[narrator] Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"
investigators at a Massachusetts haunted house...
Is there a certain something
that's keeping you stuck in this house?
...grapple with the spirits...
trapped inside.
[investigator] That was definitely supernatural.
It was something that manifested into
a perfectly pitch-black ball.
A trail cam in Oklahoma spots a shadowy cryptid.
[Ronny] You have a conical-shaped head.
It looks muscular.
My immediate impression is that this is a capture of a Bigfoot.
A little girl inside a home in California...
[soft clacking]
...is toyed with by a poltergeist.
[mother] She had a scratch on her arm and they threw something
at her -- it was attacking my child.
And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
to believe.
[witness speaks foreign language]
[theme music plays]
Many believe that ghosts are able to manifest
by drawing energy from whatever sources are available
in the real world.
[ghostly howling]
Meaning an entity's size...
shape... and even apparent number...
can fluctuate from moment to moment...
depending on what's around them, making them...
hard to track...
and all the more terrifying.
Just ask one couple in Oklahoma,
whose home might be haunted by a tall, dark spirit...
or potentially...
a whole family of them.
[eerie tones play]
March 22nd, 2023.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma,
it's the evening,
and Nick Pigeon and Jessica Stanley
are watching a movie in their bedroom
with their oldest daughter...
when, from outside the bedroom...
-[baby crying] -[eerie voice] Mama.
...they hear a voice say, "Mama."
-[baby crying] -[eerie voice] Mama.
Three separate times.
-[baby crying] -[eerie voice] Mama...
But when the group checks on the couple's two small children
in their bedrooms,
they're fast asleep.
The next morning, Jessica checks her home's
motion-sensing security camera
for anything out of the ordinary.
And while there is, oddly, no video,
there are three photos that make her blood run cold.
The first, from earlier in the evening,
shows two of their children in the living room...
as a dark, unfamiliar figure...
climbs the stairs...
followed seconds later by another, smaller, dark figure.
But perhaps most disturbing is the photo taken hours later,
at the exact time they heard the voice outside their room...
-[baby crying] -[eerie voice] Mama.
...when the children were all upstairs.
At the bottom of their staircase,
a figure.
Dark. Massive.
And seemingly... transparent.
-My name is Nick. -My name is Jessica.
And these are our photos.
[Jessica] I had goosebumps on my arms,
and I was like, "You gotta look at this."
And I showed him, and my heart was racing.
It was just scary.
The first picture...
...like a shadow person.
And the second picture we see, it looks like a little child
on my rails, going up my rails on my stairs.
[Nick] And then the picture that contains -- it looks like
a transparent gentleman.
If you look at where the top of his head is...
And I said, "Well, either we obviously have just
"found the world's tallest person
or some ghost has got some explaining to do."
Because, I mean, that's just phenomenally huge,
and it's kind of freaky,
to be honest with you.
[Ronny] You know, my first immediate reaction would be,
who just broke into my home?
Because you're seeing these features of something
or someone that looks three-dimensional.
You can make out clothing, eyes, facial features,
but also the way it's positioned off
to the left. It just has this weird size.
There's something off about it that doesn't look like
a normal person.
It still seems to be in somewhat of
a shadow-based form.
[Steve] It seems like it's something different in each photo.
One is really tall, this very tall and posing kind of figure
with almost different-colored shades of garment
where you can kind of make any out.
Whereas the other one seems to be smaller, shorter,
perhaps more of a child's age.
So, I don't believe we're looking at one spirit here.
I think we're looking at two for sure,
and even possibly three.
Maybe.
But Nick and Jessica have their own idea.
[Nick] The pictures with the, uh, looks like two little children
going up the stairs, I do believe they are
one and the same.
[Jessica] Yeah, between the silhouette going up the stairs
and then the child that's going upstairs, that's, like,
seconds apart.
And then two hours later is the one that you can really,
like, see skin color.
There is a possibility that this is one entity,
and we're capturing photos of it, even if it's hours apart,
in different stages of its manifestation.
The very first snap we get is this dark shadow figure.
You don't really make out a lot of detail in it.
And as you can see in the second image,
there's kind of like a body manifesting, but the lower half,
the lower extremities are completely see-through.
It's almost like it's floating.
And then by the third snap, we see what looks like a tall,
full-bodied apparition standing at the base of the stairs.
But whether multiple ghosts
or just one manifesting over time,
why did the home security camera only capture
these three snapshots?
The weird part was I had it set up so when it could see
movement that it would take a picture and do a video,
But it only took pictures that night for some reason
instead of doing a video.
[Nick] And what's funny is if you look on the picture of
the man, it actually has the box, you know,
on the picture where it's scanning them in
or reading them in -- in the camera.
[Susan] Sometimes when these video cameras malfunction,
they'll take snapshots instead.
And so, who knows, maybe these manifestations zapped a lot of
energy from the electromagnetic field within the home
that's causing the camera to malfunction this way.
And so here you have a camera that's struggling to operate
appropriately, but it's still managing to capture snapshots
of this apparition manifesting.
But while it's not entirely clear what these figures
used to manifest...
or where they even came from,
Nick and Jessica are quite certain of one thing.
They need to go.
[Nick speaking]
I personally wish it would find somewhere else to live
or somewhere else to dwell. You know what I mean?
I'm not a ghost-hater, but yeah, I don't much care for
it being in this house.
It's not a good feeling at all.
Coming up, a child in California...
[soft clacking]
...is targeted...
...by an entity.
2 There are many who believe that young children,
due to their innocent nature,
have the ability...
to interact with the spiritual world.
Which, if true, begs the question,
if they are open enough to communicate with the dead,
does that also make them vulnerable...
to being harmed by the dead?
That's what one mother in California is wondering,
when something in her home...
lashed out... at her daughter.
August 13th, 2025, in Martinez, California.
As Jackie Murphy showers upstairs,
her four-year-old daughter, Savannah, wanders downstairs to
the living room alone.
But as a home security camera records,
something strange begins to happen.
While Savannah plays at the dining room table...
[soft clacking]
...a toy is seemingly thrown at her feet.
And when she goes to investigate what happened...
she seems to react to something on her arm...
[Savannah] Ow! [screams]
...right as a plastic bag...
falls from the couch.
What is happening in Jackie's home?
Hi, my name is Jackie, and these are my videos.
I asked her what happened, and she didn't know how to
explain it to me.
She said, "My shirt scratched me."
She just was, like, staring at me
and then said, "I'm confused. I think we have a ghost."
Mind you, I didn't know she even knew what
"ghost" was, right?
So I'm like, "Well, let's just look at the video together."
So I, like, knelt down, you know, got on her level.
We watched the video together.
And my stomach dropped.
I wasn't expecting anything, right?
I'm expecting to see her,
like, playing with something and hurting herself.
Then when I saw her grab her arm and say, like, "Ow" --
like something else hurt her, I was like...
I don't even know what to do.
This is one of those moments that became increasingly
unusual the more I watched it, because initially we do have
this little girl kind of minding her own business,
and then from out of frame, this toy seems to roll in
and captures her attention.
[Mark] After the object moves across the floor, she doesn't seem
alarmed in any way.
She seems a little curious, so she just kind of
walks over to investigate.
But just then, it seems that something grabs at her arm,
and whatever it is must have hurt,
because we can hear her cry out.
[Savannah] Ow! [screams]
[Lynne] She's not, like, performing for anyone.
There's not anyone else in the room that she's maybe
trying to play something up for.
She's really genuinely reacting to something happening.
She's confused. She kind of holds her arm.
Like, something is clearly hurting her.
And it's that fact...
[Savannah screams]
...that disturbs Jackie the most.
It was attacking my child.
She had a scratch on her arm, and it threw something at her.
I feel like that usually comes from an angry entity,
not a friendly one.
[Susan] When spirit interacts with our physical bodies,
it can create burns and scratches to the physical self.
So, if you're dealing with spirit, which is believed to be
heightened electromagnetic frequency, imagine touching
an electromagnetic frequency.
It will hurt.
Ow! Mom
[Jackie] I felt kind of, like, helpless in the moment.
Like, what am I going to do?
Because I'm trapped in the house with this thing.
Fortunately for Jackie, she's able to connect
with a medium through social media,
who clears her home remotely,
and in the process,
reveals some startling information.
He let me know that while he was in the process of
clearing my home, that my grandma appeared to him.
And he said he believed that it was my dad's mother,
and she came with her husband.
She mentioned that "She shares a middle name
with your daughter."
And she does. And nobody knows that.
So...
I knew that it was real
and that he actually did what he said.
And since then, the vibe in the house
and life in general has improved significantly.
Everything has been better than hunky-dory.
It's been great.
It's so comfortable, so cozy in here.
The energy is good.
I had friends who are deep in their faith reach out to me
to try to help me and my family and pray over us
and pray over my home and pull me back into my faith also.
You know, so this all, although it's something scary
and felt negative in the beginning
and I was terrified, it's been glorious.
Ow! Mom! Owie.
Coming up...
is this confounding shadow in New Jersey...
-[man] There's nothing above me. -...evidence of a glitch...
-[man] It's not from that pole. -...in the Matrix?
2 Modern technology... has made life more convenient
than ever.
But if you believe in simulation theory...
[microwave beeps]
..that we are living inside of a controlled experiment,
that convenience comes at a cost.
Because the more our attention is pulled away from reality...
[microwave "end" beeping]
...the less we notice
when something goes slightly awry.
Which, of course,
may be exactly what the powers that be want.
Case in point, a man in New Jersey who nearly missed
the anomaly that changed his life.
Forever.
[Brian] Someone explain to me...
what the [bleep] this is a shadow of.
August 2024, in Red Bank, New Jersey.
It's late at night,
and Brian Mertz is walking with his girlfriend through
a parking lot, having just exited a restaurant...
[car alarm chirps]
...when he notices something truly inexplicable.
[Brian] Someone explain to me...
...what the [bleep] this is a shadow of?
A shadow...
running along the entirety of the parking lot...
that seems to be coming from absolutely nowhere...
with no end in sight.
And Brian...
[Brian] There's nothing above me.
...is completely befuddled.
[Brian] It's not from that pole.
My name is Brian, and these are my videos.
I was hesitant to actually cross it.
Like, I really was actually hesitant.
And then I started filming it. I eventually did cross it.
And it's really got my mind going.
Like, what is this from? Is this from above?
Is it from the side? Why is it there?
Is it always there? But I couldn't figure it out.
And it kind of creeped me out a little bit.
There's nothing above me.
It's not from that pole.
[Steve] This is one of those clips that just leave you
scratching your head.
I just can't account for what he's seeing,
and I can understand why he is so baffled.
[Brian] Someone explain to me what the [bleep] this is a shadow of.
Shadows are easily defined.
You can follow it to its source.
The problem with this shadow is that there doesn't seem to be
anything at either end of it.
Which could explain why,
when Brian posts the video to social media,
his followers can't quite wrap their heads around it.
People online were trying to say that I'm, like,
making things up, you know, or that it
wasn't a shadow.
So two months later...
[Brian] So it's what everyone's been asking for.
...Brian returns to the site of the mysterious shadow,
this time, daring to interact with it.
I put my arm through it, you know.
And then you could clearly see it's a shadow.
[Lynne] When he puts his arm out...
and the shadow actually falls across it, he sort of jumps
and gasps, and so did I.
Because by this point, I was thinking maybe
it's not a shadow.
Maybe it's a mark on the ground, a stain,
or some paint, and it just looks like a shadow.
But when that shadow fell over his arm, it was like
confirmation of just how anomalous this is.
Anomalous, AKA...
glitchy.
I've seen a lot of videos circulating around that time
of, like, glitch in the matrix.
[witness speaking]
[witness #2] What the hell is that?
So that's what I actually, like, called that video,
was "a glitch in the matrix" because, you know,
we-all-live-in-a-simulation type thing.
This idea of the glitch in the matrix is that reality
as we know it is a simulation, something that has been created
that is not necessarily real in the physical sense that
we think of reality.
And in that simulated nature...
-[car alarm chirps] -[Lynne]...the door is open
for the simulation to glitch.
Something that is not present casting a shadow
would absolutely be a glitch.
If we witnessed that in a video game,
we would call it a glitch in the software.
When we see it in reality,
it's a glitch in something bigger.
That is...
if we see it.
[Ben] I bet you 95% of people would never notice this shadow.
It's because most people are on their phones
and they're looking down, they're texting,
they're doing things, they don't take notice.
The same way a lot of people don't see UAPs or things
above their heads.
It astounds me how often these things happen
and people just don't see them.
But Brian did see it...
and intends to keep his eyes...
wide open.
If there's anything I learned from this experience,
is pay attention to your surroundings, I think.
The things we don't notice,
maybe we should pay closer attention to sometimes.
And as for the shadow,
he's comfortable with the unknown.
For now.
It's something that can't be explained.
And maybe some things are meant to stay that way.
Someone explain to me what the [bleep]
this is a shadow of?
Coming up...
is this hulking figure in Oklahoma
a real-life Bigfoot?
2 One of the primary hallmarks of the presence of Sasquatch
is thought to be strange tree structures
in the middle of the woods.
And while their functional purpose...
is ultimately as mysterious...
as the mythical creature itself,
at minimum, they serve as an announcement.
Bigfoot was here.
And if you need further proof of that,
consider the footage of one couple in Oklahoma
who may have captured the beast
creating one of these structures...in the act.
February 28th, 2025,
Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma.
Bigfoot researchers José and Tania are hiking
in an obscure part of the forest...
when they discover evidence of what they believe to be
Sasquatch activity.
Giant footprints...
strange sounds...
[groaning]
...bizarre structures.
So they set up a trail camera on a nearby tree.
And two weeks later, when the couple reviews
the footage during a battery swap-out,
they get much more than they bargained for.
Watch closely.
There, out beyond the raccoon.
Watch again.
Deep in the woods, a figure.
Dark, hulking, enormous...
that eventually... vanishes.
My name is José.
My name is Tania and this is our video.
We was in shock first.
We didn't believe that we filmed something like that,
because it's in the middle of the woods
at 4:28 AM.
Very deep. It's very deep right there.
[José] It looks like a person, but this one was way,
way bigger than a person.
I say it was like around eight feet tall.
[Tania] Minimum, yeah.
So that's why we thought just right away that it was Bigfoot.
[Ronny] I love this video.
We're seeing something from a trail camera
that typically they're set to motion detection.
And I like this a lot because you see in the background,
walking in between the trees, a tall human-like figure,
but you can see that this thing looks to fit into that
Bigfoot profile. You have a conical-shaped head.
It looks muscular.
It looks like one dark shadow,
but you can see that this thing is bipedal.
[Lynne] The raccoon sort of becomes our stand-in for what it would
be like if we were there.
And raccoons have amazing night vision.
And if a raccoon is like,
"Oh, heck no, I'm not going that way anymore,"
you know, that's something that we can take a lesson from, too.
[Aaron] Also interesting as how this thing seems to fade away.
As it's walking across the frame, it hits a point
behind a tree that it then seems to vanish.
Now, there are theories that,
rather than a physical relic hominid,
that Bigfoot is instead a nature spirit
or an interdimensional entity
that enters and exits spaces through portals.
Would that be why this thing seems to up and vanish?
Maybe.
But even aside from its apparent ability to teleport,
perhaps the characteristic most distinctive of Sasquatch
is what the figure appears to be carrying.
[José] He was dragging something.
[José] These creatures, they mark their territories
with trees, so, I think, um...
he was marking his territory.
That does track when it comes to Bigfoot building these
tree structures, sometimes 8, 9, 10 feet tall.
And it also falls in line with behavior
where they are predators.
There have been a lot of reports of hunters seeing them
chasing after deer or having one of their kills,
as they approach to find that carcass of the deer
they just shot, and it's gone.
Seemingly dragged away by something else.
So all of that behavior
definitely falls in line with Bigfoot behavior.
But still...
what would Bigfoot be doing in Oklahoma?
[Ben] The Ouachita Mountains are nestled right on the border
between Oklahoma and Arkansas.
And a lot of people believe that this is
a hot spot for Bigfoot.
A lot of people believe that there's sightings that have
gone back at least to the '70s.
And also this idea that the Native Americans have had
legends of what they call shadow men
or kind of forest protectors.
A history that...
along with their capture, only makes José and Tania
more eager to dig into the area even deeper.
We are hoping to capture more things.
Definitely, there's something right there.
There's something right there. We are not alone.
We're not the only ones.
Definitely, something else lives in the woods.
[Tania speaking]
Coming up, a century-old home in Massachusetts...
Is there a certain something that's keeping you
stuck in this house?
...is teeming with ghosts.
2 For many people, a house is more than
just a place to sleep at night.
It's a sanctuary that across decades of habitation...
becomes as much a part of the family as anyone
or anything else.
Sometimes even into death.
Just ask one paranormal investigative team
in Massachusetts, who explored a century-old home
and came away with startling evidence
that its original owners...
Is there a certain something that's keeping you
stuck in this house?
...are still very much...
inside.
June 2025, in Abington, Massachusetts.
Alan Guin, Austin Harley, Corey Marshall, and others.
-You guys ready? -Yeah, we're ready.
-We're ready. -...are investigating a home
now occupied by paranormal investigator Matt Warner...
The whole house is basically loaded with trigger objects at
the end of the day.
...that is thought to be haunted
by the spirits of a couple...
who once lived in it for decades.
I'm Alan.
-I'm Austin. -And this is our video.
[Alan] The original owners died in the house.
The son of the family took it over.
So as they were cleaning out the house,
that's when they noticed that things started happening.
They were hearing, you know, a woman speak to them,
call out to them by name.
When they opened it up to be a paranormal research center,
Matt decided to live there full-time to make sure
that it was taken care of.
The only thing that ever happened in here
was when that shadow thing came in the door.
[Alan] Two weeks into his residency,
he was having shadow figures come into his room.
He was seeing the woman who used to live there.
He was hearing people call out to him.
And tonight, having zeroed in on an area of activity,
they hope to collect ample evidence of Matt's experiences.
I have decided to take Corey and Lisa up to
the second floor.
Our initial thought was we were gonna go to
the second floor because that's where a lot of the energy
seemed more trapped by something very dark
and sinister up there.
I just so happened to be the person who was given
the thermal camera that night.
And what Alan captures with that thermal camera
during a spirit box session...
blows their minds.
I could have sworn I saw like a shadow on the wall
in front of me.
Watch the thermal camera feed closely...
to the right of Matt, who's seated here.
Did you catch that?
Watch again.
As someone or something seems to peek out of the room...
occupied by Corey.
Something very cold and not human whatsoever came out of
the room that Corey was in.
[Mark] To me, it looks to be about the size of a small child.
At one point, there's a very bright white area that almost
looks like a hand waving.
If you were to look at the scale of the temperature
that that hand reached in, it was probably reading along
the lines of some, like, 20 degrees
or 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Our body temperature is about 97 degrees, so when you see
something that like comes into view that has a temperature read
of like 20 degrees, like that's frigid cold.
[Alan] This is an incredible piece of evidence
that I never thought possible.
Catching things like that is very slim to none
in the paranormal field.
And yet...
only minutes later, during the same session,
the group captures their second incredible piece of evidence.
Watch and listen closely.
[spirit box speaking]
Is there a certain something that's keeping you
stuck in this house?
Watch again.
Just seconds after the spirit box says...
...a shadow appears to manifest
in the same room that Corey is in.
It was something that manifested into a perfectly
pitch-black ball in the darkness.
This clip really got me.
I mean, I've been doing this for a very long time.
This is not something you see often.
[spirit box speaking]
The shadow coming down off the wall is actually
quite wild.
If you look at it, it appears to start sort of midway down
the door, comes down in this very quick movement.
And then if you slow it down, it looks like some form of
grotesque crab-like crawl as it moves off behind something
on the floor or dissolves. Very, very strange.
Strange. And perhaps...
very telling.
[Lynne] There's the potential for
the deaths that happened here
to be peaceful and good, and yet there's
this sense of...
oppressive aggression and distress about them,
so that when words like "trapped" come up...
[spirit box speaking]
...it's hard to not think, OK, the spirit that's here
doesn't want to be here.
The spirit that's here is stuck here.
It was validation. It was good confirmation.
We do strongly believe that there is something stuck on
the second floor of his home,
and we were fortunate enough to capture
some very, very incredible pieces of footage
to help support that.
Something that the group...
does not take for granted.
[Austin] It's pretty cool to be part of something like this.
And just the fact that we're able to continue to write
the story through the paranormal research aspect of things,
I think is very, very cool.
Coming up, a mysterious object in the Brazilian sky...
[speaking foreign language]
...that could be a portal to another world.
[speaking foreign language]
2 Wormholes.
A theoretical system of pathways that, by folding
space and time,
allow one to travel from one universe
to another... in an instant.
Something that, if true, could explain how
beings from distant planets
or even other realms of existence...
enter and leave our world.
And while finding a portal to one of these cosmic routs
has proven elusive,
if the footage of a photographer in Brazil
is any indication,
it may simply come down to being in the right place...
at the right time.
[speaking foreign language]
May 2nd, 2025. Outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil,
a photographer is in the middle of a shoot
on the Morro Da Capuava hills,
when the photo op is interrupted...
by something truly bizarre.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
In the distance,
a long vertical object...
[witness speaking Portuguese]
...that is seemingly
standing by itself in the clouds.
[witness speaking foreign language]
And the group of observers are totally baffled.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
We can file this one under weird AF things in the sky.
[Mark] It's hard to tell exactly how large it is,
but based on how far away it is,
and its relationship to the size of that cloud,
it seems to be quite huge.
And it almost appears to be an enormous obelisk.
An obelisk with some very unusual characteristics.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
It looks like a person or a pole or something that is
just standing on the cloud, casting a shadow
from the light source, in this case, the sun.
I found all kinds of videos and photographs of shadows
on clouds, of planes, of different things,
but I didn't find anything that looked like this.
[Steve] If this was some kind of a weird illusion or some kind of
dynamic being created from the sun itself,
we would see that faltering, changing, dissipating,
moving, etcetera, but it doesn't.
It remains in the exact same spot stationary for all to see,
so it's definitely not something caused
by the illumination or the light from the sun itself.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
This literally looked like -- almost like
a cylinder space station in the sky, right?
Like, in the clouds.
I don't know what that could be.
Like, it looks made. It looks manufactured.
Manufactured?
But for what purpose, exactly?
[Lynne] Thinking of this potentially as some sort of opening,
like a rift or a doorway to somewhere else,
another dimension, another plane of existence.
If it's a doorway, if it's a portal,
then it's a physical one.
Then it's some sort of door frame in the sky,
through which is who knows what.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
If so...
let's just hope whatever is on the other side of it...
has good intentions.
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
What should you do in the event
you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Check your videos and then... check them again.
Be aware of the dangers....
Is there a certain something that's keeping you
stuck in this house?
...lurking around you.
Trust that what you're seeing...
[Brian] What the [bleep]?
...really is something paranormal.
And...
[witnesses speaking foreign language]
...if you do catch something,
email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.
Your footage could be seen right here on
"Paranormal Caught on Camera."