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...antique-store specters...

What we are witnessing here is a poltergeist.

...invaders from space...

I don't know what to make of this.

It's just baffling.

God knows what it is.

...a reclusive beast spotted...

You can see the silhouette -- the shoulders, the head,

and you can even make out lighter patches

in the chest that could resemble pecs.

...creatures of the night...

I felt something.

Like, I felt eyes on me, and I just felt

this, like, danger.

...and even more paranormal footage

you have to see...to believe.

Every day, countless people witness something

they believe is paranormal,

and with more cameras out there recording than ever,

it's becoming clear with each new video they may be right.

Owning an antique store involves knowing the story

behind each item in the shop.

After all, in antiques, history is everything.

No one knows that more than Daniel Parker,

owner and operator of Barnsley Antiques Centre

in Barnsley, England,

because in his shop, some antiques

seem to have brought some extra history with them.

There's quite a connection between secondhand objects

and spirit activity.

I've documented a lot of instances

of spirits being attached to things.

They can become attached to objects for any reason.

There might be something related to the previous owner.

For Parker, it began in September 2014

when he bought the shop

and started preparing it for the public.

My name's Daniel Parker.

The next disturbance occurred after Daniel hung a mannequin

with some wooden hoops from the ceiling as a decoration.

Hooking cameras up in the shop

proved to be a pivotal moment for Parker

and for paranormal enthusiasts everywhere

once an electrician noticed something he couldn't explain.

Daniel went straight to the CCTV footage

and was stunned by what he saw.

The one thing that really strikes you

is the violence with which the glass shatters at

and the way it flies out into the room.

That's a pretty intense amount of energy.

The trajectory of the glass

looks like it's being shattered from within.

It's shooting out.

I'm no ballistics expert,

but I'm not 100% sure on how that would happen,

which makes it an interesting piece of evidence.

Things became even more curious

when a second camera provided another look at this phenomenon.

What we are witnessing here is a poltergeist.

With poltergeists, you do have physical contact with objects,

so it is extremely possible that something as fragile as glass

would shatter under the pressure

and power of poltergeist activity.

If someone is attached to, say, a dresser or a desk

or something like that, after life,

they continue to hang around this object,

and if it meant enough to them in life,

it certainly would mean enough to them in death.

Which make antique shops a natural target for spirits

from all walks of life.

Antique shops are in the business

of collecting old things, you know?

Those things will have energies attached to them.

Those things will have stories that go along with them,

and when they're all together in a confined space,

it's very possible that energies will clash.

They won't meld so well,

and sometimes that can cause a haunting.

And as time went on, the possible haunting

of the store became more and more evident.

Poltergeists are, by definition,

noisy spirits who do things like this to get attention.

Daniel and his family have become

somewhat accustomed to its presence.

Despite the shop's many unexplained occurrences,

Daniel remains on the lookout

for any more reasonable explanations.

Stonehenge is one of the most recognizable sights

in the world.

Some speculate that the centuries-old

unexplained rock structure in the middle of England

could be the work of extraterrestrials,

but if you ask locals near this ancient wonder of the world,

those extraterrestrials have recently migrated

just up the road from the legendary formation.

A 25-minute drive from Stonehenge,

Cley Hill in Wiltshire

is a documented hot spot for UFO activity.

Take, for example, this video shot in August of 2018

by a passing motorist.

It started off innocuous enough

as two aircrafts fly side-by-side

at a seemingly normal speed through the cloudy gray sky,

but watch closely as the aircrafts fly behind the hill.

Suddenly, two aircrafts turned into five...

...and the five somehow reverse direction

on a dime in synchronized fashion.

As you watch it, the two find friends,

and then there's more of them, so clearly not just drones.

The more you watch it, the more mystifying it becomes.

The five aircrafts continued to fly back and forth

in complete synchronicity...

...until they disappeared behind the hill

one more time...

...where they once again

turned back into two aircrafts instead of five.

These lights that joined together

and kept breaking apart, joining together

and breaking apart, seemingly cyclical

but not in a defined pattern, so it wasn't like something

that was a reflection from a Ferris wheel

or something that was fixed on the ground.

The two aircrafts continued to fly together

until they finally disappeared into the distance.

So what was it that attracted these things to this place?

Was it the proximity to Stonehenge,

or could it have been related to the nearby hill?

Cley Hill has an old Iron Age fort there in ruins,

so we've got a potentially historic site,

if not a sacred site,

and it's located in a part of Wiltshire

where there has been historically

a lot of UFO activity and a lot of crop-circle activity.

This footage was actually captured not too far

from Warminster, a town that is famous for its UFO sightings.

Back in the 1960s,

they were regularly tormented by black triangles

that they referred to as the Warminster Things.

These flying objects -- we still haven't seen the technology

that it would take to replicate that.

At least not any technology

that's been publicly acknowledged.

But the question must be asked,

are there some governments out there

that secretly possess military aircrafts

with capabilities of seemingly extraterrestrial origin?

There are military planes that fly around Wiltshire

on all kinds of maneuvers,

so some of these lights could be related to military craft.

We don't know what they are or what they're doing.

It seems as if there is a correlation

with military bases and UFO activity.

Now, perhaps that's because this is a technology

that we don't know about yet,

or perhaps extraterrestrials and intelligent life elsewhere

know that those are

where our military installations are,

and, of course, if they would want to wage an attack

or get to know secret documents, that's where they would be.

Definitive answers about these strange craft

may not be provided by official channels,

but theories as to their origins

continue to spread from those seeking the truth.

It's a common trope with conspiracy theorists

that since the Roswell crash,

the advancement of our technology

has exponentially jumped.

Technology is getting smaller.

Look at all the integration of electronics

that we have in almost every facet of our life.

Is that a coincidence?

Conspiracy theorists would like to say

it comes from somewhere outside of our planet.

Coming up --

terrifying phantom phone calls...

...and a rare sighting of an elusive monster.

Whenever your phone has a new voice mail,

it's usually from a loved one,

a work colleague,

or perhaps an unwanted telemarketer.

But for one Alberta, Canada, resident,

the messages in his voice-mail box

weren't from any of the usual suspects.

They were from...the dead.

When a young family moved into a house

in Penhold, Canada, in 2009,

strange things started happening immediately --

strange enough that they reached out

to paranormal investigative team Rona and Ben Anderson.

My name is Rona Anderson.

I am a paranormal investigator and also a psychic medium

that communicates with spirits that have not crossed over.

We had received an e-mail

from the woman who lived in this house.

From what she described,

there was definitely some kind of paranormal activity going on.

She had deep scratches on her back.

She could hear talking at night when she was trying to sleep

and a lot of dark shadow figures.

When the Andersons arrived, they quickly detected

that the spirits of two deceased men haunted the house.

I had picked up that they had been into

some really dark stuff --

not only drugs, but also kidnapping small animals

and doing things to them,

And when I was in the basement,

I detected that there had been a pentagram on the floor

that had been scrubbed over.

When Rona attempted to rid the house of the spirits,

they decided to fight back,

this time targeting the haunted woman's husband.

He just all of a sudden looked at his phone

and saw that he had two voice messages,

and when he listened to them, he called Ben,

and then Ben called me from the basement,

and I came running up, and we all listened to it.

You have two saved messages.

First saved voice message...

The creepy voice mail of screaming --

a voice that sounds almost demonic in nature --

has been documented in other kinds of hauntings,

and I've even had it happen to myself.

Second message...

I was in the basement

trying to send them into the light, as we call it.

I think the two spirits were trying to scare him

into shutting down what I was doing in the basement

because they didn't want to leave.

Given what these people were doing concurrently

when the messages came through,

this probably wasn't coincidence.

It just seems too specific to the situation at hand.

The idea that you can capture

a disembodied voice out of thin air

with a simple electronic device opens so many doors.

The possibilities are endless, quite frankly --

where these things could be coming from.

Are they interdimensional?

Are they paranormal?

Are they ghostly? I mean, what is it?

The mystery is pretty much the scariest part of this.

Does it show where they were sent from?

I'm just curious if it says "unknown number," or...

- I was sitting where you were. - Uh-huh.

And my voice mail just went off --

no ring, nothing. It just...

Surprisingly, this type of haunting

is more common than you might think.

Obviously, a ghost didn't pick up the cellphone

and know the guy's phone number to call.

It was, "Hey, I've got this message

that I want to get to you, and the only way

that I can get it to you is to focus my energy

onto some kind of recording media."

This has been happening for as long

as recording media has been around.

I've gotten phone calls where I've gotten weird messages

under strange circumstances -- crying, wailing,

and always on an unknown number.

What the spirits are trying to do is get your attention,

or if they're negative spirits, not only get your attention,

but scare the heck out of you

because once they scare you,

they actually do absorb energy from your fear.

Perhaps this incident provided the spirits

with the energy they needed

because they were never heard from again.

That was the end of it.

We never heard anything back

that they had any more things going on.

Eventually, they did move

because if you have something like this,

and you've never experienced the paranormal,

even after the paranormal beings have been removed,

a lot of these people still can't live there.

Since humanity began staking its claim in the wilderness,

legends have been passed down of a mysterious,

untamed creature lurking at the edges of civilization.

Most people know it as... Bigfoot,

but despite Bigfoot's celebrated stature,

so few have ever laid eyes on the enigmatic cryptid.

A recent video from a Washington state father and son showed

just how elusive it can be.

The Bigfoot are spoken of in legend

all around the world.

You have the Yeti, you know --

the big, great, white ape of the Himalayans.

They're all over the world, you know?

People are always talking about them.

Whatever the name is,

whatever the classification in the particular culture,

there is always a legend about a large, humanoid, hairy,

ape-like creature that is very elusive,

almost impossible to track down.

But Bigfoot's reclusive reputation

didn't intimidate Howard Lusk and his son, Gunnar.

On one fateful summer day in 2018,

the pair set out to an area

well known to local Bigfoot hunters

in hopes of laying eyes on the creature,

but they almost missed the sighting of a lifetime.

My name's Howard, and my son, Gunnar,

actually took the video on a hike

up in the Northern Cascades in Washington state.

Washington is a hotbed for Bigfoot Sasquatch sightings,

and it seems to be their perfect habitat.

The forests are very dense, very easy for them to elude us

in that they just have to duck behind

one of those many, many trees.

We actually didn't realize what we shot until we got home,

but we were hiking through the woods

up a fairly steep mountainside,

kind of rolling terrain in the trees.

It's just a big sea of trees.

I had my phone going. He had his phone going.

He zooms in on it, and then he zooms back out,

and I asked him if he saw anything,

and he said, no, he did not see anything.

We found it when we got home.

What they saw upon reviewing the footage

in fact looked like a Bigfoot staring back at them.

This figure looks almost the perfect image of the Bigfoot

that we've come to know through people's descriptions.

You can see the silhouette -- the shoulders, the head,

and you can even make out lighter patches

in the chest that could resemble pecs.

And we pretty much hit the floor when we found out what we got.

Since Bigfoot is historically thought of

as a hulking, towering presence,

there has been one common criticism

of the footage among skeptics.

Traditionally, Bigfoot is much larger --

about 6 feet tall, 6 1/2 feet tall --

a larger gait, larger shoulders,

and you sort of see it stalking the tree line.

This is much smaller than that.

Bigfoot believers believe that Bigfoot is a descendant

of a Miocene ape called Gigantopithecus.

It was supposed to be around like 8 to 10 feet in length.

But there are individuals who say they see smaller ones,

as though they might be juveniles, for example,

or maybe some other kind of species that might be

spotted less frequently than the larger ones.

From what I understand, I had never actually seen one,

but I hear they come in all shapes and sizes --

I mean, big ones, small ones.

There's not just one running around out there.

Maybe it was a smaller one.

And according to some theories,

Bigfoot's ambiguous size might not be the only reason

for its mythical elusiveness.

There are some Bigfoot believers that do think

that Bigfoot could move between dimensions.

The case for Bigfoot being interdimensional

has gained a lot of ground among researchers,

but Bigfoot exhibits a lot of characteristics

that Earth animals and creatures do not.

It has the ability to be invisible.

It can bi-locate or teleport itself

very quickly from one location to another.

These are all according to eyewitness reports.

If this Bigfoot did indeed teleport,

Howard and Gunnar, for their part,

are thankful they got a chance to spot it,

even for a few seconds.

To get this kind of shot --

this is about as good as it gets for people in this field.

Coming up --

a child who doesn't just wish she could fly.

For better or worse,

Russia has developed a worldwide reputation for secrecy,

spawned over decades of the Cold War

and only strengthened since the fall of the Soviet Union.

And at 22 people per square mile,

its modest population density

only adds to their perpetuating feeling of mystery.

That's why videos like the one we're about to show you

are especially unnerving.

A man was walking in the woods of Russia

with his dog, Tarzan...

Tarzan!

...when something captured Tarzan's attention.

Come here, Tarzan.

The man attempted to retrieve Tarzan,

but the dog ran away from his owner

and towards something off-camera.

Tarzan, come here!

The camera followed Tarzan's path

before finally revealing a young girl

levitating in the middle of the woods

under the watchful eye of an older woman.

But by the time Tarzan barked towards the young girl

and the woman...

...they're already on the ground running further into the woods

and taking any potentially reasonable explanations

with them.

When you see the woman and the girl,

it's truly bewildering.

The posture of the child is unusual.

Obviously, the fact that she's floating above the ground

is unusual.

Even the dog in the video seems perplexed by it.

Levitation is the easiest way that you can show to someone

that you have connection to the supernatural.

It, like, instantly defies our understanding of the universe,

so it's, like, a really quick visual way

that you can establish that, like,

"No, I don't follow the rules that you do."

A girl levitating --

this takes you back to the days of Grimm

and fairy tales where witches live in hovels,

and kids often get lost and devoured,

and what we see in this video is amazing.

It's incredible.

What's causing it or what's behind it,

I couldn't even begin to tell you.

And then the minute they realize they've been seen,

they take off.

Why?

In centuries past, there are cases

of people levitating, under certain circumstances.

For example, the stories of some saints

like Joseph of Cupertino, include cases of levitation,

and the levitation is made possible

by their spiritual state.

It usually occurs during intense contemplation or meditation.

It's a rapturous state of consciousness

that supposedly enables them, as a sign of their devotion,

to lift off the ground,

and Joseph of Cupertino was said to remain suspended in the air

for substantial periods of time.

And the way Joseph is said to have levitated

makes the comparison particularly noteworthy,

considering the obvious similarities to the girl

in the puzzling video.

But even if that did happen to a saint hundreds of years ago,

today, levitation is a thing of the past...right?

There's plenty of things that the human mind can do

that we just don't access on a daily basis.

Is levitation one of them?

Could this video be evidence

that someone has accessed that part of their mind

which allows them to float that way?

Maybe it wasn't coming from the child.

Maybe the person she was with was doing the levitation,

and that would be telekinetic powers.

So you are left with questions.

I do think levitation is possible,

maybe not to that height,

but to a lot of witches and in witchcraft,

like, levitation is a very real thing.

Tarzan!

To this day,

no one has come forward to take credit

or explain what happens in the video.

Its presence on the internet remains a total

and complete mystery,

and it's likely the people in it want it to stay that way.

I don't know. I feel like there is something

mysterious about Russia that would make people be like,

"Huh. Interesting.

I don't know. Maybe I do believe this one,"

versus if it was done in Oregon or Ohio

or, you know, my backyard.

Leave it to the Russians

to be able to pull something like this off.

Coming up...

...a shadow beast in the backyard.

Whenever you see something mysterious in the wild,

it may unnerve you.

Perhaps it even terrifies you.

But, ultimately, you usually have the option

of retreating back to shelter,

safe in the confines of familiar surroundings.

But what do you do when the unexplainable

comes to your own backyard?

One North Carolina couple has been confronted

with just such a nightmare.

In September 2018, Mattie Smith-Clark

and her husband began hearing disturbing sounds

out their window.

Listen.

Okay.

My name is Mattie Smith,

and I'm the one that shot this video.

We'd heard the sounds probably for about two weeks

before I investigated it.

Here. I want to shoot this out.

What the?

It just kind of got to the point where I was like,

"I need to check this out and see what this is.

Something's not normal here."

What the?

Fortunately for Mattie,

she didn't encounter anything that night,

at least not in the moment.

Hello?

It's hard to explain it

'cause I didn't see anything at the time,

but I felt something.

Like, I felt eyes on me, and I just felt, like,

this, like, danger, like, in me.

The feeling of being watched from the darkness

is a natural human phenomenon.

We've got our guards up. We don't know what's out there.

And there's a natural feeling

that something might be looking at us,

and we can't see them.

Every human sort of has that built-in defense system.

We're all intuitive in that way,

so the fact that that was heightened for her

in that moment probably means something was watching here.

I was terrified.

Like, something was telling me something was not right,

and that's why I left and stopped looking around.

It was only when Mattie went back into the house

and reviewed the footage that she realized

something really might have been watching her.

Watch again in slow motion...

...as something in front of the left side of Mattie's shed

seems to duck behind a nearby tree

right as the flashlight beam approaches.

When I first saw the head or hand

or whatever it is on the footage, I was like,

"Something was out there with me,

and there was a reason I was so scared.

You know, there is something in our yard.

I'm not crazy. My husband's not crazy."

This is interesting because we have the sound footage,

of course -- hearing those creepy noises...

...and then as she goes outside,

we also have the physical manifestation of this entity.

But since the footage of the object is so fleeting,

opinion is split on just exactly what this thing might be.

I guess this would fall under the category of a shadow person

because there's no form.

There's no definition to it,

and typically you'll see them peering or peeking.

It seems like they're mirroring our curiosity.

We're looking for them, and they're looking back at us.

What this reminded me of was a supernatural creature

that is purported to exist out west called a hidebehind,

and a hidebehind is a creature of amorphous form

that can make itself really narrow

so that it fits behind tree trunks,

and the hidebehind has been used as a reason

for the disappearance of loggers throughout history.

I'm seeing a lot of people suggest that it's a rake,

but the behavior of the rake --

it's really good at avoiding detection.

We've taken another video since, and it, like,

avoided our motion-camera lights

which I find to be really creepy

and also that it's intelligent.

It seemed to be averting the light.

It completely tried to stay off-camera,

so if this was something, it was cognizant

that it was being filmed, or at least being watched.

As of the beginning of 2019,

Mattie and her husband were still hearing sounds.

What isthat?

I don't know.

Come on.

What is that?

We hear them at least once a week,

if not every night of the week.

Come on.

Our plan is to get some night-vision security cameras.

Other than that, we don't really have a plan

because we are at a loss of what to do and where to go

and what even exactly we're dealing with.

And even if Mattie and her husband

do eventually capture the object on camera again,

chances are they still won't even know

what they're dealing with.

There are unexplained animals in this world.

Usually, they come upon you when you least expect it.

Coming up -- apparitions at sea.

Almost 3/4 of the Earth's

nearly 200-million-square-mile surface is covered in water,

and as mankind has spread across those unexplored depths,

history has been filled with tales of ships

facing certain doom out on the water.

But for some of these ill-fated vessels,

their story doesn't end at the bottom of the seas.

They return...as ghost ships.

The history of phantom ships goes back centuries,

probably as long as human beings

have put a boat out into the water.

There have been stories of Colonial-era ships, for example,

that have been seen out on the waters, especially in areas

where ships have been thought to go down or known to go down.

But ghost-ship sightings aren't just stuff of lore.

They still happen to this day.

There are some in modern times that have been seen, spotted.

Some actually show up , you know,

30, 40 years after being missing at sea, which is odd, too.

The Great Lakes has had many shipwrecks,

and some of these things still float around as ghostly ships.

And no one knows that more than Jason Asseliin,

a resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

who found himself on the shores of Lake Superior one day in 2017

and noticed something in the distance over the water.

I am Jason Asseliin,

and I filmed the video out on Lake Superior.

It was really windy that day.

The waves were a little bit too choppy

to get close to the water, and I looked.

I couldn't really make it out with my eyes,

so I grabbed my camera.

I really had to zoom in,

and I couldn't hold that nice, steady line,

but I really didn't know what it was until I uploaded it

to the computer later on and saw.

At first glance, this looks pretty freaky.

It looks like something straight out of a movie.

There's obviously something floating there.

You can certainly imagine the ghost ship

beyond that stormy horizon,

and you can kind of see the shapes

of a tremendous sail and the mast on the right.

There's no way a ship mast could be that high in the sky,

so it was pretty crazy, and my wife said,

"Wow. That looks like a ghost ship."

And I thought, "Perfect.

It's a ghost ship on Lake Superior."

If I were on the beach and saw this,

I certainly wouldn't be thinking logically.

I would think, "There's some alien ship

coming to shore to maraud us.

I really have no idea what this individual saw.

It's certainly compelling footage.

Perhaps this is indeed the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in 1975,

is rumored to be the source of ghostly apparitions of sailors

that are still seen as though they are out there

looking for their ship.

Well, with the Fitzgerald going down and some of those stories,

you can only imagine the souls that are lost out there,

and, you know, who knows what happens with...

If you believe in ghosts,

then you've got to believe in ghosts on Lake Superior.

Even if it's not the Edmund Fitzgeraldherself,

in this day and age,

it's just one of the multitudes of documented ghost-ship legends

that now threaten to be recorded on video by a lucky onlooker.

I do believe in, I guess you could say,

the paranormal, you know?

There's so many things people see every day,

and, luckily, with the age of cellphones and cameras,

it was something amazing to capture for everybody to see.

There's a reason it's a constant trope in Hollywood and in song.

A lot of trauma and a lot of tragedy took place at sea,

so there are a lot of people that believe

that's where a lot of mystic power lies.

Coming up -- mystery over Mongolia.

In the 13th century, Genghis Khan

and the fierce warriors of the Mongol Empire

rode out from the Steppes of Central Asia

to conquer lands from Europe to the sea of Japan.

Today, much of what was the Mongol Empire

is now part of China,

including the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.

But, recently, the descendants of the former conquerors

began to worry about being conquered themselves

by aggressors from very, very far away.

In October of 2018,

over the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia,

people spotted a strange, cone-shaped object

and light trail in the sky.

Confused and frightened residents all over captured

this otherworldly display on their camera phones.

I don't know what to make of this one

because it's a shape and a pattern in the sky

that I've never seen before.

It doesn't look like it's going anywhere, per se.

It's just baffling because it doesn't seem to have

a trajectory that would make logical sense to us.

There seems to be a cone-like projectile that swoops up,

and the cloud in its wake follows the object,

and then the object itself seems to vaporize.

God knows what it is.

Witnesses took to social media

with their theories, including speculation

that it was a spaceship coming to take people away.

When I first saw this,

I was trying to wrap my brain around it

so that it makes sense in our terms.

But it didn't strobe, It didn't move.

It just kind of floated there.

You don't know where to look.

Was the mass to the left maybe a thruster,

and that was just the wake?

Is that the exhaust?

Was the cone shape the focal point of it?

Is the perspective dead-on?

Are we looking down the barrel? Are we looking to the side?

There are lots of questions about it

that made it harder to identify.

The light show was also seen in cities all around China,

including Shaanxi, Chongqing, and Beijing.

It wasn't just there and then gone in a flash.

This UFO was seen in the sky for multiple minutes,

not just by one person, but by many people,

so whatever it is,

it seemed as if it wasn't concerned

that people were watching it.

I think the fact that it was captured from multiple angles

doesn't necessarily add legitimacy,

but it gives us more data,

and when trying to solve mysteries such as this,

that's very important.

Despite the mystifying nature of the glow,

some onlookers pondered reasonable explanations

for the phenomenon.

There is some speculation this is an Atlas rocket,

but if you look at the curve of the flight path of this UFO,

I don't think an Atlas rocket can fly like that.

It certainly can't navigate the skies

the way that this UFO is navigating the skies.

There's always the possibility

that it's some sort of Chinese technology

being tested that we don't understand.

The Chinese government, for their part,

has not confirmed any rocket tests on that day.

Until an explanation for these strange,

otherworldly lights can be confirmed,

the descendants of the great Khan can only watch

and wait.

Whether this be a military spacecraft

that's being tried out for the first time,

or a alien entity coming down to check out

what the Inner Mongolia lifestyle is like,

we just don't know.

If you witness something paranormal,

here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep the camera steady.

Check all your footage for something strange.

Watch out for hidden creatures.

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal: Caught on Camera."