[narrator] Next on Paranormal Caught On Camera...
An investigator in England
explores an abandoned winery...
[Alex speaking]
...filled with restless spirits.
-[clinking] -[Alex] Oh [bleep] hell!
[Alex speaking]
[narrator] A young girl's doll in Uruguay...
comes alive.
It so clearly just scares her out of her mind, and she's gone.
[narrator] A home security camera in Northern Ireland...
captures a bizarre manifestation
of a gift bag.
[Steve] This isn't a shadow figure manifesting or an apparition manifesting.
This is a gift, an actual product.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[Gavin] Another shadow has manifested, is walking down.
[narrator] ...to believe.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] For some people, opening a winery of their own
is a lifelong goal.
The culmination of years of investment,
dedication and hard work.
And certainly not something they would let go of easily.
Unless, of course, that winery...
were to become haunted...
and frighten the owners so much
that they had little choice
but to abandon everything they worked so hard to achieve.
[ominous music playing]
That's what allegedly happened at one winery in England.
And when a paranormal investigator paid a visit to it...
[Alex speaking]
[narrator] ...he understood why.
[clinking]
[narrator] July 2023, in Hampshire, England...
A paranormal investigator named Alex
is exploring an abandoned winery
with a sinister reputation.
I'm Alex, and this is my video.
[footsteps shuffling]
[Susan] Wine and mead were revered beverages
of choice for the pagans.
And they celebrated life with wine,
they celebrated death with wine.
If you did build something like a vineyard
on top of an ancient pagan burial ground,
you might just be inviting entities
to come and party and imbibe with you
in your establishment.
[Alex speaking]
[narrator] And if it didn't feel right when Alex walked in,
what happens only minutes into the investigation,
only reinforces that feeling.
[Alex speaking]
[clinking]
[narrator] On the other side of the building, from where Alex is walking,
one of his static cameras...
-[thuds] -[clinking]
...picks up a door slamming by itself.
[clinking]
-[thuds] -[clinking]
[Dalen] Anytime doors slam,
I automatically think of, like, a spirit,
just trying to get my attention.
So once that door, you know, close the way it did for this gentleman,
I was like, "All right, buddy, you need to start paying attention,
because either they don't want you there,
or they want you to know that they are there. [laughs]
And, either way, the odds are not in your favor.
[narrator] And perhaps most importantly for Alex,
as he walks around the winery,
whatever is in here with him,
seems to be getting much closer.
[Alex speaking]
[clinking]
[Mark] I don't know what would have caused
those wine bottles to fall over.
Uh, he's certainly not manipulating them in any way.
-[clinking] -[Alex gasps]
I've also had a similar case
with objects flying across the room.
But it wasn't a bottle, it was a wine glass,
and it was hanging on a rack.
So this thing just kind of took off on its own and shattered.
[glass breaking]
When you start to have bottles and wine glasses,
things that could clock you in the head,
that could cause some serious injury.
[narrator] Alex begins the process of leaving the winery.
But not before one final scope of the premises.
A decision
which yields the most terrifying result
of the night.
Watch very closely.
[narrator] Watch again, zoomed in.
As Alex moves the camera around,
in a doorway,
seemingly staring directly at him...
a shadow figure.
[Alex speaking]
Who's there?
And it looked like you could see the outline of a head, shoulders,
even kind of like a torso.
But it looks like it just kind of fades into the darkness as you go down.
A lot of times when people do see shadow figures with the naked eye,
it's not how you would see, like, your own shadow.
It's not so defined.
A lot of times, it's kind of hiding within a shadow.
It seems to match a lot of eyewitness accounts
that I've heard about over the years.
[narrator] And it's a good indicator
that Alex is correct to leave the winery when he does.
[Alex speaking]
[clinking]
What the... [bleep]
[narrator] Coming up...
A young girl in Uruguay
discovers that her doll...
[girl speaking]
[narrator] ...it's haunted.
[mellow music playing]
[narrator] The primary job of a parent is straightforward...
protect your child at all costs.
But while it's one thing to keep them safe from an obvious threat,
it becomes much more complicated
when that threat is potentially...
from something paranormal.
And no one knows that more than a woman in Uruguay,
whose daughter got the fright of her life
while playing with her baby doll.
[in Spanish]
[suspenseful music playing]
-[thuds] -[whimpers]
[narrator in English] November 2019,
in Canelones, Uruguay.
[speaks Spanish]
[narrator in English] Soledad Alfonzo's young daughter, Priscilla,
is making a video for fun,
while Soledad is in another room.
[in Spanish]
[narrator in English] But this apparently harmless activity,
is about to become next level freaky.
Keep your eye on the doll behind Priscilla
as she displays her toys.
[in Spanish]
[narrator in English] Did you see it?
Watch again,
as the doll's hand knocks over a toy cup...
by itself.
But Priscilla doesn't seem to fully register it,
and carries on.
[speaking Spanish]
[narrator in English] Until...
[in Spanish]
-[thuds] -[whimpers]
[narrator in English] The doll once again moves its arm,
and this time, Priscilla,
whose phone is in selfie mode,
sees it and reacts.
My name is Soledad Alfonzo, and this is my video.
[in Spanish]
[Soledad in English] Honestly, I didn't believe her until I watched the video.
And then, I couldn't accuse her of making it up,
because there's no way someone could have moved the doll from behind.
There was a wall there.
I wanted to get a lighter and set the doll on fire,
because it was so terrifying.
I loved this one.
This is everything that I am looking for
in a clip of the paranormal.
This is a situation we've all experienced.
Something moves in our peripheral vision,
and we're sort of like, "Huh, what was that?"
[in Spanish]
[Lynne in English] She kind of glances at it,
but it's, like, not a big deal.
The second time it moves, which is way slower,
way creepier...
[in Spanish]
[Lynne in English] It so clearly just
scares her out of her mind and she's gone.
It's both, heartbreaking from a human standpoint,
and quite unsettling from a paranormal one.
[Susan] When we do investigations,
especially around haunted dolls,
we're trying to establish whether
the doll has the interests of an entity,
usually like a younger spirit, like a child spirit,
or is this entity or spirit that,
that using the doll as kind of like a ventriloquist would,
to interact with or communicate with the living.
[narrator] Whatever it is, Soledad is desperate to find out what's going on.
So she consults her daughter
and other family members who have lived in the house...
and received some unsettling responses
that begin to shed some light.
After what happened,
my daughter told me that the doll would appear
in different places in the house.
She had slept with it next to her,
and then it appeared by her feet in bed.
Then, we realized that there might be a reason why this is happening.
The house had some history.
Before we moved in, my sister and little nephew lived there.
And my nephew said that in the same room where the doll moved,
a man had appeared before him and he talked to him.
So we decided to ask the neighbors
if something had happened in that house.
We found out that something did happen.
That a man hung himself in it.
[narrator] Terrifying.
But if it is the spirit of this man,
why would it want to inhabit the body of a toy doll?
[Steve] A doll is kind of the embodiment of a person, right?
You have a head, mouth, nose, eyes, arms, limbs, legs, et cetera.
If you were a spirit
and you were going to try to inhabit an inanimate object,
wouldn't you rather inhabit something
that actually looks like what you're familiar with?
[narrator] Maybe...
But as far as Soledad was concerned,
whatever took over the doll,
regardless of the reason,
had to go.
[Soledad] We burned it in a metal barrel,
then threw it away.
[narrator] The family moves out of the house two months later.
But the ordeal leaves a lasting impression on Priscilla.
She's okay.
But she won't forget about it.
As soon as she sees a doll, she remembers that moment.
[narrator] Let's hope for her sake,
she won't ever have to experience something like that again.
[ominous music playing]
[Priscilla in Spanish]
[narrator in English] Coming up...
How did a deceased woman's gift bag
appear out of thin air?
[narrator] We've all experienced it.
An item you can't find anywhere
that's suddenly right in front of you
in a place you're certain you didn't leave it.
And while most chalk up this common circumstance
to a lapse in memory,
it could also quite possibly,
be due to the presence
of the paranormal.
Just ask one woman in Northern Ireland,
whose rediscovered item
may have been a very special delivery
from her late grandmother.
February 2023,
in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
a home security camera captures Allison Sykes
as she leaves her recently deceased mother's house,
which she's been clearing out since her mother passed,
and she makes sure to lock the door behind her...
[door locks]
...as she goes.
But when she returns the next day,
she finds a bag
containing a pair of slippers that belonged to her mother
behind the door.
A bad she is certain
she left upstairs before leaving.
Mystified, because she's the only person with a key to the house,
Allison asks her daughter, Alisha,
to watch the home security camera footage,
to see who could have placed it there.
And when Alisha does so,
she is stunned.
Watch closely.
Watch again,
as the bag seems to suddenly...
materialize.
My name is Alisha Sykes, and this is my video.
I kept watching it, and I was like, "This is so strange."
I just don't understand how it could have got there.
And then, even, like...
And then, whatever... The next motion,
you could see my mom walking through the house.
But whenever you scroll through the time passed
in between those two clips...
[Dan] I deal a lot with cameras and security cameras.
I said, "You know what? This camera is not running at the proper frame rate.
Maybe it's motion activated
and somebody was able to kind of sneak in
beyond the limit of what the camera can to pick,
but the bag is there.
How did somebody get a bag there without getting picked up?
Because the bag is picked up on the camera.
I'm sort of at a loss.
This is a very tangible object.
I mean, this isn't
a shadow figure manifesting or an apparition manifesting.
This is a gift, an actual product.
So I just... I've never seen anything like this.
That's very interesting, very compelling.
[narrator] Compelling, but most certainly
not unheard of.
It is something in the paranormal we call an apport.
Things appearing and disappearing,
from the French "apporter," "to move."
So, especially during seances,
as seen in the spiritualist movement
of the 1800s and early 1900s,
when those psychic mediums would make contact,
allegedly, things would disappear.
Things would reappear that weren't in the room to begin with.
Now, where did these come from?
They just mysteriously appeared from nowhere.
But maybe that nowhere was the other side.
[narrator] Maybe, but there was no one trying
to make contact with the other side.
So why did it happen here?
And why now?
Alisha thinks she knows.
[narrator] Her nanny, her mother's mother,
who who had just recently passed away,
and who Alisha believes
was trying to send a message
by using this specific bag.
[Alisha speaking]
So, yeah.
Yeah, so strange.
[Lynne] A bag with slippers on it by the door,
meaningless on its own.
But when we put it together
with the recent passing of her grandmother,
when we know that the bag
says words like "a gift for you"
when we know that the bag wasn't there
there last time any living person interacted with that house.
And it didn't just fall down the stairs.
It's sitting and waiting upright perfectly by the door.
Suddenly it becomes incredibly spooky
and also incredibly meaningful.
As far as last communications from a deceased person,
that would be incredibly meaningful to me if that happened.
If I actually received something that said "a gift for you,"
from someone who had recently passed away,
that's incredible.
[narrator] And as spooky as it was,
the appearance of the bag
was a nice ending
-to a very challenging task. - [hopeful music playing]
[narrator] Coming up...
An old movie theater attracts an audience...
[Gavin] Another shadow has manifested, is walking down.
[narrator] ...of shadow figures.
[narrator] Perhaps no single type of location
promises more collective joy,
fear, amusement and sadness
than movie theaters.
We're both on screen and off.
Human emotions
can run wild.
So much so,
that some believe
those feelings get absorbed into the building itself.
And then, potentially manifest
into one or more entities...
of their own.
Which one paranormal investigation team in Utah can vouch for,
because their theater-based ghost hunt
was apparently dropped in on
by two ghostly spectators.
[Gavin] Another shadow has manifested is walking down.
Dude, I... [bleep]
[narrator] August 2023,
in Tooele, Utah.
Gavin Taketa is at his computer,
reviewing footage from a recent paranormal investigation
that he and his team did
at an 85-year-old movie theater,
when he realizes with shock
that during their exploration,
some unexpected guests appeared to stop by.
[Gavin] Right here.
Shine a light, nothing, shine the light away.
[narrator] Watch Gavin's cursor,
as he replays the footage
and narrates what he sees.
[Gavin] Something's starting to get darker,
and then it starts walking down.
Reid stopped. He's already all the way down.
He is now stopped, and the shadow keeps going,
has stopped and is now walking more and more.
It gets to Reid, and then disappears completely.
[narrator] A dark shadow, not matching the movements of the investigators
who are here, here and here.
He seems to walk down the aisle
toward the feeder screen.
But that's only the beginning.
Seconds later, another shadow travels the same route
Before seemingly taking a seat in an empty row.
[suspenseful music playing]
Hi, I'm Gavin Takeda, and this is my video.
We kind of, like, noticed right off the bat,
the movement of our bodies in the background,
as opposed to the shadow figure
that should be mimicking our movement,
especially with the lighting that we did have,
you can see our shadows moving
in different patterns on the wall,
and then you can see this shadow,
which looks like it's before the wall,
and it kind of dissipates as it goes on.
We're not even moving at the time.
The second shadow figure
that pops up immediately afterwards,
walks down and looks like it goes,
moves to the right and sits down in a chair.
Now, none of our investigators are doing this movement,
we're not doing this motion.
It's just absolutely baffling.
[Steve] I thought this footage was
very unique, uh, very interesting
and a hell of a capture for many different reasons.
[Gavin] Something's starting to get darker
and then it starts walking down.
[Steve] You're seeing these two different shadows
not complying with being "the shadow" of one of the investigators.
And then, you're kind of like, "Okay, wait a minute."
And then especially the one that looks like
it's sitting down in one of the theater seats,
but yet we see no investigator
is sitting down or is seated at all.
If that's the shadow of a spirit,
it it really makes you wonder the...
The way it walked right up to one of the living people there
and then sits down.
Was it there to observe the show
that these people were putting on at the time?
Or was it a deceased person
who was perhaps there to attend a movie
that maybe ran decades ago.
[narrator] Either way, according to Gavin,
this wasn't a first-time sighting.
There have been numerous reports
of shadow figures in that area.
That's partially the reason why they installed there,
um, a static camera in there.
They've caught multiple shadow figures coming down.
[narrator] And considering the location,
that's perhaps not so surprising.
[Lynne] Theaters... movie theaters, stage theaters...
incredibly long history of being haunted.
Good theater, good film
is designed to evoke emotional responses.
So we basically have a box
designed for a bunch of people to go in and feel feelings.
Could a location, after amassing
bit by bit by bit of energy left behind
coalesce to create something
that has nowhere to go, has no body to attach to,
so it just wanders around aimlessly,
maybe looking for that connection.
[Gavin] Something's starting to get darker
and then it starts walking down.
[narrator] Possibly.
And if so, it's something Gavin sensed at the time,
even though he was unaware of the shadows.
I don't want to say it was a dark energy that I felt there,
but it was... it was definitely something
that kind of had a story to tell.
We were feeling a lot like...
like there was a crowd of people
that were just eagerly waiting to talk there.
[narrator] Whether or not there was a crowd remains to be seen.
But whatever happens,
Gavin is all in.
[Gavin] Catching something like this was definitely shocking.
The high of ghost hunting has always been there.
Our main goal is just to kind of get back down there,
and I feel like there's a story that we still haven't
quite uncovered fully yet.
Guys, I do not know what to say about this.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Coming up...
A security camera captures a legendary creature...
in Mexico.
[narrator] In Latin American folklore, there is a legend
of a diminutive but powerful creature,
who can, for better or worse,
change the course of your life...
the duende.
And while hard proof of the legendary figure
is as elusive as the creature itself,
make no mistake,
some odd beings that fit the description
have been spotted.
And when they are,
the experience
is nothing...
short of chilling.
July 2023,
in Puebla, Mexico,
a security camera records a side street on a quiet evening.
But things are about to get...
a little weird.
Watch closely.
[ominous music playing]
Watch again in slow motion...
as a small, two-legged creature
seems to stride across the street...
before finally disappearing
into the darkness.
What the heck... was that?
[Brian] When seeing a clip like this,
your first instinct is to say, "That can't be real."
But as I watched it
again and again...
and again,
in slow motion,
frame by frame,
trying to deconstruct every pixel,
I can't tell you what it was.
[Susan] I don't see a head, really.
I see what looks like, potentially, like, shoulders,
and, like, a whole center quarter,
and then these skinny little tiny legs...
running, but running like a human would run.
[Steve] The other thing is, whatever this is,
it does, to me, look like it is holding something.
I'm not exactly sure what that something is.
I'm not even sure what it is,
much less whatever it is holding
as it's going across the road,
but it does seem like there is some kind of
object, kind of, you know, maybe sticking out.
[Ben] If this is truly happening in camera,
a natural explanation might be that the shutter speed
has slowed down to let in more light,
and sometimes you'll see things that are semi-transparent.
But not really only, you know,
half of it being really solid
and the other half not even there,
such as, maybe this was a dog walking across the street,
and when we see the back half?
I don't know about that.
It looks like a goblin, and it's pointing at something
and running across the street or holding maybe like a lance.
[narrator] But what kind of goblin-like creature
might be running around this part of the world
holding some kind of an object?
[Lynne] In a lot of Latin American cultures,
there's a spirit known as a duende,
which is It's sort of like a generic term,
a little bit like fairy folk might be in British tradition.
The Duende is an interesting character,
because like Western fairy traditions,
it's sort of a mixed bag.
What they are understood to be usually, is fairly powerful.
They can make or break your day, basically.
They could, on a whim, bring a lot of good luck.
They could, on a whim,
bring a lot of bad luck and destruction as well.
It's generally considered
the type of creature that you want to be cautious of
and respectful toward.
[Aaron] In Puebla specifically,
there is the bridge of evil elves,
and this is a tale that goes back a few hundred years ago,
where it is said that a man
saw a chicken crossing this bridge,
and he gave chase.
But as he closed in,
the chicken transformed into a duende,
and was then joined
by a dozen other little goblin-like creatures
who then began to attack him.
Now, the man escaped,
but the story lives on.
Are we perhaps looking at one of these duende
from that evil elf bridge
who's running through town?
[narrator] Or considering the unique look of this bizarre creature,
perhaps it's something
even stranger.
This, to me, I don't think falls
in the same category as a duende.
This has got something else going on.
I mean, I could even veer into, like,
is this some sort of human experimentation,
you know, that goes missing?
[narrator] Let's hope not.
But whatever this thing is,
it's just another example of how much there is left to discover
in this world.
Coming up...
Is this mysterious substance
[Christo] There it is on the beach.
I just saw it drip down.
[narrator] ...exhaust from a passing UFO?
[narrator] Seeing a UFO...
[Christo] What is that?
[narrator] ... is a rare experience.
But for a select few,
witnessing unidentified aerial phenomena,
isn't just a one-time thing.
It's a way of life.
And for one remarkable member of that very select group,
there's a unique connection with the objects he sees...
that has yielded
not just spectacular sightings of UFOs up above...
[Christo] Yes. Look at this.
[laughing] Yeah, baby!
[narrator] ...but also
a possible actual physical byproduct...
from their crafts.
[Christo] There it is.
[narrator] Monterey, California...
[Christo] UFO!
[narrator] The last time we met Christo Roppolo,
we explored his extensive video evidence of UFOs.
[Christo] You're so beautiful! Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
[narrator] ...and his unbridled enthusiasm...
[Christo] Oh, yes!
[narrator] ...and seemingly interpersonal connection
with them.
What I get is a very, very basic,
primal feeling from them.
Oh, that was beautiful!
It's very uplifting, almost euphoric in a way.
And I know, that while this is happening to me,
they're getting something from me as well.
[narrator] And in the time since for Christo...
[Christo] Yes! Did you see that?
[narrator] ...the connection has not only continued with new sightings...
[Christo] Yeah, baby!
[narrator] ...but seemingly also left him with physical evidence
of the crafts he is capturing on camera.
October 2023,
Christo captures two fast-moving orbs in the sky.
And afterwards, treks to the area
he believes they were flying over,
and finds something remarkable on the ground.
It's multiple silk-like strands
several feet in length,
some rolled up into small balls
that have similarities to spider webs.
But are believed by some ufologists
to be a byproduct of UFOs,
and are sometimes referred to
to has angel hair.
Hi. I'm Christo Roppolo.
These are my videos.
Several of these strands with these bulbs at the end
came down from the air
directly on the ground in front of me.
And in case people didn't know,
when you have a flying saucer sighting,
if you go back into the historical record,
after people witnessed flying saucers,
all over the ground and on the trees,
they found webbing
and this strange substance, a thread,
okay, that had been emitted by the saucer as it came away.
[narrator] And Christo is almost certain
that what he's just picked up
is that same substance.
[Steve] I've heard about this for years
in different ufology reports, sightings, things like that.
It's almost believed to be a type of silicone substance,
ionized air, something from a very high charged electromagnetic field,
and they often say that it won't last very long,
and it kind of dissipates within a few hours
or sometimes, a day or so.
So if you're able to find this, uh, substance
and perhaps test it,
maybe there's something that could come of it,
but it does seem to be one of the hallmarks
of a very close encounter
with some type of craft close to the Earth.
[narrator] And despite Christo's near certainty of what it is,
he puts the substance through some tests to potentially debunk it
as simply spider silk,
and comes out even more convinced
that it is not in fact
of this world.
We took some of this stuff, right,
and put it in water, and it dissolved, okay?
I don't know any spider webs
that dissolves in water, scientist people. Do you?
I've seen lots of spider webs
with water drops all over them,
Next day, still there.
This stuff, put water in it, gone.
[narrator] The physical substance may be gone,
but Christo's belief in what it was...
[Christo] UFO!
[narrator] ...and his mission to bring discoveries like this
to a wider audience,
are here to stay.
[Aaron] Christo's story is actually something
I've heard frequently throughout the years.
It's almost as if one person
becomes this conduit to this UFO activity.
As if they are selected for some reason
to communicate a message to the masses.
[Christo] Look at that beautiful formation!
All the information
about these entities and this subject is important,
and I'm willing to share.
And I just want all of you out there to know.
Keep your eyes on the skies, okay?
Because it's important that we all do that.
Yes. Look at this.
[laughing] Yeah, baby!
[narrator] 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.
Be aware of the dangers lurking around you.
Trust that what you're seeing
really is something paranormal.
[Gavin] Another shadow has manifested, is walking down.
Dude, I [bleep] you not, this is the craziest thing we've ever caught.
-[narrator] And... -[Christo] I just saw it drip down.
[narrator] ...if you do catch something...
[reading onscreen text]
Your footage could be seen right here
on Paranormal Caught On Camera.