Narrator: Next on "paranormal caught on camera"...
[ screaming ]
narrator: ...Mysterious sightings
in the milwaukee sky.
-That's [bleep] scary. -End of the world!
Whenever you see something unexplained, you think
the world is coming to an end.
Narrator: ...A poltergeist puts in overtime...
Whatever this entity is, it has a ton of energy.
Narrator: ...A freaky formation flies over philly...
Man: Never seen no [bleep] like this in my life.
It almost looks like a giant sky jellyfish of some kind.
Narrator: ...A ghost hunter becomes the hunted...
Have you just attacked me?
I just had this burning sensation on my neck,
and it looked like scratches.
Pretty crazy, to be honest.
Narrator: ...A cryptic creature washes up in the philippines...
[ shouting indistinctly ]
if I saw that wash up on shore, gone.
That's where my investigation ends.
Narrator: ...And even more paranormal footage
you have to see to believe.
♪♪
narrator: 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.
♪♪
there are certain charms to staying
in an old historic hotel.
[ bell dings ]
it can harken guests back to a simpler time
before magnetic key cards and free wi-fi.
But along with the ornate decor and antiquated amenities,
these time-worn accommodations often provide guests
with another experience free of charge --
ghostly encounters.
♪♪
cano: I think hotels can be a hotbed of activity
because of the energy that passes through
on a regular basis.
People are coming in.
They're on their way to somewhere.
They're on an adventure. They're on a work trip.
They're bringing their energy, and they're leaving it behind.
Narrator: Those looking to interact with
some leftover energy
should look no further than the crescent hotel
in eureka springs, arkansas.
The crescent hotel in eureka springs, arkansas,
has been labeled the most haunted hotel in america
for good reason.
Narrator: Built in 1886, the hotel was initially a haven
for the rich and famous.
Since then, it's changed several hands times.
By far, the darkest era of the hotel's history
happened in the 1930s,
when a self-proclaimed dr. Norman baker purchased it
and ran it as a hospital under false pretenses.
He said he could cure cancer and attracted a lot of very sick
and as you can imagine, desperate people.
Sandalo: He wasn't a doctor at all.
He was actually just an actor and a con man.
Sturges: He was scamming people.
They were coming in to be cured,
and he would, you know, give them good meals
and lots of fresh air, and a lots of people came,
and unfortunately, lots of people died.
Narrator: More than 100 patients died in baker's care,
and their bodies were stored in the morgue,
which is now the hotel's basement.
Given the property's tragic history,
it's no surprise that spirits are often
reported roaming the grounds.
Guiley: I have investigated there and it is quite haunted.
I saw apparitions in the hallways,
wispy forms that seemed to be from the past,
people who were there going about their --
their affairs in the hotel.
Narrator: Paranormal enthusiasts like alex moore and his wife
booked a room at the hotel in hopes of encountering
a supernatural experience of their own.
Alex: What time is it?
2:05 a.M.
Alex: 2:05.
All right, let's see if this works here.
♪♪
my name is alex moore.
I'm from independence, kansas.
I'm the one that shot the video at the crescent hotel.
We'd been searching for stuff really late into the night.
You know, walking around the hallways
and trying to find something,
you know, taking pictures and videos,
and we didn't have any equipment or anything like that,
so, kind of -- I guess the old ghost-hunter standby
is to just ask a spirit or ghost to move something.
Will something please close the door?
If there's anyone here, will you close the door?
♪♪
this is a good example of investigators
going for an interaction.
Now, essentially what that is is exactly what it sounds like.
You're asking a spirit to do something.
To make a noise, to make a device go off.
In this case, "can you close this door?"
alex: Can you close the door?
There we go.
Can you close the door?
If there's anyone in here, please close the door.
♪♪
what I like about this clip is the door is in full frame.
You know, there's nothing blocking
where somebody can hide and shut the door.
Doesn't look like there's any strings.
Sandalo: Sometimes you can explain away,
"oh, maybe there's a draft.
It was, like, the air conditioning."
but the way that this door moved,
there's no way that that would be the reason why.
After the door shut by itself,
I felt kind of shocked, speechless,
I guess you could say.
Narrator: The door closing on its own
not only left alex speechless,
it kept him coming back for more.
I've been back eight times since then.
Narrator: On his next visit...
We're here.
Narrator: ...Alex came prepared with ghost-hunting equipment...
Alex: We got the emf right here.
Narrator: ...And a few more investigators.
Is there anyone in here with us right now?
Most ghost hunters like to use the emf meters
because when there is a presence of electromagnetic fields,
usually it means that there is something in the room with you.
Alex: See what happens if I set it on the chair...
That a spirit is also occupying.
And then move the chair.
[ beeping rapidly ]
it's going more now.
It doesn't like that I'm moving its chair.
That freaks me out, dude.
If spirits exist,
I like that there's a building full of people that are willing
and trying to communicate with them
better than them being in an abandoned,
cold, dark building.
Narrator: So if you are of the adventurous type,
the crescent hotel may be your kind of place.
But just be warned,
you will likely be sharing the room with someone else
who never checks out.
♪♪
there are eight planets orbiting around our sun,
but there are trillions of other stars
just like it in the universe.
According to research,
about half of those stars likely harbor planets,
so the idea that some of those planets
have the right conditions to support life
cannot be ruled out,
and some frightened onlookers in wisconsin
may have witnessed first contact.
Woman: I can't see!
♪♪
narrator: In summer 2015, a woman named yanilka diaz
was attending a birthday party at a friend's house in milwaukee
when an eerie sight in the twilight sky
caught everyone's attention, and she began filming.
Man: The end of the world!
Well, at first, this looks like fireworks, uh,
because it seems to be falling toward the --
the earth.
But then the -- the lights that break off
don't seem to fall like fireworks.
It looks as if each individual light
is sort of independently operated,
so without a doubt, this is a ufo.
Narrator: As the baffling bright lights
continue to drop in an unfamiliar manner,
yanilka and her friends grew increasingly more concerned.
[ screaming ]
so, they seem suspended
for an unnaturally long period of time.
There seems to be intent in their movement.
There seems to be an intelligence
in their pattern.
What's causing it?
I think whenever you see something that is unexplained,
you think the world is coming to an end.
Clearly, it wasn't the end of the world, but what was it?
I'm not entirely sure what it is that we're seeing in this video,
but if I had to guess, it might be space debris,
which is actually a really common explanation
for sightings like this.
I doubt that this is space debris
because it's clearly lower atmosphere,
and space debris would be coming through
the earth's atmosphere very fast
and would probably burn up much higher up.
It would look more like a meteor.
There could be sky lanterns, military maneuvers,
sometimes aircraft drop flares, but we don't --
we can't see enough evidence of that to say.
I mean, this is truly one of those instances
where it's an unidentified object.
Narrator: Adding to the mystery is the fact
that a very similar sighting to the lights in wisconsin
was reported over osaka, japan, the very same week,
leaving many to wonder if they were both part
of some related extraterrestrial activity.
If this sighting was, in fact, proof of alien life,
it begs the question -- what on earth are they doing?
If aliens are coming to our atmosphere,
you could imagine a number of motives that they might have,
but we don't know if we even think like them,
so it's kind of hard to second-guess them
when we don't even know who they are or what they are.
Narrator: Coming up...
Are you planning to hurt me?
Narrator: ...A ghost hunt takes a terrifying turn.
Have you just attacked me?
♪♪
narrator: Cemeteries rightfully have a reputation
for being spooky places,
and once the sun goes down, that eerie factor goes way up.
Many believe graveyards have a higher chance of being haunted
because leftover energy can linger long
after the bodies are buried.
One ghost hunter from sheffield, England,
has learned that firsthand.
Have you just attacked me?
♪♪
cemeteries are supposedly a restful place
where you go after you die.
Sometimes the spirits aren't that restful.
Narrator: Just ask phil sinclair,
a ghost hunter who had a terrifying encounter
in an abandoned graveyard in sheffield.
My name is phil.
I'm here to make contact with any entities
that may reside within this cemetery.
My name is phil sinclair.
I am the one that caught this footage.
Narrator: In late 2017, phil heard reports
that the nearby wardsend cemetery
was ripe with paranormal activity,
so he did what any ghost hunter would do.
He set out on an investigation to dig up some evidence.
Please do not be afraid to make contact.
Narrator: Armed with a device called an ovilus,
phil attempted to communicate with any willing participants.
An ovilus works by sensing electromagnetic fields
and temperatures.
It then takes those readings and matches them
to a corresponding word from its database.
You're welcome to use my energy to make yourself known.
The ovilus has an internal dictionary
of several hundred words.
The theory behind it is that spirits can access the frequency
in order to have words spoken.
Narrator: It wasn't long before phil's ovilus
picked up some concerning responses.
Is there any entities at all?
Please come forward to me.
Use all my energy.
There's a huge risk when you're trying to communicate
with spirits in a cemetery,
because you have absolutely no idea
who is gonna answer your call.
Satan?
So...
Am I talking...
Why are you saying "satan"?
Are you an evil entity?
In this video, you hear some pretty compelling words.
Cano: You hear "satan."
now, it's terrifying to hear when you're on an investigation.
Intent. What is your intent?
Satan?
Are you planning to hurt me?
Narrator: Further intrigued by the entity's intentions,
phil selflessly offered up his own energy to find some answers.
Kill. Oh, my god.
Is that what's gonna happen?
Is there something evil here?
Feed. Oh, my god.
Feed.
You wanted to feed on my energy?
You're welcome to it.
If you are a demon...
Please do something.
Attack me.
Narrator: A few minutes later,
phil learned the true meaning of the phrase
"be careful what you wish for."
...Daily bread, as we forgive those
who have trespassed against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
-How did that happen to you? -I don't know.
-It's just my neck was burning. -That's weird.
Woman: Oh, turn that voice off. That's weird.
Have you just attacked me? Is that what it is?
-It's a big smash up, isn't it? -It's massive. It's like a claw.
It's awful.
He looks on his neck, and he sees three red marks
and the fact that there's three probably means
that it was an evil entity there
because three means that they're mocking the holy trinity.
A lot of people fear that when you're scratched,
instantly, it's a demon.
That's not always so.
But in this case, given the words
that preceded it, if I were him, I would be cautious.
Who has just attacked me?
There's something here mocking us.
Are you a coward, hiding in the shadow?
Is that what you are? Attacking people?
It's not a really good idea to, you know, pick a fight
a fight with something that sounds like an evil spirit,
because you're just asking yourself for -- for trouble.
-Did you hear that out there? -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Woman: Yeah, we need to get out.
If you are ghost hunting, and you hear stuff like this,
you get marks on your neck in threes,
it's probably time to go home.
We're gonna have to leave, wrap this up.
I think the message the spirit was trying to get across
to phil is, "get out of here.
Leave me alone. Let me be in peace."
let's go.
Narrator: Coming up...
...A spirit stakeout in England.
♪♪
narrator: About an hour north of london
is the village of melbourn, England.
The small, medieval town boasts a 13th century church,
quaint pubs, and charming, thatch-roofed cottages.
Living in such a storybook town
sure seems like it would be pleasant,
but for one melbourn resident,
his picturesque cottage housed a dark secret.
♪♪
we get a lot of accounts
of unexplained activity out of the u.K.
They're a much, much older culture than we are,
so a lot more lives have gone through these places,
and if you believe in spirits, then that would stand to reason
that if more lives have been there,
more afterlives will manifest there.
Narrator: Just ask local resident andrew ward.
The house that I'm living at at the moment is haunted.
♪♪
narrator: It was the summer of 2017
when the homeowner started to sense something was amiss
as soon as he moved in.
Ward: I've had some strange experiences.
I shut the windows at night and in the morning,
sometimes, they're wide open, and I don't know what it is.
Narrator: Convinced his 400-year-old cottage
was haunted, andrew set out to confirm it.
It's this window above me is the window
that seems to open at nighttime,
so we're gonna leave a camera up and leave it on all night,
and we're gonna see what happens so let's go up to the bedroom.
With a cottage like this that's over 400 years old,
you've had families live and die in this structure,
and I do believe that the older a location is,
the more likely it is to have haunts,
because more energy accumulates within the walls of this place.
Ward: So, here's the camera,
and it's going to film
the window, just there.
We'll just make sure this is all shut
and everything, which it is.
Okay.
So, let's see if we get a visit tonight.
Essentially, we're watching a stakeout.
Narrator: After hitting record, andrew went to bed.
The next morning, he examined the video.
At first, there was nothing unusual.
And then he saw this.
♪♪
[ window creaks ]
my name is andrew ward.
I shot this ghost video.
And yeah, it really did happen.
♪♪
I've been in old, old buildings,
and it's never that easy to just open a window
in a structure like that, you know?
It just seemed so effortless.
The littler triggers all moved perfectly,
and the window just opened without any hitch.
Now, a lot of people could say,
"oh, the wind simply caught the window,
or a draft kicked the window open,"
but how do you explain the moving lock?
No wind is gonna move a steel lock.
♪♪
the windows are actually made of wood,
and they swing outwards, and they have a metal catch,
so it stops the wind blowing them further open.
It's got a lock on there, you see,
so you have to unhook it like that to open it.
There's only two things that could've moved the latch.
One would be a string, and the other would be a spirit.
I don't see a string.
Kissel: Interestingly enough,
the latch, of course, is on the inside.
That would require a paranormal ability
in order to enter the residence, unlatch it, open up the window,
so I think that makes the footage really compelling.
Moran: It seems to be a ghost doing what ghosts do,
and that is opening windows, opening doors, passing through.
So it's a very well-captured bit of evidence
of that sort of passage.
Narrator: Andrew's spirit stakeout had been a success,
and even though he can't see
the entity that opened his window,
he has an idea of who it might be.
Because someone died in this house, it's entirely possible
that the spirit of that person is remaining for a purpose.
Oftentimes, unfinished business,
a sudden death or some kind of schism in life
might cause that energy to stick around.
Narrator: Andrew has since moved
from this potentially haunted cottage,
but he still thinks back on this chilling experience.
♪♪
narrator: Coming up, a marooned monster in the philippines.
♪♪
narrator: Comprised of more than 7,000 islands,
the philippines has some of the most idyllic
beaches in the world.
Residents and visitors alike treasure the region's white,
sandy shorelines, crystal-clear waters,
and abundant marine life.
But when a mysterious creature known to cryptid experts
as a globster washed up on one of the beaches,
naturally, there was cause for concern.
♪♪
on may 11th, 2018, residents of san antonio, philippines,
were shocked to see a cryptic creature had been beached.
One of the witnesses who had a camera
on-hand was michael landicho.
I'm michael landicho, uh, from the philippines...
I'm filipino and when I saw this video,
I immediately thought of the bakunawa,
which is a mythological creature that ancient filipinos
believed controlled eclipses, earthquakes, wind, and rain.
Narrator: The bizarre blob-like beast was covered
with a white, hairlike substance
and had a foul odor emanating from its body.
[ shouting indistinctly ]
it doesn't like an animal that we can recognize its form,
but surely, there are creatures living in the ocean
that we have not studied,
so it might very well be some creature that is of this earth,
we just haven't categorized it yet.
We don't know.
Narrator: Locals dubbed this strange creature "the globster."
globster is actually an official word,
and it means an unidentified organic mass
that washes ashore.
Now, the philippines seems to get more
than its fair share of globsters.
Cano: This thing is difficult to describe
because it didn't seem to have the shape
of the bloated corpse of a whale
or any sea creature carcass for that matter.
There was no fins that you could discern.
It was just, literally, a glob.
If I saw it on the beach,
I'd probably run right towards it
and want to see everything.
I'd want to film everything.
I'd want to get, like, a tissue sample.
I love that kind of stuff.
I mean, that's why you become a scientist.
Narrator: And while some brave residents
approached the globster to get a closer look,
the majority of them kept their distance.
If I saw that wash up on shore,
I would take a picture of it, but then, you know what?
Back out the other way.
Once the smell hit me, gone.
That's where my investigation ends.
Narrator: Although the globster didn't seem to be dangerous,
its presence still sparked fear amongst the locals
that it was the harbinger of something worse to come.
The fact that it washed ashore,
dead, probably is not a great omen,
'cause it means that nature is gonna be
out of balance somehow.
Kissel: I'm not sure if it's a bad omen.
I will say it's not, like, a great one. I don't know.
Like, it can't be, like, the best thing
that ever happened to a town,
if you have some big, blubbering mass washing ashore.
I don't think it means everything is going great.
Narrator: After a sample of
the smelly sea creature was taken,
authorities buried the blob in the sand with a backhoe,
but still to this day,
the mystery surrounding the origin
of the philippines' globster lives on.
We may never know from exactly
where this particular sea oddity washed up,
but thankfully, it didn't turn out
to be the harbinger of doom they thought it was...Yet.
[ shouting indistinctly ]
narrator: Coming up...
...A bizarre formation floats over philly.
♪♪
narrator: Attics have the tendency to be scary places.
They're dark, cold, and you never know
what you'll find tucked amongst the cobwebs and dusty boxes.
But for one man in springfield, missouri,
it wasn't what he found that rattled him,
it was what he heard.
♪♪
people are afraid of less-traveled regions
of their home.
They creep out a lot of people.
Narrator: Shawn wells had every reason to be creeped out
when he kept waking up to loud noises
coming from the ceiling in his closet.
So he took it upon himself to find out
what was causing all the commotion.
Wells: Okay, everybody.
We're in my closet,
and I want to do the experiment of trying to get this on tape.
My attic, it's right there, always makes noise.
It rattles all the time at night.
My name is shawn arthur wells,
and I was the one that shot the video of my attic door.
We noticed the latch was making noise when we first moved in,
and we thought it was the wind.
I got tired of it, so I started recording it.
I'm gonna try to get this on film when I'm sleeping,
so I'm gonna place the camera right up here on my jeans.
Attics often, in a haunted home, are one of the more likely areas
where mysterious activity is going to take place.
Narrator: Shawn left his camera recording in the closet
and went to bed around 1:00 a.M.
Three hours later,
it picked up something downright disturbing.
♪♪
the activity picked up by the camera
was not easily explainable.
I've seen drafts do a lot of strange things in houses --
open doors, open windows --
but what's happening in this video
doesn't seem to be caused by a draft.
It seems like something is physically lifting the door
from above and having a hard time doing so.
If a draft was coming in the windows,
it would happen during the day as well as at night,
so this possibly could be paranormal activity.
♪♪
cano: It seems as if maybe something's trying to get out.
But then you see these wispy shapes
start flying by the camera.
They're not coming out of the attic,
but they're in the proximity and just floating off-screen,
and it makes you go, "okay, what was that?"
♪♪
narrator: As if that weren't creepy enough,
soon after the eerie orbs made an appearance,
shawn's dog took notice.
My dog never whined
unless he needed to go outside during the day,
especially he did not whine at the closet.
There was nothing in there that he needed or wanted,
so it kind of freaked me out.
Animals -- they hear things, see things, smell things
and feel things that we just don't,
so there's no reason to doubt that,
if there was a paranormal activity,
an animal would be more cued
into it before we would be.
Narrator: When shawn woke up the next morning
and watched what his camera had captured,
he was shocked to say the least.
Wells: I felt surprised when I saw the video.
It was really eerie,
and I never experienced anything like that before.
I had my landlord go up there to see
if there was any raccoons up there.
There wasn't.
There was no raccoon droppings or no rat droppings whatsoever.
Narrator: Freaked out that there really was something paranormal
lurking in his attic, shawn has since moved out,
but he won't soon forget this experience.
I got an eerie feeling from that duplex.
It really felt really, really creepy there.
♪♪
narrator: Philadelphia is where the founding fathers
met to write the constitution, and according to locals,
some of their spirits never left.
From reports of ben franklin's ghost roaming
independence hall
to alexander hamilton haunting the first bank,
the city of brotherly love is no stranger to paranormal activity.
But perhaps none of the accounts are quite as bizarre
as what one philly resident
witnessed from his apartment window.
♪♪
one afternoon, hector garcia spotted
something peculiar floating high in the sky,
so he grabbed his cellphone and started filming it.
At first glance, the object looked like a cloud,
but as it drifted closer, one thing became clear --
hector had no earthly idea what it was.
It's moving and morphing and floating in a way
that I've never seen a cloud move.
This was one of the more interesting and unusual
unidentified flying objects I've seen.
It almost looks like a giant sky jellyfish of some kind.
Narrator: And the way the entity continued to move across the sky
made it that much more mysterious.
Cano: It's almost undulating.
You're not sure what you're looking at,
and it's transparent enough that you can't see any parts,
but there's little -- little points of light
that reflect from time to time.
I was trying to see if this guy
could possibly manipulate this image,
but it's kind of going behind these power lines,
and it starts floating even faster the closer it gets,
so it seems to kind of have an intelligent movement to it.
Sceurman: It didn't look like a windy day,
but this thing was rolling and tumbling on its own.
It looked like some kind of electrical current in it.
Narrator: Even the more innocent explanations
for what this ufo could be don't seem to hold up.
Some have speculated that these are soap bubbles.
That would have to be one heck of a big bubble,
and it would, at some point, have to pop, wouldn't it?
It just seems too large,
and its form is too haphazard for that.
This one's a real puzzle.
Narrator: Without any plausible reason
for the freakish formation over philly,
theories about its origins will continue to float around.
I can't even begin to hazard a guess as to what this is.
It's not your typical ufo.
It's not a flying disk.
It's not a triangle or a pyramid shape that we're used to.
It's just something different. It's something else.
Narrator: Coming up,
a poltergeist earns its paycheck.
♪♪
narrator: There are plenty of things for the average worker
to fear about the office, such as deadlines,
demanding bosses, and stressful responsibilities.
But nothing could be quite as terrifying
as the footage surveillance cameras captured late one night
in an office building in the united kingdom.
♪♪
guiley: Any place can be haunted,
including office buildings.
We hear many stories of people coming to work,
and they find things have been rearranged.
They're even in disorder or upset.
Narrator: A prime example of this comes from one workspace
in manchester, England.
After all the employees had long been gone,
security cameras throughout the office building
caught some disturbing activity.
♪♪
because poltergeists need massive amounts of energy
to manipulate objects,
if you have an office space with tons of computers,
it would be able to draw
the energy from electronic devices
like those to help itself manifest
and manipulate the environment around it
or objects in our environment.
Narrator: After the poltergeist, or whatever it was,
had finished rearranging the chairs,
it really got to work.
♪♪
usually when there is the presence of spirits,
it affects electronics.
That's why, if you watch a lot of ghost hunting shows,
you see that their batteries are depleted
even though they just fully charged them.
So the fact that the monitors were flickering
could mean something was there.
Narrator: From there, things only got more shocking.
♪♪
hayes: The activity we see in this video is intense.
Whatever this entity in this video is,
it has a ton of energy.
It doesn't look like a person is doing this.
It looks like a big wind storm coming in here
and just, like, doing a frenzy over the whole place.
Narrator: As the night went on,
the ornery entity continued to cause chaos.
♪♪
moran: I've seen other videos like this
where similar things happen.
This one is more impressive in that the range of motion
that you get here is so diverse.
I don't know how I would get papers
to fly up out of a sealed file cabinet, for example.
If this were to be a hoax,
it would've been incredibly complicated to stage.
♪♪
narrator: This paranormal activity
captured the attention of more than three million viewers
on youtube and led many to speculate who
or what might be behind it.
The activity that we see in this office
certainly doesn't seem demonic or bad to me in any way,
but it certainly tells me
that something may have taken up residence in there.
Something may be inhabiting that office
from beyond the grave.
People are attached to their jobs,
and they spend a fair amount of their life in these jobs,
and people have jobs for 20, 30 years working
in the same office, and once you have moved on,
I would assume that you would, from time to time,
want to kind of check in where you spent a lot of time
and poke your head around and see what's going on.
Narrator: Whatever the case may be,
employers may want to consider that how they treat the staff
could come back to haunt them.
If you're a boss, make sure your employees are happy,
because if not, when they do pass on to the other side,
they're gonna come back,
and they're gonna mess with all your paperwork,
so treat your employees with some dignity and respect,
and then when they pass on, they won't have to go
and shuffle around all your chairs.
♪♪
narrator: What should you do in the event
you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Keep your eyes on the skies.
Check all your footage for something strange.
Go to where the spirits are.
And if you do catch something,
email us at submitparanormal@gmail.Com.
Your footage could be seen right here on
"paranormal caught on camera."