[narrator] Next on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
A man in Colorado...
[man] [bleep] Wait! Wait! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[narrator] ...believes he's the victim of a Voodoo curse.
[man yells]
[JB] It's not something that you get used to.
It's deeply troubling.
[narrator] A birthday party in Brazil
is interrupted
by a ghost.
[shouting in Portuguese]
[woman] And it looked like an apparition of a person passing through that space.
Clear as day.
[narrator] A farmhouse in Wisconsin
with spirits abound.
[man] Hello? Anybody at home?
[bleep]
The clock falls straight towards me.
That scared the crap outta me.
[narrator] And what creature is lurking inside this cupboard?
This is something straight out of a horror movie.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[man] Oh, my God!
[narrator] ...to believe.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] Did you know the ancient religion of Voodoo
is still practiced in Louisiana,
where its followers
believe that connections with spirits
can be achieved through rituals,
which sometimes involve possession.
But is there such a thing
as a Voodoo curse?
According to a man in Colorado,
there is.
Because his life got turned upside down
after visiting a Voodoo shop
in New Orleans.
[JB] [bleep] No way! No way! Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
[narrator] And it's been haunting him
ever since.
[yells]
[narrator] Aurora, Colorado.
A man that goes by the name JB
took a trip to New Orleans in 2014.
It was there he entered a Voodoo shop,
and was about to have a reading done,
when things took a turn
for the truly bizarre.
My name's JB and these are my videos.
The moment I walked in there,
and saw the lady was doin' it,
it was just like a weird uncomfortable feeling,
and it was shared mutually.
And I kindly excused myself.
And as I started walking out,
um, it was like she came up to say something and touched my back.
And she didn't say anything.
She just turned around and walked away.
So, I left and pretty much immediately following that,
that's when all hell broke loose.
[narrator] That chilling meeting set off a series of events
that's led JB to believe he's been cursed.
[JB] Everything started fallin' apart
like legal troubles, divorce, custody battles.
And then to add on top of that,
it was like I was seeing things.
I was hearing things that I never did before.
And you know, I just... I brushed it off.
[narrator] But after years of too many unexplained incidents,
he can no longer just brush it off.
So, he decides to document it on camera.
Case in point.
One night, JB hears the shower turn on his bathroom.
[JB] Oh, what the [bleep]?
[narrator] So, he goes to check it out.
[JB exhales]
[narrator] Now, watch,
as the shower curtain...
-[mumbling] -[bleep]
...begins to pull back.
[JB exhales and whispers]
[narrator] And the door...
-[mumbling] -[bleep]
...closes.
It scared the hell out of me.
And set the tone for what was to come really.
[narrator] And what's to come is so much worse.
One night,
his dog seems to be bothered by something in the basement.
[JB] What's the matter, buddy?
[narrator] When JB goes downstairs to investigate,
he hears giggling,
and comes face to face with something terrifying.
[JB] Oh...
-[dog barks] -What the [bleep]?
[JB breathing heavily]
[JB screams]
[narrator] Watch again
as a shadow figure stands by the far wall.
[JB screams]
I really don't know how to explain that.
Um, it's one thing to hear something.
Um, it's incredibly troubling at that point.
There is a longstanding tradition in folklore
of ghosts that are trying to lure people to bad ends
by mimicking the sound of crying, or of children's' laughter
[JB breathing heavily] I don't [bleep].
Anything that gets someone
to go somewhere where they are one, vulnerable,
and two, where they wouldn't normally go.
That's not a good sign,
when something is trying to get you to go to those spaces.
[JB screams]
[narrator] And unfortunately for JB,
that shadow figure...
[JB] Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
[narrator] ...appears more than once.
[JB screams]
I give the guy credit for sticking it out as long as he did,
because, uh, this entity seems to be toying with him.
[narrator] But perhaps the most disturbing event
takes place one night when JB is watching TV,
and here's what sounds like silverware,
-[clanging] -falling on the floor in the kitchen.
[JB] I had heard a noise.
It's not uncommon to see things out of place.
-[clanging] -[bleep]
So, I picked 'em up, threw them in the sink.
Damn it. That's a bit odd.
I walked back to the couch thinking, "All right, yeah, whatever,"
and then when I sat down,
oh, hell, no.
[bleep]
[narrator] Did you catch that?
Watch
as a dark figure
moves behind JB
in the reflection on the TV.
[bleep]
It was right behind me,
and it wasn't there before.
And I jumped over the couch
to try to, like, see if somebody was screwing with me
and there was genuinely no one there.
[bleep]
This is something straight out of a horror movie.
Just in watching this clip, I felt something's gotta be done.
[narrator] But what and does this haunting have anything to do
with his trip to New Orleans?
[Lynne] Voodoo is not to be messed with.
This is definitely a system of religious practice and belief
that you wanna take seriously.
[Ronny Leblanc] This is something that I think needs some professional help,
whether it's employing a priest to come and bless the home,
or to bring other people to help clear this.
I think this is something that he should not be trying to tackle on his own.
[bleep]
[narrator] JB agrees.
There is no way in hell I am ever gonna sit down
and try to communicate with this thing.
Uh, the last thing on my mind is trying to talk to it
in fear of if it answered,
I'd probably die of a heart attack, to be honest with you.
[narrator] In the meantime, JB is finding ways to deal with it.
But realizes it's not something he'll ever
be comfortable with.
It can be a surprise, what you can get used to in life.
But when you're seeing things that you see in movies,
makes me regret going down this road.
[JB screams]
[narrator] Coming up, a mysterious ghost appears through a window.
[shouting in Portuguese]
[narrator] If you're loved ones who have passed away
were able to come back and visit in spectral form,
would you welcome it?
Would seeing them one more time bring you comfort?
Or totally creep you out?
Especially if they pop in when you aren't ready for it.
That's what happened to a man in Brazil,
who captured something so surreal,
you may think twice about wanting an unexpected visitor
from beyond.
[shouting in Portuguese]
[narrator] February, 2011.
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Beto Uchoa is testing out his new camera at his cousin's house next door
as they celebrate her birthday.
[man speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] Now watch as Beto pans to the kitchen
to film another party goer.
[shouting in Portuguese]
[narrator] DId you see that? Watch again.
As an eerie, glowing figure,
glides slowly past the window in the background.
My name is Beto Uchoa and this is my video.
[narrator] To give a better perspective,
Beto films his house from the outside during the day.
To show exactly where the apparition appeared
on the balcony above.
[Beto speaking Portuguese]
I think we can all relate to having an uninvited guest at a birthday party.
But this? This is next level.
[Beto shouts in Portuguese]
[Ronny] I was blown away by this capture.
The fact that he runs outside and we see that there's no one around
and this being just disappears.
You're really left with only one answer to what this could be
and to me it's a ghost.
I wrote one word in my notes when watching this clip.
And that word is "real".
This is real.
This was just so unintentional,
so solid.
I mean even if that figure that walks past the kitchen,
were a person at that party, they would have seen him.
The minute they came around that corner.
It was quick but it was clear
and it looked like an apparition of a person
passing through that space, clear as day.
I love clips like this,
because they're not active investigation.
This is just a tiny slice of life that happened
to infringe upon paranormal realms and we get to see it.
This video isn't about capturing evidence,
it's about, "Okay, we're having a party, we're having a good time.
Who the hell is that?"
[narrator] That's a question Beto has been trying to answer
ever since.
[narrator] And in fact, over the years,
Beto and his family have sensed his grandfather's presence.
[Brian] It is intriguing Beto's grandfather did live at this house.
That would suggest that he had a deep, personal connection to the location.
So it would make sense to me that
perhaps he wants to stick around in some form.
Maybe even check in on his grandson.
[Dan] For me it seems more like a place memory or a residual type of haunting.
His grandfather moved about that house for who knows how many years.
Uh, that energy could be imprinted at that location.
And maybe the energy of the birthday party
triggered that energy to be released
and they perceived his grandfather.
[narrator] Regardless of who it was,
[Beto speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] Even though it's been a decade since he captured that
ghostly figure on that balcony.
Beto is still shaken up by it.
[Beto shouting in Portuguese]
[narrator] Coming up.
What spirit haunts this abandoned farm house
in Milwaukee?
[Phil] Anybody at home?
[gasps]
[bleep]
[narrator] For ghost hunters,
investigating hauntings means entering into a nether world
of disembodied voices...
[indistinct whispering]
...and dark entities.
Some spirits are simply waiting to be acknowledged.
While others wish to torment.
But whether their intentions are good or evil,
there is always the terrifying possibility
that one may follow you home.
Which is what might have happened to one man in Milwaukee
who failed to heed the warning signs.
[Phil] Hello?
Anybody at home?
Anybody-- [gasps]
-[banging] -[bleep]
[narrator] Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
When Phil Koch and his wife first moved in to the townhouse 32 years ago,
they knew it would be the ideal place to raise a family.
But their new home was right next to a dilapidated farmhouse
built in the 1800's.
Which gave them the creeps.
My name is Phil and these are my videos.
There was somebody living there
but it's been abandoned for a good 15 plus years.
Since it was abandoned for a long period of time,
I went up a few times here and there just to check and make sure
nobody was up there who shouldn't have been.
[narrator] He finds nothing.
But he's still suspicious.
So one night in 2011,
he brings a camera to the barn and leaves it running
to see if he can catch anyone in the act.
I'm gonna let this run for about an hour.
And, uh,
see if anything happens.
I was concerned that kids were getting in there at night.
It was basically more of a defensive measure I was taking.
[narrator] About an hour later,
Phil returns to the barn to retrieve his camera.
[Phil] Coming to get you.
When I came back home, I walked back down the driveway,
I gave the video camera to my daughter and said,
"Here watch this, see if anything happens on this tape."
Now she was like 13, she was like, Oh, okay!"
And she comes running down the stairs yelling,
"Mom! Dad! Come look! Quick!"
[narrator] So Phil watches the footage
and at around the 35 minute mark
sees this.
[Phil] We looked at it and I said,
"Well." I said, "Okay."
"That could have just shifted. Maybe an animal did it."
[narrator] But moments later...
Watch again.
As the chair seems to be pulled down forcefully
by something below it.
My wife and I were just like... [gasps]
And it left me-- it left me kind of scared.
[stuttering] 'Cause I couldn't...
you know, couldn't explain it.
At first I thought maybe it was just settling
as it is on top of these other objects.
But it looks like it's pretty stable,
so when it wiggles, not once but twice.
That's quite odd.
This isn't something where like, a gust of wind
or a you know, gentle tremor's gonna knock it down from where it was.
It took some force to get that thing knocked down.
[narrator] Freaked out,
but too curious to let it go,
Phil and his daughter returned the next morning.
Only to make another frightening discovery.
-[Phil] Wasn't it tipped over? -[girl] Yeah.
[Phil] And now it's back up.
The chair was back in an upright position which
would have seemed impossible.
[Sapphire Sandalo] If one or two things move,
that alone is to me is not enough to deem a haunting.
What makes it possibly paranormal
is when something unexplainable happens on top of that.
So this rocking chair moves position
and when they go check on it, it is right back to where it was.
So that is something that is a lot harder to explain
than just gravity.
[narrator] Now, Phil is very eager to figure out what is going on.
So he eventually goes back to the farmhouse,
this time alone.
I should know better than to come back here.
I took the video camera and I put it through the open window, through the curtains.
Anybody in here?
Hello?
Anybody at home?
Anybody-- [gasps]
[bleep]
The clock falls right towards me.
Got very aggressive.
It could have fallen any which way.
But it fell right towards the direction that I was,
you know standing on the other side of the door.
I think it was actually telling me to leave.
Anybody-- [gasps]
[bleep]
Watching the clock fall in this video is really eerie.
Because you can almost see that it starts to move
before he even notices it falling.
[Phil] Anybody-- [gasps]
[bleep]
[Brian] It didn't just get knocked and fall.
it seemed like it was trying to jockey for position
to get close to him before gravity took over
and that was unusual.
[narrator] The clock incident thoroughly freaks Phil out
and he wants nothing to do with whatever is in the house.
But unfortunately for him,
whatever's in the house
doesn't seem to be done with Phil just yet.
Phil believes it follows him home
and torments him.
[Phil] Every night at two, three in the morning.
we would hear footsteps right outside the door.
Back and forth, someone's pacing outside our door.
And right when I heard it walking, I'd open up the door,
and there'd be nothing there.
[narrator] And it gets even worse.
Phil believes it physically attacks him.
[Phil speaking]
But the second time in the shower when I got scratched in the side
and literally I watched it welt up in front of me.
Having any sort of paranormal activity while you are showering
means there's no rules.
It will, attack you whenever it feels like.
My wife got mad, and she says, "You're done."
And I said, "Okay."
Happy wife, happy life and no more ghosts.
[narrator] Luckily for Phil, once he stops investigating
the farmhouse for good,
the mysterious scratches, stop appearing.
And even though, he was apparently
able to get rid of whatever followed him home,
Phil is still haunted, by the memories.
I always try to believe through evidence
that paranormal is actually real.
And over the period of, not too many years
I found that it was real and I kinda wish I didn't go through all that.
Anybody? [gasps]
[bleep]
[narrator] Coming up...
An investigator in Russia...
[man speaking Russian]
Gets locked inside
with a ghost.
[narrator] An abandoned house.
Witchcraft.
Death by hanging.
Just one of these
is enough to make a location ripe for a haunting.
But all three?
Well, that's essentially, a guarantee.
Just ask a man in Russia,
who wound up in this exact scenario.
And it left him running
for his life.
[narrator] Summer 2020, Pegrema, Russia.
Paranormal investigator, Tim Morozov
has just arrived at an abandoned village
where some of the buildings, date back to the 18th century.
He was contacted by two people
who heard strange noises coming from one of the houses
and saw a dark shadow figure in the fog.
Legend has it, that a woman who practiced witchcraft
used to live in the house,
until she lost her life to suicide by hanging herself.
Tim's here to spend the night and gather some evidence.
He sets up cameras around the house along with laser grids
to map the area, and infrared flashlights.
Then, gets to work.
[speaking Russian]
[narrator] He's not picking up much activity,
[speaking Russian]
So he goes to bed, and keeps the cameras rolling
hoping to catch something while he's asleep.
Sure enough, just a few minutes later,
his polaroid camera just went off by itself.
Or did it?
[Brian] He's in the house all by himself It's abandoned
but someone had to push that button.
[camera shutter clicks]
And it's not an easy button to push, so whatever did it
clearly wanted him to know, "I'm here."
[narrator] And whatever is here, is just getting started.
[speaking Russian]
[narrator] A door handle in the next room
is moving on its own.
But it gets even creepier.
Watch, as the same door
when seen from the camera that captures the laser grid
shows a silhouette, reaching out for the handle, as it moves.
[door opens]
This door handle footage is riveting
because we are seeing the handle physically being rattled.
And then in another shot, what appears to be
a Spectro form or shadow that is hunched over
and looks like they are actually interacting with that handle.
Taken together,
this is pretty incredible.
[Tim speaks Russian]
[narrator] Tim is freaked out.
Because this house has suddenly come to life.
Watch what happens as he walks back into the bedroom.
[door slams]
The door behind him, has slammed shut
locking him in.
Panicked, he does the only thing he can
and jumps out the window.
[speaking Russian]
[narrator] But despite being terrified by the experience,
Tim's curiosity overpowers his fear
and he goes back a week later
and tries to pick up where he left off.
[speaks Russian]
[object clattering]
[narrator] A sound from the next room.
As he walks over to check it out,
look closely at the shadows on the wall.
The one that remains, does not belong to Tim.
[Mark] This investigator seems to think that he's there to
surveil whatever spirit might be inhabiting this place
but to me it seems like, he's the one under surveillance.
[narrator] Tim doesn't see the shadow at the time
but he does see this.
A noose by the bed.
And...
[Tim speaks Russian]
...what seems like a figure behind the curtain.
Which turns out to be
no one.
[Tim speaks Russian]
[narrator] Then, a few minutes later
[object clattering]
a chair has tipped over.
and above it, the noose
is now swinging.
We are being told a story there.
That to me suggests that there is a presence here
that presence is intelligent.
That presence wants people to know,
"Here's what happened."
[narrator] Tim comes to that same conclusion
[Tim speaking Russian]
[narrator] When he wraps up his investigation, he is convinced
that the house is haunted by the woman who died here.
And possibly some others.
[Susan Slaughter] Now this woman was in fact practicing witchcraft.
She might have invited other entities
to live within her space.
Maybe if she opened up a portal, trapped these energies within her home
and now she haunts the space with the energies that she brought
forth through her magic.
[narrator] Whatever is happening here,
the spirits do not rest in peace.
Coming up.
Baffling bright lights in the sky...
-[woman] What is it? -[man] Look at it.
...stun a group of people in Philly.
[man 1] Unidentified flying objects.
[man 2] Oh my god!
[narrator] When you spot something unfamiliar in the sky
there are a number of things it could be.
A satellite.
Chinese lanterns.
Or maybe even a drone.
But, if it suddenly displays some kind of startling behavior
and is witnessed by others around you
who are just as baffled,
then it's time to listen to your gut.
[woman whispering] What is it?
[narrator] Just ask a man in Philadelphia...
[woman whispering] What is it?
...who recently captured a mysterious light show in the sky.
[man] There's another one coming.
...and was sure it could only be one thing.
[man] An unidentified flying object.
Oh my god!
[narrator] October 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It's just before midnight,
Jerel Crew and his wife have just wrapped up an evening
of entertaining friends
When Jerel...
[cell phone ringing]
...gets an unexpected call.
My name is Jerel and this is my video.
I got a phone call from my brother telling me, hey,
my nephew, who lived down the street from us
was seeing some things in the sky that he could not identify.
[narrator] Jerel heads to his back porch to investigate.
And what he sees blows his mind.
A single glowing ball, flying across the sky.
At that point, I grabbed my wife, we ran to the front of the house, outside
to see what was going on,
and there it was in the air.
[woman whispering] What is it?
[narrator] But now, there are two.
[woman whispering] What is it? What is it?
What you really couldn't see from the video was the actual color of these guys.
They were like a, more of a orange color
as they were going across the sky.
It was just like, what am I seeing here?
This is unbelievable.
[narrator] And it's about to get even more so.
[Jerel] There's another one, look.
[woman whispering] What is it? What is it?
[Jerel] There's another one coming
[narrator] Three lights are now fully visible in the sky.
And then I started to feel like, okay, everything that I thought is true.
I know we're not the only ones in this vast galaxy.
[Ronny] I've had this experience several times, seeing exactly
what they've seen and it mystifies me every single time.
There is definitely intelligence behind these things.
[woman whispering] Babe. Babe, come look.
I grab my neighbors to look at this thing so everyone
could see what I was talking about.
[woman 2] Are they, the... um, what you call them?
Jerel, that thing that you fly.
[Jerel] No!
It was not a drone, it was not a plane,
it was not a hot air balloon.
It was something from another place.
[Jerel] Unidentified flying objects.
[woman] One, two, three of 'em.
[Brian] We don't know everything that is in our aerospace.
Most of it we can attribute to commercial flights, military flights,
things that are just natural, weather balloons, satellites, launches...
There's a subset of things in the sky that we just can't
easily and readily identify and when more than one person
sees it and is baffled by it,
that makes you second guess, okay, well, what is it?
[narrator] Then, incredibly,
the first two objects, seem to disappear
one right after the other.
[Jerel] Oh, my God!
It was like they were hyper... travelling to another space
When they, once they reached their particular part of the sky, they just
boom. It actually came to that spot and it was like, boom.
-Where's your other one? -Just watch.
[Dan Sturges] Nothing that I know of can multiply or disappear like
what we see in this clip.
I don't know if it's multiple lights on a larger object
and that object is turning which is why these lights look
like they're dimming and going out.
But they're certainly multiple lights coming in and out of view.
[Mark Sceurman] Videos like this are just proving that there's more
things being seen in the sky.
Maybe this is a sign that, uh, if there is alien life out there
maybe they are ready to make some kind of contact with us.
[narrator] Whatever was captured on camera that night is still up for debate
but not for Jerel.
I am absolutely, one hundred percent a believer now.
I felt like, I felt so special that night that
I was afforded this opportunity to see what I saw in the sky.
And I can tell you again, over and over again that this was not from here.
It was something from another galaxy.
[Jerel] Unidentified flying objects.
Oh, my God!
[narrator] Coming up.
A little girl climbs into a cupboard and encounters
a ghoulish creature.
[narrator] There's a mythical creature from Hispanic folklore
whose name derives fromduen de casa
or master of the house.
It's called, the Duende.
These elf-like creatures are said to dwell in tight spaces
such as, inside the walls of houses,
particularly in the bedrooms of children.
And they're believed
to cause some very serious mischief.
But, are they real?
Recently, a family in Mexico might have captured proof
that they are.
[narrator] October 2019, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
A toddler named Maria Jose is playing in her favorite spot
the kitchen cabinet.
She's been obsessed with it since her family moved
into this house, two months ago.
Maria's father, Oscar, films her as she's in the cabinet.
As Maria's aunt, Jessica Ramirez stands nearby.
[Oscar speaking Spanish]
I am Jessica Ramirez and this is our video.
[narrator] Oscar posts the video on social media
to share with family and friends.
Soon after, one of their cousins, points out something disturbing.
Watch closely.
[Oscar speaking Spanish]
Did you catch that?
Watch again, in slow motion
as a pale, spindly hand, quickly pops into frame
then, scurries back into the cabinet.
[Jessica speaking]
[Mark] Whenever you see a child playing and somehow there is
some sort of menacing or supernatural presence
you know, you really feel for them because they're
so vulnerable
and in this case even more so because the child has itself wedged into this
cabinet and it's not like it can run away
if something is in there with it.
It appears to have at least two fingers and it
darts into the frame and back out just as quickly.
It certainly isn't a part of the girl herself.
But what is it?
[Sapphire] It just doesn't look like a regular human being.
It is really small and it's just creepy to think
that there was something right next to that little girl.
[narrator] So, if it's not a human hand,
then what is it?
And, could it explain Maria's obsession
with wanting to play inside that cabinet?
[Susan] I think we kind of get an idea as to why she is so obsessed
with playing around there and it's probably because there's
a little spirit energy that she probably thinks is an imaginary friend
but in reality is a little spiritual friend.
My mind does not go to ghosts here.
Instead I'm thinking, duende.
Now these are elves or gnome like creatures
in Mexico, in Latin America that are said to either
hang out in forests or sometimes they dwell
within the walls of homes.
In some stories, they are said to enchant children
and lead them back into the forest.
But in other tales, they're trying to be helpful.
They might even clip the toe nails of children as they sleep.
Except, sometimes they take off the entire toe.
[narrator] Terrifying.
Worried that whatever the hand belongs to
could have evil intentions,
the family has a priest come by to bless the house.
[Jessica speaking]
[narrator] And it works.
[narrator] Then, after a few months of still trying to figure out what the hand was
the family decides, it's best to let it go.
[narrator] Whatever that strange hand actually belongs to, remains a mystery.
But the episode served to reinforce the family's belief
in the afterlife.
[Jessica speaking]
[narrator] What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?
Here's some tips to get it all on camera.
[Phil] Anybody?
[gasps]
[bleep]
Trust that what you're seeing
really is other worldly.
[shouting in Portuguese]
Check your footage for anything unusual.
Never stop filming.
[man] No way, no way. Oh, my God.
[narrator] Even if you're scared.
And, if you do catch something
email us at, submitparanormal@gmail.com
or connect with us on social media.
Your footage could be seen right here
onParanormal Caught on Camera.