[narrator] next on paranormal caught on camera ...
An intrepid paranormal investigator...
[man] hello?
[narrator] ...Is confronted by something evil.
[narrator] a terrifying cryptid emerges
From a man's toilet.
It looks like sludge. It looks like living sludge.
[narrator] ominous lights appear in the sky
Over san diego.
[harper speaking]
[man] when you see a light or seven in a line,
It leads me to believe, it could be something extra-terrestrial.
[narrator] is this the sound...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] ... Of a skin-walker?
[woman speaking]
There was that gut feeling that something was just wrong.
[narrator] and even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[man speaking other language]
[narrator] ... To believe.
[opening theme music playing]
[narrator] there's a mythical being in native american folklore
That many believe to be evil incarnate.
It's called, "the skin-walker."
[growling]
They reportedly originate from shaman
Who attempt to gain heightened powers by forsaking their ability to heal
And committing heinous acts of violence.
They can shape-shift into the form of different creatures.
And lure their victims
By mimicking animal sounds and even human voices.
Recently, a man working on a remote ranch in arizona
Believes he is being stalked by one.
[narrator] ...And has the video to prove it.
[woman speaking]
[eagle screeching]
[narrator] October, 2020.
Eloy, arizona.
John soto is a cowboy,
Who works in a remote ranch about 20 minutes outside of town.
Lately, he's noticed some very disturbing things happening
Around the property.
Disembodied voices,
Extremely odd animal sounds and behavior.
And even the recurring odor
Of rotting flesh from an unknown source.
One day, john is riding horseback,
Setting up trail cameras around the ranch,
When he spots something strange and quickly takes out his phone.
[soto speaking]
[narrator] and things are about to get a whole lot weirder.
[woman speaking]
[horse galloping]
[soto] my name is john.
I am a working cowboy in southern arizona.
And I captured these videos on one of the ranches I work at.
[woman speaking]
What I heard was what sounded to me to be the word, "hey."
[woman speaking]
[soto] like, something calling me.
It was a... Sounded like a female voice, not panicked.
And that made it more eerie.
Almost, like, it was trying to call me into the bush.
[woman] hey!
[soto] my horse is a working cow horse.
He's not scared easily
And whatever that was made him stop in his tracks.
[woman speaking]
[bleep]
And then a second one came.
[woman speaking]
[soto] and that's when he spun around,
And went into that gait.
[horse galloping away]
[soto] once I got back into the yard,
I calmed my horse down
And I walked back up towards the tree line,
Calling out, in case there was somebody that needed help.
And when I did that, there was no response.
[narrator] six days later,
John is driving his pickup truck on the ranch,
When something runs across the road in front of him.
He pulls over to see what it is.
[soto] just saw... Looked almost like a coyote
Run right across here.
[narrator] suddenly, from out of the darkness...
[voice calling]
[soto] that sounded like a kid.
Or a goat.
When I said a kid or a goat, I didn't mean a kid, like a baby goat.
I meant a child, it sounded like a child.
[voice calling]
[soto] and then my brain trying to make sense of it.
It was like or it may have been a goat or it...
You know what, I'm trying to think of what it could have been.
[voice calling]
[soto] it seemed like it was trying to get me to come off of the roadway.
[voice calling]
[soto] but again, there was that gut feeling
That something was just wrong.
[narrator] john's inclination is spot-on.
[voice calling]
[soto] my family is native american
And when I ran it past my family members,
They immediately told me to speak to a medicine man.
That's what when things sort of got concerning.
[narrator] concerning, because the family's advice seemed to imply
That john may have been interacting
With one of the most feared entities
In native american folklore,
The skin-walker.
[woman speaking]
[soto] everything just seems to line up.
It being a trickster of sorts, trying to lure us out,
The sounds...
[voice calling]
[soto] I do think it's the entity in question here.
[voice calling]
I do think that's what it is.
[lynne mcneill] a skin-walker is an evil person.
A person who has put themselves ahead of their community.
They have to do certain things.
They have to sacrifice certain loved ones,
To gain the ability to shape-shift into an animal.
And so the stories that we encounter of skin-walkers
Are almost always as an animal that is giving away
The fact that it's not a natural animal.
[voice calling]
[mcneill] it's actually an unnatural transformed human,
Who has become this thing
Out of a malevolent desire to do evil.
[woman speaking]
[susan slaughter] I do think that very first, "hey," that spooks the horse.
[bleep]
Sounds very feminine and female like.
[woman speaking]
But then that second one sounded more like
A baby lamb or goat or something.
[voice calling]
[slaughter] not a human.
[sapphire sandalo] skinwalkers are, in a way,
Halfway between a human and an animal.
So it makes sense that they might make a sound
That sounds right smack in the middle between those two things.
It could be a human
Or could be an animal.
We have no idea.
[narrator] john brings a medicine man to the ranch shortly after.
And he confirms john's fears.
[soto] I showed him the clips and when he heard it...
- [woman calling] hey! - [soto] he said he could feel the energy
That he knew what it was.
So, he proceeded with his ceremony.
[soto] he gave me a small pouch filled with white ash,
To keep with me.
We put it on all the firearms.
We blessed the animals.
So, I have a pouch that I keep with me when I'm out there.
It's supposed to help, keep it at bay.
[mcneill] the question of what it wants is
Really the most frightening thing here.
[woman calling] hey!
Because we don't know.
-This is an ongoing problem. - [voice calling] hey!
This is not something where there's an obvious,
Easily known remedy that exists for everyone.
[narrator] for now, john is remaining extremely cautious
While at the ranch.
[soto] I keep my head on a swivel, so to speak.
Just kind of looking around, watching everything,
Listening to all the sounds, just a little more
Vigilant than I already was.
[narrator] and he's learning to live with his new perspective,
On everything.
[soto] they have changed me. Now, I believe in more things
Than I did before. I didn't believe in any of it.
I wasn't having any of it.
And then it's almost like once you experience something like this,
Then you believe, all of a sudden.
[woman calling]
[narrator] coming up, a man on a smoke break
Is spied on by a ghost.
[narrator] a ghost with unfinished business,
Keeping its essence among the living.
A spirit, whose life ended tragically,
Doomed to haunt the site of its traumatic demise.
The japanese have a term for such apparitions.
"the yurei."
Mystical visions draped in white,
Who are unable to move into the afterlife.
People have spoken about these ethereal beings
For hundreds of years.
And recently, one of them
May have been caught
On a rooftop security camera.
[narrator] August, 2009.
Tokyo, japan.
A man is on the roof of his office building,
Taking a cigarette break.
And he's about to get some company.
Watch the window in the door,
As a shadow approaches.
Followed by what appears to be
A person.
Whoever it is stands in the doorway
And seems to watch the man outside,
Who is apparently completely unaware.
The man finishes his cigarette.
And here is where it gets really creepy.
[narrator] did you see that?
Watch again.
As the man opens the door,
The figure somehow
Vanishes.
How is this possible?
Okay, this is creepy.
Emphasis on "eep."
What I find especially unsettling about this
Is how mundane everything appears to be for the man.
He is just out having a smoke break,
As something watches him, unnoticed.
[mcneill] my favorite thing about this clip
Is that we get to compare the woman
Who appears in the doorway to the man, who appears in the doorway before her.
So we see them approach the door.
We see him come out, we see him stand outside.
We have a clear sense of what a corporeal human looks like
When approaching that door and coming through it.
[ronny leblanc] and when he turns to open the door,
I'm waiting for this person to come forward.
And when no one is there,
That moment you realize that you are looking at potentially a spirit
In this doorway and to see it disappear was pretty amazing.
[narrator] so, what kind of spirit would be hanging out
By the doorway to a roof?
This looks like a classic yurei from japanese belief.
Meaning faint spirit,
It is an umbrella term for ghosts
Who appear in a white burial kimono
With long black hanging hair.
And they are spirits
Who do not have a peaceful afterlife.
[dan sturges] there's a great theory behind place memory hauntings that
An area can absorb that energy.
And when the time is right, we don't know what the triggers are
Or what the situation has to be, but that energy can be released.
[sandalo] what typically results in a haunting
Is when somebody's life is cut short
In a very traumatic way.
So, typically that tends to be by homicide
Or by suicide.
[narrator] and in fact, just a few years earlier,
A young woman reportedly committed suicide on this roof.
I find that the majority of
The places that I go to investigate involve suicides.
Because those are the energies that tend to be the stickiest,
Just because of that mental strain
That happens in those final moments before they decide to take their lives.
[narrator] if this is the spirit of the woman who died here,
Why would she choose this man's smoking break to suddenly appear?
[brian cano] we don't know why he's there
But maybe he's thinking about something,
Maybe he has problems and stresses of his own.
Even though we don't see a physical interaction between these two,
Who knows? Maybe there is their own personal version of
It's a wonderful life going on
In that moment between her and him.
Maybe that helps her to move on, to cross over.
[narrator] whether the yurei was here to help someone,
Repeat a past traumatic event
Or do something else entirely, we may never know.
But perhaps the most important takeaway here is this.
No matter how alone you think you are,
There's always someone
Or something
Watching.
Coming up,
A paranormal investigator, crosses paths with something evil...
...In the woods of England.
[man speaking]
[panting heavily]
[narrator] the winter hill region of England
Has seen its fair share
Of tragic and bizarre happenings.
Murder,
Plane crashes,
Even ufo sightings.
The leftover energy from each and every event
Is forever baked into the storied english countryside.
Now, add to that a mysterious structure,
Said to be the site of gruesome executions,
Sometime during the roman occupation of England,
Almost 2000 years ago.
And what you have is
A breeding ground for paranormal activity.
Which is what brought one daring explorer to the area,
To investigate.
A decision that he would almost immediately
Come to regret.
[man speaking]
[panting heavily]
[narrator] February, 2020.
In winter hill, bolton, uk.
It's a damp winter night,
And danny duffy is traveling alone through the wet woods,
With one destination in mind.
[duffy speaking]
My name is danny
And I am the person who filmed the video.
[duffy speaking]
[slaughter] if people were executed on this property
It would give it a real reason to be haunted.
[narrator] and sure enough, before danny even reaches the hut,
He hears this.
[duffy] what the hell was that?
[narrator] followed shortly after by another.
[duffy] what the hell?
[sagers] the british woods are ancient,
And they're enchanting and intimidating.
But the sounds of these screams
Which seem to be emanating at a close proximity
With a deafening sound,
It sent a chill down my spine.
[duffy] what the hell?
[narrator] danny is terrified,
But continues on.
And finally arrives.
[duffy speaking]
[derek hayes] this place looks terrifying,
Throw ghosts out of the equation.
This place is spooky from the get-go.
[narrator] in order to contact, whatever spirits may be living at the hut,
Danny forgoes modern-day gadgets
And attempts something a little more old-school.
[duffy speaking]
[mcneill] it definitely seemed that this is a space
For ritual purposes.
And danny himself did this. He lit candles in the hut.
He understood that this was the sort of place where you cast out
Questions or intentions.
And you get responses back if you're lucky
Or unlucky as the case may be.
[duffy speaking]
[narrator] the phantom scream again.
[breathing heavily]
This time, as if it's coming from inside the hut.
But there's no one else here.
At least no other human beings.
Oh!
I have heard of investigators
Encountering a disembodied scream in haunted locations.
And I personally have experienced this phenomenon.
[sagers] automatically, it makes me think of the banshee,
From irish folklore.
Now, this woman of fairy mounds
Was said to moan,
Mournfully, at the time that a death was imminent.
[duffy speaking]
[narrator] whatever this thing is,
Danny is too freaked out to stay inside the hut.
So he leaves and starts to head back to his car.
[duffy speaking]
[narrator] but it's not over yet.
[duffy speaking]
[panting heavily]
[narrator] watch again,
As some kind of shadowy figure
Passes by in the distance.
[duffy speaking]
[rachel evans] knowing this place's back story
And then going in there willingly,
Putting yourself in that vulnerable position,
I would be terrified.
Even if you know what you're doing,
Even if you've heard the stories, nothing can prepare you for
Experiencing it.
There comes a time on an investigation
Where you need to get out of there
[duffy] whoa! What the hell? [sagers] and this is the time.
Danny made the right call.
[duffy speaking]
[breathing frantically]
[narrator] coming up...
A line of ufos strikes fear in san diego.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] when confronted by the extraordinary,
Our brains automatically
Start to formulate a rational explanation
To keep us calm.
But, in those rare instances
When the situation is so overwhelming
That our minds are unable to explain it away,
Our instincts kick in.
And we shift into survival mode.
One couple in san diego
Found themselves in one of these terrifying situations.
[man] it is completely strange.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] and they're still reeling
From the experience.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] April 1st, 2020.
San diego, california.
Stuart clark and his wife harper are sitting on their deck,
Enjoying the evening view of the city,
When they both notice some strange lights hovering in the distance,
Near the pacific ocean.
Soon, even more begin to appear.
[harper speaking]
[narrator] and they continue to multiply.
[stuart] there's a fourth one.
[harper speaking]
[stuart] yeah.
My name is stuart, and this is my video.
Yes, it was something that we've never seen before, obviously.
And it was worth filming.
[harper speaking]
They just flickered on and appeared very bright.
And relatively close to each other.
Seemed like they were precisely spaced.
And they didn't move.
[harper speaking]
[stuart] wow.
[harper speaking]
[stuart] it's completely strange.
[harper speaking]
Kind of a running joke in our family where
My wife is known as the risk analysis person.
Her first go to is to question if this is going to be safe or not.
This is definitely a risk analysis moment.
[harper speaking]
[cano] in today's culture,
We assume that we're very savvy. We've got our finger on the pulse of what's going on.
But when you see something like this,
Something very primal emerges. It's fear.
Fear of the unknown.
[stuart] six, six!
[harper speaking]
I think that the commentary we get saying,
"hey, this is not good. Someone is attacking us,"
Is a testament to how real these experiences are.
[hayes] this looks terrifying.
I'll be honest. I might have felt the same way in that same situation.
[narrator] when harper checks the local news,
She finds nothing.
And the phenomenon
Shows no signs of slowing down.
[stuart] seven!
[narrator] on the brink of sheer panic,
Harper turns to stuart,
Who takes his best, logical guess.
[harper speaking]
[stuart coughs] I think they're flares.
I think they're illumination flares,
You see something just kind of appear in the sky.
So it could have been a signal or some thing
And the only thing that I could think of would have been a flare.
[narrator] but, this guess quickly starts to unravel.
[stuart] they're very far apart though.
[harper speaking]
[stuart] the elevation being the same is extraordinarily precise.
[stuart] I didn't see them descending at all.
They were in line with each other.
Which I don't know how you can maintain a light
In a pre-positioned elevation for
Any amount of time, without gravity taking effect.
What goes up must come down.
And these just,
Turned on,
And turned off.
Often times, people will mistake
These type of strange balls of light, these ufos,
As paper lanterns or some kind of flares.
And flares typically will burn out over a period of time.
We see that these lights
Are continuing to move on and they're flying together in unison,
Hovering there,
But they have a consistency and a make up
Of something that doesn't seem to be of this earth.
[narrator] eventually the bizarre balls of light
Fade back into the darkness.
[stuart] one remains,
Shortly to extinguish.
[narrator] and when they're gone,
Stuart allows himself one last thought.
[stuart] hope it wasn't aliens.
[stuart] we're so infinitesimally small in this giant, unfathomable universe.
It's not lost on me how big it is out there.
When you see a light,
Or seven,
In a line,
I've got no frame of reference of what that could be,
It leads me to believe it could be something extraterrestrial.
[narrator] even to this day,
Stuart remains baffled by this peculiar encounter.
Nobody in our neighborhood saw it.
You know, it was definitely one of those things that if I didn't film it,
I wouldn't have believed it.
[harper speaking]
[narrator] coming up, a mysterious figure in india
Terrorizes a car full of friends.
[man speaking telugu]
[narrator] zombies, skin-walkers, wraiths.
All creatures that can appear human from a distance.
But get a little closer and it becomes very clear
That they are decidedly not human.
When it comes to these encounters,
The ability to discern between the normal and paranormal
Could mean the difference between life and death.
Such was the case one night in india,
When some friends came upon a bizarre figure in the road,
And knew almost immediately that whatever it was,
It was not of this world.
December, 2020,
Somewhere on the outskirts of visakhapatnam, india.
Amartej merla is on a late night joyride with a group of friends.
Around 1:00 a.M., they turn on to a remote stretch of road
In a densely forested and unlit area,
And come upon this.
[man speaking telugu]
[narrator] some kind of figure, possibly naked,
Sitting in an odd position in the middle of the road.
[man speaking telugu]
[narrator] and they are unable to tell
Whether the figure is sitting backwards or forwards.
Amartej and his friends are a little freaked out.
But they haven't seen anything yet.
Watch closely,
As the figure pops up and begins to walk...
Backwards.
[man speaking telugu]
[narrator] until it comes to the edge of the forest,
Stands there for a moment,
And eventually disappears into the brush.
What just happened?
I'm out! That is my response to this.
I'm out, I would drive away, I would run away.
I would not be there.
That is too weird, too weird.
[slaughter] as a person that works at night consistently,
I am driving on highways alone at like
1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning pretty frequently.
And I try to put myself in the position of these people.
If I were to see something like this off the road,
I wouldn't know what to do.
[narrator] yes, it's definitely creepy.
But first things first.
Is this figure human?
[man speaking telugu]
[mcneill] if this is a human being,
Something other than a human
Is controlling that body because it was using it wrong.
But I'm not even convinced that this was a human body that we were seeing.
There's a distinct possibility that this could be a feral human.
Now this is a very rare phenomenon but it has happened,
And it actually has happened in india where
Children will somehow find themselves alone in the forest
And through the help of possibly animals or just their own efforts,
They managed to survive into adulthood.
[narrator] but, if this is a human,
Feral or otherwise,
Why is it moving backwards?
Initially I thought that maybe this clip was playing in reverse,
Because it just seemed very unnatural.
But I did watch it in reverse, and that seemed even more unnatural.
The motion almost seemed to be floating.
Walking backwards but in such a way that it seemed to be effortless
As if they're naturally walking this way all the time.
[man speaking telugu]
According to other beliefs,
Speaking backwards or saying the lord's prayer backwards,
Or walking backwards
Are associated with evil intent,
Even satan.
[slaughter] I'm seeing someone who could potentially be possessed by
A very powerful non-human energy.
[narrator] and if not a possessed human,
Could it be something even more terrifying?
Is this maybe a creature?
Something that is humanoid in nature,
Or maybe something more nefarious
Like a skin-walker.
A shape-shifter that maybe got stuck
In a certain form. Maybe who hasn't completed the transformation.
There are spirits known as chudail in india.
And they have feet that face the opposite way
And part of why they do that is to leave footprints that
Go the other direction so they
Can fool people of where they're going.
[mcneill] the thing I have seen most recently that
Looked like this is the rake.
I mean, a creature that comes to us almost entirely from
Creepy pasta, from digital folklore.
The rake is a pale, spindly creature
That looks like it's sort of crawling with you know maybe
Overly jointed elbows and knees
And very very pale skin.
[narrator] so many possibilities, none of which
You want to run into on a road late at night.
[man speaking telugu]
[narrator] the encounter scared amartej and his friends so much
That they haven't been back to the area since.
Which is most definitely for the best.
[man speaking telugu]
[mcneill] this is one of the creepiest
Pieces of footage I've ever seen on the show.
And I've seen a lot of really creepy things, and this one is just...
It's not vague.
It's not ambiguous.
It's not hard to tell what's happening.
It's just wrong.
[narrator] coming up, a cryptid, born in the sewer.
[narrator] when someone witnesses a cryptid,
It's a shocking and often terrifying experience
That is forever burned into their memory.
But those encounters are most often
In wide open spaces,
With plenty of distance between you and the creature.
Now, just imagine if you came across one of these cryptids
In a tightly confined space.
Like say, the bathroom in your own home.
That's what happened to a couple in malaysia,
When something slithered out of their toilet
And into their lives.
[narrator] October 6th, 2017.
Alor setar, malaysia.
Zul hanif anip and his wife puteri
Are home with their child,
When they hear odd noises coming from the bathroom.
So zul goes to check it out
And sees this.
A six and a half foot, slimy,
Extremely grotesque creature,
Slithering out of their toilet.
Zul and puteri are stunned.
It resembles a snake.
But most definitely is not.
So, what is this thing?
I mean... [laughs] whatever it is,
I wouldn't want to be sitting on that toilet
When it decides to make its appearance.
What kind of plumbing do they have there?
I mean this thing is thick, big around.
I mean as thick as a boa constrictor.
And it's got this tiny little head.
And it doesn't move like a snake, if anything it's...
It's more like a giant sea slug or something.
[mcneill] it sort of looks thicker in body
Like I might expect an alligator or some sort of large lizard to look but...
It's not clear that it looks like sludge.
It looks like living sludge.
[cano] in that area there is local legend
And precedence to say that what's being seen
Might point to something else entirely.
A creature of legend known as the nabau,
Which in malaysian culture is a huge,
Serpentine, aquatic creature
And it was said to have the head of a dragon,
Seven nostrils, hundred feet in length, immense.
[narrator] what makes this even creepier is that
It may have been lurking in disturbingly close proximity
For quite some time.
Because when zul checks the pipes,
He can't find any entry point for it to have gotten in from the outside.
Which leads him to believe that the cryptid
Grew up inside the pipes.
[mcneill] just that idea alone
Removes any sense of safety that living in a structure
With electricity and plumbing and all of the
Niceties of contemporary life.
All that security, out the window.
Monsters might be living in there.
[mark sceurman] bathrooms are supposed to be like a safe haven to do things,
And you don't want to see this thing crawling out of the toilet, I mean,
I would freak out.
[slaughter] if this is some sort of new creature
From another planet, alien, you know,
And it's procreating on its own
And we know that there are female species on this planet that can do that.
I think that there's a likelihood
That there could be more of this creature
Wherever it came from.
And that being said there's probably going to be some plumbing issues,
Serious ones, down the line.
[narrator] and plumbing issues may be the least of the worries.
What makes this really terrifying
Is the fact that you're not out in the middle of the woods
Or the jungle or the swamp.
You're in your own home and this creature
Is quite large, it's quite big, we don't know if it's poisonous or not.
So, this is a really terrifying moment for
Someone to experience this in their own home.
[narrator] though they don't know exactly what this thing is,
Zul and puteri don't waste any more time trying to figure it out.
They quickly and carefully put the slimy creature into a sack
And release it into a nearby river.
Because even mysterious cryptids
Deserve a second chance.
Thanks for this. Now I can never use the toilet again.
[toilet flushing]
[narrator] what should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Be brave.
But not too brave.
[duffy screaming] what the hell is that?
[narrator] hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
[harper] we're getting attacked, honey.
[narrator] listen carefully...
[woman calling] hey!
[narrator] very carefully.
[woman calling] hey!
[narrator] and if you do catch something,
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