarious
happened at my house, you know, before we lived there,
to where this ghost is in my front yard.
[narrator] Or maybe, whatever this is, is less sinister,
and more fascinating.
[Susan] A lot of people think that in order for a place to be haunted,
somebody has to die there.
But to be quite frank, like,
hauntings could be accumulated over time
from the living, you know?
Especially when it comes to, residual things that people do in their everyday lives.
You know, walking the dog every day at the same time,
or coming home every day at the same time.
You can leave imprints within an environment
and not have to have died there.
It could just be very well, like,
residuals of the energies of your neighbors
going about, doing things that they've always done.
[narrator] And the figure's behavior, or lack thereof,
could point in that direction.
This spirit definitely seems like it's unaware of anything around it.
It's kind of going through its normal routine.
So, this seems to be something that's more residual.
[narrator] But whether residual or intelligent,
Casey is just grateful he was able to capture it on camera.
I would definitely say catching the spirit, you know, on my phone
was very, at first, kind of scary.
But over time, it's been kind of a neat thing,
because not many people can say they've caught
you know, a ghost on their security camera.
Coming up...
What is lurking
around this church in England?
There's a church in Buckinghamshire, England,
that dates back to the 13th century.
And though, it is no longer used for worship,
it is open to visitors to appreciate the beauty of the building itself,
and for those who dare, the supposed entities who haunt it.
Which, legend has it, includes phantom monks,
and the spirit of a former vicar.
Recently, a team of paranormal investigators went there
to see if those legends were true.
And the answer they got
is a resounding yes.
March, 2019, Buckinghamshire, England.
Phil Bradshaw, Mark Jones, and Jeff Young
have just arrived at a church that's said to be haunted.
They have the place to themselves for an overnight investigation.
And before they even finish setting up their cameras to take their intro shots,
something appears in one of their test photos.
It's a dark figure
lurking in the background.
And the team is baffled.
My name is Jeff Young, and this is my video.
There was no reason why there should have been the shape of a figure there.
We were quite excited, actually, because this is daytime.
Nightfall hasn't come yet, and we're still setting up. So...
When you usually see things like that in the daytime,
then, well, come the evening, it should really take off.
[narrator] And Jeff is right.
Because shortly after their investigation finally gets underway...
We've come here 'cause there are reports of...
monks.
[narrator] Listen closely.
[Jeff] Who was that?
[narrator] Noises that the team suspects
might be coming from some of the spirits reportedly dwelling here.
So, they head over to where
they captured the photo of the shadow figure earlier.
I would like to address
the monks...
that have been seen here.
Can you make a noise?
Can you come and join me?
[bleep]
Where did that come from?
[Phil speaking]
[Mark speaking]
It sounded as if someone had sat down in one of the pews.
[narrator] Terrifying. But despite the promise of a close presence,
nothing else happens for a while.
So, they make up their beds near the altar,
with several static cameras rolling while they sleep.
And 50 minutes later...
Watch again,
as a shadow figure emerges, moves along a wall,
dips down, then reappears,
and seems to walk down an aisle.
Which the team doesn't see,
until they review the footage later.
[Jeff] That was a bit of a shock to actually see that
being captured on film.
They are hard to capture, and that's why we keep our static cameras
rolling as long as we can, because you never know.
And we were lucky, I think.
We were lucky to capture that that evening.
If I had been sleeping there,
and went back and reviewed the footage and saw that,
I would call myself lucky to be alive.
This static shot, to me, is very unnerving
when you see this still camera capturing this dark shadow.
Then there's kind of a pause where you don't see it, but then you see it again,
moving in another weird type of direction.
I mean, that's...
That's a very blatant shadow that they captured.
[narrator] And it's not the only thing they captured during the night.
About 30 minutes after the shadow appears...
I woke up and I didn't move, and at first I thought
it was either Mark or Phil got up to use the bathroom.
And then, there was a loud bang.
[speaking]
[Ben] The footsteps were pretty clear.
Something was briskly walking across the church floor, and you can hear that.
It's quite unnerving.
[narrator] But for Jeff and his team, it's par for the course.
[Jeff] After hearing the footsteps,
the noises, the movements,
you just think to yourself,
"Well, let's just go back to sleep,
and let's see what else happens."
And we just nodded off back to sleep,
and just waited for something else to happen.
But nothing happened after that.
[narrator] But regardless, the team wakes up
having captured more than enough evidence
to convince them that the centuries' old church
is not only a beautiful historical building,
but also for those who are willing to look a little deeper...
a virtual hot spot for the paranormal.
Can you come and join me?
[bleep]
Where did that come from?
It's a great place to... to go and visit.
In the daytime, some great architecture to see.
It's in the nighttime where things change.
[mysterious music playing]
[narrator] Coming up, a family in Texas...
Oh, my God!
...is tormented by a poltergeist.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] When dealing with a persistent haunt in one's home,
there are some who believe
that moving out
could be the best option.
And while this depends entirely... on the type of entity one is dealing with,
if choosing this route,
at least be sure to move far enough away...
-[train horn blowing] -[ship horn tooting]
...or you may find yourself
in the same position as one family in Texas
who apparently... brought their old haunt
into their new home.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] In Houston, Texas...
last time we met Celsa Rundle and John Farrell,
they were experiencing paranormal activity
that they believed was targeting their two young daughters.
By tugging on the blankets...
in their bedroom.
And after dealing with it for two years,
they finally decided to move to another house.
Unfortunately...
the move apparently doesn't quite do the trick.
Because soon after...
they begin experiencing more activity
and capturing new footage
on camera.
Like in March 2022,
when Celsa hears some movement
in her bathroom.
[Celsa] Okay, so I have been trying to catch this on video
for at least two weeks now.
Um, I have been seeing things move.
Everybody thinks I'm nuts.
I know what I saw.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[ominous music playing]
Oh, my God!
I'm not crazy. [exhales sharply]
My name is John.
My name is Celsa.
And these are our videos.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
When I first saw the drawers opening,
and then I would look and I was like,
There's no way! There's no... there's no way. You know, who's in here?
I thought it was one of my daughters and... no.
Oh, my God!
And then I caught it on camera.
I'm not crazy.
I'm standing there and I'm like,
"This is unbelievable. This is not real.
This is not real!"
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] Celsa sets up a static camera in her bathroom
to see if she can catch it again.
And sure enough, when one of her daughters is in there...
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God! Mom!
[John] The thing is like, "What is it capable of doing?"
Like, nobody knows, you know?
So it's like... it's kind of scary,
and nobody likes dealing with scary stuff.
[narrator] And the more it happens, the scarier it becomes.
[Celsa speaking]
What's incredible is you see these drawers, they slowly open.
It's not in such a way that it's jolted open to scare you
and then politely closed back in the position afterwards...
[Celsa whimpers]
[Lynne] That's not something we see very often.
We tend to see the aftermath of a poltergeist incident
with cabinet doors hanging open, drawers pulled out,
stuff all over the floor. Here...
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
...we saw drawers get pulled out,
and not all in one smooth movement.
So it's not just like... "Oh, maybe this house is on a slight incline.
This drawer has a tendency to slide open."
It opens a bit, and then opens more.
And then it closes again.
And for me, that's what sets this completely apart.
[Celsa] Oh, my God!
[narrator] And the activity in the new home
isn't limited to the bathroom alone.
Watch very closely.
[ominous music]
Do you see it?
Watch again as a shadowy figure
appears to peek out from a doorway in the hall.
And then sink back into the darkness.
And this shadow is apparently just one of many they've seen.
-We would see... -Shadow people, shadows.
[Celsa] And then, you know, how you're sleeping,
and you would feel somebody walk in the room.
I'm a light sleeper.
So one of my daughters would walk in, I'm like,
"What are you doing?" You know.
And there would be nobody there.
That's like the one thing that's not like the others here.
That's a different kind of presence.
That's not... poltergeist-like.
That's maybe a more singular, perhaps even more intentional
or intelligent, type of presence
when we see a shadow figure like that.
So that sort of discounts the impersonal-ness
of drawers being opened and closed,
[narrator] Or could the shadow in the hallway
be a separate entity altogether?
A lot of people feel like shadow people
point to the culprit of a haunting.
But I also do believe that shadow people
can also be a symptom of poltergeist activity.
Layered haunts are a lot harder to identify,
but I mean, it's totally possible that you can have
two types of hauntings going on at once.
[Aaron] What if instead of some random haunt,
this is something ancestral connected to their family?
That chooses to follow them from one location to the next,
checking in on them, making certain that they're safe.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] If that's the case, the spirit wouldn't have had to follow them too far.
Because the house they moved into is right next door...
to their old one.
Yeah, we were like, "Did somebody follow us from next door?"
-[chuckles] -We shouldn't have done that.
Yeah.
[narrator] John and Celsa have since moved again.
A little further away this time,
and so far, their new house is haunting-free.
For now.
We keep hearing things that we didn't hear before.
I don't think it... I don't think it's anything.
I'm gonna... I'm setting up cameras regardless.
[both chuckle]
[Celsa] Oh, my God!
[narrator] Coming up,
multiple UFOs...
[William speaking]
...light up the sky in Portland.
[William speaking]
[narrator] Though UFO sightings are reported all around the globe,
there are certain places that see more unexplained aerial phenomena
than others.
Theories as to what creates these UFO...
or UAP hot spots...
range from lay lines and portals
to secret military operations.
And even... a high concentration of spirituality.
But whatever the reason,
If you find yourself in one of these places, as one man in Portland did,
it will serve you well to keep your eyes on the sky
and your camera ready...
for sightings like this.
[William] Oh, my God!
[narrator] October 19th, 2021, in Portland, Oregon.
It's about 9:00 p.m.,
and William Hylla is driving southbound on I-5
to complete a food delivery
when he spots something so bizarre in the sky
that it compels him to pull over and start recording.
[William] Look at this string of three lights.
Just a few minutes ago, there were four.
[narrator] Three glowing orbs
are hovering above the city.
[William] And they're not moving in the sky at all.
[narrator] And William is stunned.
I'm William Hylla, and this is my video.
Really hard to describe what I was feeling in that moment,
other than just pure shock and confusion.
I just felt like my stomach was...
falling out of my belly button.
[narrator] And as an amateur stargazer,
William considers himself very familiar
with what's usually flying around in the sky.
[William] They're not airplanes.
I'm pretty familiar with, like, the flight patterns
and where the planes are coming in.
The area that I saw these lights in the sky,
I've never seen any planes in that area.
[Ronny] We don't see any FAA lights.
We see the solid white lights,
and moving without any type of, of blinking.
We hear, really no sound or any type of, uh, propulsion system.
So right off the bat, we can we dismiss
any type of traditional aircraft,
and this puts us right smack dab into these balls of light,
these orbs or these UFOs that people are seeing, uh, in formations.
[narrator] And though this formation is fairly simple...
[William] They're not moving.
[narrator] Suddenly...
[William] They're kind of... Oh, they're moving now. What the [bleep]?
When they start to move, right when he says,
"Well, they're not really moving."
It's sort of like the lights themselves were like,
"Oh, you're unimpressed? Hold on."
[William] What the [bleep], dude?
They form this, like, perfect triangle.
[Steve] What is it about this pattern,
I'm not necessarily sure,
but we see this over and over again with lights in the sky
that seem to have no rational explanation.
Are these individual lights that we're seeing,
or is it actually part of one craft?
Either way, these things are moving
in synchronicity with each other.
They are certainly traveling together for whatever purpose.
[Sceurman] Something is controlling these things,
like some kind of intelligence
and maybe they, you know, communicate with each other.
They must be observing something.
[narrator] But what?
And why here,
in Portland?
The Pacific Northwest has a pretty wide variety of, like, paranormal... things.
[William] Oh, my God.
[Susan] One thing I've noticed about the people of Portland
is that they tend to be a very spiritual people.
A lot of people in that city practice meditation.
They focus on ascension practices.
And when you have a community that large of spiritual individuals,
they tend to revere the energies around them.
Like their ancestral energies, spiritual energy
and even extraterrestrial and UFO phenomena
gets attracted to this environment.
That's why you get all sorts of phenomena,
including UFO and UAP phenomena.
[William] Oh, my God.
[narrator] Whatever the reason, William is glad it happened.
[William] I'm... grateful to be able to experience something
that was so out of the ordinary that I don't normally see.
[narrator] And after his experience, he's hooked.
What the [bleep] dude?
I see myself, in the past year,
scanning the skies a lot more,
than I normally have.
They're kind of... Oh, they're moving now. What the [bleep]?
[narrator] Coming up, a dash cam in Australia...
captures a childlike entity.
[narrator] When driving down a long stretch of highway at a high speed,
especially at night,
a driver's attention
is ideally focused on what's in front of them.
And while this helps to prevent any unexpected collisions,
it does mean that any notable sights on the periphery
might go unnoticed.
Whether an interesting landscape, local wildlife
or, in very, very rare cases,
something like what
one family in Australia recently sped past.
Which very may well have been
a creature from another world.
April 18th, 2021.
On a highway in Campbelltown, Australia,
a family is driving home from an event,
towing a large trailer behind their car.
When suddenly...
they pass what they think looks like...
a child-like figure
standing motionless in the left lane,
though it passes much too quickly
for them to confirm.
Unable to stop due to the heavy trailer,
the family calls the police, just in case it was a child.
But the police eventually claim
that after searching the area, no child is found.
Nor are there any reports of a missing child
in the area at that time.
So then, if not a child,
then what did they capture on their dashcam...
on that night?
[Moran] The car speeds by this thing
at a very close proximity
and whatever it is, doesn't flinch.
So it leads me to believe it's certainly not a... a living child.
[Aaron] It's almost as if it manifests
as the vehicle is closing in on it.
And it's hard to make out, but it's almost shimmering or glowing,
rather than a darker kind of form.
[Susan] When the police show up,
and they don't see any sign of a horrible accident
or don't find a toddler anywhere,
or they don't have a missing toddler report of any kind,
that leads me to believe that what you saw was a ghost.
[narrator] Possibly, though, if so,
certainly not the type
that have been captured most often,
under these circumstances.
[Ronny] It wasn't your traditional kind of wispy ghost.
This seemed to be tangible.
It definitely had the form of a spirit,
but it seemed to be fully intact and materialized.
[narrator] Which means it could also be something else...
equally unsettling.
[Sceurman] This thing looks more alien in nature
than like a child standing on the road.
It almost looked, like, kind of electrified.
I don't see a child.
I can see why someone driving by might think,
"Oh, small figure standing upright, child, call the police.
This is horribly dangerous."
But looking at that footage, I am going with...
that Turkish street alien from a few seasons back.
That little silver creature
that was just, you know, locomoting around
on CCTV camera in Türkiye somewhere.
That's what I think this is.
[narrator] Interesting theory,
especially since the people in the truck that recorded the figure
claimed that when they initially followed up with police,
to offer the dashcam footage to help with the search,
an officer told them it was not necessary
because they did find a child and it was returned to its family,
only to contradict this later in a statement to the media.
Though the police ultimately deny
ever telling the family the child was found.
[Lynne] Clearly, something is going on.
The fact that here we have an initial...
"Oh, yeah, it was a child.
They were returned safely.
Don't worry about it."
And then immediately, "No, there was never a child."
The fact that the story changed is very interesting to me,
that there seemed to be some sort of a cover-up going on here.
[narrator] Or, perhaps there is no conspiracy,
but rather a simple temporary slip
into another world.
[Brian] Submitted for your approval.
A man driving down a stretch of road sees something strange.
Now, this particular stretch of road
might not be in our reality.
He was traversing in a parallel dimension.
Wherein, yes, the police recovered a little girl.
Yes, they did get the report, and he did have the conversation.
And after passing an unknown mile marker,
he ends up back in the real world,
our world, where those events never happened.
[narrator] Mind-blowing.
But whatever the case, here's hoping that everyone
in all the dimensions, made it home safely that night.
That would've freaked me out, going on the highway
and seeing something like that.
I don't know how that man didn't crash.
[narrator] What should you do in the event you witnessed something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Check your footage for anything unusual.
Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.
[William] Oh, my God.
[narrator] Don't stop recording.
Even if you're scared.
[Celsa] Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] And if you do catch something...
[narrator reading]
Your footage could be seen right here on Paranormal Caught on Camera.