[narrator] Next on "Paranormal, Caught on Camera."
A woman in Brazil...
[sings in Portuguese]
-[suspense music plays] -[dog barks]
...captures a phantom hand.
reaching out.
This is like the level of weird
that tucks me in at night.
A bright blue UFO.
[Reina speaks]
...stuns a couple in New Mexico.
[Reina speaks]
I've never seen anything like it!
Did a toddler in Ohio...
see the ghost of her late grandfather?
[both giggle]
And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[door camera] You are currently being recorded.
...to believe.
[Daniel speaks in Spanish]
[theme music plays]
If one believes that spirits
feed off the energy of the living,
then why would any of them
want to hang around a cemetery
full of other dead bodies?
Well, the answer might be as simple and poignant as this.
For some, the site of their remains
could be the only place...
they'll be remembered.
Just ask one paranormal investigator in Florida.
[Patty] Wow!
Who found herself drawn to something...
[Patty speaks]
...that may have been desperate for some attention.
[dramatic music plays]
June, 2025. In Homosassa, Florida.
Paranormal investigator Patty Adams
and her team have just returned to a cemetery that they visited
about eight months ago.
[Patty] The last time we were here was Halloween 2024.
We kept hearing stuff,
and we started getting a bad vibe.
When we start feeling like that, we know it's just time to go.
Despite the previous bad vibes,
they're here again.
Is anybody here?
...to see if whatever was causing those vibes
is still present.
[Patty] What's down this way?
And as they approach the site of their last visit,
watch closely.
[Patty speaks]
[Patty] You hearing anything?
-No. -No?
Did you see it?
Watch again in slow motion.
As Patty pans her camera,
a dark shadow
can be seen standing
amongst the graves,
which Patty doesn't see until later,
when she's editing the footage at home.
My name is Patty, and this is my video.
When I watched it back, it looked like this huge...
like black mist, like a full body apparition that was just
kind of moving by real slow.
It slowly just faded away.
I'm like, "Oh my gosh, you know, it creeps me out."
It really does.
I mean, I enjoy doing what I do,
but -- and I don't want to encounter something,
you know, bad.
Something that's going to harm us in some way.
[Mark] It seems very dense.
But not necessarily in the shape of a person per se,
but just a mass that sort of just looms there
amongst the graves.
My brain immediately went to,
"Oh, look, there's something missing from this space."
And I think that that makes this much,
much more frightening.
I mean, a shadow figure that seems like a dark form
moving through a space is one thing.
A shadow figure that seems like just a void in reality,
an absence of anything being there is somehow just
way more terrifying.
[Patty] So when we go to these places,
you can kind of feel it if there's something there.
And this night, I did feel something.
And that's why I kept turning the camera all around
at different angles, because the camera will pick up
what the eyes don't see.
Which Patty believes happens yet again
just a short while later.
[Patty] I did think I saw something off in a distance.
So I kept focusing on that area because I kept seeing something
and I wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me.
And I put my camera and I just kept kind of zooming in
just a little bit and stuff.
And I'm like, "OK, I don't know,
but I'll know when I watch this back."
Sure enough, as she's reviewing the footage at home,
another shadow figure
creeping about in the distance.
[Juwan] This one I thought was a little terrifying,
very human-like characteristics.
It looks like you can kind of see a torso, arms, a head.
I don't know what its intentions were,
but I know that there was definitely something there.
Something that is possibly
calling Patty...
[Patty speaks]
...to one particular area.
[Patty speaks]
[Susan] A lot of the time, when there's haunts
in a graveyard, something calls you to a certain plot.
It's like something bringing you into the memory
of those people who have passed away.
It's like if somebody visits your headstone
or your gravestone and an entire family is buried there,
like, who's left over to remember that whole family?
And so, maybe sometimes,
in order to keep the memory alive,
maybe there is a calling from these grave sites
to be observed by the living so that their memory is kind of,
you know, perpetuated forward.
Which could explain why Patty and her team
were drawn here again.
[Aaron] You can build a relationship with certain locations
by going there repeatedly.
It's almost like your vibe starts to align
with that of the place itself.
And it's just easier to slip
into that kind of paranormal mindset
and maybe even allow the potential spirits
to get used to you
and then be more ready and willing
to present themselves or interact.
And if that's the case, Patty is ready to reconnect.
I would like to go back there sometime soon to follow up
on what I caught on camera and just see
if I can catch it again.
So even though it's creepy, this is what we wanted.
We wanted to catch something like that,
and I'm happy that I did.
[suspenseful music plays]
Coming up, a toddler in Ohio.
...sees an apparition in her house.
In order for a spirit to communicate with the living,
even something as subtle as moving a curtain,
or flicking a light,
many believe it takes a huge amount of energy,
which could be why some spirits choose a different route --
seeking out a living being who can simply...
just see them.
That's what happened to one family in Ohio,
when their youngest member
appeared to point out a presence...
...from the other side.
December 2021, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Danielle Herron's two-year-old daughter Nova
is being watched by her grandmother, Cindy,
when suddenly...
Nova appears to see someone in the other empty room.
And Cindy is absolutely...
freaked out.
-My name is Danielle. -And I'm Cindy.
And this is our video.
I didn't see anything.
I went over there to look to see what was over there,
but there was nothing there.
-Is he right here? -Yeah.
-He's in our dining room? -Yeah.
What are you doing in our dining room, mister?
When she kept going with it, like kept seeing it
and talking about it --
[both giggle]
This small child never broke eye contact
with the exact same spot.
Even when she started moving, she's changing positions,
but her eyeline always looks back in the exact same spot.
Something was definitely real to her, and it was there.
There -- and apparently,
very distinct looking.
What does he look like?
He's got bug eyes?
[Ben] She's barely verbal.
She's very animated and certain
that there's a person in the room.
And the fact that she gives a description later when asked
what does it look like, it adds validity to that she's actually
seeing something there.
She's using everything she knows to tell her grandma
that there's somebody there. It's important to her.
But while a bug-eyed ghost might seem alarming...
Come on. You're creeping me out.
We're going upstairs.
Danielle believes there's a good...
and very comforting explanation behind it.
[Danielle] My dad passed away a year-and-a-half
before that happened.
My dad wore, like, these big glasses.
And I was like, "That's something that I feel
like at her age she might be able to think might be,
like, bug eyes, like, big eyes maybe she meant.
He's got bug eyes?
[Danielle] She was only two,
so her, you know, vocabulary wasn't the best.
But my dad did have
bigger eyes and he had glasses,
so I was like, "Maybe it could be him."
[Mark] If, in fact, the grandfather had come back
for a visitation, it's interesting that
he's only presenting himself
to one of the people in the room,
that being the child.
I don't know if that's by choice or if perhaps
the child is just much more sensitive
to the paranormal presence.
[Ronny] Children are such amazing instruments in regards
to what they can see around us.
They have this
unobstructed view of the world.
They don't have their belief systems set in stone.
That's what allows children to see spirits.
As adults, we lose that capacity
'cause we're bombarded with everybody else's belief systems
and we're told what is reality and what is not.
And this is just a common thing that you see time and time again,
where these spirits miss this world.
They miss their loved ones.
And this is their way of letting them know
that they're still around,
that they're still kind of watching them
as they grow through this life.
-Is he right here? -Yeah.
-He's in our dining room? -Yeah.
Even now, four years later, Danielle and Cindy claim
Nova can recall the experience with a little more detail.
[Danielle] We talked about it today. Actually, yeah.
She said it was,
"An invisible guy with big eyes."
Yes.
It didn't scare her.
It didn't, you know, there wasn't a scary face on it.
She didn't really know what my dad looked like
because she was so young when he passed away, so...
Coming up, a phantom hand...
[sings in Portuguese]
[dog barks]
...terrifies a woman and her dog.
[barks]
Having a paranormal encounter in one's own home.
Is certainly unsettling, but if worst comes to worst,
and the activity continues to upend daily life,
one always has the option...
to move out.
Just remember,
that option is available to both the living
and the dead.
Case in point,
a woman in Brazil who appears to have come into contact
with something she just can't seem to shake.
-[sings in Portuguese] -[dog barks]
Summer 2024.
Joao Pessoa, Brazil.
Gesirlane Nascimento writes songs and sings them
for her social media followers.
[speaks in Portuguese]
But while recording her latest work...
[sings in Portuguese]
Watch the wall behind her very closely.
Did you see it?
Watch again.
As a hand slides down the wall in the background.
Unbeknownst to Gesirlane.
That is...
[sings in Portuguese]
[dog barks]
Until it happens a second time.
[dog barks]
Freaked out,
Gesirlane takes a look upstairs.
[dog barks]
[Gesirlane speaks in Portuguese]
[dog barks and growls]
[Gesirlane pants]
My name is Gesirlane and this is my video.
For a moment, I thought maybe it was my cat upstairs.
But it's impossible because where the hand appears,
there's no way my cat could cling to the wall
to appear there.
I only realized it was a hand
after I watched the recording,
when I zoomed in on the video.
[Gesirlane speaks in Portuguese]
[translated] The next day,
my husband and I tried to recreate the same scene
to see what it could have been,
but it was impossible.
A person would have to be floating in the air
to appear in that spot.
So, if it couldn't have been a person
or a cat,
then what exactly...
was it?
[Aaron] I love this clip.
This is like the level of weird that tucks me in at night.
-[sings in Portuguese] -[dog barks]
It's not moving as though it's attached to a person
who would be doing something normal,
like walking down the stairs.
It's moving like someone's just
intentionally sort of sliding their hand down into view.
[Mark S.] You can see that the wall on the stairway is
about 10, 12 feet tall.
This thing would have been hanging on the wall
to stick that hand down.
And where would it have gone so quickly?
[Susan] What's unsettling to me is how unhuman that hand looked,
and the cat's reaction to it,
as well as the dog's reaction.
The cat jumps onto the stairs,
seems to notice something at the top
and then runs towards the top of the stairs.
And then her dog is becoming very agitated and barking
up the stairs very fearfully.
[dog barks]
So both of the animals that she has in her house
are noticing something at the top of the stairs
and interacting with it.
And it turns out
the mysterious hand is just one of many unexplained things
happening in Gesirlane's house.
Four months after she and her family moved in,
they sensed something was amiss.
[translated] We see shadows,
things fall in the middle of the night.
And she thinks she knows why.
When I moved in, I only later learned that someone had died
tragically there.
And when some of those things started to happen,
I started to feel strange sensations,
smells in the house.
I wondered if that was the deceased person.
It certainly could be.
But regardless, after living there for a year,
Gesirlane and her family decide to move out.
I chose to leave for my own mental health
and for my children's sake.
[Brian] This might not solve the problem.
If the energy is attached to her or child or anything
that she owns, she can go to a new place,
and it might be there too.
Which, unfortunately, seems to be the case for Gesirlane.
Just as I was tormented in the old house,
this followed me to the new one as well.
We wish her all the best.
[sings in Portuguese]
[dog barks]
Coming up, a bright blue UFO...
[Reina speaks]
...blows the mind of a woman in New Mexico.
[Reina speaks]
While catching something paranormal on camera
is certainly the preferred method of demonstrating that
the otherworldly exists,
there is an additional layer
that can help solidify it.
One's own reaction.
Because beyond what our eyes tell us,
how we feel in the moment
might be the purest way
to indicate the presence of something truly remarkable.
Such was the case for one woman in New Mexico who apparently
couldn't contain herself
when she spotted this.
[Reina] That's not a [bleep] helicopter, babe!
Look at it! Oh!
Oh, my [bleep] God. Babe...
May 18th, 2025.
Lovington, New Mexico.
Reina Vargas and her boyfriend are driving
to his mother's house
when they spot what they believe
is a bright, blue star in the sky,
until its behavior seems to imply otherwise.
So Reina pulls out her phone
and starts recording.
[Reina] What is that, babe?
Is that a plane?
-[boyfriend speaks] -[Reina] Oh, [bleep] no.
That's a [bleep] helicopter.
My name is Reina, and this is my video.
[Reina] As we're approaching, this object is growing bigger,
and it's stationary in the sky.
What the [bleep]?
And as I zoom in, you could hear me freaking out,
because I see a circle object floating, kind of like
pulsating, in a way, about 50 feet in the sky.
What the [bleep] is that? There's no [bleep] way.
[boyfriend speaks]
[Reina] And that's when my boyfriend was like,
"Oh, it's a helicopter."
If it's a helicopter, we have to be able to hear it.
And even a drone, you could hear drones
and nothing. I didn't hear anything.
It was silent.
That's not a [bleep] helicopter, babe.
Look at it. [gasps]
So what did Reina and her boyfriend just witness?
The number one UFO or UAP
object that people are seeing in our sky is spherical
or an orb-shaped object.
[Reina] Oh, [bleep] no. That's not a [bleep] helicopter.
[Ronny] You know this isn't a helicopter.
You don't hear rotor blades.
You don't hear a propulsion system.
[Mark] I don't know whether this light is somehow mounted
on some unidentified craft or whether
the light itself is generated from within.
[Reina] What the [bleep] is that? There's no [bleep] way.
Listen, you know this video was authentic when they dropped
the f-bomb in the first two words.
Like, this lady was definitely caught off-guard.
[Reina] Oh, my [bleep] God, babe.
[Dalen] Now, if that was my wife cussing up a storm while
we're seeing a spaceship in the sky,
I would be like, "Listen, baby, you about to get us abducted."
Clearly stunned by what they just saw,
Reina and her boyfriend exit the highway
to get a better look.
But by then...
it's too late.
So he stops at the stop sign. I get out of the car.
He gets out of the car. I ground my phone.
It's gone. It disappeared.
[Lynne] We're used to the idea of something like an airplane
moving through the sky until it's so far away that
we can no longer see it.
But something that just is there one minute and not there?
[Reina] Oh, my God!
[Lynne] That's an entirely different mode of arrival and departure
that sets this far more firmly in the supernatural.
Even more confounding...
is what happens next.
[Reina] Red-blinking light, man.
We're headed down the dirt road.
We hear a helicopter, and it's pretty close.
And when they arrive at her boyfriend's mother's house,
that helicopter appears to be searching for something.
There's a spotlight, a helicopter going around the property,
searching for I don't know what.
Maybe it was what I just saw...
Given the location, anything is possible.
[Aaron] Historically, there's a lot of UFO and UAP activity
in New Mexico.
More specifically,
this capture reminds me of the 1964
Lonnie Zamora incident.
A respected police sergeant was chasing a speeding vehicle
down the road
and then saw this silvery object with bluish flames.
As he pursued that, he then saw these two figures
that were rather small next to the craft.
That was likewise dismissed by some, as a helicopter.
However, the US Air Force's notoriously dismissive
Project Blue Book labeled it as unknown.
While whatever Reina saw that night also remains a mystery,
she has a feeling
it's not from this world.
[Reina] I don't think it was a human craft.
I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, we can't be the only ones.
And given that realization, her reaction
is right on par.
I do regret, um,
using any kind of cussing in any way.
That's not a [bleep] helicopter, babe!
Look at it!
[gasps] Oh, my [bleep] God, babe!
[Reina] I was genuinely scared, and I didn't know what it was.
And if you were in my position, maybe you would act different,
but I wish I did, and I didn't, so I'm sorry.
[Reina] What the [bleep] is that?
There's no [bleep] way.
Coming up, what kind of entity...
[camera voice] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
...triggers a home security camera in Georgia?
For those who choose to record something they believe
to be paranormal,
capturing evidence of the otherworldly
is generally the thrill of a lifetime.
But for those who have a paranormal capture
thrust upon them, like, say, by a motion-detecting
doorbell camera,
the reaction...
can be more of a mixed bag.
Case in point,
two families who were alerted to presences
outside their homes.
One seemed a benevolent visit.
[doorbell camera] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
And the other,
a sign of very bad things
to come.
March 2024. In Duluth, Georgia.
Gary Hays, his daughter Audrey,
and the rest of their family are out one night
when they get an alert from their doorbell camera,
at home.
When Gary pulls up the footage on his phone,
this is what they see.
[doorbell cam] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
A glowing string of lights floating by the camera.
And the whole Hays family
is stunned.
I'm Audrey, and I'm Gary, and this is our video.
[Gary] Initially, I was concerned
because I knew no one was home.
And then when I looked on the app and I see these lights,
my goodness!
What made enough motion
to cause the app to go off?
[doorbell cam] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
It was just a string of lights following the outside
of the windows.
The bright one.
We're seeing what appear to be floating lights that are moving
independently of each other, yet somehow in unison
or a coordination.
When I see things like this, I first suspect spider webs
because you often see that the silky string
and then sometimes the actual egg sacs of the spider
they illuminate really well at infrared.
The thing with this video though is that I've never seen
something kind of horizontally expanded in this way.
Typically, you'll see it attached to the top
of the frame, and that's where it's moving back and forth.
So this is a little bit different.
Gary is perplexed as well.
And as soon as they get home,
he tries to debunk it.
I know it wasn't a spider web, because that was
the first thing I checked, but there was nothing there.
[doorbell cam] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
[Lynne] The camera is looking for, "Is there something
substantial enough that I can say there's someone here?"
and with this, the answer was yes.
These lights were on that porch and they were dancing around.
It really ended up
fairly magical seeming.
Which is exactly how the Hays family has chosen
to interpret it.
We had nine puppies all in crates along the inside
of the window, that the light seemed to be looking in.
My mom said it had to be a fairy field trip
visiting the puppies.
But not every random capture
is so welcome.
April 4th, 2025, Harpursville, New York.
Stephanie Mckee and her daughter have been experiencing
some strange things in their rental home,
like mysterious sounds,
and their security camera, notifying them
of someone being outside
when no one is there.
But on this night, when Stephanie is in the car
with her brother David,
the doorbell camera alert is for once
not a false alarm.
Watch again, as a figure
appears out of nowhere,
walks past Stephanie's home
and disappears
as quickly as it came.
Totally freaking out
her and David.
My name is David and this is my sister's video.
She looks at it and she goes, "Oh my goodness,
who is this on my camera?"
The person disappears into thin air.
So we were all spooked and freaked out.
There's an eeriness to the motion.
It doesn't move, walk like a person would.
It seems to be a figure that almost just glides
across the yard.
And something Stephanie reveals to David
about her apartment, makes him worry that this figure
is much more sinister
than it seems.
When they did move into the property,
there were crystals above every single doorway in the house.
When she did her research, she looked it up
that the crystals were for spiritual protection
or even for demonic protection.
I was a little worried because if we're just talking about
a spirit, you know, it is what it is, and you start talking
about demonic entities, then you're in trouble.
Unwilling to take any chances, Stephanie and her daughter move
onto the home soon after this capture.
And to their great relief,
haven't seen anything similar
since.
Nothing has happened to her or her family.
I think there could have been some protection there
from the crystals, absolutely.
I'm pretty happy they don't have to deal with that anymore,
My niece doesn't have to go through anything scary like that.
Coming up,
a translucent man in Peru
vanishes into thin air.
[Daniel speaks in Spanish]
Even in the wild world of the paranormal,
vampires might seem a step too far for some.
But in South America, there is a legend of an evil entity
that, while not necessarily following the typical
vampiric tropes,
nonetheless has a similar devastating effect
on its victims.
It's called
the Kharisiri.
And one young man in Peru may have recently come
within striking distance of one.
[Daniel speaks Spanish]
December 2024. Lima, Peru.
It's 1:00 AM.
And Daniel Valdivia, a social media content creator,
is livestreaming for his viewers,
hoping to find proof of the paranormal
at a location
where police officers recently recorded unexplained
cries and screams.
[Daniel speaks Spanish]
At first, Daniel doesn't notice anything out of the ordinary,
until he spots a dog...
[Daniel speaks]
...whose behavior is concerning.
[translated] My name is Daniel Valdivia,
and this is my video.
We saw a black dog on the cliff,
almost at the top of it, very close to the edge.
[Daniel speaks Spanish]
The dog seemed to be warning me of something.
There is this belief that encountering a black dog,
especially at a crossroads,
is a warning that there are supernatural forces nearby.
[Daniel, translated] The dog then disappeared.
I continued walking down, and I noticed that there was
a person behind me.
[Daniel speaks Spanish]
By his walk, it seemed like he was waiting for me.
And when I realized this, I started to record.
And suddenly he disappeared.
It's a singular path, and there are no other paths
where you can disappear to, unless you go through
the bushes or throw yourself off the cliff.
That's pretty unsettling, because unless this person
leaped off the side of the road and went down the canyon
and decided to end it all, where did they go?
Then, as Daniel crosses the bridge to the beach,
he sees what he believes to be the same figure,
now, standing on a pier.
He looked like a sailor, a person from the past.
His clothes were really not appropriate for our times,
And he appears to be aware of Daniel.
As if that wasn't creepy enough,
the figure then walks away,
and again...
be suddenly gone.
[speaks Spanish]
When I saw him disappear, I was in shock.
We see for ourselves that this guy is an apparition,
that he is translucent.
You could definitely feel the tension.
As this gentleman is filming this unknown individual
on the pier, that person turns and looks essentially
right at the camera.
Freaked out.
And asks his followers what they think is going on?
Many people who had seen the video live said that
this dog was actually a demon, which is a legend
called the Kharisiri.
Who has an appearance that can change shapes into animals,
like dogs and everything else.
[Aaron] Within Peruvian folklore, the Kharisiri is this vampiric
type of creature that really emerged during the time
of the Spanish conquistadors.
And they say that this entity enters your body,
maybe through a small cut,
and eats away at its host from the inside.
And when it's done feeding, you're not really dead,
you're just empty.
[Susan] It could shapeshift into a black dog, it could
shapeshift into a goat, and then also shape shift into,
like, a vagrant or even someone like a priest or a holy person
to get access to its victim.
Luckily, Daniel gets away that night unharmed.
And after realizing what he may have crossed paths with,
he takes some precautions.
I protected myself with amulets
because of what happened to me.
I really believe in the Kharisiri.
But Daniel's fear isn't likely to deter him from going back
to that location.
It looks like it's an area I'll be returning to since many
of the fans want me to go back.
But I'll be protected and actually record
what happens there
because we have been left with many questions
from that night.
[Daniel speaks Spanish]
What should you do in the event you witness
something paranormal?
-[sings in Portuguese] -[dog barks]
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
-He's right in front of you? -Yeah.
Check your footage.
[doorbell camera] Hi, you are currently being recorded.
And then, check it again.
Trust that what you're seeing...
[Reina] What is that, babe?
...really is otherworldly.
[Reina] Oh, my God!
Don't stop recording,
even if you're scared.
And if you do catch something, email us
at submitparanormal@gmail.com
your footage could be seen right here
on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."