Narrator: Next, on "paranormal caught on camera"...
Paul: Oh, there he goes!
Narrator: ...An infamous bigfoot sighting...
This is the most dynamic bigfoot footage that I've ever seen.
Narrator: ...Ghosts in the office...
Kissel: It seems as if this entity
certainly wanted to get her attention.
Narrator: ...Lights over the lone star state...
Woman: Oh, my god.
I mean, who knows?
Who's to say that we're alone out there?
Narrator: ...Swarms of biblical proportions...
Guiley: Human beings have, throughout history,
interpreted things like this as portents of doom.
Narrator: ...A frightening mess...
♪♪
if I were him, I would be terrified.
Narrator: ...And even more paranormal footage
you have to see to believe.
♪♪
every day, countless people witness something
they believe is paranormal,
and with more cameras out there recording than ever,
it's becoming clear with each new video
they may be right.
The blue mountains span over 4,000 square miles
of eastern oregon
and stretch into washington state.
The largely undiscovered, thick, wooded area
is the perfect home for many wild animals,
including rocky mountain elk,
white-tailed deer, and mule deer.
But there is one inhabitant that has made this forest infamous
and one lucky cryptid hunter who got it on camera.
Paul: Oh, there he goes!
♪♪
narrator: In 1982, paul freeman claimed to have gotten
his first glimpse of bigfoot in these very mountains,
and ever since, he dedicated his life
to capturing the elusive beast on camera.
Paul: Yeah, looks like they've been here.
Narrator: Day after day, he would grab his camcorder
and head out into the blues.
Paul freeman passed away in 2003,
but his son michael remembers his dad's adventures
in bigfoot hunting clearly.
My name is michael freeman.
Paul freeman is my dad.
In 1982, that's when he had his first encounter with bigfoot,
and that kind of set off a 15-year obsession,
I guess you could call it.
Paul: Yeah. We're out in this bush here,
seeing what's going on here.
Narrator: On August 20th, 1992,
he came across some tracks that intrigued him...
Paul: Look at that!
Narrator: ...Believing they could have been made by bigfoot.
Michael: That summer in 1992 was particularly hot,
and a lot of the water sources had dried up in that area.
Now, deduct spring, where this video was taken,
was one of the viable water sources
that was still being used by animals.
Paul: Sometimes they come here and get water.
My dad, knowing this, had been going up to that area
for a couple weeks, actually,
and he was finding footprint tracks up there, hair samples.
He had been taking his camera.
He was filming the collection of evidence.
Paul: Wow. It looks like it's pretty fresh.
Michael: He would find stuff,
but he would never have any sightings,
and he would go back, you know, the next day or the day after,
and the same thing would happen over and over.
Paul: Yeah, he's going back up the road, come down the road.
Guiley: The valuable thing that paul freeman
contributed to the field
really came from his casts of footprints,
and they have been examined by experts.
He was able to capture
what are called "dermal ridges" in his casts.
This is an indication of striations in the skin.
Narrator: Paul followed the tracks,
hiking further into the forest,
and kept his camera rolling.
Paul: Can't see much up through here.
I hear the brush popping and stuff.
♪♪
oh, there he goes!
♪♪
jesus.
Michael: He came home.
I remember he came through the door,
and he was yelling for my mom.
He was visibly shaking.
He was pale in color.
You could tell that something had upset him,
and something had bothered him.
Paul: Oh, god.
It's the only time in my life, including the day that he died,
that I ever saw my dad scared of anything,
and that, right there, to me -- I mean, I don't have to see one.
That's the only proof I'll ever need
for the existence of this animal,
just knowing my dad and how that affected him.
Kissel: The interesting thing about paranormal research
or hunting bigfoot -- people can be skeptical,
but you cannot deny the impact that these sightings have had
on the people who saw the activity.
♪♪
paul: Jesus.
I mean, what can you say? You know, your dad comes home,
and he's got something like this on video,
and you watch it, and you rewatch it,
and then you watch it again, and you say,
"well, that's not a bear. You know, it's not a man.
It's nothing I've ever seen, and..."
yeah, I mean, it was exciting. It was an exciting time.
Paul: Oh, there he goes!
This is probably the most dynamic bigfoot footage
that I've ever seen.
The movements of this creature look very natural.
Hayes: It doesn't look like a man in a suit.
The height looks right. The weight looks right.
I feel like this would be difficult for a man
to hoax all on his own and the word not get out.
Paul: Oh, my.
I feel my heart beating 40 miles an hour.
Michael: I believe that he saw bigfoot.
I know my dad. I grew up with my dad.
I know what kind of person he is,
and the sheer reaction of seeing the way that he acted,
of knowing that something had actually frightened my dad,
who I saw as being superman, basically, you know,
growing up -- big guy, tough guy, brave guy,
someone who wasn't afraid of any man or beast, you know,
on this earth -- to actually be rattled and scared by something.
I don't need any more proof than that.
Paul: Got to be tracks here somewhere on this road.
Oh, here's one.
Reagan: For somebody to devote their whole life
to a field like bigfoot searching and squatching,
to finally get something on camera is a huge deal.
Paul: Yeah.
They've been all over this in here.
Hayes: This video was taken in the beginning
of the home-video-camera era,
so I feel like it opened the floodgates
for people investigating sasquatch and ghostly activity.
Narrator: No matter what paul freeman saw in the woods that day,
one thing is for certain.
This video left not only a lasting impact on his son,
but on the world of cryptozoology.
Paul: Oh, god.
Next to the patterson-gimlin footage of 1967,
this is the apex of bigfoot footage.
Michael: Now his evidence is being looked at
by a whole new generation
that's a little more accepting of the subject.
I really do wish that he would have lived long enough
to see this surge of popularity for the subject.
I think it's something he deserved that he never got.
So proud that's my dad.
Paul: Oh, there he goes!
Jesus.
♪♪
narrator: During the day, offices all over the world
are buzzing with activity and movement,
while at night, the once-busy office
can begin to look like a ghost town.
But for some offices, that term may have to be taken literally.
♪♪
there are a high number of haunted office buildings
across the globe.
A lot of this stems back to what the building was used for
before it was an office.
Sometimes they were slaughterhouses
or funeral homes, or sometimes they were built
over relocated cemeteries or battlegrounds,
so a lot of times that kind of energy lingers.
Narrator: And something must have been lingering in this office
because in January of 2017,
as this woman worked alone into the night with headphones on,
the security cameras captured some surprising activity.
Keep an eye on the chair on the right side of the screen.
♪♪
moran: I love this one because of the suspense.
We know that something's going on here,
and we don't know where it's gonna go.
♪♪
kissel: It seems as if this entity
certainly wanted to get her attention,
and she just simply didn't pay it any mind.
Narrator: Sensing she may not be alone,
the woman removed her headphones
just in time to notice the next disturbance.
♪♪
we do have cases where the spirit escalates activity --
starts out with something small,
and then it moves on to more things or bigger things
as a way of getting attention.
Narrator: And what it did move on to
was impossible to go unnoticed.
♪♪
something exerts a lot of force on that chair.
It's not her legs or her arms doing it.
That's clearly not the case.
♪♪
this very well may be a residual haunt or residual energy
that is just enacting all the things.
Maybe that lady just happened to be
in the middle of a storm of energy.
But if it was intelligent, this could be something saying,
"hey. I tried to get your attention.
You weren't listening to me. I had to take your chair.
Sorry, not sorry."
♪♪
you can kind of see a very faint outline of something,
like, a really dark mass right behind her chair.
I don't know if it was, like, a malicious entity,
but maybe, if it was really,
like, trying that hard to get her attention.
Narrator: Malicious or not, losing her chair
proved to be too much for this woman.
♪♪
if I was this woman in this office,
I would have put my two-weeks notice in immediately
and then taken as many vacation days
out of those two weeks as possible
and never gone back because an office job
is not worth losing your life to a demon.
♪♪
narrator: Coming up...
Trippy lights in texas...
Woman: Oh, my god.
Narrator: ...And an apocalyptic warning.
♪♪
narrator: The great state of texas has been a hotbed of ufo activity
going all the way back to 1897
when locals claimed an unidentified airship
crashed into a farm in aurora.
Since then, texas has continued to rack up
countless more sightings.
As one recent sighting in tomball, texas, shows,
the lone star state may hold the proof
that we're not so 'lone in the universe after all.
♪♪
in September 2018,
nicholas daily pulled into the parking lot
of his apartment complex in tomball
when he noticed his neighbors
were all standing around staring at the night sky.
Nicholas quickly turned his attention upwards
and couldn't believe his eyes.
♪♪
my name is nicholas daily.
I shot the video, and what captured my attention
was the fact that there were about 10 or so plus people
standing in the parking lot,
and they were all just looking to the sky.
To me, that's like, "okay, I need to grab my camera."
woman: Oh, my god.
Man: [bleep] [bleep] dude. These are some...
Man #2: What the [bleep]?
This is some excellent footage.
These people do not seem to be faking anything.
They seem genuinely scared.
Daily: It looked like a three-dotted triangle,
and what was weird is they were rotating,
and they would go intermittently off, on, off and on.
Woman: Oh, my god.
Man: [bleep] [bleep] dude. These are some...
Man #2: What the [bleep]?
-This is... -Oh, [bleep].
It is a very fluid, interesting motion
that you don't generally see from airplanes or helicopters.
Kissel: It looks as if they're working in cooperation with one another,
as opposed to just rogue flying objects that are,
perhaps, asteroids or comets.
It seems as if they have some intelligent life behind them.
Man: Look at that. Look at them.
There goes one. Now they're back to two lights.
Ooh, there it goes. -There goes one.
-Boom. All three go out. -What is that?
Man: [bleep]
woman: There's another one.
-Where? -Look. It's zig-zagging!
-Oh, there they are, [bleep]. -Another one behind the tree.
When they start to move around and zig and zag
and come together and break apart,
we currently don't have any technology that we know of
that can do that, so it makes you wonder,
"what am I looking at? What's up there?"
-did you see [bleep]? -They're moving.
Man: Look at them. Boom. Over here now.
Boom. [bleep]
dude, this is nuts.
Unbelievable.
When I posted the video,
I got a enormous amount of people messaging me,
sending me messages of the same exact lights,
and, apparently, there was, like,
a trail of these that were going on across texas.
There are some hot spots in texas known for,
you know, paranormal activity,
especially with orbs and strange lights.
-There they go -oh, my god.
Man: [bleep] [bleep] dude. These are some...
Man #2: What the [bleep]?
I could speculate. Let's say...
I mean, who knows?
Who's to say that we're alone out there?
Narrator: Nicholas hasn't seen the lights again,
but if texas' long history with ufos is any indication,
he should keep his eyes on the skies.
Man: There goes one. Now they're back to two lights.
Ooh, there it goes. -There goes one.
-Boom. All three. -What is that?
♪♪
narrator: Since the dawn of civilization,
mankind has worried its days on earth may be numbered
and has looked for omens of a coming apocalypse
that could wipe out humanity.
Perhaps the most well-known signs of impending doom
are the 10 plagues of egypt from the book of exodus,
which included rivers turning to blood
and three days of darkness.
While humanity survived since the days of those stories,
recent sightings of one particularly harrowing plague,
which was once quite rare,
have started to become more frequent,
causing people once again to worry.
Is the world about to end?
♪♪
these black clouds, seen here in 2017 on a road
in russia's republic of dagestan region,
are, in fact, millions of locusts swarming farms
and devouring every plant in sight.
♪♪
[ woman squeals ]
this is insane.
I could not imagine being in that car.
[ indistinct exclaiming ]
what would you do in that situation?
Do you pull over? Do you keep driving?
You definitely don't get out.
Cano: To see something like that,
and then to be caught in the middle of it
and to capture it on camera must have been terrifying.
Emtman: It's really incomprehensible
how big a locust swarm can be.
They will just absolutely obliterate fields
and leave farmers with these kind of scablands.
♪♪
narrator: In this video from 2014,
a swarm of locusts invades a residential community
in madagascar.
♪♪
and in 2017, this swarm destroyed thousands of acres
of cornfield in china's shandong province.
♪♪
the answer to why the rise of these destructive swarms
might be more terrifying than the insects themselves.
Kissel: Looking at this footage,
there's a biblical component to it
that a lot of people see with the locusts
as a plague sent from god.
Guiley: Human beings have, throughout history,
interpreted things like this as portents of doom,
of bad things to happen.
Narrator: How biblical can it get?
The swarm that attacked russia in 2017
affected nearly 450 square miles of land,
and the food shortages that these apocalyptic events
can cause bring to mind famine,
one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
as described in the book of revelations.
♪♪
it can be really shocking to see the sky turn black
from a bunch of bugs.
People who are into symbolism
are going to see that as a religious sign.
Narrator: As locust swarms continue to plague humanity,
the question has to be asked --
what should we look out for next?
I think we can expect to see them get stronger.
There can be other signs, as well, like moral decay,
strife, warfare on the planet, signs in the sky,
reading the movements of clouds or unusual lights in the sky,
or some sort of celestial nighttime phenomena
that would be portents of doom, as well.
These would all be seen as signs that the end was at hand.
♪♪
narrator: Coming up...
A mythic creature in utah.
♪♪
narrator: Uintah county, utah, is home
to dinosaur national monument,
and with over 1,500 fossils on display,
it gives visitors a glimpse into what life was like
surrounded by dangerous monsters.
But the prehistoric beasts
might not be the only strange creatures found in the area.
Within the county sits skinwalker ranch.
The 512 acres are said to be
among the most paranormal land in the united states,
and one visitor recently experienced why.
♪♪
legend has it that there is a curse on the land
going back to the times of the navajo and ute indians.
After the navajo lost the prime hunting spot to the ute,
they cursed the area with creatures known as skinwalkers.
Skinwalkers are malevolent witches
who are able to shape-shift into other animals,
such as coyotes or foxes, to evade detection.
The dangerous creatures scared the ute off the land.
Cano: This entire area -- just the history
of the skinwalker ranch -- I would love to go.
I would never [laughs] go near skinwalker ranch
because I want to live.
Narrator: The curse has spanned generations,
and not only do skinwalker sightings still occur,
but more recently, cattle mutilations
and ufos have been spotted around the grounds, as well.
Hayes: The skinwalker ranch is a active zone
that has been investigated since the early 1950s.
Phenomenon from ufos, aliens, cryptids, bulletproof wolves,
ghosts -- you name it, it's happened on this ranch.
It seems to be a hotbed
for all kinds of different paranormal activity.
Guiley: I've been out to skinwalker ranch once myself.
I've never been inside the property.
It's guarded.
Nobody gets onto the property without proper access.
A lot of people in the area don't even want to talk
about the skinwalkers because even that is bad luck.
Moran: I've spoken with truck drivers that run that course,
and they say that these things
will run right alongside the cab of their truck
while they're out at night on these lonely desert roads.
Narrator: In this video that went viral in 2017,
a visitor to the area may have actually captured
one of these mythic skinwalkers on camera.
The driver noticed a strange, black, humanlike form
staring back at him from one of the rocks.
Hayes: I could tell that this guy has no idea what he's looking at.
Why else would he be filming it?
He's studying it, and it doesn't move.
It seems the creature knows that it's being studied
and is holding completely still.
Narrator: Suddenly, the creature seemed to morph
as it moved away from the driver,
inhabiting characteristics
of a few different species at the same time.
It moves like a feline, but it has a heavier body type.
Sceurman: It was kind of crawling a little bit,
so it wasn't really like the gait of a bear or anything,
you know, or even a wildcat is a little more stealth than that.
This thing was, like, kind of, like...Slithering and crawling.
Sandalo: It sort of looked a little bit panther-ish, gorilla-ish.
It moved a little bit, you know, kind of human-like.
Yeah, it was really freaky.
♪♪
kissel: This looks to be a skinwalker because it's on all fours.
It's definitely a shape of a coyote type,
which is usually how they manifest themselves in reality.
It is walking very bizarrely,
not like any other animal that I've seen.
Moran: It's hard to say. Is it a cryptid?
Is it a spirit of some sort?
Is it a holy person who has transcended our knowledge
of the physical being?
We don't know.
Sandalo: I would have absolutely run away
because skinwalkers can be really dangerous.
Narrator: Many viewers of this video thought it proved
the existence of skinwalkers on the ranch,
but if these creatures are truly harbingers of a curse,
the next person to film one of the mythical beasts
that inhabit this land may not get away so easily.
♪♪
coming up...
An eerie encounter in the forest.
Jason: God, that's so weird.
♪♪
narrator: Hilton head island, south carolina,
is known for its pristine beaches,
excellent golf courses, and beautiful palm trees.
But visitors to this island should keep their eyes peeled
because mother nature is hiding a strange
and alarming secret just beyond the tree line
that few have witnessed... Until now.
♪♪
in April 2013, jason and jennifer freeman
were out enjoying a bike ride
when some movement in the brush caught their attention.
Luckily, they had their phones handy
and pulled them out to record the strange activity.
Jason: Okay, this is super-creepy --
branch going like crazy.
No wind. Nothing else is moving.
That is so fricking weird.
Hi. My name's jason freeman.
Hi. I'm jennifer freeman.
We're the ones that recorded the swaying-plant video.
Jason: Okay, that is just too freaky.
I think my reaction would be like, "what the eff?"
jason: That is really weird.
I would love to see that.
Sometimes a simple thing like that is mystifying.
Jason: God, that's so weird.
Everybody says it's fake, that there was a string attached
and there was some other explanation like that,
and we know that it wasn't, so... Absolutely not.
...That just makes it feel kind of neat, in our minds,
that we just knew it was unexplainable, really.
Jason: What the hell is that all about?
♪♪
look how fast it's going.
It was not windy at all.
It was a very sunny, nice, calm day,
and this area that we're in is kind of a remote, forested area.
It just has dirt-bike paths on it,
so even if there was a tiny bit of wind,
it was all protected with the trees
and whatnot that were around there.
-Right. -So we really studied that.
We were like, "nothing else is moving at all
around the plant."
so it was -- that's what made it weird.
And for it to sway as violently as it was... Right.
...There was just no explanation for it.
It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
It really was.
Jason: Okay. That is really starting to creep me out.
It definitely felt like a paranormal experience.
I had never seen anything like that,
and the eerie feeling that we felt -- it was...
It just felt like the plant didn't want us there,
and the way it was moving, it just...
Something was kind of off there.
It really was.
It seems silly, but it felt like it was mad at us
because it would start swaying more violently
the more we were trying to do anything to stop it.
And I took that as a warning.
We came to the point where we're like,
"this thing's warning us to get out."
narrator: Many speculated that the leaf, a palmetto frond,
was light enough to catch the slightest breeze,
causing it to sway wildly.
But that explanation was not enough
to convince jason and jennifer.
The primary reason we posted it online
was to get an explanation,
and everybody scientifically explained
what was going on there, and I just don't agree with it.
The way we felt out there --
it felt like a paranormal experience.
It just -- I didn't see the scientific explanation
as what we saw that day.
It really didn't feel that way.
Jason: Okay. That thing is just creepy.
Let's get out of here.
It's freaking me out.
Narrator: Much in the same way the moving-plant clip
captured the internet's imagination,
so did this October 2018 video
of the forest floor breathing in sacré-coeur, québec.
♪♪
I've never seen anything like that.
It has such an upheaval.
It's like a sleeping giant.
It really defies logic.
It's a fascinating image.
Kissel: Nature is endlessly strange,
and footage like this
is an indication that nature is alive,
and it kind of has a soul or has a energy to it.
Sceurman: The world is a crazy, mixed-up place.
Sometimes it's mysterious. Sometimes it's natural.
Sometimes there's a combination of the both,
so you never know what you're gonna find
when you [laughs] walk down the road
or you walk into a haunted house
or you walk in the forest.
♪♪
narrator: Coming up...
Poltergeist chaos in the kitchen.
♪♪
narrator: The town of pembroke, wales,
dates back to 1093 with a construction of a castle
that would become the birthplace of king henry vii.
This medieval fortress still stands,
attracting visitors to tour the home of the famous monarch.
In a town steeped with almost 1,000 years of history,
it's no wonder one recent resident
has come face-to-face
with ghosts of pembroke's past, literally.
♪♪
in early 2009, a local man started noticing
strange movements in his pembroke apartment.
Objects weren't always in the same place
or had fallen from their spot.
He tried catching it on camera, but hadn't had any luck.
Those are my videos.
That's my camera and my house.
I've been living in the same house the whole time.
Narrator: He has chosen to remain anonymous
to protect his privacy.
There was, like, an increase in me noticing things
that weren't where they should be.
So I started leaving cameras around.
On July 19th, after months of trying
and failing to capture anything on camera,
he returned home to find not only was his kitchen a mess...
♪♪
...But this time, the camera recorded everything.
♪♪
you've got a problem,
and if you're just going to set up a camera to capture it,
I think you should be spending your time going to get help.
That would be my recommendation.
♪♪
when you see strong bursts of things happening,
you know, it shows an accumulation of energy.
Sandalo: Kitchen poltergeist seems to be very common.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that kitchens
tend to have more [laughs] throwable items.
♪♪
narrator: But what is it like to live day in and day out
with a poltergeist?
If I've come home from work, you look at it and sort of sigh,
and you go to bed.
[ laughing ] you just don't want to face it.
If you're coming back from the pub, it can be different.
You've got kind of creepy vibe then.
You're, like, looking over your shoulder a bit.
But I can't say I've ever noticed
any, like, feeling, like, sensation
other than what you sort of talk yourself into feeling,
like when you walk into a creepy building or something.
♪♪
if I were him, I would be terrified.
I'm a big ghost fan, but with that kind of activity,
I would be concerned for my safety
and the safety of others around me.
♪♪
if things are flying through the air around you, you flinch.
You're afraid of being hit.
You're worried something's gonna go in your eye
or stick in your head, you know,
especially when it's glass.
Narrator: Wondering what could be causing all of the activity,
he pulled out a ouija board,
which can be quite controversial,
to see if he could get any answers.
All right, I'm talking to the entity now.
I know that ouija boards
are seen as just a game or just a toy.
They're created by milton bradley.
But they are serious instruments to reach the other side.
It is not just for fun.
This person should not be going in there
and tempting this entity to come to the other side
and make his life a living hell.
Man: The first time we used the ouija board
was just covering all the bases, you know?
I don't know if this was a paranormal occurrence
or a physical phenomenon.
Can you give me a sign --
[ banging ]
[ banging continues ]
it's not something I would do very often.
I don't know if it causes an increase in activity.
♪♪
was that you banging?
[ banging ]
people report poltergeist things erupting in their home
after they've used ouija board sessions --
mysterious noises,
objects being moved around or falling off shelves
or tables and breaking.
[ banging ]
so it's not out of the realm of possibility
that something like this could happen.
Man: Holy sh...
Narrator: During one of the sessions, he noticed a strange mist.
Man: I don't know if you can see this on camera,
but...
Holy [bleep].
Cano: Spirits can appear as mists
if there's enough energy for one to manifest in a solid way.
To see a mist right after a ouija board session
would seem to be concurrent with that type of activity.
Sturges: If a ghost was maybe trying to manifest,
he might be more comfortable with you
seeing a mist rather than him.
[ banging ]
there are ghosts that appear as swirling smoke.
Sometimes they appear as a round ball.
I never directly got, like, a straight answer
to a question that leads me to believe
that there's an intelligence behind it.
Narrator: Not satisfied, he resolved to try again.
Man: I'm gonna be doing this ouija board thing again.
I've been using these glasses.
The idea was that because it's so tall,
you'd be able to see. I know --
[ glass shattering ]
♪♪
why am I even surprised?
The energy that shattered it --
it sort of seemed to throw the glass in all directions,
as if the energy was coming from inside the glass itself
rather than some projectile
being cast against the outside of it.
...You'd be able to see. I know --
[ glass shattering ]
well, that had happened before.
Well, the glass hadn't exploded,
but it had been violently pulled out
from under my fingers before,
but when it just [laughs] explodes,
you know, you're expecting maybe a tug.
You're steeling yourself for that,
and then it explodes in your fingers,
and you look down to see if you're cut
and, you know, it's relief then.
Narrator: You would think that
after experiencing all this activity,
most people would be inclined to move from this house,
but surprisingly, that's not the case here.
I don't even know if I would move
because I like the area, and all my friends are here.
Narrator: Instead, he's found ways to cope with his poltergeist roommate.
I find that if I'm not asking a question
or directly addressing things,
that it tends to not happen, or maybe I just don't notice it.
All I can do is just film empty rooms as long as possible,
and if something happens, it happens, and I catch it.
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narrator: Coming up -- strange signs from above.
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narrator: Crop circles are a phenomenon
that have been mystifying humans for decades.
Farmers would wake up to find giant patterns
etched into their fields, displaying symbols
that seem extraterrestrial.
The first big rash of these sightings
began in England in the 1970s,
and they continue to appear and astonish people to this day.
Their intricate design and stealthy ability
to materialize out of nowhere leave many to wonder
who or what created them?
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over the years, researchers dedicated countless hours
studying the strange circles,
but have not been able to agree on their origin.
Guiley: I've spent quite a few months in England myself
in the 1990s researching this phenomenon
to see if it had a mysterious origin,
because people were looking for non-human explanations --
that it was angels or divas, the earth spirits,
or it was aliens.
We've never really found a non-human explanation
or even very good evidence for a non-human explanation,
which does not mean there isn't one.
I'm not 100% convinced
that all of the crop circles are man-made.
You could speculate that this is how aliens
are trying to communicate.
It's not that far-fetched.
You know, if you were stranded on a desert island,
and you were trying to communicate with planes
flying over, you might spell out words.
This is exactly the same thing in reverse.
So if it were an intended message,
it would just be like them from above
taking their finger and writing in the sand.
Narrator: The appearance of these circles
can be quite shocking for those who live nearby.
One case rattled locals in tolyatti, russia,
and made the national news in July 2005
for their mysterious appearance.
Kissel: We do have some across the world
that are still not explained,
with the phenomenon of the perfect spheres,
with the phenomenon of the mathematical intelligence
behind the crop circles that do make people wonder,
"who the heck is making these things?"
narrator: The people of tolyatti thought the phenomenon was behind them
until something appeared once again
exactly 10 years later.
In July 2015, tolyatti resident alexei zagorodnikov
was out flying his video drone
and suddenly noticed some strange symbols
in the same field below.
Of all the crop-circle photos I've seen,
I've never really seen two created
10 years to the day that the last crop circle happened.
Narrator: According to alexei,
the circles weren't there just two days earlier.
The five circles, ranging from 60 to 150 feet in diameter,
seemingly showed up overnight.
Hayes: The fact that they appear overnight,
and they're so intricate that you would think,
"there's no way somebody could do this in one night."
sceurman: The circles were very impressive --
150 feet in diameter.
I mean, that's quite a feat.
Hayes: The farmer's crops are damaged,
so there's no way that a farmer would allow --
or definitely would not do it themselves.
So whatever or whoever is doing these
is doing it against the farmer's wishes,
against the law, and in incredible speed.
Narrator: What could the crop circles mean,
and why 10 years later?
There are, you know, different,
varying schools of thought on that.
These things mark some kind of an event.
So for them to show up on the anniversary
would make sense.
Sandalo: The fact that the design reappeared in the same area
10 years later is very weird.
I wonder if, like, 10 years after that,
it's gonna show up again, and if it means anything.
When it comes to crop circles and why we look to the sky,
something like the nazca lines cross my mind,
where, in ancient times,
these massive carvings into the ground were made,
and when you're at ground level, you can't appreciate them.
They can only be seen from above.
Now, who's above?
The gods, the deities, which, back then,
that's probably what they were considered.
And today, those gods and deities
are probably extraterrestrials, aliens --
someone from on high that could see those messages.
And crop circles are very much
the modern examples of nazca lines.
I think it persists to this day as a testament
to how we're still looking to the sky for answers.
Narrator: As for the crop circles in tolyatti,
check back in 2025.
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