[narrator] Next on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
an urban explorer gets the fright of his life...
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] ...when an apparition manifests right before his eyes.
[Christopher speaking]
My heart was racing. I mean, I could barely breathe.
I was trying to just stay calm.
[narrator] Spirits in the Philippines...
[Naoya speaking foreign language]
[narrator] ...try to halt construction on a new house.
[Naoya speaking]
It seems to defy gravity, physics. That's not something that's going to happen
for any natural reason.
[narrator] A couple in Utah capture a creeping ghost in their home.
[Lisa] We're just sort of living amongst them
and if you don't bother them, they're not gonna bother you.
[narrator] A family in South Carolina...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] ...spot a massive UFO.
[woman speaking]
[Oscar] Our hearts were beating really fast
'cause it was something we've never seen before.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[narrator] ...to believe.
Once a facility for tuberculosis...
the Molly Stark Sanatorium in Ohio...
saw so many patients succumb to the disease...
that it was dubbed "the waiting room for death."
Shut down for good over 25 years ago,
the massive structure now sits abandoned behind barbed wire...
and serves as a stark reminder of a macabre error.
[Christopher speaking]
[sighs]
[narrator] But some believe it holds something much more haunting
than just the memories of the dead...
[Christopher sighs]
[narrator] ...and one man in Ohio may have walked straight into it.
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] October 15th, 2021...
Louisville, Ohio.
Urban explorer Christopher Hill has just arrived
at the Molly Stark Sanitorium,
looking to confirm if the rumors of it being haunted are true.
[floorboards cracking]
[Christopher speaking]
My name is Christopher Hill and this is my video.
The first thing I heard was when I went to the second floor...
and I heard walking right above me.
[narrator] And that's not all.
I went back to the lower level.
That's when I heard the keys jingling.
What the [bleep] was that?
Listen!
If you listen closely, you can hear a voice.
Like, maybe a woman's voice or something off in the background.
What the [bleep] was that?
Listen!
[Aaron] According to paranormal theory,
when someone dies a really horrible death,
they might linger in some form or fashion.
Now, think about dozens, maybe even hundreds of people who did so.
I think that that creates the conditions for something of
a paranormal crockpot, a stew...
that just gathers and bubbles up.
[Christopher speaking]
[Aaron] And when someone enters these locations investigating,
it's, like, puncturing that bubble
and all of that energy spews forth.
[Christopher] It was pretty creepy
and that's when my nerves started to get the best of me.
[narrator] But though he is rattled, Christopher continues on...
to a network of underground tunnels...
which some believe were to protect the living patients
from seeing the constant stream of victims.
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] After a few minutes of walking through the endless maze of corridors...
Christopher spots something.
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] Watch again, as a white ghostly figure
appears to manifest at the end of the tunnel.
[Christopher speaking]
[Katrina] You can almost see a head.
You can kind of see a torso.
It looks like there's arms moving.
So it seems to be more formed,
which would suggest something that might have been human at one point.
[Mark] They seem to have on a short-sleeve light-colored shirt.
The first thing that I thought of was, "Perhaps a hospital orderly."
[Christopher] My heart was racing.
I mean, I could barely breathe.
I was trying to just stay calm.
[whispering] Are you down here?
So, I'm fumbling my camera.
I tried to grab my weapon, to protect myself, just in case
'cause I thought it was a person, like, walking towards me.
[narrator] But as Christopher makes his towards where he saw the figure,
a sudden terrifying realization.
[Christopher speaking]
That's when I realized it's a dead end...
and I just ran into a spirit and there's no other way to explain that.
[narrator] Christopher has had enough.
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] But these tunnels are dark
and after five minutes of trying to find his way out...
[Christopher speaking]
[Dan] What's the worst thing that can happen?
This guy's light, the battery goes dead.
[Christopher speaking]
The fact that his light ran out of battery
after he saw this apparition is not surprising at all.
That's happened to me several times,
where cameras would die, lights would die.
The reason why it happens is because when you are
in the presence of these spirits,
they have to draw their energy from somewhere.
[Christopher speaking]
[Lynne] This is a battery pack that should have lasted hours longer
and it's drained almost immediately.
Whatever was here required that energy to manifest so solidly
that it was just unambiguous.
We could see it clear as day.
[Christopher speaking]
That must have taken a massive amount of power.
[Christopher sighs]
[narrator] Luckily...
[Christopher speaking]
[narrator] ...Christopher does manage to exit the building safely
and walks away with a simple piece of advice
for those brave enough to explore the sanatorium themselves...
I would say, if you're gonna go to Molly Stark's,
don't go alone.
[narrator] Coming up...
What is creeping through a couple's home in Ohio?
It is a common misconception that a house must be old to be haunted.
Because, in fact, even if a home is brand new,
it still may be teeming with spirits that are tethered to the land...
upon which that home is built.
Just ask a couple in Utah...
whose relatively-new house may hold the spirits of those who tilled the land...
centuries ago.
March, 2017 in Sandy, Utah.
Odd things have been happening around Cliff and Lisa Witham's house...
since they moved in a year earlier.
Like unexplained noises...
[loud bangs]
[narrator] ...and doors opening on their own...
but they always brushed off the strange occurrences.
Until late one night when Lisa wakes up to their dogs barking.
She gets up to check her home security camera...
and sees this...
a translucent humanoid figure that seems to creep down the hall.
-I'm Lisa... -And I'm Cliff.
...and this is our video.
I turned and woke him up and said, "You need to see this."
And he looked at it
and then he said, "Just go back to sleep."
And I said, "What do you mean 'Go back to sleep'?"
There's somebody in our house!"
He said, "It's obviously a ghost."
And I was still kind of half asleep
and so that made me kind of scared.
I was like, "Wait, no! You can't just go to sleep!"
And so, I watched it again.
She looks like an older lady in, maybe, pajamas or something.
Listen, I had to watch that clip 10 times
'cause the first nine times,
I just thought, "Oh, look at that old lady
going to the bathroom in the middle of the night."
But then on the tenth time, I realized,
"Wait a minute. There ain't no old lady in this family
and that old lady just walked through the wall."
That was creepy.
[narrator] After the mystery late night visitor,
Cliff and Lisa continue to sense a presence in their home.
[Lisa] We kind of went in phases
where we wouldn't really have anything happen for a few months.
-[Cliff] Right. -[Lisa] And then things would happen a lot.
Things would sometimes fall.
When I'd go downstairs, sometimes I'd, like,
get, like, a cold chill or something like that
and it just felt like somebody was watching me.
So sometimes I'd just hurry and get back upstairs
after I'd do what I had to do and then go, you know.
This is what, in my experience, a haunted house looks like.
You know, it's not always cabinet doors
slamming open and close.
You know, it's subtle things.
[narrator] Subtle things, like what happens one day to their front door.
-Go. -[dog barking]
We had a glass storm door as a screen door on the front,
so there's no way that wind or anything could have gotten through that.
[Ronny] Often times, the spirits, poltergeists,
will use doors as ways to communicate their presence
and when you hear this door almost clicking open...
-[door clicks] -[dog barks]
[Ronny] ...that takes some manipulation, use of hands,
and the fact that we can't see
how this is being opened tells me that there is a spirit there
that's actually doing this.
[narrator] The presence is all but confirmed
when some friends are visiting Cliff and Lisa in 2021...
and their young child sees something.
[narrator] A ghost...
in the exact same location the security camera had captured it four years prior.
[woman] What?
[Lisa] Clearly, she'd seen it down the hall
-and she's pretty sensitive to that stuff. -[Cliff] Right.
My friend Shirley had said, "You know, I can tell that she sees things.
I can tell that she is sensitive to it."
Now, children's observation skills are usually very raw.
They're simple.
Why would a child point and describe a figure
if that's not exactly what they're seeing?
[Dalen] The little girl notices something off in the distance first...
and then the dog kind of notices something at the same time.
-It's a ghost! -What?
[Dalen] Two things that are likely to be the most objective
to seeing something on the other side both notice something.
And she wasn't afraid. She even grabbed her mom's hand,
was gonna go show her.
The dog didn't bark aggressively.
Whatever's there seemed to be friendly, I would assume.
[narrator] Friendly or not, Cliff and Lisa don't know for sure
who's haunting their home, but they do have some theories.
The only thing that I could really think of is
maybe it was the people that owned the land at some point.
I think they just, you know, maybe stayed with the land.
I don't know or maybe it's somebody who was buried on the land
at some point.
[Lisa] We had asked our next door neighbor.
He's lived there his whole life,
when the houses were built in 1983
'cause he's known all the neighbors
and he said that nobody's ever died in the house
and he's kept in touch with everybody that had lived there.
[Lynne] Utah's history is largely a pioneer history.
There was a lot of farming, a lot of tilling the land, irrigation,
that's a part of Utah's history.
So to think that there were people living, likely, a very hard life
out in the west desert out here in Utah,
trying to scrape together a living, that their spirits
might be tied to the land on which new real estate is being built.
That's entirely possible.
[narrator] Whoever it is, their continued presence doesn't bother the Withams.
I wholeheartedly believe that if you don't get scared,
it's not going to be something scary.
We don't feel like we're inviting scary things in.
We're just sort of living amongst them...
and, you know, if you don't bother them, they're not gonna bother you.
[narrator] Coming up, spirits wreak havoc...
[chair clatters]
[Naoya speaking foreign language]
[narrator] ...in the Philippines.
[Naoya speaking]
[narrator] Building a new house can often be fraught
with unexpected challenges...
where setbacks...
obstacles...
and accidents...
plague the project to such an extreme degree,
that it causes the builder to wonder...
if there is a supernatural force at play.
A family that is trying to build a new house in the Philippines
knows this all too well...
[Naoya speaking foreign language]
[narrator] ...because it seems that something sinister is
doing its best to ensure that their dream home will never come to fruition.
[Naoya speaking foreign language]
[narrator] November, 2021...
in Batangas, Philippines.
Naoya Kinoshita is overseeing construction of his mother's new home...
but while staying alone on the property...
he begins to sense a disturbance...
and after four days of unexplainable yet fleeting events...
[narrator] ...Naoya is exhausted
and reaches out to his followers on social media.
[speaking Filipino]
[narrator] Naoya begins to explore the house...
phone in hand, determined to get to the bottom of it.
[Naoya speaking]
[narrator] Then when it gets to what appears to be a makeshift dining area...
[Naoya speaking]
...
[translator speaking] My name is Naoya and these are my videos.
[translator speaking]
[Naoya speaking]
[translator speaking]
[Naoya speaking]
Seeing these chairs move around and collapse and go straight to the ground,
that's really, really bizarre.
It seems to defy gravity, physics.
That's not something that's going to happen for any natural reason.
[Naoya speaking] ...
[Lynne] These clips really exemplify
the kind of truly terrifying supernatural stuff that people deal with.
Chairs being knocked over and dragged across the floor
and we can see there aren't strings attached.
[narrator] A few days later, Naoya returns to the property...
[narrator] ...and is disturbed once again.
[Naoya speaking]
[translator speaking]
[narrator] Whatever unseen force sent Naoya running...
is still here.
[translator speaking]
[narrator] Something has just pushed Naoya's cell phone off the desk.
[translator speaking]
[Naoya speaking]
[Lynne] Our personal devices become extensions of us...
and when something wants to destroy that,
wants to destroy our ability to reach out...
for help, for comfort, for assistance...
there's something sort of inherently sinister in that action.
[narrator] But the cell phone is just the beginning...
as whatever is in this room...
[Naoya speaking]
[narrator] ...is determined to make itself known.
[Naoya whispers] ...
[translator speaking]
It didn't fall over all the way.
It sort of just hovered before falling...
which, like, makes no sense.
That totally just defies gravity.
So it's almost like whatever was making that chair move
wanted you to know, you know,
"This isn't the wind. This is something else." [laughs]
[Ronny] There's just an onslaught of activity.
There's just so much going on all at once and one thing after another...
[Naoya whispers] ...
[Ronny] ...that it just seems like there's something that's trying to tell you
that it does not want you there.
[narrator] But why would something be trying to push the family
out of brand-new home?
[Sapphire] In the Philippines, there are a lot of superstitions
that if you are building a home...
you need to ask permission from the spirits that live there first.
If you don't, then they can bring you misfortune,
they can cause harm.
In the worst cases, they can bring death.
The ones that come to mind for me are the duende, the nuno sa punso ...
or the kalanget.
I would suggest to these people who live here in this home,
to make an offering...
to the entities that live in that land
and then ask them, "What can I do
so that you can leave me and my house alone?"
[narrator] Whatever it is, Naoya's family is taking the threat seriously.
[translator speaking]
I think, overall, it's a good reminder
that any time you break ground and start construction...
there may have been someone that lived there before
who likewise called it home.
[narrator] Coming up, a UFO...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] ...races a family in South Carolina.
[woman speaking]
Many families have stories that are passed down through generations...
some of which push the limits of believability.
Especially when those stories enter the realm...
of the paranormal.
But one family in South Carolina has
a very effective way of dealing with skeptics.
Their otherworldly family tale was caught on camera.
[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] April, 2008, Bennettsville, South Carolina.
Oscar Pinzon, his mother and three siblings are heading north on Highway 38
to visit their father at work...
when, suddenly...
[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] ...a bulbous shiny flying object appears alongside them.
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
Hi. My name is Oscar Pinzon and this is my video.
[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Oscar] It was just something that was not normal to us.
Our hearts were beating really fast
'cause it was something that we've never seen before.
We were all pretty scared.
[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] Frightened but fascinated,
the Pinzon family does their best to keep the object on camera
as they travel along the highway.
[woman speaking]
We're going about 65 miles an hour at the time
and this object was keeping up with our speed, if not maybe even faster.
[woman speaking]
[Oscar] At first, we thought it was, like, chasing us.
It was just very strange, very strange.
[woman speaking]
[Susan] If you're flying at those speeds or higher,
at that point, you're dealing with air traffic control.
[man speaking]
[Susan] It doesn't make sense that this craft is going so fast.
It's not like any craft I've ever seen, outside of a sci-fi movie.
[woman speaking]
[Steve] Very strange shape...
very strange color and reflection...
and it's also flying very dangerously low to the tree line.
You can't really tell if there's any kind of specific propulsion system.
You don't see any stream coming behind it, there's no exhaust.
I don't see any of that.
[woman speaking]
I've been in these situations, seeing strange crafts
and you have this sense, this knowing in the fiber of your being
that you're looking at something that is alien or not of this earth.
And whether that is another planet or another dimension,
we don't know.
[narrator] Even more compelling is
that before they could begin recording,
the family believes they spotted the craft...
hovering over a cell phone tower...
and Oscar thinks he knows why.
[Oscar] It was just stationed there.
Maybe either trying to charge
or maybe get some kind of information.
It's very strange.
[Juwan] I've never heard of a UFO attaching itself to a line.
I guess, like, they would have to harness energy someway,
but, then, again, that's my limited frame of thought.
Like, I don't even know what type of technology they may have,
so they may not have to use our traditional sense of, like,
"Let me see if I can siphon some energy from an electrical tower." [laughs]
There's been many, many cases where blackouts have happened
when these objects have been seen hovering over
either a powerplant or high-tension powerlines
as if they need that in order for their craft to,
you know, get the energy that it needs for the propulsion.
[woman speaking]
[Oscar] It was definitely a very strange, you know,
it just looked like something that wasn't from here.
You know, I think there's something else in this world.
I think there are, you know, aliens.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] The object eventually disappears from their view.
But even all these years later,
the Pinzons' brief encounter stays fresh in their minds.
[Oscar] We still think about it.
I mean, every time, you know,
with friends, gatherings and stuff,
you know, we still show them the video...
[woman speaking]
[man speaking]
...just to get their reaction and opinion, to see what they think.
To this day, we haven't seen anything like it.
So, maybe we won't ever get to see something like this again.
You know, it was maybe just this once-in-a-lifetime thing.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] Coming up, a legendary cryptid...
[Michael] I'm shaking.
[narrator] ...is spotted on Long Island.
[Michael] There he is!
[narrator] Bigfoot...
is typically associated with vast remote wilderness...
existing in solitude away from the turmoil
of human civilization.
And, as such, most of us would not expect to ever have a run-in
with the elusive beast.
But as the population grows...
keeping their distance from mankind...
is becoming more and more difficult for the legendary cryptid...
as one man on Long Island discovered firsthand.
[Michael] There he is! There he is.
[narrator] October, 2020...
on Long Island, New York.
Bigfoot enthusiast Michael Colontonio is
exploring the woods near his home
when he catches a glimpse of what he swears...
is Bigfoot.
Not quite believing his eyes, especially because he is in such a populated area...
he immediately begins livestreaming on social media...
[Michael] Hey. What's up, guys?
I've been here for a few minutes.
[narrator] ...in hopes of catching it on camera for others to see.
[Michael] It was standing right there a minute ago,
dead center where I am now.
I don't know if you could see...
I'm shaking 'cause he was huge.
[narrator] Then, minutes later...
[Michael] There he is! There he is.
[narrator] ...about 20 feet ahead, a hulking figure,
almost perfectly still.
Hi. I'm Michael Colontonio and this is my video.
It's hard to explain, but it somewhat started to manifest itself
into more of a physical form.
He doesn't have to be flesh and blood, folks.
I kind of remember seeing facial features, you know, form
and, like, a snout and eyes
and it was making these hand movements.
Do you guys see what I'm looking at?
Yes? Okay, good.
And I knew I saw a sasquatch and I was like, "Holy crap, okay."
That's a big boy 'cause he's tucked in a corner.
This figure definitely looks sort of classically Bigfoot-like.
It looked like a large primate.
We saw a large sort of dome-shaped head, a hulking body,
what appeared to either be a hairless chest or maybe hands...
in front of the creature.
[Michael] He's huge!
This guy is massive.
Like, that's a [bleep] fence behind him.
Whatever this thing is, it looks to be, like, seven or eight feet tall.
It doesn't seem to be moving very much.
Like, it's observing the person doing the video
and to get that close to it is almost unbelievable.
[Michael] Sorry, I'm shaking.
[Katrina] The funny thing about any kind of experience in the paranormal world is
you can think about it.
You can think you're prepared for it
and you can go out searching for it,
but I will tell you, nothing prepares you
for the moment that it actually happens.
Nothing.
My senses told me to just show that I wasn't a threat.
I'm really low to the ground.
So, like, I'm dropped down 'cause I do not want it
to look like I'm trying to intimidate or anything.
I've been in combat. I've been to war
and I've never felt fear like this
and it wasn't a threatening situation.
It wasn't doing anything to put fear into me.
[narrator] So, then, why was Michael feeling this fear
when, intellectually, he knew he was safe?
Perhaps it has something to do with Bigfoot's built-in defense system.
They will communicate using infrasound,
which is a low frequency that we can't pick up, typically, with our
normal hearing, but it emits a sense of dread and fear.
This might be why people can't get close enough
to get really great visual sighting
because they're using this defense mechanism to keep us away.
[Michael] He's tucked down in there.
He's big as [bleep].
[narrator] Michael stays a bit long er, then leaves the creature be.
[Michael] We just kind of crossed paths.
You know, we had a moment and then we went our separate ways.
I felt every emotion I've never felt in my life.
It was a beautiful thing for me.
[narrator] And he hopes to someday have another encounter
with one of these Long Island cryptids.
[Michael] I wouldn't say I'm a researcher,
but I'm out there as often as possible
and I do enjoy looking for them.
I never expected to be on Long Island of all places.
You know what I mean? That's one of the things I hear most often.
"Bigfoot, Long island? No way."
[Dalen] Some brother probably had a baby Bigfoot back in the seventies
that he kept in his basement apartment.
[laughs]
And it got too big, so he had to let him out in the woods.
Now you've got this loose Bigfoot running around New York.
Crazy.
[Ben] When it comes to Bigfoot, I do think you have to have an open mind.
It seems like the field is pretty much divided
between those who believe it's an undiscovered bipedal creature
and those who believe it's possible that it is an interdimensional being.
As crazy as it sounds, I kind of lean towards the idea
that this thing could go in and out of portals...
or somehow be there one moment and not another.
So could it show up in Long Island?
I think we have to be open to that.
[narrator] So be on the lookout, wherever you are...
because according to Michael...
it's an experience you do not want to miss.
[Michael] I grew up with that feeling of,
"There's something more to life.
There's something more out there."
It's definitely an exciting thing
when something that is not supposed to be there shows up.
There he is! There he is.
[narrator] Coming up, why is it raining in just one small spot?
For how vast and awe-inspiring the world is...
much of daily life...
is rather predictable.
[cash register beeps]
[narrator] But every once in a while...
we come across something that simply...
doesn't compute...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] ...where the laws of nature seem to no longer apply...
making some believe...
[woman speaking]
[narrator] Exactly.
And people are catching these freakish phenomena on camera
all around the globe.
October, 2015...
in Los Angeles, California...
it's a bizarre scene on interstate 1-10,
as traffic moves freely in one direction,
while the other side, seemingly for no reason at all...
sits at a dead stop.
There doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why these cars are stopped.
There's not a crash. There's not construction.
There's not an official presence saying, "Oh, you guys have to stop."
[Steve] Then, on the other side, business as usual.
And what's more is while the guy is kind of panning the camera around...
people appear to not be moving in the car either.
I don't know anybody that would be cool with a traffic jam like that.
There would definitely be some road rage going on.
There would have to be some police enforcement
to keep the traffic from going.
So it doesn't make sense to me.
[narrator] June, 2019. Paris, France.
It's raining in the city, but the downpour is
contained to just one area...
one very, very small area.
Well, we see rain falling in an isolated area
of a street, where there is no rain anywhere else.
My first thought is, "Well, if water is dripping from something."
But the camera pans up and there's nothing but empty sky above this.
We get the vicarious experience
of watching other people in the clip...
look up in wonder at the sky like,
"Where is this coming from?"
[narrator] Good question.
February, 2022 in Ushuaia, Argentina...
an icicle seemingly defies the laws of gravity,
hanging suspended in midair.
[Dan] The icicle is segmented into three pieces.
So we've got the first part of the icicle attached and then there's nothing.
And then we have two other pieces of the icicle
seem to be suspended in midair.
It looks like a magic trick.
[Juwan] One, you don't see icicles like that.
It's just not really a thing. That's beautiful.
Number two, you're definitely in a scene from Mortal Kombat
and Sub-Zero is somewhere in the vicinity.
There is no way that those icicles are not falling
without there being some level of control outside of our understanding.
[narrator] But maybe it's not as outside of our understanding...
as it used to be.
[Susan] Some people theorize that we are not
the operators of our reality, that we're just merely players in it...
and that everything we see in the three-dimensional time and space is
being manipulated, almost like programmed, into our existence
for us to have experiences.
The idea, though, that we might be living in
a literal virtual reality...
that has programming software, that can get screwed up, that maybe...
shows us the exact same image twice
or causes a program to stop running, like...
the morning commute.exc or something like that.
This idea resonates with a lot of people.
[narrator] And it doesn't have to be as scary as it sounds.
What if these glitches in the matrix are not bugs in the system,
but features?
Maybe these are Easter eggs,
intended to check and see if we're paying attention
to the world around us.
[narrator] Or perhaps the glitches...
come from within.
[Susan] I think that...
the glitch in our matrix really comes from our own minds.
Our problem is not seeing beyond into the other realities.
So, the ones that have an issue with the whole idea
that we are being manipulated by some external force
don't realize that external force,
truly, is our own minds that are manipulating us.
[narrator] Regardless of the reason for these odd phenomena,
one thing's for certain.
We're paying attention.
What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Never stop filming...
[Christopher whispering] What?
[narrator] ...even if you're scared.
[Christopher] What the [bleep]?
[narrator] Don't let your guard down.
Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.
And, if you do catch something...
[Michael] There he is!
[narrator reading]
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