Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera..."
some new pool lights in Louisiana...
...attract a mysterious entity.
This is a very truly unique capture.
A birthday celebration in California
is joined by the spirit
of a beloved family member.
To think that a dead relative might come back to visit
their beloved family, I think that makes sense.
Did a museum in Mexico
capture footage
of the legendary Duende?
It seems to be even more diminutive than a human child
and moving at an alarmingly high rate of speed.
And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
...to believe.
A haunted location
usually conjures images
of full-bodied entities
lurking around every corner,
waiting for the right time...
...to pounce.
But not every haunted building is the same.
Some are oozing with a more general energy
recorded across time,
trapped forever within the walls of the home.
But if you're in the right spot at the right time,
like one investigator in England...
Can you give me a name of somebody
that still resides here today?
...it's still
just as terrifying.
September 2025. In Liverpool, England,
paranormal investigator Adam Booker
is exploring an abandoned, centuries old building
with a unique past.
We're here to find out today if it really does
or if this is all just rumors.
My name is Adam, and this is my video.
It's quite dark, eerie.
There's a smell of smoke where there has once been a fire.
Very decayed, paint peel everywhere.
It's called Holly Lodge.
It's an old boarding school for girls in Liverpool.
And I knew nobody had investigated the place
for a long time.
I knew that there was stories that the land
that the building was on was cursed.
So my name's Adam.
I've just come to see if there's anybody here
that would like to speak with me today?
The former Holly Lodge Girls' School
in Liverpool, England was built as a private home around 1830.
But in 1919, it was transformed into an orphanage
to house the children of those soldiers and sailors
killed in World War I.
In 1927, the orphanage was purchased to be used
as a girls' school.
Wandering around an abandoned building like this,
you really get a sense of its history.
You can just imagine the children studying at school
and even those who were confined here
when it was an orphanage.
Imagine them.
And in Adam's case...
They do seem hostile
and they do not seem to want
to speak to me.
...hear them.
What the [bleep] was that?
I heard the voice come
from outside of the room I was in.
I had no idea if it was a person
or if it was paranormal at the time,
but it did trip me up a bit.
When you hear a disembodied scream in the distance, man,
that's just-- my sign
typically is to go the other distance,
because that's not necessarily the most welcoming,
especially when it's at that type of register
where it feels and sounds like that.
But rather than drive him away,
the unsettling moment instead...
...inspires Adam
to begin an EVP session.
I'm going to do an EVP, see if we can get any voices.
I feel like there's definitely some in here.
And only seconds in,
despite hearing nothing in the moment...
OK, if there's anyone in this building
that would like to speak with me,
can you speak to me through this device?
When Adam plays his recording back...
Can you speak to me through this device?
...the unmistakable sound
of young voices.
I was shocked. I was creeped out.
But I'd never caught anything that good before.
So I was obviously excited as well.
That background ambient noise of children filling a room,
expectant, ready to learn,
those are sounds that we're all familiar with.
It makes sense to take that audio and say,
"This is what I think I'm hearing."
And as stunning as that capture
may have been for Adam...
Can you give me a name of somebody
that still resides here today?
...just moments later, more recorded EVPs.
Can you give me a name of somebody
that still resides here today?
This time,
a blood curdling scream.
No way.
It sounded like somebody has-- was in pain
or someone had been hurt.
The screams, it doesn't sound like play.
It doesn't sound like children in the distance.
It does sound like someone in anguish.
I would think it was from when the place was an orphanage,
more from when it was a school,
because there's a few orphanages that got closed down
because of abuse and stuff like that.
I've never heard anything like that.
So 100%, something like that could have happened,
which would cause a scream like that.
A lot of the times, places that became orphanages
didn't have enough funding to feed, clothe,
and protect these children.
So they ended up taking in more than they can
comfortably house, and it was a really stressful environment
for the children being raised there.
And it's enough for Adam
to reach a sweeping conclusion about the building.
I feel like there is a residual energy in there,
uh, something that plays on repeat.
An energy that he's just grateful to have captured.
Be very meticulous on your investigations,
because one day you'll do something
that maybe doesn't work every time,
but then it will work that one time,
and you'll capture something absolutely incredible,
like the screams.
Coming up,
a family testing out their new pool lights.
...records a mysterious specter.
2
Ever since smartphones with cameras,
people around the world
have recorded apparent supernatural activity
at record levels.
And that's in large part because a camera
can do more than just record what your eyes are seeing.
Depending on the place,
the time,
and the lighting,
cameras are capable of seeing into spectrums
that are potentially
filled to the brim
with ghosts.
Just ask one woman in Louisiana...
...who, while recording her new pool lights,
captured something else
in the process.
July, 2025,
in central Louisiana,
a woman named Kayla and her daughter Breanna
are by their pool, having waited until dark
to test out their brand new pool lights,
when Kayla, filming with her phone,
captures something truly mystifying.
Watch closely.
Did you see it?
Watch again in slow motion.
Crossing behind the pool where Brianna is standing,
a figure, light and seemingly transparent,
which Kayla, who prefers to remain anonymous,
doesn't even notice
until she reviews the footage later.
My name is Kayla, and this is my video.
I sent it to my sister, and she's the one who noticed
what looked like a figure.
And it was only me and my daughter
at home at the time.
It looked kind of like a figure passing through my daughter.
And so we played it over and over,
but we really couldn't see anything else.
So we just freaked out a little because we weren't that sure
what it was.
We still really don't know what it was.
This is a very truly unique capture, to say the least,
for so many reasons.
Whatever is walking by this pool here,
it actually seems to me
like it almost goes into the pool.
And when it's crossing in front of that light,
you can see that whatever this thing is walking
is transparent to some degree.
The figure that walks around the pool
seems to be moving quite quickly
at a more rapid pace that you-- you see.
Not as if they're running, just walking
at an unusually fast speed.
Interestingly, at the last moment, it seems like this form
turns around and starts to head back from the direction
it came, as if it didn't want to be caught on camera
and noped the heck out of there.
But despite its apparent best efforts,
the camera does capture it.
Even if Kayla doesn't.
It's often the case that
when we see ghostly images captured on video,
these forms were not visible to the people present
with their naked eyes in real time.
It's only through the medium of the video
that these things get captured.
The camera's job is to pick up anything that happens.
It can see into a light spectrum that we cannot,
but the camera's job is to take the light that is exposed
to the lens and translate it for us as an image
through the viewfinder.
Which means that Kayla's new pool lights
could have played a significant role
in the entity's capture
in more ways than one.
It's entirely possible this apparition is flitting
about the yard all the time, but without these lights
in the pool to capture it, nobody's ever seen it
without standing there with a video camera,
having a reason to be filming the pool at night.
This could be something that's there all the time
and is now newly visible.
But if this apparition is flitting about the yard
all the time--
why?
I don't know if it could just be something
following my family.
I'm not sure because my mom, she's seen things before,
my sister's seen things, I've seen things myself,
so I'm not sure.
Maybe it's just a loved one, possibly.
I really don't know.
Maybe this thing, if it's a ghost,
maybe it's more connected to the family
who already has a history of believing
they have been haunted.
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Maybe they have a protective spirit following them around,
keeping an eye out, and I guess
also maybe wanting to take a midnight dip.
I think some spirits get attached to a location
and it becomes their home too,
so anytime there's additions made
or changes made, they either are accepted or not.
A lot of times paranormal activity is stirred up
because a spirit is unhappy with the change
or this could have just been a spirit checking out
the new lights at the pool.
And assuming that's the case,
Kayla is OK with its presence
for now.
Honestly, I just prayed about it,
and that pretty much was it.
We're just living with it.
I don't think that we're scared or anything like that.
We're fine with it now.
Coming up,
a museum in Mexico is visited...
...by a legendary creature.
2 In Mexico and other Latin American countries,
there exists a legend
of a small, mischievous, goblin-like creature
that sneaks around houses
and plays tricks on their occupants...
...the Duende.
But while belief in the Duende is widespread,
actual video evidence of the mythical being
is far less prevalent.
Which is what makes one particular video
captured amazingly at a museum in Mexico
that honors Duendes
so compelling.
February 26th, 2025,
in Hidalgo, Mexico.
It's just after 7 AM,
and Margarita Moreno Cruz,
the CEO of a local Duende museum,
is checking the museum's security cameras
to confirm the timing of an employee's arrival.
But instead of any workers,
Margarita sees this.
Watch again, in slow motion.
In the back,
out of a room apparently closed to the public,
a figure,
fast, diminutive,
and soon
gone,
just as quickly as it arrived.
What on earth
did the museum's cameras
capture that day?
Hello, my name is Margarita, and this is my video.
I rewound the video and noticed this little being
running through and coming back like it was noticing something.
And it came back with such a speed.
It was spectacular, magical.
I've never seen anything like that in my life.
You clearly see something very small.
It almost looks like a baby.
But a baby wouldn't be moving
that fast and running on two legs.
You could see it had like a little rotund belly,
it had little legs,
and it seemed to be like wearing bottoms,
but kind of like bloomers
and not necessarily anything else.
So it did kind of seem infant-like, but it was moving
like a full grown being.
The other compelling piece here is that this video
is broad daylight, so you don't have to squint your eyes
to try to make out what you're looking at.
You can see clear as day that there's something vertical,
childlike, walking in the museum
when there's not supposed to be anybody there.
Reviewing the footage, Margarita
can only come to one conclusion.
We think it's a Duende
based on the information we have about them.
In addition, at that time in the museum,
no human could have been there,
let alone a child.
Seeing this footage, knowing where it's happening,
it would be hard to not immediately think, "Duende."
And if you ask Margarita,
if this is a Duende,
it's not as outlandish as you might think.
Duende means keeper of the house.
It's believed we all have
a Duende at home. Everyone.
These are mythological and ancient entities
believed to have been gods.
The duende is a mischievous goblin-like creature
that's popular in Latin American folklore.
It's said to be a small humanoid in appearance,
like a gnome or a leprechaun,
and often lives in people's houses.
We see them almost playing the role of tricksters.
So an encounter with a Duende might be fortuitous.
It might bring you good luck or unexpected wealth.
Or it might be disastrous. It might bring you bad luck.
It might cost you something.
So the big message here,
like, with so many different types of fairy folk
is that you never know what you're gonna get.
But according to Margarita, the Duende's role in her life
and the lives of her peers is unambiguous.
Here at the Duende Museum, people are always telling us
about these good and positive experiences of being helped
in housework or in their various requests for money or health.
And if that's the case.
It might be because of the existence
of the museum itself.
The Irish believe that if you honored the fairies
that you would receive luck and you would receive
good abundance and things like that.
So I believe that when you build something
in the name of a Duende and you turn it into a beautiful
little playground that honors them, you know,
that has altars for them,
that keeps the folklore and story alive,
then the Duendes will come and visit.
He probably coming there saying what's up
to his homies.
He probably shouting out to all the pictures.
He probably-- oh, there go Teddy.
There's Roosevelt. There's Lisa little cute self.
Like, he probably in there going down the memory lane,
like looking in a yearbook.
Maybe so.
But whatever it was doing,
Margarita believes
it was nothing but positive.
The Duendes Museum is the Duendes house,
and I think this one showed itself to us
in a grateful way.
Coming up,
a three-year-old's birthday party
is crashed
by a long-lost relative.
2 In the paranormal,
shadow figures usually
strike fear into the hearts of the living.
Usually.
Because for those inclined to see it,
sometimes that dark void can actually
be a source of bright light.
Just ask one family in California
who were celebrating a birthday
for one of their youngest members,
and were seemingly joined
by a very special visitor.
November 8th, 2025, in Napa, California.
Soula Lemus is with her family at a local pizzeria,
celebrating her godson Dionysius's third birthday,
who is her sister's son,
when she snaps a quick photo
of her sister's family at the party...
...to remember the moment.
The next morning,
Soula's sister notices something strange
and exciting about the photo.
Along the left-hand side of the frame,
a very particular looking shadow
that, when Soula and her sister adjust the photo's contrast
look somehow nearly identical
to their beloved uncle, known as Theo,
who passed away nine years ago
and after whom Dionysius is named.
How is this possible?
My name is Soula, and these are my photos.
We were messing with it all day.
My whole family doing different filters,
different color contrast.
And that's when we noticed his whole face
in the black-and-white photo. And our body just...
ice-cold.
And we could not believe it, because we could see his face...
I have always felt his presence watching us.
watching our children now grow up
and just getting that we wanted that confirmation.
You don't expect to see somebody that has passed
for so long still being there enjoying you
and your family's company.
It's so clear as day that this is their uncle.
When you look at these other photos of him and you look
at this image that they captured,
it's almost as if you had to do a police lineup,
you could identify this person.
That's how clear this image is.
I was very intrigued by this photo,
so I too ran it through
editing software and enhanced the contrast,
and I got the same results.
It appears that something is not only detailed
in the face and the body, but it's a different color.
Electronic devices are often used to capture
paranormal images that aren't necessarily seen
with the naked eye.
Uh, that doesn't mean that they're being enhanced
in any way by the camera.
They're just picking up something that we're not seeing
in real time.
And sometimes if we just change something like the contrast,
it's enough to bring out something that we wouldn't have
otherwise seen.
To me, it's a ringer, man.
I mean, I am sold that this is the uncle 100%.
When you have loved ones and family members gathered
around each other, I think it's very inviting for spirits
because I think that through the memories and fondness,
their uncle's spirit's still alive and well.
There are scholars who've talked about these two sort
of modes of time as being secular versus sacred time.
Sacred time being when we're pulled out of our daily routine
and brought into these ritual moments.
And birthdays are an incredibly personalized form of rite
of passage that we all go through to think that this
is the moment that a dead relative might come back
to visit their beloved family. I think that makes sense.
But if you ask Soula,
she credits her uncle's presence
at her godson's birthday
to one particular detail,
their shared name.
I think my uncle chose to visit us that day
because we were celebrating my godson,
but also his name and spirit.
I feel like he is always watching over us,
every step that we take.
Now, because this was a gathering
for the godson's birthday,
who is named after this man,
could this have been a de facto seance
where he was summoned to the location
because they were celebrating
not only the boy, but his namesake?
Maybe.
But whatever the reason, perhaps the biggest takeaway
for Soula is this--
mysterious appearances
aren't necessarily
a bad thing.
it is your family member.
It is somebody that has passed.
So just take a moment and believe it
and appreciate it.
Coming up,
a man in Colorado films mysterious orbs...
...in the skies above his home.
2 There's a widespread belief within the paranormal world
that animals have a keen sense...
...for the supernatural.
Which then begs the question,
if they can sniff out spirits, could they also possibly
detect the presence
of otherworldly entities?
That's what one man
in Colorado was left to consider...
...when his dog begged him to go outside...
...where this...
...was waiting for them.
November 11th, 2025,
in Denver, Colorado.
It's about 7 PM,
and after his dog, Blue, begs him to let him outside,
Owen Ware obliges,
taking Blue out on the back deck.
And only seconds later, when Owen looks up,
he sees something
that baffles him.
Multiple red orbs in the sky,
all in motion to some degree.
But one in particular
truly stunning in its movement and behavior.
Watching from below,
Owen can't make sense of it.
My name is Owen, and this is my video.
There was a sense of confusion.
I've never seen glowing red orbs move in a weird fashion
like that before.
Usually you look up in the sky and you can see white stars,
which you can see in the video,
uh, or you see just static light or planes flying around.
But I've never seen those in that spot before.
I lived in my current location for over three years.
I know where all the stars are at that point.
And it was clear to me that these were not normal.
Looking at this right away, you want to look for any type
of FAA lights, reddish-green lights
that seem to be blinking, white lights.
And we have none of that.
We don't have any sound, any signs of propulsion.
We have that classic orb that we're seeing, but we're seeing
a multitude of these things moving in unison.
I at first thought, "Are we looking at satellites?"
But there's one trailing the other.
It starts to kind of catch up a little bit,
but then it stops.
And it turns toward the top of the frame and then continues
for a bit, turns to the left, and takes another trajectory.
Satellites simply just don't do that.
When something moves, stops completely,
and changes direction,
that's eliminating a whole lot of stuff.
That's eliminating planes and helicopters and jets.
So it really puts this in a much more anomalous frame
to see that kind of movement happening.
Anomalous enough.
for Owen to post the video online.
And the feedback it receives
only deepens the mystery.
It's had over 200,000 views so far
and over 1,200 comments.
When I see posts, there's some comments of folks that will add
some color to maybe make it more clear as far as what those
were, but for my particular video, I haven't seen any
compelling answers to what was recorded and what we saw.
But while no one can provide relevant information,
one user does contribute something
almost as gratifying--
Solidarity.
There was someone in the comments who did mention
that they saw those orbs that were like 40 yards
away from them.
And they set a location that was basically right next
to my house,
which almost made me confirm that they saw the same thing
that I saw at the same time.
The ability to cross-reference stuff like this is probably one
of the coolest outcomes of social media that we have.
This was not a one-off.
This was not a person whose unique perspective caused them
to think something anomalous was happening.
And don't forget about the perspective
of Blue,
Owen's beloved dog.
My dog never typically asks to go outside at night.
Typically, we walk during the day.
For this particular moment, he was crying and whining
at my desk, which he typically doesn't do.
And that's when I said, "OK, let's go outside."
Maybe he needs to use the bathroom.
And that's when I looked up and saw it.
And he hasn't asked to go outside during that time
ever since.
It was very much a one-off type of thing.
Could that dog have sensed something strange going on,
picking up on some kind of energy,
uh, you know, urging them to go out there?
I think it's possible, right?
We see time and again that pets of all kinds
will pick up on things that we as humans simply do not.
Whatever it was,
and whatever caused him to see it,
Owen...
...is ready for next time.
I've gone out on my deck almost every single night
since that encounter just to see if there's
anything new or anything there.
And I haven't seen anything like it ever since then.
But it certainly was an experience where,
um, it solidified my personal views
on-- on UAPs and UFOs.
And it was truly something that I can never explain.
Coming up,
a woman visiting a Connecticut graveyard.
is spellbound by a flag
waving without any wind.
2 Gravestones are not only meant as a way to honor those
we've lost,
but as a marker for loved ones
to return to in solemn remembrance.
As time moves on, however,
more and more headstones go unvisited,
sometimes for generations,
which some believe
leads the lonely spirits occupying those graves
to ache for connection.
Just ask one woman in Connecticut
who went to the cemetery to visit one grave
and ended up being flagged down
by another.
May 11th, 2025, in Sherman, Connecticut,
Amanda Lovello is at a cemetery visiting her mother's grave
when, in the distance,
something strange catches her eye.
A lone American flag, waving, apparently,
in a stiff breeze,
even though the wind
is completely still.
Amanda is stunned.
My name is Amanda, and this is my video.
Nothing else was moving.
There was no trees blowing, there was no grass moving,
no leaves, nothing.
No other flags were moving either.
It was just waving back and forth, like, nonstop.
The sight is so bizarre,
Amanda feels compelled to take action.
Recently, I have really started to trust my intuition,
and I felt like something was telling me to walk over there.
And when she does...
not only is the flag still waving,
so is her dress.
All of a sudden, the bottom of my dress was waving
almost like someone was like tapping at it or flicking it.
It was like at a steady flow
where the wind just kind of normally gusts away
and, uh, moves things along and then it stops.
The speed was steady and gentle.
So, what exactly is happening here?
As someone that spends a lot of time in resting communities,
it's very rare that there's multiple things, like multiple
flags, multiple pinwheels,
and only one is moving for a specific reason.
It kind of makes you wonder
if perhaps there's some paranormal force at work
that was somehow trying to gain her attention
and draw her over.
There was a pretty evident softness
to the way that both of these things,
the flag and the dress, are moving.
It doesn't seem like a violent wind
or even a brisk, lively wind.
It feels like a soft, sort of undulating presence.
It wasn't scary.
There's no bad feelings or fear, but it felt like
something was there and just wanted to communicate.
A something or someone
that Amanda sets out to identify.
I did not know whose grave it was.
I had to go back and bring a knife to scrape off all the...
And when I finally got their names, I realized
there was two people, and it's a husband and a wife,
and I do not know them.
So then,
what were these two supposed spirits doing,
seemingly reaching out to Amanda?
Sometimes spirits still attached to the physical,
will get lonely and will need some sort of remembrance,
will need some sort of attention.
And not necessarily in a bad way, but just in a way
of saying, "Hey, I miss being visited.
I need someone to come and honor our gravesite again."
And I guarantee you now, next time Amanda goes
to that graveyard,
not only is she gonna visit her mother,
she's also gonna visit that grave.
Because that experience was leading her to have a memory
with that grave.
A memory that Amanda will cherish forever.
The feeling that I got when I was standing there,
I didn't want to run away, I didn't want to hide.
It was-- it was a good feeling.
What should you do in the event
you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Check your photos, and then
check them again.
Be aware of the spirits...
...lurking around you.
Trust that what you're seeing...
What the [bleep] is that?
...really is something paranormal,
and if you do get something,
email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.
Your footage could be seen right here
on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."