[narrator] Next on Paranormal: Caught on Camera,
a couple renovating
their medieval chateau in France capture a spirit
lurking around.
[Lesa] It didn't scare me.
I was quite excited when I saw it.
A woman's Halloween decoration...
[Arika] Why are you stopping right there to look at me?
...is fixated on her.
Uh uh, I don't play that.
Every time the doll would just stop to look at me, like,
it would just send chills down my body.
A couple in Kentucky
capture a dark entity inside a haunted doll's case...
[Tracey] Spirits are real, and I definitely wouldn't taunt
her or want to take her out of the box.
...and even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[man speaking]
...to believe.
[theme music playing]
If one believes that spirits
sometimes reside within a building,
then it must follow that because it is
considered their home,
any changes within it
might disturb the dead
as much as it would the living.
Whether something as small as moving a piece of furniture
or as disruptive as a major renovation.
Just ask a couple in France
who, while renovating a medieval chateau,
may have woken up
one of its medieval residents.
October 2025. Arnac-la-Poste, France.
For the past five years,
Lesa and Ted Crombie-Rodgers have been renovating a chateau
dating as far back as the 12th century that they also live in.
And they post videos about their progress online.
Morning and welcome back to another week at the chateau.
Let's go take a look.
On one episode, Lesa explains how she thinks something is
running around above her bedroom.
I keep hearing something above in the middle of the night.
And it's really bugging me, what is it?
Is it a rat or a cat?
And she believes she knows where to find the culprit.
So she heads to what's known as the boot room, which shares
a wall with the bedroom.
There is a hole up here that I saw a mouse in.
So that makes me think, is this a mouse that is going through
that hole, running along a ceiling?
I'm going to get footage of this blooming mouse so I know
that I'm not going crazy.
Later that day, she sets up a camera...
OK, so I'll set the camera up so you can see
the hole in the corner.
...And heads out.
See you all in the morning, good night.
Latching the door closed behind her.
When they look at the footage the next day,
there's no mouse,
but they do discover something else moving about.
Watch as the door Lesa latched closed the night before...
...opens on its own.
Then something sets off the motion sensor light,
followed by
a shadow,
which seconds later appears to somehow...
...move the camera, which is on a tripod.
Lesa and Ted cannot believe their eyes.
-My name is Lesa. -My name is Ted.
And this is our video.
[Lesa] When I looked back at the footage,
I just thought, this is very, very strange, and I went
and investigated, trying to think, is there any way
this door could have opened?
There's just no way it can.
[dissonant music playing]
And then I noticed the shadow come across,
comes across the wall.
And I think, no.
Bloody hell, what?
There's shadow there.
Hang on a minute.
This is, there's something going on here.
There must be something in the room,
but nothing was there.
What I liked a lot about this video is you had
several layers.
We hear the latch unlatched before the door opens.
[latch clicks]
We see the motion-sensor light kick on.
We see this shadow come into the room, and then we see
the camera actually being touched or manipulated.
So, you have all those things happening in succession.
You're looking at a ghost or a spirit that has just
entered that room.
And a very proficient spirit at that.
What really intrigued me and showed intelligence to this
specific haunt was how it manipulated the camera.
It's as if something is specifically taking that camera
and tilting it away from its shot.
That shows intelligence and also maybe an understanding
of what that device is.
The fact that the camera gets manipulated
and sort of angled up makes me
think that maybe whatever it is that's
handling the camera is trying to clear its path.
It doesn't want to be spotted doing whatever it's doing in
that room.
So, did a camera being set up bother the spirit?
Or was it all the work Lesa and Ted have been doing
on the chateau?
The current thought in the supernatural field on why
renovations might cause an uptick in supernatural
activity is because we're disrupting the environment.
And we think all of that could contribute to some sort of
awakening of a dormant haunting.
[Susan] When you start knocking down walls
or changing the layout of a location,
it can be really disruptive
to residual haunts, for instance.
You know, like, if there's a spirit that's so used to
walking down a hallway, then all of a sudden
the opening to that hallway is closed off and changed,
you'll start noticing it will disrupt the activity.
Luckily, after realizing the mouse could actually be
a ghost, Lesa and Ted
don't seem to be too bothered by it.
It didn't scare me at all.
It just, I was quite excited when I saw it.
[Ted] I think both of us are sort of mindful that we live in
a nearly 700-year-old building.
And I think we need to realize that, yes, we are not alone in
this place that we love. -Yeah.
And they are more than happy to share their home
with any of the previous residents.
[Lesa] We've always said
that we are the custodians of this place.
And we're here to keep the memory of it alive
and the history of it alive,
and part of that history is the energy that exists here.
[suspenseful music playing]
Coming up, what did a couple in Kentucky
capture inside Annabelle's case?
2 Annabelle, believed to be possessed by an evil demon,
is perhaps the most famous haunted doll
in the world.
And feared enough to be kept inside a blessed and secure
case with a label on the front that warns people
to never open it.
And if you think this level of
paranoia over a stuffed doll is silly,
consider the story of a couple from Kentucky
who went to see the Annabelle doll for themselves
and discovered that the case was the only thing protecting
them from whatever dark force
was roaming around
inside it.
October 18th, 2025.
Lexington, Kentucky.
Tracey and Graylen Goodman are attending Scarefest,
a three-day convention that brings together fans and icons
of all things horror and paranormal.
But the main reason the couple is here
is to see the infamous Annabelle doll,
which is on display.
Thrilled to be near it, Tracey pulls out her phone to
take a video.
And what happens seconds after she starts recording...
...is terrifying.
Did you see it?
Watch again.
As Tracey zooms in, a dark patch appears
as the light inside the case
glitches.
Then the dark black blob comes out again.
And again.
None of which Graylen and Tracey see until they watch the video
back later.
-I'm Graylen. -And I'm Tracey.
-And this is our video. -And this is our video.
[Tracey] When I first zoomed in, you can see it looks like
the inner part of the case glitches, like the light kind
of glitches a little bit.
And then you can see under her left arm
a shadow come up and down.
You can tell it's internal.
And the only light that she had on her was what was in the box,
and there's nothing moving in there, and there's no moving
light at all in the room.
So there's just no way to make a shadow like that.
I mean, it just looks like a shadow figure is what it
looks like, but there's nothing that could make a shadow unless
it's just a dark entity.
[Tracey] I had to watch it three or four times to make sure
I was seeing what I really saw.
It was just amazing.
I was so thrilled to have caught something on camera.
But what exactly was that something?
[Steve] It's black, it's super dark.
It almost looks like it's kind of coming out from the side of
the doll and kind of going up in this really creepy way
and then kind of retracts at some point.
It is definitely not a shadow or a glare or anything from
the surroundings going on there.
[Dalen] You can tell that the light inside of that box
is there to kind of emphasize Annabelle,
but with that being said, for something to cause
a shadow, it would have to be inside of that box.
Nothing outside of the light structure would have caused
a shadow inside that box the way that that did.
And given the history of the doll,
whatever was inside that case
could be some sort of negative entity.
[Aaron] Annabelle is perhaps one of the most famous, if not
the most famous, haunted artifacts within both
paranormal investigation circles as well as paranormal
pop culture.
And the story is that Ed and Lorraine Warren,
the famed demonologist and psychic medium
investigative duo, acquired this doll in a 1970 case,
where there were two young nursing students who had this
doll that they determined was demonically possessed.
[Katrina] One of the reasons that they have Annabelle
in the case
that they have her in is to keep her contained and to keep
whatever is attached to her within the confines of
that box.
It's one of the reasons that Ed and Lorraine had the doll
blessed once a week, to keep that evil locked away forever.
[Dalen] They take this doll on tours throughout the year like
a paranormal rock star.
I too have even seen her in person.
And I tell you, she's the real deal.
Annabelle's terrifying reputation has even led some to
believe she had something to do with the death of a paranormal
investigator who was transporting the doll just
three months before Scarefest.
And while many believe
his death is just a coincidence,
it begs the question, how many more times will
Annabelle be going on tour?
Whatever the answer, Graylen and Tracey are just
happy they were able to see Annabelle
while they had the chance
and have footage that may prove
there's some truth to the chilling tales
that surround her.
[Graylen] It just kind of opens your awareness a little bit
and makes you realize that stuff like that does exist.
Spirits are real.
Demonic possession is real, whether it's of a person
or an entity, and I firmly believe that there is something
within Annabelle, and I definitely wouldn't taunt
her or want to take her out of the box.
Coming up, bizarre floating lights in the sky...
...stunned two brothers in Texas.
Bro, what the [bleep] is that?
2 With the sheer amount of flying objects in the sky these
days, it can be hard to discern between what is man-made
and what might not be.
And while there are a few telltale signs that can
give a clue,
like movement...
...shape...
- ...sound... -[drone whirring]
...and lights,
or lack thereof.
there is also an outlying possibility that throws
a wrench in the works.
What if it's both from the Earth
and another world?
That question recently came up in Texas.
When two brothers witness something.
Beyond their wildest imaginations.
October 12, 2025, Forney, Texas.
It's around 1 a.m., and Quincy Schelling and his
brother are chatting in his car
when bright lights in the sky catch their attention.
So Quincy takes out his phone
and starts recording.
[car door beeping]
[Quincy speaking]
It's a rectangular craft drifting slowly through the sky
with what appear to be lights on the front and back.
And it's unlike anything
they've ever seen.
My name is Quincy, and this is my video.
I didn't know what to make of it, I didn't know what
to call it, you know?
I wanted to say it was a plane.
I wanted to say it was a drone,
but it didn't look like either one of those, you know?
It was completely silent, it was weird.
I didn't know what to think, just strange.
[Quincy speaking]
[Steve] I can't even lie,
my reaction was pretty much the same as
the multi-beeped and censored reaction of the individuals
who captured this.
[Quincy speaking]
This is nothing that makes any conventional sense.
And it's like it's moving around, bro.
[Dan] The only thing we have for reference or for scale is that
tree limb, and it doesn't look like it's that far away.
It doesn't look like it's that high up in the sky.
So if it was a helicopter or a drone or a whole fleet of
drones, we would be able to hear something like that.
And we don't. It's completely silent.
[Quincy speaking]
[Ben] If this was legally flying,
as per the FAA regulations,
it's supposed to have a strobe that can be seen for at least
three miles at night.
You don't see any type of beacon or strobe
that's required.
I have no idea what this is.
Even more confounding are the craft's bright
and apparently rotating lights.
[Quincy and his brother speaking]
It's not a typical nocturnal light manifestation of
an unidentified flying object that we're used to.
[Quincy speaking]
[Lynne] We can see these greenish lights
on the front that hold
their position relative to the other lights
that are mobile.
[Quincy and his brother speaking]
My imagination has those two lights in the front as if
they're eyes at the end of stalks or tentacles moving
around, almost like a snail's eyes.
[Quincy speaking]
[Mark] It's almost as if they have some kind of sensors
that seem to be collecting information in some manner.
In my opinion, it looked as if it was looking for
something, you know?
Looked like it was searching for something, and it flew very
slow and steady.
[Quincy and his brother speaking]
But regardless of what it's doing,
given its odd characteristics,
where exactly
is it from?
[Aaron] If this is not something visiting from elsewhere,
could it be one of these black-manta type of craft that
are said to be these covert government spy craft that are
flying throughout the skies and remain
relatively undetected? -That was my first thought.
It's like, that's probably government testing, you know?
Probably something going on that we're not supposed to be
looking at.
Perhaps because what we're looking at could have
a complicated history.
[Lynne] One of the cool things when it comes to thinking about
extraterrestrial technologies is the idea that we've
potentially had access to technologies like this
for a while.
There were several indications
that our government has visited sites of UFO crashes
and perhaps retrieved some materials.
So it's entirely possible when we see anomalous things in
our skies that we're not seeing an actual extraterrestrial
craft, we're seeing our own military's best attempt at
recreating an extraterrestrial craft.
[Quincy speaking]
While its origin may still be up for debate,
for his part, Quincy has landed definitively on one side.
Best guess?
It's aliens.
It's aliens, man.
They're here, they're real.
The government told us they was real, so...
Yeah, they're aliens.
[Quincy] Oh, hell no.
Boy, they here!
Coming up, is this creepy Halloween decoration
in Pennsylvania...
[Arika] Why are you stopping right there to look at me?
...Haunted.
-Uh-uh.
I don't play that.
2 Have you ever had the feeling you are being watched?
It's a common phenomenon called scopaesthesia.
And for some, it may lead to anxiety
or paranoia.
Made even worse if those feelings
are confirmed.
Just ask a woman from Pennsylvania
who believes one of her Halloween decorations
might have a staring problem.
[Arika] Why are you stopping right there to look at me?
And is fixated.
-Uh uh, I don't play that. -On her.
It's time for her to go.
October 2025. Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Arika Patterson has been noticing that the Halloween
decoration she hung on her front porch
is acting peculiar.
So she grabs her phone to explain to her followers on
social media
what's been going on.
[Arika] Two nights in a row, she slowly turned around to
look at me as I walked outside, walk into my car.
And when I got inside of my car,
she would turn back around.
My name is Arika and this is my video.
It freaked me out.
Every time the doll would just stop to look at me, like,
it would just send chills down my body.
Like it does on this day.
[Arika] You can see right here.
You see how she's turning around?
Okay.
That's normal because of the wind.
But hold up. Look at her.
She's turning back around.
Why are you stopping right there to look at me?
Uh uh. I don't play that.
As I was walking up on the porch,
the doll started doing what it would do, was like slowly turn
itself around.
And then it would stop to watch me.
She turns and she continues to look at me.
Now, I'm trying to get myself in the house at this point.
I told my husband about it when he came home the next day.
And when he went on the porch, the doll did not turn around.
And when I went out on the porch, the doll like slowly
turned around and looked at me and it just stopped to look at
me and it scared him. He went right into the house.
Freaked out,
Arika posts her video online to see what others think about it.
Over 95% of the people saw what I saw and they said,
"Oh my God, you need to get rid of that doll.
You need to burn it, sell it, send it back."
There were so many comments saying that doll is haunted,
is demonic, which at that point, it scared me even more.
Is this really a paranormal activity that's actually
happening at my house?
A reasonable question, to say the least.
[Mark] If this were an incident that happened once, I would just
write it off as a total coincidence.
But the fact that she went out there to film it because it has
been happening so frequently
really makes you wonder, is that, can we just write that
off as coincidence?
Especially given that it's happening around this
particular holiday.
It's believed that the last days of October to
the beginning days of November are the days when spirits come
about and mingle with the living.
When you are honoring the spirit of Halloween and you
start putting out decorations, you're not only attracting
trick-or-treaters at that point, you're also attracting
spirits to your home.
[Arika] Yeah, it's time for her to go.
Anybody want her?
Fortunately for Arika, a woman watching her video
online actually does want it.
[Arika speaking]
So Arika packs it up and ships it off.
Unfortunately...
I have such an eerie feeling right now.
It doesn't work.
The day that I shipped the doll off, I noticed that
the chair on my front porch where the doll was sitting had
shifted from the left side of the window to the center
of the window.
And that's not the only sign that the energy is still
hanging around the house. -Now, I'm just...
I have dead bugs on my porch.
And, like, I'll sweep it up, and then when I come home
the next day, it's just like
a load of them dead on my porch.
I have some of them on my back deck, but they are alive,
and they will just come fly on the screen door and then
fly away.
But on my front porch, they're all dead.
There is this idea within the paranormal that once
you acknowledge a presence, you're giving it what it wants
and essentially permission to ramp up activity.
So, in this case, if there's something attached to the one
item, even if you get rid of it,
it might continue to linger in this space.
Which is what Arika believes has happened,
[Arika speaking]
and is not at all
happy about it.
It really has changed me and my outlook on things.
There are spirits out here that are wandering around, and now I
don't want to celebrate Halloween anymore.
It really scared me, and I never thought something
like that would happen to me.
Uh uh, I don't play that. It's time for her to go.
Coming up, are these mysterious glowing objects
signs of an alien abduction?
2 We've all seen our fair share of UFO videos, where they're
hovering in the sky above.
But the one truly elusive piece of otherworldly evidence
is that of an actual alien abduction
of earthly beings,
because while many ufologists claim to have
seen the aftermath,
such as cattle mutilations
or marks on survivors' bodies,
no one, apparently, has actual footage of it happening.
That is, until one man in Pennsylvania checked his
trail cam on a recent morning and spotted what could be
an abduction attempt that may have just missed its mark.
September 15, 2025, in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
Randy Weigel has a trail cam in his backyard
to see the wildlife that visit each fall.
And today, when Randy checks the photos from the night
before, he sees something bizarre.
It's a three-dimensional white amorphous mass
with some kind of projectile sticking through it,
apparently transfixing the deer
and Randy.
My name is Randy Weigel.
My wife, Joyce, and I live in Center Township,
Monaca, Pennsylvania.
I don't know what it is. It's a white blob.
And to me, it looks like there's a wooden stake
sticking out of it.
And then the very next picture I got was the doe,
and the thing was, the object was gone.
I've had that camera set up here for years and years
and never ever saw something like that before.
So, I just completely baffled.
[Mark] The light doesn't seem to have a rigid form.
It seems almost like an orb or a blob.
And then it has this strange, what appears to be a wooden
stake driven right through it.
[Steve] As we see the series of photos continue,
there is no stake there.
So not only is this white object no longer in the photo,
but what appears to be that wooden stake is not in
the photo after this at all either.
So, neither one of these exists native to this
property or yard.
I don't think it would be totally off base to connect
this to photos we've seen in the past of what spiritualists
might call ectoplasm.
An emanation, a manifestation of otherworldliness.
Adding to the mystery,
Randy checks his trail cam the next morning
and finds yet another odd manifestation.
And I don't know what would be there and not even
scare the deer.
The deer were just standing there with these objects.
[Lynne] It would be easy to write this off as anomalous.
This is a camera issue.
This is something that wasn't actually there that
the technology has created. Except we've got these deer.
And they're looking at these things.
The deer are aware of what is going on.
And that tells us there was
something there to be looked at.
Something, but what?
Randy has an idea.
Right away, I thought of maybe a UFO, especially with
that being.
I thought maybe they were trying to get the deer.
If these unexplained light phenomenon are extraterrestrial
in nature, it wouldn't be the first time that
UFOs have seemed to take an interest in
our indigenous wildlife.
Everybody's heard of the cow mutilations that people have
long suspected to be the work of extraterrestrial craft.
If so, that could explain the beam.
But what about the odd-shaped object from the night before?
Not too far from where this was captured in December 1965,
there was the Kecksburg UFO incident.
Where locals saw a fireball crashing into the woods
and then some say they saw this oddly shaped craft, maybe even
looking sort of like an acorn.
This is similarly oddly shaped.
While it seems plausible the two events are related,
because the phenomena have yet to reappear and there have been
no signs of missing deer, all Randy can do for the moment
is stand by
at the ready.
I go out every morning, check the camera, get the cord,
I bring it up to the house, and usually I want to see
the wildlife, but now I'm looking to see if I can catch
another object like that.
Coming up, a newly engaged couple
gets a spiritual sign
in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
2 When some people think of messengers from above,
they might imagine a beatific humanoid figure with large
white wings,
gently gliding down to Earth.
But if religious texts are any indication,
such beings
could take many forms,
from the impossible to miss
to those that rely almost entirely on the keen
eyes and beliefs
of the beholder.
Case in point--
A family scouting for a wedding location in New York City.
[Ashley] There's Mom.
And their barely perceptible
escort.
October 10, 2025.
Manhattan, New York.
Ashley Sigler, her fiancé, and her parents
are visiting the iconic
St. Patrick's Cathedral, scouting it as a possible venue
for her upcoming wedding.
And after snapping a mock rehearsal photo,
Ashley's father takes a quick video of where the main event
would actually take place.
But when they go out later that night and watch the footage,
they catch something
peculiar.
Watch very closely.
Did you see it?
Watch again in slow motion.
As a tiny glowing orb flutters around for a moment,
then vanishes,
leaving the Siglers stunned.
Hi, my name is Ashley and I live in Manhattan, New York.
So originally when we were looking at the video,
we saw nothing, but when we looked back at it
later on, we saw this ball of light and it just moves very
unrealistically for like any kind of shadow
or anything like that.
And we were all like, "Wait, what did we catch
on camera?"
So right away, you could rule out that this is like
a bird or an insect.
The way this moves and the speed in which it
moves, it seems to be something else.
It doesn't seem to be necessarily natural.
You see this strange anomaly that almost has, it has a glare
around it or an aura,
something that's kind of radiating from it,
very ambiguous, but you can still see that it's there.
It's almost affecting the environment around it.
At the same time, if you listen carefully,
there's two audible clicks in the audio.
That bright area, it kind of pulsates.
It coincides with the clicks and then dims back down.
I think what we're looking at is actual electrical
interference in the video itself.
Paranormal activity can cause high EMF,
electrical interference, and therefore it's captured
something perhaps quite unusual.
Unusual, but also, in a way,
perfectly reasonable,
considering the location
and the reason for Ashley's presence there.
[Steve] I can see why it would manifest at that moment or be
drawn to that location, because, you know,
you have a couple of people here that are taking a picture.
They're about to be married.
[Ashley] There's mom.
[Steve] All of that love, the family,
the optimism, the future plans, getting ready to kind of join
in this union of matrimony, you would think all of that
love, all of those thoughts and energy manifesting right
there, emanating off of them.
Ashley agrees.
[Ashley] I feel like it's like a loving spirit.
So I feel like it had to have been an angel.
Specifically, a certain guardian angel.
I think it might be my grandmother's mother.
She was very religious, just like my grandmother is.
I had a very close relationship with her when I was younger,
and I feel like if anybody was to come visit me as an adult
and in this stage in my life of, like, getting engaged
and planning on where we're getting married,
it would be her.
That just makes me feel like it was her and that she really
cares and loves me and wants us to be happy.
Here's to Ashley's great-grandmother's wish
becoming reality.
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...
[Quincy] Oh, hell no, boy, they here!
-...really is otherworldly.
[Quincy] What the [bleep] is that?
Don't stop recording.
[Arika] Why are you stopping right there to look at me?
Even if you're scared.
[Arika] Uh-uh.
I don't play that.
And if you do catch something,
email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.
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