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- No way. What is that? - I have no freaking idea.

...Civil War specters.

To actually get a full-body apparition is extremely rare.

A sea monster surfaces.

The creature doesn't look like anything else

I've ever seen as far as cryptids are concerned.

UFOs invade Philadelphia.

is that in the sky?

It damn sure wasn't planes, it damn sure wasn't balloons.

I don't know what the hell this is.

A haunted chapel.

...all by itself.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe.

Every day, countless videos hit the Internet

from around the globe from people who have believed

they have witnessed something paranormal.

And as more and more cameras are pointed at the world around us

it is becoming clear there may be something else out there.

In July, 1863, the Union and Confederate armies

converged in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

to fight the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War,

killing thousands.

The field where the soldiers fought has been left preserved

for generations since.

Many who have visited this hallowed ground

have reported seeing specters of those still haunting the site,

but now there may finally be video proof.

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day bloodbath

where there were more than 51,000 casualties.

You've got battlefield amputations

and all the agony of this ghastly, ghastly battle.

Jay Parker and his friend Rob traveled to this

Civil War battlefield to investigate firsthand

whether long-time reports of ghosts in the area

were really true.

All right, we're here in Gettysburg.

Where should I stop?

Just pull off here.

Okay, film something in the area?

Yeah.

Rob, that's on the video, and I went to Gettysburg.

We've always had a fascination for the paranormal,

and with all those tragic deaths,

we figured there's plenty of paranormal activity in the area.

Just pull off here.

The area where Jay and Rob stopped

is the location of Pickett's Charge,

an unsuccessful assault by the South

that cost them the battle.

All right, so let's sit here for a while

and just kind of film the camera.

It said there's activity here before.

There is a lot of reported paranormal activity

in Gettysburg, and that's not a surprise

because places with a lot of emotion attached to it,

those are the places that tend to have a lot of activity.

A lot of these people who were killed were just buried

haphazardly, some were not buried at all,

so you could see where there is restless spirits.

Colleagues of mine have reported hearing cannons,

and horses galloping by, people are constantly

seeing apparitions in the fields.

I was told by a ranger there's been some activity,

they've heard some rumors about seeing some sightings

of something that they can't explain.

We pulled over on the side of the road,

and, you know, didn't want to wander around at night,

so we were just sitting there, waiting probably 30 minutes,

and that's when it popped up.

Holy -- Holy crap.

Down by the cannon. Do you see that?

What is that?

Wait, shh.

Oh, my God.

Is it -- No way.

What is that?

I have no freaking idea.

Did you get that on the camera?

I -- It's recording.

Oh, my gosh! Did you see that?

You see what looks like a figure of a soldier.

It seems that you can even see the uniform and the cap.

And he sort of meanders through the cannons,

and then walks away, and disappears.

Holy -- Holy crap.

Down by the cannon. Do you see that?

What is that?

It appeared along the cannons are Pickett's Charge,

a clear, translucent look came up,

and it looked like a solider.

No way. What is that?

I have no freaking idea.

Oh, my gosh! Did you see that?

Maybe it was one of the casualties of the war

still looking for his troops, or still looking for the home,

or to leave, and is just stuck there.

To actually get a full-body apparition is extremely rare.

It's just kind of going about its business,

doesn't seem to recognize that the people are there,

nor does it really seem to care.

Perhaps this is an entity

that feels it has unfinished business on the battlefield.

We've been there before, you see glimpses of light and flashes.

But we've never seen anything

this evident of paranormal activity.

I told Rob, I said, "If you hadn't been sitting here

recording what was going on,

I wouldn't have believed we'd caught anything."

Gettysburg is considered to be

one of the most haunted locales in the United States.

All that pain, and death,

and fear all concentrated on one event leaves a mark,

and that continues to perpetuate even today.

No way. What is that?

I have no freaking idea.

The Loch Ness Monster is perhaps

the most famous sea monster in the world,

attracting upwards of 1 million visitors a year

to the small body of water it calls home.

But just across the North Channel from Scotland

lies Ireland's Lough Foyle, where a newly spotted creature

may soon put this small estuary on the cryptid-hunting map.

This lough, like many loughs in Ireland and Scotland,

have long been the source of stories

of the mysterious creatures that live in them.

Obviously, most people's mind turns

immediately to the Loch Ness Monster.

But almost all these bodies of water

have stories of creatures that live in them

that are not necessarily your standard,

run-of-the-mill fish.

In the fall of 2013, college student Conall Melarkey

and fellow classmates set out on two boats on Lough Foyle

to film a class project, but what these students captured

was more than just a passing grade.

Hello, my name is Conall Melarkey.

We sailed a boat out into the lake

for about 15 minutes or so, I'd say,

and my friend Matthew in the boat

across from us screams over, "Guys, look over there!

I don't know what it is, it looks like a sea monster!"

You just see this very large creatures

making its way through the water very, very quickly.

What resulted from that was just a mix of hysteria and confusion

because we didn't know what it was.

In the case of this video, you have a mass

moving through the water,

and you might be able to see an eye or a brow ridge

just above the water.

It's kind of left to your imagination

what's below the surface.

We can't really gauge the size,

but this one mass is quite large,

and it's moving quite rapidly.

It seems longer than the boat that it passes,

but yet it's ocean footprint,

or its water footprint isn't that big.

I mean, it actually seems to be moving through quite discretely.

The creatures doesn't look like anything else

I've ever seen as far as cryptids are concerned.

It's almost like an amorphous blob, and it seems very rigid.

It just kind of looked like "What the hell is that?

Why is it moving so quickly?

Where is it -- Where are you going?" You know?

And it's just kind of cruising by,

and it didn't seem to fit any sort of description

of any lake monster I've heard of.

Looking at this footage, you can clearly tell that's not a whale.

I mean, it's got too much of a sort of reptilian texture to it.

This is something that people don't see on an everyday basis.

This is something very, very unique,

and something that probably hasn't been brought

to anyone's attention before.

But where could this creature have come from?

And why hasn't anyone seen it before?

In some parts, the lough is about 50 feet deep,

but there are deeper portions,

and the lough itself opens up into the Atlantic Ocean.

The oceans are vastly unexplored, 95% unexplored.

We don't know what's down there.

Because of climate change

and the temperature change in the water,

a lot of creatures are now

coming up to the surface for food,

perhaps for warmth, whatever it might be.

The creature disappeared under the surface,

leaving in its wake shock and disbelief.

As it happened, we were more confused than anything,

but we made a very quick decision

to turn the boat around and sail away from the lough

because I don't think it would've been a good idea

to risk the chance of the boat being toppled over

by the creature had we stayed there longer.

Though this footage caught the world's attention

as possible proof of an as-yet undiscovered cryptid,

there has been no explanation for what the students saw,

and the creature has not been seen since.

I'm very grateful to say

that I've captured something so unbelievable

and so strange that it managed to spark much conversation

and dialogue amongst the world's population.

Coming up...

Is there something on my back?

...a ghost gets physical.

Oh, my God, dude.

For years, the small town of Kingston,

near the Tennessee River, has been been spooked

by a legend about a young mother

whose unborn child was violently ripped from her womb,

then nailed to a tree during a Satanic ritual,

and she was then left to die.

While some residents may try to disregard

the gruesome story as a work of fiction,

three recent visitors to those woods learned

that the mother may be haunting the site to this very day.

Late one night back in December of 2017,

paranormal enthusiasts Jon Turner, Tim Cunningham,

and Michael Richardson turned on their camera

to investigate the supposedly haunted woods near Kingston.

We are here at a really freaking creepy place,

and this place is super-haunted,

lots of Satanic rituals have happened here,

so we got to be real careful, guys.

Let me give you a little bit of back story here.

This is called the Witch's Circle.

There's been several bodies found here,

- hasn't there, Michael? - Yes, several bodies.

Deep within these Kingston woods,

there is what is known to some as a Witch's Circle.

A Witch's Circle, it technically is a sacred working space.

This is where spell casting would take place,

or if people are of a negative purpose,

it would be for hexing, or sacrifice.

Now, what happened here in the 1960s, a lady,

a pregnant lady was drug here by Satanic worshippers,

and they actually cut her baby from her,

and sacrificed it by nailing it to the tree.

They forced her to watch this, and she was murdered after

she watched her baby be pulled from her and murdered.

This is dark.

It appears that these people have gone to an area

where a lot of magical activity is reported to have taken place,

and by alleged witches,

and that this has caused a terrific haunting in the area,

and if you go there at a certain time,

then you might have something unusual happen.

We're gonna go beyond this barrier here.

This has been closed off for a reason.

So, follow us, guys.

Jon, Tim, and Michael bravely ventured deep into the woods

to find the exact spot of the fabled Witch's Circle.

Dude, there's just such an eerie feeling here

knowing what happened here.

To this day, the journey to the site of the ritual sacrifice

still gives them men shivers.

We get out, and we start on this trail,

and already, you know, you have this kind of vibe

that you feel like you shouldn't be there.

We're in the middle of nowhere, no cell signal.

We're going to go to the area

of where the baby was nailed to the tree.

This place is just so eerie.

Did you hear that?

I just keep hearing something.

It's almost like we're being followed.

As we're walking along this little trail,

it's very overgrown, it's very thick.

It felt like something was walking with us

the entire time, watching from the tree lines.

I swear that's something like right here beside us.

It was pretty unnerving.

Guys, we just found bones.

I don't know that they're human.

That's spooky, guys.

Let's head on back this way and find that tree.

After an hour's journey,

Jon led the men to the exact tree at the Witch's Circle

where the killing took place.

Guys, this is the tree

that the baby was nailed to.

This is so -- Just to think of what happened here is so eerie.

But that's when things got particularly scary.

Okay, I hear something in the woods.

There's something out here with me.

What is it?

Hello?

Dude.

- Did y'all see that? - Yeah.

I remember hearing something move near me,

and as I turn, I see a branch kind of moving,

but I see no signs of animals.

And that kind of weirded me out,

and we were all hearing what sounded like whispers

coming from the woods near the tree.

What was that?

Hello?

I thought I heard somebody say something.

I was scared, creeped out, and I really --

I don't have an answer for what we were hearing near the tree.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay.

I was standing next to the tree, and I had a really bad vibe,

because at that point,

I had feeling like there was something there

that just didn't want us there.

I think it's time to go, guys.

I'm legitimately getting really nervous right now.

As they decided to move on from the grisly site,

Tim suddenly felt something.

Dude! Oh, my God, dude.

As I walked away from the tree,

I felt this terrible burning down my back.

It was like somebody had placed a hot coal,

or poured like a liquid metal down my shirt.

Oh, my God, guys, look at his back.

As he's walking away from the tree,

he starts complaining of his back burning,

and that's when we lift up his shirt

to reveal these four God-awful scratch marks on this back.

I mean, that's burning right now.

It feels like it's on fire.

Look at that! It goes all the way up his back!

This is reported quite often in paranormal investigations,

especially in areas that are highly charged

with a lot of negative energy.

People will feel pushed, shoved, scratched, even bitten,

and they will pull up their clothing and discover

that it looks like something has actually scratched them.

That's legit, like, welts, man.

Something has scratched the hell out of you.

It's got a hold of you.

That's fingernail marks, man.

Man, it feels like liquid fire right now.

Oh, my God.

When it comes to things like scratches,

the first instinct is to panic.

"Oh, I'm being attacked.

It scratched us, it's trying to hurt me,

it's demonic, it's witches, it's something malevolent."

But that's not always the case.

That is something that is very common.

It's always the same type of scratch mark.

It doesn't break the skin,

it sort of just, like, a raised kind of scratch.

Are you okay, Tim?

A lot of people seem to believe that it's the mark of a demon.

Not trying to kill you,

but just kind of giving you a little bit of a warning,

and I think that might be what's happening here.

I felt like something was trying to protect itself.

Like, maybe it was the woman trying to protect and fight off,

or she still thinks she's fighting off

the people that abducted her.

Jon, Michael, and Tim decided to heed the warning

and get out of those woods as soon as possible.

I feel that we weren't supposed to be there,

but to be able to document

this and capture it for other people to see,

and to show that evidence that there is things out there

that we can't explain,

it was a good moment, and it was -- you know,

I'm happy that I caught that so people can see this,

and it's out there for the public eye.

Coming up...

UFO fleets invade the skies.

Those ain't birds. Do you see that?

I mean, what the is that?

Experts classify different UFO sightings

around the world by size and shape of the object spotted.

From flying saucers, to black triangles,

to sky snakes, to motherships.

But lately, there's a new breed of UFO

that some have spotted taking over the skies,

and they're definitely not afraid to be seen.

The more they are spotted, the more we have to ask...

do they come in peace?

In November 2018, Ernest Smith and his friends

were walking through their West Philadelphia neighborhood

when something in the sky caught their attention.

is that in the sky?

Those ain't birds.

That look like angels or something.

- Cuz, it's crazy. - Real!

Do you see that jawn?

That look like wings on that big jawn in the middle.

I mean, what the is that?

While we coming up the street,

my cousin, he peeped it first.

He like, "Man, that's probably balloons."

I'm like, "Bro, those ain't no balloons."

Like, "Balloons is not moving like that, bro.

That's something different."

Ernest pointed his phone at the sky

and caught what appeared to be a fleet of shiny UFOs

slowly moving overhead.

Over Philadelphia.

Fleet of UFOs over the city of Philadelphia.

I'm like, "Yo, I don't know what the hell this is."

It damn sure wasn't planes, it damn sure wasn't balloons,

it damn sure wasn't gas.

It wasn't none of that.

That was an unidentified flying object floating in the sky.

There was a bunch of them.

is that in the sky?

Here, we're looking at hundreds

of individually, perhaps, piloted ships.

They do seem to have some intelligence

regarding their movements.

- Cuz, that's crazy. - Real

Do you see that, Jonah?

That look like wings

on that thing, Jonah, in the middle.

What the is that?

Typically, when it comes to UFO sightings and stories,

you usually hear about one craft,

or maybe a small squadron, maybe three to four.

As far as fleets go, we're beginning to see videos

that detail dozens of ships, either flying in formation

or just seemingly randomly in the sky.

Over Philadelphia.

Fleet of UFOs over the city of Philadelphia.

It's interesting that they were over a more populated place,

like Philadelphia.

Obviously, if there was an intelligent mission

going on here,

they knew they were going to be seen.

It was during the day.

It's footage like this,

that can be corroborated with so many people,

that I think is really starting to give people

a little bit more confidence

when it comes to their belief in UFOs.

Philadelphia isn't the only place

where this phenomenon has occurred.

Just a month before, in October 2018,

a squadron of small UFOs escorting a larger ship

was filmed over The Hague in the Netherlands.

They seem to be flying in some coordinated pattern

which is different from a pattern

that an Earth-based craft would fly in.

Our formations are usually pretty rigid.

Theirs seem to be a lot more fluid,

where they seem to have some sort of propulsion system

other than ours

where they can nimbly go up and down

and side to side in coordinated efforts.

is that in the sky?

For Ernest Smith,

his own sighting has only just begun

to pique his interest in what might be out there.

It got me to a point where I'm looking up UFOs.

That blew my mind, bro,

'cause I ain't never seen nothing in the skies before

as far as that.

That me up.

Ernest has joined an exclusive club

of those who have witnessed such a phenomenon in person,

and, thankfully, he wasn't too stunned

to record this astonishing footage

for the rest of us.

It was definitely an interesting thing to see

when you look up in the sky.

My scientific brain wants to know more.

What are they doing here? What do they want with us?

These are questions I have.

If they don't want to be discovered,

why are they flying in fleets?

Over Philadelphia.

Fleet of UFOs over the city of Philadelphia.

Coming up...

Are you still here?

...a dead minister returns.

Is that you? Is that you?!

The small town of Brampton, England,

dates back more than a thousand years,

with reports of paranormal activity

going back just as long.

Usually, residents could always find solace

at one of the local churches,

but recently, parishioners at Cortonwood Chapel

started reporting a number of unexplained disturbances,

including rooms suddenly getting cold

and hearing disembodied voices.

Soon, some suspected a deceased former minister

may be to blame.

After several instances

of objects being inexplicably moved

within the chapel from one place to another,

paranormal investigator Phil Sinclair

was called in June of 2018

to answer whether Cortonwood was, in fact, haunted.

I am a paranormal investigator.

With equipment in hand, Phil turned on his camera

and entered the chapel's recreation room,

where much of the reported activity was centered,

to investigate.

If there are...

any entities

that reside in this building,

I would like to hear from you.

If you can hear me,

I ask you politely to make yourself known.

In this clip, we see a paranormal investigator

going through the steps of an average investigation.

He's going to a site that has reported activity,

and he's asking questions that are related to that activity.

Are you the person that has been moving things around in here?

Are you the one?

In the field, we try to pick up

those voices that we don't hear with our ears,

so he's holding a digital audio recorder

so that he can capture EVPs,

which is Electronic Voice Phenomenon.

Whereabouts in this building are you?

Are you here?

What is your name, please?

What is your reasoning for being here?

Then, suddenly, Phil got a seemingly demonic reply.

Minister.

Minister.

If you can tap a wall,

if you can throw something, maybe,

let me know you are here.

This is your perfect opportunity...

to show that you are here.

Are you a minister here?

What?

Is that you? Is that you?!

After he asks it, the camera flutters about

and turns around to opposite, to where he's looking at,

and you see a door start to close,

and it seems to be closing with enough force

that it's maybe not wind.

Is that you? Is that you?!

Hello?

Have you locked that door?

I don't know what it is about doors

that seem to attract spirits,

but maybe it's something that they can easily move

because it's, like, on hinges.

Is that you? Is that you?!

Was this, in fact, the minister from years past?

Phil thinks the evidence is certainly there.

Minister.

Coming up, a dead alien found in Siberia.

The cold, unforgiving wasteland of Siberia

covers almost twice as much land as the contiguous United States,

yet has a population smaller than California,

probably due to temperatures

that usually fall well below zero.

It's not the kind of place

most people want to move to willingly,

but recently, two teenagers discovered that

some extraterrestrial neighbors may have taken up residence.

In March of 2011, there were numerous reports of UFOs

in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.

A UFO hotspot really is a place

where you have a lot of sightings, and I can imagine

if it's a cold, isolated part of the world,

as Siberia is,

there's probably not a lot going on.

I would say it's a very similar reason

to why you tend to see cryptids in more wooded areas

that don't have a lot of people in them.

UFOs or aliens may not want to be seen by people,

so they go to places that have less people in them.

A month after that rash of Siberian UFO sightings,

two friends fed the frenzy

by capturing one of the most talked-about paranormal images

ever caught on camera.

In April 2011, Ivan Baturin and Artem Fedotov

were walking through the wintry Siberian countryside

when they came upon the site of an unbelievable discovery.

They approached what appeared to be a body lying in the snow.

Two people on a handheld camera walking through snow,

and as we get closer to this tree and this brush,

you're not exactly sure what you're expecting.

They took a closer look at the lifeless figure.

The first thing I was surprised to see --

that this creature was small.

Maybe a foot, foot-and-a-half at most.

Its leg had been severed or cut off,

or something had happened to it.

Completely naked, seemed gaunt, emaciated,

just lying there, frozen.

When he got closer and zoomed in,

it seemed fleshy, it seemed like it could have veins,

it seemed like it had some sort of damage to it.

After filming the video,

Ivan and Artem uploaded it to the Internet

to show the world their discovery.

The dead alien quickly became an overnight sensation,

raking in millions of views and sparking debates worldwide.

Amidst all the attention, Russian government officials

quickly stepped in and called the video a hoax.

But their hope to quell speculation

that aliens had landed in Siberia

had the opposite effect.

The Kremlin had got involved,

and here's where the conspiracy theorists

are going to have a field day,

because so many people are saying,

"Oh, this is alien life. What's going on?

What's the government hiding? What are they doing?"

People didn't buy the denials,

and accusations of a cover-up naturally came next.

Why would the government even take time to talk about this

if it is so outlandish, if it is so ridiculous?

It seems as if the government wouldn't waste their time

to talk about this or to debunk this as real or fake.

But if you're looking at it from a governmental perspective,

this could be very destabilizing for people to know

that alien visitors who have probably superior technology

and may be superior to us in many ways

are here on the planet.

I think that governments all over the planet

are aware of this, monitor it,

and probably marshal and manipulate

what we are allowed to know.

So, if this was, in fact, not a hoax,

the extraterrestrials may already be here,

and they find Siberia just as unforgiving as humans.

Coming up, a hotel famous for hauntings.

Something is going on here. I don't know what.

I think I might get out of here now.

Providence, Rhode Island

is one of America's oldest and most haunted cities.

From Crescent Park and University Hall

to the Providence Anthenaeum and Thomas Street,

ghosts have been reported all over

this nearly-400-year-old city.

But many in Providence say

if you want to truly experience some paranormal activity,

head over to the infamous Biltmore Hotel.

Open since 1922,

the Biltmore was a famous speakeasy during Prohibition

and has been the site of Satanic rituals

and several murders.

The Biltmore Hotel has got such a rich history.

A lot of nefarious things went on in the Biltmore Hotel,

and a lot of energy, a lot of emotion left over

here at the Biltmore Hotel.

It could easily be haunted.

There are stories of people sleeping there

and literally hearing things go bump in the night.

Its ghostly past

has even inspired the fictional horror hotels

from "The Shining" and "Psycho,"

but there's plenty of frights to be had in the real world.

In October 2018,

when Jack Stephens visited the Biltmore for work,

he soon found out why it earned a reputation

as one of the most haunted hotels in America,

and, thankfully, had his camera ready.

This is my hotel room in the Providence Biltmore.

This is Room 1102,

and they say that this hotel is a little bit haunted.

The overhead light in my room

has been flicking on and off by itself,

so I thought that I'd better get it on video.

My name is Jack Stephens.

I was there for work in Providence for about a week.

I know that the Biltmore Hotel

has had a long and storied history.

I was in my room watching TV,

and I had seen the flickering lights,

and I seemed to notice

that they were coming on and off every so often.

It seemed like they would begin flickering

any time there was a woman's voice on the TV.

As you can see, that's the lamp. It's hanging.

There it goes.

Did you see that?

Spirits, because they are composed of purely energy,

it's often thought that they can interact

with electrical things that we have,

so when lights go off, when power goes down,

when our equipment doesn't work,

we assume that it's a spirit trying to manifest.

There it goes.

Energy cannot be created, nor destroyed.

What happens after death? Where does the energy go?

There's a lot of speculation that,

indeed, it would reside in electrical currents.

I'm the only one in this room,

and this is the light switch over here.

That, as you can see,

it is clearly in the off position right now.

Thomas Edison, the father of our modern electric age,

tried to invent a device

by which he could communicate with the dead.

He was not successful,

but just the fact that he believed that he could do it

through electronic means is good evidence

that there's probably some rational theories

that ghosts have an effect on electricity.

Okay, so, I don't know how it is doing this.

Holy

As the light started swaying,

it became clear

that Jack may not be alone in the room after all.

The fact that we had more

than just the flickering of the lights,

and we have the entity

actually seeming to swing the light fixture

tells me there's a lot of energy and a lot of life left,

for lack of a better term, within this entity.

Do you see that?

The lamp is actually swinging.

Oh, my God.

It's still flicking on and off.

Jack was admirably calm

in the face of what very well may have been

a truly haunting experience.

Maybe a spirit from the hotel's more colorful times

was hanging out there with me in my room that night.

Maybe it was just a friendly hello,

or maybe there was no message at all.

Something is going on here. I don't know what.

I think I might get out of here now.

This is very freaky.

Whatever it was messing with the lights,

Jack seems thankful he was one of the lucky few

to encounter something paranormal

and live to tell about it.

I was rather delighted to capture it on camera.

You know, I think that modern science leads us

towards more reasonable explanations,

but the kid inside all of us

hopes that maybe this is a rare encounter

with some exciting, unseen dimension.

There it goes.

If you witness something paranormal,

here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep your eyes on the skies.

Don't forget to use the zoom.

Make the trek to where the spirits are.

And if you docatch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen

right here on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."