[narrator] Next on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
an investigator at a haunted mansion
accidentally captures a shadow figure.
[Ronny] It looks blacker than black.
It looks like you're looking through a black hole.
[narrator] A fisherman on the high seas...
[high-pitched wailing]
[Ryun speaking]
[narrator] ...is beckoned by a mermaid.
[Ryun] I'mma find your ass.
I've seen whales. I've seen sharks.
I've seen all types of fish.
This was something definitely new.
[narrator] A motorcyclist in the Philippines
[rider speaking]
drives through a ghost.
[Aaron] This is human in shape,
but this doesn't look like a living human.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
to believe.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] When it comes to locations
that are reportedly haunted,
one of the first details to study
is the location's history.
Because the more emotional activity
that has taken place there,
and the wider its range,
the more likely it is
to have supernatural elements.
Just ask three explorers in New York,
who investigated a building
that was once host to opulent parties
and later...
became a nursing home,
creating a paranormal stew
that yields phenomena...
like this.
August 2021.
In Upstate New York,
a paranormal investigator named Chris,
his best friend Big Red,
and fellow paranormal investigator Phil
are exploring an abandoned mansion
that has
quite a history.
We are really pumped up for this place.
So...
let's go right in through the front door
and let's get this thing going, huh?
My name is Chris, and this is my video.
-I guess we can just go right in, huh? -We can let ourselves in.
[Chris] Wow, dude. [chuckles]
It was built in 1909 by a railroad engineer
who worked in Switzerland.
Then he moved back to Upstate New York,
sold the mansion to the DuPont family.
DuPont family married into the Vanderlip family.
So there was a lot of prominent names
that are attached to this mansion.
Also, they used to host theater,
musical performances there.
So it was kind of like a big deal.
[narrator] A big deal with lots of rich history,
only to end up
as a nursing home.
[Dan] Now, when you think of nursing homes,
nursing homes just have to absorb
so much different kinds of energy.
"Why did my family put me here?"
Or "Thank God my family put me here."
Now, it would be,
I think, next to impossible
for somebody not to have an experience
in a place like this.
[narrator] And sure enough,
as Chris branches off
to explore the home by himself...
[Chris] This place is wild.
[narrator] Watch closely.
Did you catch that?
Watch again in slow motion.
Though he doesn't see it at the time,
when Chris shines his flashlight down a hallway,
a figure seems to quickly withdraw into the wall,
as if avoiding the light.
I don't know what that was.
Obviously, I didn't notice it when I was walking around.
That's the kind of stuff I like,
is where it's--
where I don't notice it, it makes it seem like...
I don't know, it just makes it feel unscripted.
[Mark] If in fact this shadowy form is a shadow figure,
then it's doing
exactly what shadow figures always seem to do,
which is quickly retreat
as soon as the gaze of the living are cast upon them.
What struck me was
how dark this color was.
It wasn't just like this ethereal kind of mist.
It was this really dark shadow color
that looks blacker than black.
It looks like you're looking through a black hole.
Additionally, it makes it more compelling
because he repeats the movement.
He swings around
and then swings back,
but we don't see the same movement.
And if that was simply a trick of shadows,
it would be replicated.
Was that maybe an angry patient?
Maybe a patient who died suddenly
that didn't understand why they died.
Maybe it was someone
from back when it was a mansion.
Who knows what goes on in these mansions
back in like, the 1920s, the early 1910s.
[Sceurman] You gotta remember, like, the Roaring Twenties
and things like that.
You got, like, bootleg liquor flowing through this place.
And I'm sure there was a lot of, you know,
stuff going on at these parties
that might make these spirits still want
to kind of hang around.
[narrator] And as Chris and his colleagues begin
a spirit box session,
they use one particular fixture in the home
as an offering to those spirits.
We decided to start off in the piano side
to see if maybe this piano maybe sparked something.
The reason we added the piano into the session is
because it's a trigger object.
I like to have trigger objects
to try to speak to somebody
who's attached to something that's very important
to that location
that they've been to every single day.
Do you remember this?
[plays tune]
I actually, on my investigations,
always love to incorporate music
from the era of the heyday of the location
that I'm investigating.
I always will play a piano
if it's at a [chuckles] location
because I feel like it kind of invites a positive environment
to start to manifest.
[narrator] Which is exactly
what seems to happen next.
[static]
-[man speaking] -[all exclaiming]
-[Chris] You heard that, right? "Yo." -[Phil] Whoa.
[narrator] And even when the group moves away
from the piano
to an entirely different location in the mansion...
Piano again, dude.
[narrator] ...the music...
continues.
-[Big Red] It is. -[Chris] Right there, dude.
The creepiest room in that entire place.
It's basically an attic.
So having to be up there and...
asking it repeatedly, like,
"Play us another note."
Boom, it'll play us another note.
It did it again, dude.
So it's a little weird.
[narrator] But given the lavish elements
of the building
that still remain in some form,
maybe less weird...
than we might think.
[Lynne] I mean, the woodwork in the ceilings
and the piano and everything,
it was a place that asks the question,
why isn't there anyone here anymore?
And that is sort of a haunting refrain
throughout all of this.
[narrator] And for Chris,
the answers that they have captured to that refrain
during this investigation
make it a resounding success.
[Chris] With all the activity that we got there,
with the piano note...
There it is.
[Chris] ...and that kind of shadow-esque figure,
that's the most definitive activity
I've come on.
So I would say I'd rank it
within like probably like the top three
of the most haunted places I think I've been to.
[narrator] Coming up,
a fisherman captures what he believes is proof...
-[high-pitched scream] -[Ryun speaking]
[narrator] ...of mermaids.
[Ryun] I'mma find yo ass!
[narrator] Most paranormal experiences,
even at their most terrifying,
are fleeting.
And even if you manage
to record the incident on camera,
chances are...
that footage is the only evidence you have.
But for one fisherman in Massachusetts,
his story involves
not only seeing a legendary cryptid...
[Ryun] Yo, what is that?
What are those?
[narrator] ...and hearing a legendary cryptid...
[high-pitched wailing]
[Ryun] That's crazy.
[narrator] ...but potentially...
even holding a piece
of that legendary cryptid.
[man speaking]
[narrator] March 2022,
off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
It's around midnight,
and commercial fisherman Ryun Coleman
is getting ready to clean the boat he works on
when he hears something on the water...
-[high-pitched wailing] -That's crazy.
That's nuts.
[narrator] ...that he's never heard before.
[high-pitched mumbling and wailing]
-[Ryun] That's crazy. -[high-pitched wailing]
[narrator] And later that night,
it returns.
[Ryun] I hear it.
-[high-pitched wailing] -[Ryun] I hear 'em.
Where's she at?
What the [bleep] is that noise, bro?
What is that noise?
Where are you?
My name is Ryun and these are my videos.
-[high-pitched wailing] -[Ryun] I hear 'em.
Where's she at?
-[high-pitched wailing] -[Ryun] What the [bleep] is that noise, bro?
-[screaming continues] -What is that noise?
[Ryun] It was very unusual where the noise was that loud,
coming from all directions,
and I couldn't see what was there, you know?
[loudly] Where are you?
It was coming from everywhere.
-[high-pitched wailing] -[Ryun] What the [bleep] is that noise, bro?
-[screaming continues] -What is that noise?
And it wasn't like a normal dolphin noise.
There was something melodic to it.
It was not no animal noise.
It was something different, you know?
[loudly] Where are you?
[Ronny] You know, hearing these noises was
a bit terrifying.
It doesn't sound like something that's underwater,
where you would hear whales communicating.
This sounds like something has emerged from the surface
and is communicating and vocalizing to him.
-[high-pitched wailing] -[Ryun] I hear 'em.
Where's she at?
-[high-pitched wailing] -What the [bleep] is that noise, bro?
[narrator] Weeks later,
more communicating,
waking Ryun
in his cabin on the boat.
[soft thuds]
[thuds continue]
What the [bleep]?
[Ryun] I heard those banging noises
on the side of my boat,
which... never happens.
You don't really hear that.
[narrator] And when he goes on deck to check it out...
[Ryun] What the [bleep] is that?
Another one over here?
What are those?
[narrator] The boat is flanked on both sides...
by two swimming bodies.
[Ryun] What are those?
It was not no dolphin.
It was no whale.
For those things to be keeping up with it on the side
and having the streamline,
the streamline on those things in the water was long.
What the [bleep] is that?
You never just see two dolphins.
[chuckles]
[narrator] And at this point,
Ryun believes he knows
what those streamlined figures are.
What the [bleep]?
Just by the moment of me hearing the noise,
walking out on deck, and then seeing that,
it had to be those things.
[narrator] And by those things,
he means mermaids.
Stories of mermaids go back to at least 1000 BC. in Syria,
and they can be found across cultures.
And these are not the friendly creatures
from an animated movie
or even the romantic figures
from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
[Susan] They were believed to be
a humanoid alien-like...
person on the top
and then fish on the bottom,
with like, this strange beauty
that would attract sailors to them.
They would use their voice to hypnotize people
and essentially lure them to their deaths.
[high-pitched wailing]
[narrator] And though Ryun
somehow avoids being lured to them,
one night on the boat soon after,
part of them
appears to come to him.
[Ryun] It was maybe one of the last toes
to come up on the boat.
And at the end,
I see this bone coming down the conveyor belt.
[narrator] And because no one can identify
where the bone is from,
Ryun brings it to the Whaling Museum
in Nantucket
to get a professional opinion.
[man speaking]
[Ryun] Now, at the Whaling Museum,
they have marine biologists,
people who study this stuff all the time.
He didn't know what this was.
As soon as I pulled this out,
he started taking measurements.
This is not no normal whale bone.
My immediate reaction to that bone is
it looks like
the end of the flipper
of a mermaid's bottom fin.
[man speaking]
[Ryun] Nobody can tell me
that this is not a mermaid tail
because they can't tell me it is not,
you know?
They don't know what this is.
So who's to say it's not?
[narrator] And incredibly,
Ryun gets one more fleeting yet stunning glimpse
at what could be the creature
just a short time later.
[Ryun] That is not a fish. I am a fisherman.
200 days out in the ocean,
I've been doing it for six years.
I've seen all types of fish.
This was something definitely new.
Whatever that is...
that he sees swimming next to the boat,
it looks like it's...
kind of orange or green.
I mean, if it was like a sea lion
or a seal or something,
it would be just a big black body.
[narrator] For his part,
Ryun is convinced
and plans to keep his eyes wide open...
from here on.
[Ryun] Every time I go out there, I'm looking.
Every time.
Because now I feel like I know there's more.
[soft thuds]
It has opened my eyes to many things in this life
that I would never even...
think of.
[narrator] Coming up...
a motorcyclist in the Philippines has a collision...
[motorcyclist speaking]
[narrator] ...with a ghost.
[narrator] Seeing an entity out of the corner of your eye,
or having one manifest...
[screaming]
[narrator] ...right in front of you,
is for many,
the stuff of nightmares.
But what happens if you not only see the entity,
but somehow...
touch it?
Or even worse,
move through it?
That's what may have happened to one man in the Philippines.
And the residual effect...
turned his life...
upside down.
March 3, 2024.
Cagayan De Oro, Philippines.
It's 3:00 a.m.,
and motorcyclist Karl Dagus and his girlfriend...
are riding back home from a late-night coffee run
when his 360-degree helmet cam
records something inexplicable.
[Karl speaking]
[narrator] Watch again
as what appears to be a pedestrian
walks into the middle of the road,
seems to step right in front of Karl's motorcycle,
and yet somehow...
avoids being hit.
So Karl continues on his way,
baffled at the encounter...
[Karl speaking]
[narrator] ...but assuming
the person made it safely across the road,
until he watches the footage again later
and notices
that right at the moment
when there would be a collision,
the figure simply...
vanishes.
I'm Karl Dagus,
and this is my video.
I have some weird feeling about the person
because during the encounter,
he wasn't looking at the road when he was crossing.
At the last second,
he was... running towards us,
trying to...
bump us.
However, I was confused
because there were no impact
or no signs of a physical touch from us.
So from scrolling the camera dash cam,
I realized that that wasn't a person.
He disappeared in thin air.
[Lynne] There's no question here.
I mean, this isn't like, "Oh, is that a person?
Oh, did I see that?"
It's a little bit, you know,
"it could have been this zooming by." No.
There's a person who runs into the road.
And yet there's no crash.
What really gets under my skin about this is
that there doesn't seem to be
any discernible features or even a face.
This is human in shape,
but this doesn't look like a living human.
[narrator] Karl puts the video on social media
and the ensuing response
enlightens him
about the road's apparently...
troubled past.
[Karl] A lot of people reach out to me.
They already told me
that this place has a lot of accidents.
So a lot died while crossing. A lot...
is happening on that road.
[Ronny] A lot of people are experiencing...
spirits, entities that are alongside these dark roadways.
And a lot of times, it seems to be connected
to someone that had passed away at that location,
some sort of fatality.
And you wonder
if some of these accidents and fatalities are
because of these things appearing
and causing someone with a motorcycle
to drive off the road
or someone to avoid hitting someone
that isn't really there,
and they end up getting into an accident.
[narrator] And in Karl's case,
while there isn't any accident,
there is...
a cost.
[Karl] Moving forward, it has a psychological effect.
For me, after one to two days,
I feel like someone is watching...
on every corner.
Like, if I pass by my house,
like, something is, like, staring at me at the corner,
or even when I'm sleeping, someone is like...
checking on me when I sleep.
It's mainly a spiritual warfare.
[Brian] This brings up a very interesting question.
If he physically collided with a spirit,
now, we don't know how that interaction works
on a molecular level,
could he have taken some of that spirit with him?
Could it have been disincorporated
by that impact?
[narrator] Karl thinks so,
and does what he can
to rid himself of it.
[Karl speaking]
After a week,
my normal life came back.
I'm not...
afraid or fazed or anything.
[narrator] Things may be back to normal,
but Karl's perception of the world around him
has changed forever.
I acknowledge that these beings are here.
They really exist.
-[narrator] Coming up... -[dog barks]
...a little dog spots a big ghost.
[woman 1] What the [bleep]?
[narrator] Because of the different energies
coming in and out of each room every single day,
hotels have long been thought to be ripe for hauntings.
But today, in a world where people routinely rent out their homes to strangers,
some smaller properties are increasingly gaining the same reputation.
Just ask one woman in Canada,
who booked a place with her dog and friend
and accidentally ended up sharing it
with a ghost.
October, 2023, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Emily Overton is sharing a rental property
with her best friend, Janessa, and her dog, Rosie.
But only hours after they check-in, Rosie begins acting strangely.
[dog barking]
[woman 1 speaking in English]
Hi, my name is Emily and I filmed this video.
We were just recording Rosie because she kept barking at something.
We didn't even know what she was barking at.
She kept staring at, like, the table and the chairs,
and then she started growling.
And she's such a friendly dog that she doesn't normally do that.
So as soon as she started growling at the table and then she started barking at it,
that's when I was like, what's going on.
[narrator] And that's when whatever Rosie is barking at strikes back.
Watch the video that Emily posts directly to social media closely.
[Emily] What the [bleep]?
[narrator] Watch again. Within the circle that Emily places on her post
right after Rosie recoils, a shadow comes out of nowhere.
Seemingly snatching at Rosie's face.
And when Emily rewatches the video later, she is totally freaked out.
I swear I saw something when I was recording.
So then, looking back,
what I saw when I watched the video, I was like, "Oh, it's just the paper."
Because I thought it was the paper flying out, and then I watched it again.
I watched it again.
Because maybe when she ran, the paper went up, and that's what I saw.
But then, no, I zoomed in and the paper stays flat.
I was scared to sleep. Me and... me and Janessa,
we had a two bedroom place and we slept in the same room because we were scared.
We were like, "Yeah, there's something here."
What the [bleep]?
The shadow almost seems like a hand
that's reaching out to swipe at the back of the dog as it's retreating.
[Shippy] It was kind of a strange shape,
so I couldn't decipher if it was actually a hand
reaching for it or what it was.
But the dog clearly, he sees this, you know, and reacts to it.
[Emily] What the [bleep]?
[Susan] Sometimes when things manifest,
they're not gonna manifest in a human shape,
and also, sometimes when things manifest,
they don't necessarily go by the laws of physics that we understand.
Hence, why Rosie is looking up at the tall corner
and then all of a sudden it's right in front of her.
I definitely think that Rosie is on to something.
I think something's there. I think she sees something.
[narrator] Which begs the question,
why did Rosie appear to see something long before Emily did?
It's often theorized that animals such as dogs
can see things that humans can't.
Now, we already know they have better night vision
because of the rods in their eyes, right?
That collects the sensitivity of light.
But recent research also shows
that it's possible they might be seeing more of the ultraviolet light.
That's at the fringe edge of our visible ability to see things,
and dogs might be able to collect this light,
sort of like paranormal investigators are using full spectrum cameras.
So if anomalies, spirits, things are appearing
in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum,
maybe that's why the dog is reacting to it.
I full-heartedly believe that it was a ghost
trying to touch Rosie because Rosie was barking at it.
[narrator] But if this was a ghost, where did it come from?
And what is it doing here?
[Lynne] We've always seen hotels, places that people gather,
places that people stay intermittently
as sort of these locusts of energy and attention that gathers there.
But now, thanks to different services
that allow people to rent out a single house or a single room in a house,
we're seeing that same activity, but on a way smaller scale.
[Steve] With all the traveling that I do and things like that,
I would say, realistically, about one out of 10 times
or one out of 15 rental properties that we stay at,
something paranormal does happen.
[narrator] Thankfully for Emily and especially Rosie,
whatever was haunting the rental property,
did not seem to follow them home.
[Emily] I haven't seen her act strange at all lately.
Like now, she just barks when people come in.
But I haven't been noticing too much of her acting... acting weird now.
[narrator] Which suggests that their surprise temporary roommate
likely meant no harm.
I think if anything, it's like me.
When I see a cute dog on the street,
I just want to reach out and say, "Can I pet your dog?
Can I pet your dog? Can I pet your dog?"
[Emily] What the [bleep]?
[narrator] Coming up... A man who sees UFOs, on the regular.
When it comes to sightings, individual experiences greatly vary.
From those who have never seen anything unexplainable in the sky
to others who seemed to be witnessing them constantly.
And while some theorize that certain individuals
possess an innate ability to connect with alien life forms,
others believe that crafts are choosing to present to that person
for a specific reason.
But, a Las Vegas man, who has filmed consistent sightings for over a decade,
believes the reason he continues to capture such an abundance of evidence
is that he's simply putting in the work.
2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
When we last featured Steve Barone,
he was still grappling with his newfound ability...
[man 1 speaking in English]
...to capture stunning UFO footage from his doorstep.
And since that time, he's been proving
that his initial dalliance with unexplained sky phenomena was no fluke,
as he has captured some striking new objects on camera.
Like this one from an overnight recording in September 2023.
A strange oblong illuminated object soaring over the city,
before turning 90 degrees and disappearing off screen.
And when Steve sees it the next day,
though he's seen so many before, he's blown away.
I'm Steve Barone and these are my videos.
In all the years I've been doing this,
I have never seen anything like that.
My first thought was, "Man, is this thing crashing?"
[Shippy] It almost looks like it's burning, which is interesting,
like maybe there's a fuel source or something like that happening.
A lot of times when we see UAP or UFO footage or stills,
you don't really see anything fiery like that.
This seemed to have something else taking place
that I haven't quite seen before.
[Lynne] It was so clear, and so unique.
This sort of rectangular object with these blinking lights.
I just thought, "How is this not explained?
How is there not a headline the next day
saying, 'Residents of Las Vegas noticed this experimental machine.'"
[narrator] And this isn't the only potential experimental machine
that Steve has captured recently.
August 2022.
This time, in broad daylight.
Right when I walked out the door
I see this thing in front of these just beautiful, huge white clouds
and the thing that just shocks me,
is every frame of the video. It looks different.
And it goes from being almost like a burgundy color
for lack of a better way to describe it, almost like a ladybug,
because there were little darker colored burgundy spots on it.
So, uh, it was just incredible.
[Ben] One of the first things I try to evaluate
with objects like this is whether it's self-propelled.
This does look like it's sort of tumbling, maybe floating along
like it could be a lighter than air object or a balloon.
But some parts of it look like it's smooth,
and then when it turns, it looks like it has actual spikes.
I'm not sure what it is, but we don't see a lot of balloons like that.
[narrator] For Steve, it's just another mystifying piece of UFO evidence
whose capture he attributes to good old fashioned effort.
I'll stay out anywhere from an hour to six hours.
It just depends on what's going on.
[narrator] And what was going on for this new capture,
was three stunning orbs.
[Barone] I'm a veteran. I was in the Navy.
I've stood watch before. I know how that goes.
And I just know that if I was going to be successful
at capturing any of these things, then I had to be consistent.
So that's why I would go outside every night.
Over the first three years, I must have put in at least 1,000 nights.
I understand exactly how this guy feels.
He's just a normal guy doing what anybody can do. He just gets results.
I think, with much more practice
you start getting more clarity and more hits,
just like any other thing that you do in life.
With practice comes results.
[narrator] And Steve is confident that these new captures,
just like the previous ones,
are unequivocally extraterrestrial.
[Barone] I don't even think of them as visitors, really.
Just like in an ocean,
you know, all the fish in the oceans
of the world are connected, and we're in this universe,
we're connected with them, too.
[narrator] And as the sightings continue to come in,
he believes it's only a matter of time
before contact is made.
We're probably gonna find life right here in our own solar system.
The fact that there are just so many uncounted
trillions of planets out there,
for me, the miracle of all miracles would be...
that we were alone.
[narrator] Coming up...
A woman celebrating her birthday has her special moment...
stolen by a mischievous spirit.
Birthdays, anniversaries,
and other major milestones in our lives
often come with an air of reflection and spirituality.
And perhaps because of this, some believe that during these times
we may be more open to brushing elbows
with those who exist in the spectral realm.
Just ask a woman in Mexico who went to blow out her birthday candles
and found that an invisible guest beat her to it.
April 2021 in Mexico.
It's Lily's 31st birthday party.
Friends and family are encouraging her to blow out her candles.
[people speaking in other language]
[narrator, in English] When...
someone or something...
steals her moment.
[speaking in other language]
[Shippy, in English] You see her kinda look down in shock.
You can sense their feeling on this because this, is extremely strange.
[speaking in other language]
[Aaron, in English] The force with which the candles are extinguished,
is quite strong and did not emanate from the woman.
We would have seen her exhale visibly
with enough force to blow those out.
[speaking in other language]
[Moran, in English] Where did that breeze come from?
We can clearly see all of the things around her, and none of them move.
Nothing is impacted by whatever this wind force was, except those candles.
[narrator] And that's not the only strange thing that is captured.
Watch again...
as Lily's sleeve is pulled down,
right before the candles get blown out.
Which, coupled with where the gust of wind seemed to come from,
conjures a particular image of a possible culprit.
It was almost as if there was a small child,
standing right in front of her and blew out the candles before Lily had a chance to.
It immediately made me wonder if Lily had somebody close to her,
somebody connected to her,
uh, a child or a younger person, pass away.
And they just couldn't wait for Lily
to blow out the candles, so they did it themselves.
[narrator] If that's the case,
the timing of this spiritual activity certainly makes sense.
Birthdays are really unique because they function
as folklorists would say, both as calendar customs,
so, the cyclical kind of rituals that we have and as rites of passage.
The rituals that transition us from one stage of life to another.
Birthdays, by being both,
are these really heightened moments, for individual people.
If some meaningful person from your past who's moved on to the other side
is gonna come back and visit
seems like a really apt time for that to happen.
[narrator] A decidedly positive spin.
But what if, as one of the party guests seems to suggest...
[guest speaking in other language]
[narrator, in English] ...there's something sinister behind this paranormal prank.
Now, if this happened back in the 1800s,
the 1700s or even way before,
this might be seen as an omen.
Something of bad tidings, that maybe her days were numbered.
And just like those candles, they would be snuffed out very soon.
[narrator] Terrifying.
Luckily for Lily, she lived to tell the tale.
So we can assume that this spirit only meant to send well wishes.
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.
Trust that what you're seeing...
[Ryun] I'mma find your ass.
...really is something paranormal.
[shrieks]
[Ryun] That's crazy.
[narrator] When in doubt, believe your best friend...
[Emily] What the [bleep]?
...and if you do catch something,
email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.
Your footage could be seen right here
on Paranormal Caught on Camera.