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I want you to leave my house.

...a ghost in the attic...

I was absolutely terrified to go up and confront it.

...airplane apparitions...

I have heard of people having strange experiences

on a plane, this is the first time I've seen a video

I thought was authentic.

...fire rings in the Italian sky...

I would certainly be afraid if I were these guys as well

because you don't know what this is.

Ooh!

...a poltergeist captured live...

I definitely think it was some sort of paranormal entity.

...lost souls in the woods...

You get a pretty clear picture of her

and she looks like the girl from "The Ring"

found her way out of that well.

...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.

Chances are it's been a while since you last stepped foot

in your home's attic,

and when you did it was probably to stash something

you weren't ready to throw away.

But sometime soon you might want to venture up those steps

and take a quick look around,

because if your attic is anything like Michael Magee's

there may be more hiding up there than you think.

Over the course of several nights in January of 2015,

Michael Magee of York, England

heard sounds coming from his attic that were so loud

and unsettling he decided he could no longer

comfortably sleep in his own bedroom.

So last night I spent the night downstairs.

I didn't even bother trying to stay upstairs,

I didn't see the point.

Hi, my name's Mike Magee and it's me in these videos.

In this house I lived with my fiancée.

She'd actually gone away for the week with work

and, like, the day after she left,

I started hearing these noises

in the loft and it was just knocking, scratching,

sort of like bumps, and things like that.

It was like right above where I slept,

so it wasn't just generic sounds

like maybe a gust of wind had knocked things over.

It was personal, like, it was personally targeting me

making sure that I heard it.

Eventually, Michael decided

to take matters into his own hands.

Setting up a recording device in the attic

that would be left running throughout the night.

I'm gonna set the camera up over here

and I'll leave it there a couple of nights

and see what we can catch.

And what he caught on his second night of filming

confirmed Michael's initial suspicions.

He was dealing with a full fledged haunting.

It starts off humbly enough, I would say.

A box moves a little bit.

The guitar falls, leaning up against a beam

and it falls, I could see that.

But eventually what looks to be a fairly heavy box

falls over and I think that that literally

gives weight to this video and that it would

take a certain amount of force to move that.

This footage was proof enough for Michael

that he had an unwelcome entity in his attic.

So the following evening,

he attempted to confront the ghost himself.

Hello?

Hello?

Look, if you're there,

I want you to leave my house.

No, this, I'm staying downstairs.

If there is this level of activity

genuinely going on in his home

or anyone's home for that matter,

it's a cause for alarm.

If you're there, I want you to leave my house.

These kinds of phenomena have over a prolonged period

a negative affect on people.

They will affect people's mental, emotional,

and even physical health.

No, this, I'm staying downstairs.

It can get whatever it wants. I'm just -- I'm done.

I'm done.

I personally would never advise anyone

to engage with a spirit like this,

especially by yourself at night

because you don't know exactly what's gonna happen.

I was absolutely terrified to go up and confront it

but I was always brought up to believe

that you face your fears and with things

like the paranormal and spirits,

there are supposed to be rules,

you're supposed to be able to tell them to leave

and they do so and it just wasn't the case.

And that continued, I mean, for about four or five months,

we stayed in that house and then we moved here.

For his part, Michael isn't quite sure

it's the attic that's haunted.

Now this wasn't the first house that I experienced

paranormal activity in.

As far as I'm concerned it wasn't the house

that was haunted

it was something that was following me

that was attached to me.

It started in 2010 when I lived at home with my mum

and I moved away to uni, it followed me there.

I started hearing things moving around,

knocking and banging and things like that

and even here we're getting paranormal activity.

It's nothing to the level that that was,

but to this day there are still things, you know,

being moved around the house.

Certain individuals seem to be more prone

to haunting phenomena

and they may be trigger persons in a way.

There are just a lot of ways for spirits to attach

and to get in and affect a person's thoughts

and emotions and even their physical well-being.

I want you to leave my house.

Flowing right through the heart of London,

the picturesque River Thames has been a cornerstone

in English folklore for generations.

The Thames has inspired ghost stories,

urban legends, and pagan rituals

going back thousands of years.

The river seems to be surrounded

by an air of ancient mystery.

In fact, an etymology of the name suggests

that it could've come from the Latin, Tamesis,

meaning the dark one.

Stories and tall tales aside, is it possible

that there is still something lurking in the darkness?

In 2016, a passenger on the Emirates Airlines cable car

over the Thames was filming the stunning views

along the ride when they accidentally captured

something breaching the surface of the river.

But only for a few seconds.

You see off to the side something popping up

out of the water in the Thames.

It looks kind of like fins,

it looks like maybe the back or the tail section

of some large creature.

Weeks later another onlooker managed

to capture a similar encounter on video.

Something dark seems to pop up,

but we can't really see a lot of detail

in terms of what might be there.

It looked like something sort of crested

and then went back down.

It was a little jarring,

like what's going on in that river over there?

You know, rivers aren't supposed to have big creatures.

You can tell it is quite a large object

and does seem to be moving.

Just outside London, the Thames turns into an estuary

and eventually flows into the North Sea.

For this reason, it is possible that this river visitor

came from further depths.

There have been reports of whales and dolphins

but it certainly doesn't appear to be either of those to me.

You can almost see humps as the creature

dips below the surface.

Many people theorize that whatever this thing is

could be related to the Loch Ness monster.

These two sightings suddenly had Londoners

and viewers the world over

buzzing about what creature may now be stalking the Thames.

The oceans are so deep, we certainly can't explore

some of the deepest parts of the ocean

and there may be creatures that are natural to the planet

that we don't even know about.

All over Europe we have sightings

of large sea creatures that are previously unseen

or previously unknown.

They're popping up more and more regularly now

because of the change in ocean temperature

so it makes sense that this sea creature

would show itself to the people of England.

So has something that was once relegated

to the furthest depths of the ocean

migrated to one of the biggest cities on earth?

When you take the depths of these trenches in our oceans

that we can't reach the bottom of,

places that are inaccessible to us

or extremely difficult for us to reach,

to rule out anything being in existence

would just be foolish.

If it is a cryptid so brazenly coming in

to a human occupied area, what does that mean?

What does that mean for the creature

and what does that mean for us?

Coming up, a spirit who watches from the woods

and strange sights in Italy.

Wandering into the woods plays into many

of our most deeply held fears.

They are dark and vast.

It's easy to get lost.

There are plenty of places to hide.

It makes sense then that the dense landscape

of Cannock Chase Forest in the United Kingdom

has a reputation as one of the world's most haunted areas.

Just ask friends James Cooper and David Whitehouse

who decided to take their brand new drone

for a test flight one day in Cannock Chase in April 2015

and were met with something truly frightening.

There seems to be a cultural echo that still continues

that forests are haunted places

because there's a lot of things that maybe still reside

in there that we can't see, so it sparks the imagination

that what could still be living there.

Cannock Chase is famous in England

for its weird hauntings.

It's a heavily wooded area, stories go back a long time,

there were some tragic murders of some young girls there

in the 1960s that may account for some of the activity

in the area.

The murders might serve to explain

the mysterious confrontation that Cooper and Whitehouse

recorded that fateful day in April 2015,

flying their drone just outside the Cannock Chase woods.

Watch again, zoomed in

as the drone catches a ghost like figure

standing by herself on the edge of the woods.

I'm James, this is David.

When they enhance it and zoom in,

you can certainly see what looks like a woman in white

or maybe a child in white standing just inside

the tree line, it's certainly freaky.

You get a pretty clear picture of her

and she looks like the girl from "The Ring"

found her way out of that well.

James and David's friends and family

were referring to the legend of the black-eyed girl

of Cannock Chase, which has been spotted in the forest

for decades.

With witnesses consistently describing

a child with missing eyes,

who suddenly appears before them

before disappearing just as fast.

Is there legitimacy to the frequency

of these reported sightings?

Black-eyed children have been seen

from Abilene, Texas to Portland, Oregon.

This footage, of course, is from Cannock Chase, England,

so it seems as if this phenomenon is worldwide.

They all seem to be described in a very similar way.

They appear in broad daylight, just as in this.

And they seem to be fully formed physical creatures,

almost like regular children

but certainly not close enough to think they are

regular children.

Regarding whether or not they believe

they have the actual black-eyed girl of Cannock Chase

on camera, James and David are definitive in their answer.

Fortunately for them, and regrettably for us,

that was James and David's first and last sighting

of the Cannock Chase ghost girl.

But with specific recent advancements in technology,

could we be in for more of these types of sightings

in the future?

With the proliferation of drones,

we have more opportunities than ever to capture

anomalous footage, so I expect that we'll be seeing

more cases like this where drones capture

something unusual.

People travel to Italy from all over the world

to take in the stunning scenery, incredible artwork,

and breathtaking religious sites.

But with so much history and culture to experience

all over this Mediterranean country,

one couple in 2017 witnessed something

even more jaw-dropping in Italy

than anything written in even the most thorough guidebook.

Reports of ancient alien activity over Italy

and the Mediterranean

have been documented for over a thousand years.

Now in Italy, there was an unexplained ramp up

of UFO activity in 2017,

with a dramatic increase in terms of sightings.

One of those 2017 sightings

was captured on video by a couple in Lecce,

located on the heel of Italy near the Mediterranean Sea.

The couple was taken aback by a strange bright light

in the night sky in the distance and began filming.

Seeking a better angle, the couple drove their car

closer to the source of the light

and repositioned their camera accordingly.

Suddenly, the light almost dragged itself across the sky...

...before somehow turning itself into a perfect circle.

Now I don't speak Italian,

but I do understand when someone is screaming

about something that is blowing their mind.

At first I just assumed this was yet another

UFO video that is just of a random light in the sky

that has no explanation and real no movement.

But then the light does a circular motion very fast.

It zips around at great speed

and it causes this really interesting light effect.

What was it doing? What is it? What was it trying to do?

Was it trying to communicate with us?

Was it having a technical malfunction?

I can't explain it.

Finally, just as quickly as the light

turned into a circle,

it returned back to its original form.

I would certainly be afraid if I were these guys as well

because you don't know what this is.

You don't know what its capable of.

You don't know what its intentions are.

I've never seen anything like this

where what seems to be a solid object or a light

somehow expands into this ring

with a completely clear center

and then somehow recoagulates into a solid mass.

So what could've drawn this object to Lecce?

Could it have been one of its many churches?

I think the fact that it's in Italy,

one of the connections I see a lot

is between religious text and aliens.

And I think that a lot of the people who study aliens

point to the Christian text,

both the canon of the Bible and the apocryphal text

that didn't quite make the cut

as evidence for their claims of extraterrestrial existence.

Regardless, was the couple's

particularly high-strung reaction justified?

A lot of times in these videos

people are yelling like it's the end of the world.

Maybe that's what they feel.

Maybe they feel the end of the world is coming

because there's something I can't explain happening

right in front of my eyes.

And given Italy's reputation as a UFO hotspot,

perhaps it's best that the couple

and their fellow citizens start to get used to it.

We have more people with more sophisticated cameras

out there so we're going to be seeing

more kinds of photographic evidence in the future

and some of this evidence may actually bear out

as truly unexplained.

Coming up, happy hour meets the witching hour.

There's a good reason why pubs

are such a popular hangout for millions around the world.

People gather from all walks of life to laugh,

to celebrate, and sometimes to raise a glass

in memory of a departed friend.

But there are some pubs in the United Kingdom

where the dead need not be honored.

Because even in death,

they're still somehow sitting right next to you

enjoying the evening out.

There are plenty of haunted pubs all over the world.

And some haunted pubs seem to have resident spirits

that they've even named

which might be the ghosts of people who worked there

or they might be a famous patron

or perhaps someone who even met their end at a pub.

Pubs and bars and all nightlife locations

are high energy places.

Tons of people coming in, coming out,

leaving their energy there,

so it's no surprise that something may pick up

on that residual energy,

especially in some of these older pubs in England.

Like Ye Olde Man and Scythe in Bolton,

a pub said to be almost 800 years old

which recorded someone or something

lingering long past closing time

on its security footage one evening in 2014.

Watch again as a ghostly figure

suddenly appears almost as a strobe light effect

behind the bar.

Sometimes when people pass they like to linger

in the places they loved when they were alive

so maybe these pubs are haunted by the people

that just never wanna leave.

That might help explain what

the surveillance system at the Tyler's Kiln Pub

in Canterbury, England picked up over a couple months

in the fall of 2017.

This pub is in Canterbury,

which has been around who knows how long,

certainly a lot longer than America's been around.

So a lot of emotional energy has been imprinted

in this location and after it was closed,

their security cameras were picking up

many things moving around outside in the patio,

they had some umbrellas opening and closing

and chairs moving back and forth.

Any time you have emotional energy,

human energy being left behind,

this can accumulate over time and either cause a haunting

or attract a haunting.

But why would a spirit move furniture?

What are its intentions when it moves these things around?

Imagine how frustrating it might be for a spirit

who can't communicate with a friend of theirs

who's sitting at the bar that they've been regulars at

for 30 or 40 years,

so why not use all your energy and make something move?

Why not use all your PK, your psychokinesis energy

and open and close an umbrella?

Who knows, maybe some of these people

are just playing pranks on their friends at the bar

or maybe someone's trying to get somebody's attention

to say, "Hey, look, you know, I'm over here

and toss one back for me."

But sometimes the hauntings

can get downright creepy.

Like this footage from March of 2018

at a pub in Wrexham, Wales

where a balloon from an earlier birthday celebration

seemed to signal that it wasn't quite done partying yet.

My name's Gail Roberts.

But it wasn't until the balloon approached

one of the pub's bar stools that Gail and her coworker

really freaked out.

What is really interesting about this

was the unusual path that this balloon takes

to go under a bar stool.

It seemed as if it was being kind of moved in,

you know, intelligently.

It manages to shimmy its way into the bar stool

and then out the other side and then around the corner.

And if I were to assume that yes, this is a spirit,

this indicates intelligence, it has direction.

A gust of wind from a door or air conditioning

wouldn't cause such an effect.

So if it wasn't the wind or a drift

what was it?

Gail has an idea.

Coming up, a winged creature back from the dead.

65 million years ago,

a large meteor struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico,

triggering a mass extinction event across the earth.

And wiping out dinosaurs forever

or so we thought.

Because if the footage we're about to show you

is to be believed, maybe that meteor

didn't quite finish the job.

In 2015, a lucky onlooker on the outskirts of Boise, Idaho,

captured what appeared to be a real, live pterosaur,

flying through the overcast sky.

The apparent pterosaur soared unencumbered,

at one point even turning on its back

before disappearing once again into the Idaho afternoon.

What the?

This footage is especially compelling

because of technology, we're seeing animals

that were once considered to be extinct.

And I think the scientific community

is excited at the thought that everything

that they thought to be gone forever

might not be gone forever.

It doesn't seem to have the same motion

as the birds that we've seen fly.

Having said that, we've never seen a pterosaur fly.

They've been extinct long before we ever got here.

So who are we to say what the motion

of that animal would be in the air.

Cryptid by its definition,

is something that we cannot confirm.

But we have tons of other living dinosaurs

around us all the time --

things like alligators, or, like, horseshoe crabs.

Which would totally be cryptids if they had

gone to extinction, back in that period

and we just don't recognize them as such

because they're pedestrian.

And exactly where the creature

was spotted lends additional credence to the footage.

Given the area's reputation for mysterious encounters.

The fact that the Pacific Northwest is so vast

and so forested, would make it very easy to hide cryptids.

Bigfoot is said to live there, why not a pterosaur?

If something's hiding in the skies of Idaho

there's a lot less chance of it being spotted by people,

than if it were flying over New York City or Los Angeles.

But while the newfound ubiquity

of camera phones, even in more sparsely populated areas,

could be a cause for the rise in these types of sightings,

there is one other theory

that some experts are entertaining.

We can't rule out that someone might actually see

a creature deemed to be extinct.

Not that these creatures might still exist on the planet,

but could they be part of a time slip sort of experience.

We have many episodes of all kinds of time slips.

Where people suddenly find themselves

in familiar landscape,

and in a different time period.

And could it be possible that if someone

is in the right place, at the right time,

the right energized spot,

the right state of consciousness,

that they might have a brief glimpse

through some sort of interdimensional window

that enables them to see something from another era.

I think it's entirely possible.

Whatever theory you personally subscribe to,

at this point, we simply can't rule out anything.

You see it in science all the time,

something is impossible until it's not.

Until something is discovered, and proven,

and then the rules change, the laws change.

So it is entirely possible that something has survived.

As of right now, yes, we consider it impossible.

Dinosaurs are extinct, they no longer exist,

until they do.

Coming up, a poltergeist

who doesn't play games.

Oh, my...

These days the popularity of webcams

has resulted in ever increasing numbers

of people broadcasting themselves for hours at a time,

live, to audiences over the internet.

As a result, more and more paranormal activity

has been inadvertently witnessed in real time.

Sometimes unbeknownst to the person

sitting in front of the camera.

Just ask Nick Sampson, a video game enthusiast

who streams his gameplay live each night.

He found out the hard way,

that when the camera's running it's not always about you,

it's about what's happening behind you.

One night in 2016, Nick Sampson began

streaming the night's gaming action

from a location unfamiliar to his usual fans

watching live at the time.

As many of you may have noticed,

the background set up is very peculiar.

This is not what we're used to seeing.

That is okay.

I'm currently housesitting for my friend right now

'cause he has pets.

This is Elvis.

But after a half hour of

uninterrupted live streaming, it became clear

that Nick and Elvis may not have been

the only souls in the room that night.

That is my fantastical story.

Keep an eye on the door behind Nick's head.

But, um, yeah, that was the tragic story

of my bringing down

of my dearest Lydia.

And only a few moments later...

Oh, my...

Hi, my name is Nick and I'm the guy in the video.

I normally stream every single night at midnight.

Before anything noticeably happened

I was in the apartment for about 45 minutes,

maybe an hour.

When things started to happen, it was awful.

I -- yeah.

Oh, my...

That was a bad situation.

It's like the feeling like you're being watched.

Oh, my...

What the was that?

I livestream frequently,

and so one of my biggest fears is looking in the screen

and seeing something happening behind me.

So these types of videos, like, really freak me out.

Nick found nothing when he went to investigate.

So he shut off the light,

and tried to continue with his livestream.

But the spirit had other ideas.

What the actual?

I'm like shaking.

What the?

Switching the light off again

did nothing to discourage the strange activity.

It gets to the point where it's not even a curiosity,

now it seems to be taunting him.

It's waiting for him to sit back down

and get comfortable before it starts again.

And you can tell, through the course of this video,

he's getting more and more frightened.

Nick's live audience grew concerned for his safety.

But the biggest frights were yet to come.

I'm, like, on the low key watching the door right now.

- Like... - Same.

- Like I'm watching... - It's not like we need it...

Oh, my god, what the?

Part of me was, like, I'm just being pranked.

It wasn't until the box flew off the counter

that I knew it wasn't something that'd had been set up

by somebody else because I had brought that box with me,

it had some of my streaming stuff in it.

So if anything was rigged, you know,

the lights, the door,

it would've had to be done before I got there.

And that was -- I was the last person

in the apartment when that box was put down.

Oh, my god, what the?

If this were to happen 10 years ago,

we most likely wouldn't have believed him.

But because we have camera evidence

we can clearly see what happened to him

and it's much more believable.

This is because we have cameras in our everyday life now.

If there is a spirit there,

it's not used to his presence,

and is somehow disturbed by it.

I've actually spoken with a lot of people about this event

and a lot of them say, like, kind of a similar thing

along the lines of, like,

it wasn't happy about the camera,

it wasn't happy about being watched,

you know, by other people.

As the creepy phenomena continued...

Nick finally reached his breaking point.

this. this.

I actually ended up calling my buddy,

and I said, dude, I can't stay here.

Weird stuff is happening.

And I just, you know, don't feel comfortable.

I asked him, have you had any experiences,

have you seen anything happen?

'Cause he was just as stunned as I was.

He said, the only thing that he's noticed

is things out of place from where he put them,

or like a cabinet will be open when he didn't --

but he's never seen anything.

Sometimes resident spirits react

against people who come onto the property.

Take for example, a home that's haunted.

A family could live at a particular residence

and not be bothered at all.

And then, another family comes onto the property,

and there's something about this particular family

that stirs up whatever is there.

And whatever is there, then begins to act out

in poltergeist-like ways and many times unpleasant ways.

Upon reflection, Nick is convinced

his encounter was otherworldly.

I definitely think it was some sort of paranormal entity.

I don't know whether it was a ghost,

or a poltergeist, or a shadow person.

People have told me all sorts of things.

People have told me it's a demon.

And I tend to stray away from that thought,

because I do think it wasn't necessarily

trying to hurt me, it was trying to be like, get out.

Oh, my god, what the?

Coming up, a brand-new reason to fear flying.

As civilians, we ask a lot of police officers.

They go to work every day in the name of our safety,

often in the face of serious threats to their own.

Thankfully, most of the time, those threats are manageable.

At least, when they come from fellow humans.

But when they don't,

that's when things can get a little dicey.

Francisco Hernandez is a patrolman in Mexico City.

Who, in November of 2016, investigated suspicious sounds

that were coming from an empty airplane

parked at the airport.

According to Hernandez,

the sounds were reminiscent of doors slamming.

And they were loud enough that he turned on his camera.

Initially suspecting that a person

had broken into the plane after hours.

That is, until he shined his flashlight

towards the rear of the plane.

And learned that the intruder was something

much more frightening.

Terrified, Francisco got out of the situation

as fast as possible.

Later telling reporters,

that he felt he was fleeing for his life.

I have heard people having strange experiences

on planes after they have landed,

or planes that have been decommissioned.

This is the first time I've seen a video

that I thought was authentic.

I mean, he obviously caught something on video.

One of the most common occurrences I've witnessed

as a paranormal investigator has been dark shadow figures,

known as shadow people.

You're in a dark room, there's something at the end

of a dark hallway, and someone says,

"Look, I just saw something. What was it? It's dark in here."

No, no, no, but it was darker than the dark.

That's your common description of shadow people.

If you look closely, you can actually see

the figure poke its head out more than once.

It actually does it two or three times.

It's kind of frightening.

The peeking around doorways seems to be

a peculiar habit of shadow people.

These entities are intelligent, they like to observe people,

but not be observed themselves.

But regardless of his extremely understandable

reaction to the situation,

was Francisco in any real danger?

Could the shadow person have done him any actual harm?

Opinions vary.

Some of them do get a little bit aggressive.

They will, for example, jump on people who are sleeping.

And create effects like suffocation, choking.

If it's a spirit of a person,

or an angry person, or a mean person,

or a bad person,

they don't have the tools to hurt you.

So no, I don't think he was in any kind of danger.

The only danger he would've been in

is, you know, tripping over himself,

falling down the stairs trying to get out of there.

But while people may not normally

associate planes with experiences of

paranormal activity,

there may be more to worry about

than just the average fear of flying.

Planes are constantly bringing passengers aboard

who are excited, who are worried, who are scared,

who have adventures they're going on.

And this kind of energy can leave an imprint.

Who knows what might end up on a plane.

If you witness something paranormal,

here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep the camera steady, never stop the recording.

Oh, my...

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And if you do catch something,

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