[narrator] Next, on Paranormal Caught on Camera...
At a haunted house in England...
[whispering] There's definitely, definitely something here.
[narrator] ...a paranormal investigator's face
morphs into something terrifying.
I was like, "Oh, my Lord, what is that?"
[narrator] An Internet star in Los Angeles...
Hey, guys, it's Marissa.
[narrator] ...finds a monster
under her bed.
[Marissa] I'm getting sick, I'm not sleeping.
I was having nightmares.
[narrator] A misty manifestation...
[guard] I was looking dead at it.
[narrator] ...taunts a security guard
in Chicago.
[guard] When I first saw it, I was terrified.
It's mostly when I'm alone.
[narrator] A mother taking photos in England
captures a ghostly face behind her son.
[Ben] It almost looks like
he's touching his shoulder.
Very, very disturbing.
[narrator] And even more paranormal footage you have to see
to believe.
[opening theme music playing]
[narrator] In a sleepy town in northern England
stands an ordinary-looking house
with a sinister history.
Legend has it
that 30 East Drive in Pontefract
is where a black monk was hanged
for the murder
of a young girl.
Since then,
residents of the house have described living alongside of violent poltergeist
and reported strange noises,
mysterious puddles of water,
and even an apparition
of a dark hooded figure
who some believe
is this spirit
of the black monk.
Recently,
a woman from Manchester
went looking for it...
[whispering] There's definitely, definitely something here.
[narrator] ...and might have found it
staring right back at her.
[narrator] November 2021,
in Pontefract, England,
Aimee Skachill and a team of paranormal investigators
are staking out
at the infamous 30 East Drive.
[Aimee] So we're here during the day,
but the atmosphere--
[machine beeping]
[Aimee] ...is unbelievable.
Hi, I'm Aimee, and this is my video.
This place has got a very big reputation
for paranormal activity.
What a place this is.
There's loads of crazy stories about the place.
So we just wanted to experience that for ourselves
and see whether it is as haunted as what people
make it out to be.
[Katrina] I've been there.
I stayed in that location for five days.
It has probably been one of the places
that have terrified me to my core.
Some of the phenomena reported at 30 East Drive
include furniture being overturned,
pictures slashed,
things levitating,
and then we have reports of
phantom breathing against the necks
of some of the children that have lived there.
-[machine beeping] -[Aimee] Oh. Oh.
I feel like I'm being watched.
The main culprit who haunts the property
is called the black monk.
[Lynne] A young girl was murdered
and the man who did it, a monk,
was hanged in this spot.
So, there's the monk's presence
most people think that's here.
His angry spirit, he's aggressive he's haunting the space.
But it's this double tragedy that's built
where a young girl lost her life as well.
[narrator] In hopes of capturing evidence of the black monk,
Aimee and her colleagues are using an array of equipment
including EMF meters,
Rem pods,
and several stationary cameras
placed throughout the house.
[Aimee] This is the cameras that are all set up in the rooms.
[narrator] And right from the start...
[machine beeping]
[Aimee] What the hell?
[narrator] ...a presence is palpable.
[Aimee] Oh, my leg.
[bleep]
[Aimee] We were at the top of the stairs.
I heard something.
I felt like I was touched,
which really made me jump.
And exactly the same time, the Rem pod
at the bottom of the stairs alarmed up.
[machine beeping]
It actually scared me, it really made me jump.
[narrator] The strange activity continues throughout the evening.
[Aimee] All right, come on then.
We know you're here, tell us your name.
[narrator] But while terrifying,
it's not until after the investigation,
when reviewing footage of herself practicing a technique called scrying
that Aimee discovers something
that truly stuns her.
Scrying is the practice of either divination
or some form of far-seeing using a mirror.
[Susan] You essentially are separating
your mind from your physical being.
While focusing on your reflection,
you start to see layers of another individual
as it enters your body or being.
You're just looking directly into the mirror
and you're focusing on your own reflection.
[narrator] Watch closely
as Amy begins the process.
Did you catch that?
Watch again.
As one of the stationary cameras
captures Aimee's face in the mirror
suddenly distorting.
[Aimee] I was like, "Oh, my Lord, what is that?"
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Couldn't get my head around it.
And I watched it over and over.
This was like straight out of a horror film,
except there's no special effects going on.
The face just distorts into something that seems very unnatural.
The mouth becomes extremely large.
[Brian] It appears like her face becomes this maw
that is impossible for her jaw to actually do
and it's only for a split-second.
[Steve] You can see her reaction,
she kind of gasps, she's taken aback.
The person next to her
is kind of wondering what's happening.
And you have to wonder what exactly was happening there.
Was it something that was affecting her physically in her being?
Or something that was almost mimicking her reflection
back at her?
There seems to be some entry point for spirits
to use mirrors to kind of
either reveal themselves or to kind of come forth.
So, it never seems to shock me when you start to see some of these things.
[narrator] If it was in fact an entity,
black monk or otherwise,
revealing itself through Aimee...
[Aimee] Oh, my leg. [bleep].
[narrator] She, for one, is unsure of where it came from
and what exactly it wants.
I still cannot pinpoint
who or what caused it.
My head kept tumbling backwards as if my head was
too heavy at the back
and I couldn't hold my head straight.
So, it just makes me think it was somebody trying to push
how they felt on me
for them to show through me.
It makes you question
what you know when you are investigating.
You do need to be extremely careful what you are doing.
[narrator] Excellent advice.
And though Aimee has no plans to stop investigating,
she does have a new limit.
If someone said to me now, "Would you wanna fancy going back tomorrow?"
I'd say, "Yeah, but I'm not looking in that mirror."
[narrator] Coming up...
a spirit circles back...
[guard] And I'm looking dead at it.
[narrator] ...to a security guard in Chicago.
[guard] And I'm like, "Oh, no, no, uh-uh."
[narrator] Witnessing paranormal phenomena
is usually...
a mind blowing experience...
the first time.
But when it happens to you again
and again,
well, you start to grow accustomed to it.
And maybe,
even attached.
That's what's happening to Jay Brown,
a security guard
who has regularly come face to face with a ghostly entity...
[Jay] And I'm looking dead at it.
[narrator] ...who can't seem to get enough of him.
[Jay] And I'm like, "Oh, no, no, uh-uh."
[narrator] We first met Jay Brown in season one
when during his night shift as a security guard
at a senior living facility in Chicago,
he notices a misty, amorphous entity
floating around his desk.
[Jay] I'm looking dead at it.
[narrator] And though Jay can see it with his own eyes...
[Jay] I guess it can-- I waved at it. Like, you know.
[narrator] He also confirms what he saw
by playing the security video back
and narrating while recording it with his phone.
[Jay] I guess it's too cold outside and he was like, "[bleep] it."
[narrator] And incredibly,
ever since that first encounter,
it has reappeared on the regular.
Like on this night in November, 2018,
as again,
Jay plays back this new encounter on the security video
and narrates...
[Jay] The storm is so bad,
that ghost had to go upstairs.
Look at the bottom right.
Look.
There he go.
Look at that [bleep].
My name is Jay Brown.
I work at a senior citizen building.
I do security there.
It's like a light foggy mist-like thing
the size of, like, a basketball.
It's always around the three to four o'clock in the morning time.
It is mostly when I'm alone.
[Dan] We see something.
It's kind of like a blob.
And at one point, it almost seems to be walking
or moving or having limbs.
[Dalen] Anytime you are investigating,
if you see it with your eyes,
that's excellent.
If you catch something on camera,
that's dope.
If you get them both... [laughing]
you have hit the paranormal jackpot.
[Brian] More often than not,
we don't see these things until later
when somebody points it out to us
or we see something is out of place.
[Jay] Look, there he go.
[Brian] That puts Jay in a different category.
He's aware.
[narrator] And not just aware,
but also eager to make actual physical contact.
[Jay] It was cold, I'm like, "Ah, [bleep] it."
I really, I wanted to follow it.
[Juwan] He doesn't seem to be reacting out of fear.
Like, he's holding it together quite nicely,
which makes me think maybe he doesn't feel
threatened by said entity.
Like, "Yo, look,
I ain't gonna cause no trouble with you
if you don't cause no trouble with me."
[Jay] It feels... see, I'm trying to feel, like,
follow the cold breeze. I saw it...
going towards the elevator.
It's like a few seconds of, like, having,
like, a air conditioner on.
It's very common when you come across a haunting like this
to have the room change temperatures,
like, in a second.
So, yes, it's very common for people to feel
cold spells and cold spots when there's paranormal activity around.
[narrator] It happens again in April 2019.
But on this night,
the mist takes a slightly different form.
[Jay] This time it was dark.
Literally, a dark one.
[narrator] Watch the bottom right of the screen closely.
[Jay] Right there. See it?
[narrator] A dark nebulous mist
floats toward Jay.
[Jay] It's going up.
See it? And I'm looking dead at it.
And I'm like, "Oh, no.
No. Uh-uh."
There it goes over that-- by the exit sign.
And I'm like, "Wow."
Then it just vanished above my head.
[narrator] So, what exactly is this thing?
And what is its connection
to this particular location?
The fact that Jay's a security guard
at an elderly facility,
they are going to have a higher percentages of death.
And if they're in this location where they're there to kind of
take that last breath,
I think you're going to have a lot of
experiences that would be deemed paranormal.
[narrator] A thought that doesn't sit well with Jay.
[Jay] I do feel kind of sad, you know.
This is a person still wandering around,
not at rest.
[narrator] Or perhaps it's something a little less sad
and more helpful.
There are stories that
as someone is ready to shuffle off their mortal coil,
they actually receive messengers or guides
that help them cross over.
[narrator] Whatever it is,
Jay has gotten used to its visits
and looks forward to more in the future.
[Jay] Well, when I first, first saw it, I was terrified.
But throughout numerous times,
I just don't feel
pretty much scared at all.
[Susan] He's a great example of, like,
just accepting the spirit world around you
and coexisting with it, which I think
is a lesson that all of us can learn from Jay.
[Jay] It's going up. See it?
And I'm looking dead at it.
[narrator] Coming up...
Turns out
there may actually be monsters
lurking under your bed.
[narrator] The monster under the bed...
a childhood fear that has been around for centuries.
But did you know...
that some believe its origins
lie in our instinctual awareness of predators
-ready to pounce. -[animal growling]
[narrator] And that our very survival
depends on it.
Case in point,
a woman in Los Angeles discovered something lurking
beneath her bed frame.
And her failure to heed the warning
nearly cost her everything.
August 2016,
in Los Angeles, California...
So, for this giveaway...
[narrator] Marissa Rachel is filming a video
for her social media channel
when she briefly leaves the room to grab a prize
that she's planning to give away.
Then I'm going to be giving away...
I'm Marissa Rachel, and this is my video.
I was filming at night. I was filming alone.
I went to go get a giveaway prize,
turned the light off, came back, just did my thing,
didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
[narrator] When Marissa finishes the video,
it goes to her sister, Shauna, to edit.
And that's when something strange happens.
[Marissa] A few days later, my sister called me over
and she was like,
"Have you looked at this footage?"
And I was like, "No, I haven't."
[narrator] Watch closely
as moments after she leaves
and turns off the lights,
the camera's weight begins to pull it down.
Did you catch it?
Watch again.
As the camera pans down on its own,
what appears to be a tiny hand
suddenly disappears under the bed.
[Marissa] I was so worried. I was shocked. I was like,
"What is this?"
[Aaron] It looks like a creepy little hand under the bed
that she almost did not capture on camera,
which makes me wonder,
"How long has it been there
that she has not noticed it?"
[Mark] To me, it doesn't look like a living hand
or even a ghost hand.
It looks like a doll's hand
or the hand of a toy or a puppet.
It just makes it even kind of creepier when you think
that there might be some haunted
puppet living underneath your bed.
[doll] Hi.
[Brian] And almost as if whatever is under there
senses this,
senses the gaze, senses the observation,
it goes, "Oh, I don't want to be seen."
[narrator] Marissa posts the video to her channel
hoping to get some answers.
Lemme know down below what you guys think.
[Marissa] It got such an overwhelming response.
People speculating,
"It's a doll."
"It's a dog paw." "It's a cat paw."
I do have cats, but there's no way-- I mean,
that's like a very small drawer
beneath my bed.
So, there was no way they could have gotten
into that drawer by themselves.
I really had no idea. I still, to this day,
I'm... I can't say what it was for sure.
I never found anything that resembled what that could have been.
[Sapphire] It looked like she had a lot of toys and stuffed animals.
So I'm wondering if there was a type of entity
in her room that almost took on the appearance
based on what was in her room,
almost like how an AI generated image would.
It was looking around her room like,
"Okay, what is a form I can take that she might accept?"
And it took that form.
[narrator] Marissa may not know what the hand-like form is
or where it comes from,
but she believes it to be paranormal in nature.
Because in the months after she captures the mysterious footage,
she starts to experience strange events
that begin to take their toll.
Hey, guys, it's Marissa.
You can kind of see in my videos I'm getting sick,
I'm not sleeping,
I was having nightmares.
I haven't slept in, like, probably four days.
I keep waking up. I either wake up at 3:00 a.m.
or I just don't go to sleep at all.
At all.
[narrator] And the damage isn't just emotional.
[Marissa] Out of nowhere, you know, a huge red scratch
just appeared down my neck.
As if by magic.
I would wake up with these things.
When you get a big black bruise,
a welt on you,
you remember hitting yourself, bumping yourself,
running into something, banging it somewhere.
And that just didn't happen.
That was probably the scariest part.
[Ronny] Often times when you are dealing with something that's negative,
they're trying to hurt you and you'll wake up
with scratches
or have a bruise that you don't remember how that got there.
[narrator] But Marissa does think she knows
why she's being attacked.
I think making videos about it also kind of made it progress
a little bit, like, I think it kind of maybe antagonized
the spirit.
[Susan] It's a small encounter like that,
a fleeting little hand under the bed,
that is used to capture the interest of the person
experiencing the phenomena
to give more energy and time to that entity,
so it can feed into bigger haunts.
This is something that gets documented over and over again.
It's the reality behind the theory
that perhaps some poltergeist activity is actually generated
by a young person living in a space,
that it's their own unintentional psychokinetic energy
that's making noise and causing things to move around.
It is documented throughout history
that hauntings tend to zero in
on young people, especially young women.
[narrator] Mercifully,
whatever was tormenting Marissa stopped
when she moved out of the home.
But the memory serves as a sobering reminder
that the monster under your bed
is not just in your imagination.
[Marissa] I feel like removing myself from that house was a good thing.
You don't know when it's going to stop,
if it's going to stop, when it's going to happen again.
So it definitely kind of made a believer out of me.
[narrator] Coming up...
a shape-shifting alien in Mexico
sends a family running for cover.
[narrator] Life is full of mysteries.
Sometimes, these wonders of the world
are thrilling.
[woman] Oh, that can't be real now.
[narrator] Other times,
they can be downright disconcerting.
[woman 2] Holy [bleep]!
-[man] There's aliens. -What?
[narrator] Especially if they happen close to home.
Just ask a doctor in Mexico
who experienced something unimaginable
right outside his front door.
December 2018,
Neza, Mexico,
Dr. Jaime Lule and his daughter, Karina,
are on the street in front of their house
and have just witnessed something very unsettling.
Once safely back inside, Dr. Lule
reviews the footage from the CCTV camera,
trying to figure out
what exactly they just saw.
Watch closely.
It's a shiny object
floating along the street.
And it appears to be morphing
and sprouting limbs.
[Jaime's interpreter]
...and this is my video.
[narrator] But perhaps what is most remarkable about the object
is not what was captured on camera,
but rather what the doctor and his daughter
saw with their own eyes
while down on the street.
[Jaime's interpreter]
[narrator] It's at this point
that the doctor's daughter runs away.
And though the doctor stands his ground for a few more seconds,
he too finally runs for cover.
As if that weren't enough,
not long after they run away from it,
a nearby transformer
-suddenly... -[explosion]
[narrator] ...blows.
[Jaime's interpreter]
[narrator] So, what did Dr. Lule and his daughter
just witness?
[Juwan] This is really one of those, like,
insanely interesting clips.
Because right now, I'm like, "Oh, is it a human-like thing?
Is it a robot? Is it a...
Is it an alien?"
[Mark] At first glance, I thought that this was probably just
a bunch of mylar balloons perhaps inflated with helium that was dissipating.
But then, it starts to move down the street.
There's an oddness about its motion.
It's shimmying or almost dancing.
It doesn't behave the way
a bunch of balloons would.
[narrator] Balloons also
wouldn't become transparent,
morph into the shape of a person
and head back towards them.
[Katrina] Shape-shifters, they are known on
a lot of different paranormal categories, from ghosts
to skin-walkers to aliens.
The cases we know about that seemed to be genuine
where something like this happens,
it seems to be very powerful, usually intelligent,
sometimes otherworldly.
The common thread through all of that
is whoever witnesses it is absolutely terrified.
[Mark] Whatever this anomalous sort of light-generating object is,
this isn't the first time it's made an appearance.
We saw another video from the other side of the world
in Turkey once
where something very similar to this was
floating down the street, about the same height,
and about the same amount of motion that this thing has.
[Lynne] It stops, it starts, it has a shadow under it
just like this one does.
And it moves forward with a real sense of purpose
just like this one does.
I feel like we have found
the silver floating street-walking alien brethren.
[narrator] For his part,
Dr. Lule believes it could most certainly
be from another world.
[Jaime's interpreter]
[narrator] Regardless,
he has no desire
to ever see it again
for one very good reason.
[Jaime's interpreter]
[narrator] Coming up...
what did a doorbell camera
capture flying over England?
[narrator] These days,
front door security cameras
are ubiquitous.
Many homeowners appreciate the sense of safety they get
from being able to monitor activity
around their house.
[alarm blaring]
[narrator] Although, there are times
when these devices can leave us with more questions
than answers.
Take it from one man in England,
who was happy keeping an eye on the neighborhood
until he suddenly discovered
some otherworldly beings
keeping their eyes
on us.
October 2021,
in Hertfordshire, England,
it's around 8:00 p.m.
and Matt Doughty is at home
watching TV with his friend, Kevin,
when he gets an alert from his doorbell camera.
Matt checks the footage expecting to see a cat
or a neighbor walking by.
But instead,
he sees something inexplicable.
A triangular formation of bright, twinkling lights
is moving across the sky.
My name's Matt Doughty
and this is my video.
I rolled back the footage
and then thought, "Well, what do we got here?
This is really quite strange."
It was deadly silent, not a single sound
picked up at all by the camera.
Just these three lights appearing over the house opposite me
and then coming from right to left.
[narrator] Matt rushes outside to get a better look,
but the lights have already disappeared.
[Matt] I thought, "Whoa, this is really strange."
So, I called my dad.
My dad's an aviation plane freak.
He loves his planes.
Dad was completely shocked by it as well.
Dad looked at his flight trackers
and relooked at his flight trackers
and said,
"Yeah, there was definitely nothing flying over."
[Ben] There is a lot of programs out now
that use what's called ADSB tracking.
This is sort of a transponder that aircraft
in nearly every airspace is required to have.
It'll give you all that data as to what aircraft it is,
how high is it, where is it going?
Even military missions have to broadcast that information
because it's important for aviation safety.
So, it's really unusual
that when they look up the information for these supposed aircraft,
there's nothing available.
[Matt] I could feel the hair stand up on my arms.
I was like, "Wow, what could this have been?"
[narrator] Good question.
This clip is evocative of a very classic sighting
of either three objects or a singular triangular craft
moving through the sky.
So, it does have
a lot of precedence within ufology.
[Dalen] To me, it definitely look like three objects flying in formation,
but they work connected.
Some kind of way.
It's weird. I don't think that our human brains can even
come close to trying to grasp
the knowledge of these extraterrestrial beings.
Every time I see these lights and they seem to be
in the form of a triangle,
I always get this sense that we're looking at one craft.
We see those lights not really move,
they kind of stay in their formation,
they're solid.
So, I think this is one craft.
[narrator] But if this craft
or formation of crafts
is extraterrestrial in origin,
why are they hovering
over a London suburb?
Maybe it's not concerned with what us puny humans think of it.
Or maybe it's trying to get us to see it.
Maybe it wants us to
become familiar with these kinds of sightings
as a way of making it easier to introduce itself to us.
[Susan] I feel like they're here to observe or to send information.
I have spoken with contactees
that have had interactions
with extraterrestrials and UFOs
that state that the lights are a communication tool
and supposedly it creates a download
into the contactee's psyche
that projects a message towards them.
When you're viewing these lights through an IR camera,
you're missing the frequencies,
you're missing the colors,
you're missing the pulsating effects that
put thoughts and information into your mind.
[narrator] As far as he knows,
Matt did not receive an information download.
But he was affected
by the experience.
[Matt] The experience to me is something that
I never really gave a lot of thought to
prior to this occurrence.
But since it's happened,
it's made me think that, uh...
"Hey, there could be extra life form out there,
and it could be looking at us
and looking and seeing what we do."
So, it certainly makes me keep one eye open now
to see what's up there
and potentially circling above our heads.
[narrator] Coming up...
Is this face
a ghostly photobomb?
[narrator] Back in the late 1800s,
people tried to capture images of departed souls
through something called spirit photography
where photographers would take pictures of the living,
sometimes with their recently deceased relatives
in the hopes of revealing proof
of life after death.
The practice continues to this day.
But with cameras so ubiquitous
and photos so freely taken,
ghosts are often captured by chance
without the photographer even knowing.
Just ask a woman in England
who took a picture of her family
and may have ended up
with an image of a lost soul.
May 2018, at Plessey Woods Country Park
in Northumberland, England,
a woman named Sophie
who wishes to remain anonymous
is enjoying a nice day outside with her extended family
and uses her phone
to take some photos of her two children
and their cousin playing in a tree.
When she reviews the pictures later,
she notices something
that makes your blood run cold.
There's another child in the tree
behind her 9-year-old son
who wasn't there
when she took the photo.
Hello, my name is Sophie
and I took this photo.
[Mark] It's really eerie when you look at the photo.
There is without a question another child
standing behind this mother's son.
The really creepy part is that it's looking directly at him
and we can see it has extended a hand
and laid it on his shoulder.
[Lynne] We see a portion of this child's face,
they're standing in the background, they look pale,
they look drawn,
they look a tiny bit menacing.
It's rare to have this level of clarity
in a photo like this.
[narrator] Haunted by the image,
Sophie posts it on social media
in hopes of finding an explanation.
And sure enough...
[Steve] If you really research spiritual attachment,
one thing that many experts will say
is there is a belief that spirits like to attach
basically right at the back of the head.
That's something that's been documented for years and years and years.
It goes back in all the old literature.
Could that be what's happening at that moment?
The look on its face,
the location right behind the head,
I would be concerned that there was a physical attachment
at that exact second.
[narrator] Or maybe
it's something a little more innocent.
It looks like we might have captured the spirit of a young person
who possibly wanted to get in on some of the fun.
[narrator] If so,
it certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Throughout history, there have actually been
a lot of photos that captured something
very similar to this one.
For example, the Goddard Squadron,
which was captured in 1919.
And in it you see a face that looks like Freddy Jackson's.
But he had actually died before this photo was even taken.
Why are there so many instances
where there appears to be
a peek-a-boo ghost making themselves known in group photos?
Maybe the ghost is taking a spectral selfie
as a way to say,
"Hey, remember me as well.
I once was here."
[narrator] Whatever the reason,
it's given Sophie a new outlook
on the afterlife.
[Sophie]
[narrator] What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Check your footage,
and then,
check it again.
Trust that what you're seeing...
[Jay] It's going up. See it?
[narrator] ...is the real thing.
[Jay] And I'm looking dead at it.
[narrator] Don't be afraid
to run for cover.
And if you do catch something,
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