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a hulking cryptid spotted deep in the Virginia woods...

What was that?

Doesn't look like it's a man in a gorilla suit.

It actually looks like some kind of hairy creature.

...a ghostly nighttime encounter...

I kept waking up, feeling like something

was sitting on the bed or tugging the covers,

and I usually sleep pretty still.

...a mystifying light

that has stumped locals for decades...

Wow, that's trippy.

That's really trippy.

The Army Corps of Engineers actually saw it

and tried to test it.

Their analysis was that it was a mysterious light

of unknown origin.

...a mischievous spirit videobombs

this social-media recording...

Whoa!

It's not uncommon for music to stir up activity.

I use that as a method all the time on my investigations.

...a frightening apparition appears

in an Oregon cemetery...

It definitely seems to be a figure.

Who that figure is or whether they were actually

alive or dead -- That's the question.

...and even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe.

Savannah, Georgia, is considered one of the most haunted cities

in the United States.

Founded in 1733, it has seen everything from bloody battles

to deadly diseases,

leaving many to believe spirits roam

not just the streets, but the buildings, as well.

One of the most infamous structures

is the 17Hundred90 Inn,

a major attraction for paranormal enthusiasts

from around the world due to repeated ghost sightings

and unexplained occurrences.

And when one couple heard these rumors,

they booked a room to see if the stories were true.

Jim Frissina and his wife, Wendy,

chose the 17Hundred90 Inn for a weekend getaway in 2015.

This is supposed to be very haunted here.

My name is Jim Frissina,

and I took this video in Savannah, Georgia.

There we go.

I figured, "You know what? Why don't we spice up the trip

a little bit and stay in one of those haunted hotels?"

Ooh, it's a nice place.

I really didn't believe that any of it was haunted.

I'm sure some people get creeped out

because the building is 200 years old

and, you know, has that haunted story going,

and it's a good haunted story.

But to be honest with you, I was very skeptical.

The 17Hundred90 Inn is a hot spot

for paranormal phenomena,

and a lot of paranormal enthusiasts want to stay there.

All these rooms are booked out.

When Jim and his wife checked in,

it wasn't the typical inviting feel

of a freshly made-up hotel room that welcomed them.

It was a strange disquiet.

It's hard to explain,

but it's kind of an uneasy feeling that's really there.

We have the TV on because I just don't want it quiet

in here right now.

It's really creepy when it's quiet in here.

The first night we got there,

there were some things that started to happen.

Just simple things like some noises.

Very, very subtle, strange sensations.

And over here, we've had a banging noise right here

like somebody literally dropped a hammer.

But as the noises and sensations continued,

Jim decided to investigate.

Things started getting a little serious, so I figured,

"You know what? Let me take this camera.

Get as much as of the room as possible

'cause I want to see if we can catch anything."

Jim left his video camera on during the night

to see if it would pick up any strange activity.

He repeated the process a couple more nights,

but decided to save the video viewing for another time.

You know, the camera that I use, I left on.

I left it running, you know, while we slept the night,

and there was a lot of footage.

I didn't want to spend my vacation viewing videos, okay?

So I didn't sit there and watch hours' worth of videos

to see if I caught anything.

It wasn't until their last night that their stay

at the 17Hundred90 took a very frightening turn.

While I was talking to my wife

about where we were going to dinner,

standing in front of the mirror, the sensation was very intense,

and it's really, really hard to explain.

And all of a sudden, I feel like something

is trying to communicate with me.

Like a veil between worlds,

the mirror reflected back

what appeared to be a shadowy female figure.

Jim quickly took a photo.

I saw her.

She was looking at me from the mirror.

Directly at me.

There's a great theory that it's easier to witness

an apparition through a mirror or take photographs.

The best ghost picture I have and the best one I've ever seen

is a picture in a mirror.

It seems to look like a shape of a woman with, like,

an old Victorian hairstyle.

It's, like, this old-school,

like, beehive-type look,

which is probably around the Civil War era,

so it does give some credence to the idea

that maybe this was an entity trapped in this house.

It's said the ghost of Anna,

a young girl that was actually engaged to the man

that designed the hotel, Steele White,

plunged to her death.

Maybe that kind of shape in the mirror

might be the spirit of Anna.

The photograph confirmed for Jim

that what he thought he saw in the mirror was,

in fact, there.

Though in truth, it paled in comparison

to the image in his memory.

When I snapped the photo, I knew I had it,

but the flash of the phone was on, and I didn't realize it,

so at the time, I was, like, freaking out.

I said, "The flash ruined the picture.

I've got nothing," but it's there.

It was enough to convince Jim

that the time had come to end their stay at the hotel.

I said, "Let's just get out of here.

Let's just leave it now."

You know, everybody says, "Well, if it happened to me,

I'd stand there. I'd try to communicate.

I'd get more pictures and videos."

No, you don't.

The fear just takes over your entire body.

Once safely back at their home,

Jim finally took a look at the video footage

he had recorded and eventually stumbled on something

that shook him to his core.

The doll that he had thought was just a decoration

the hotel owners had left in the room

appeared to become something or someone else entirely

once the lights were out.

It freaked me out.

I mean, this is an inanimate object.

That makes no sense.

I mean, that's just freaky.

This was one of the creepiest videos I've ever seen.

I mean, it was just so eerie

to see that doll actually come to life.

Dolls can become haunted for any number of reasons,

but perhaps it's the fact that it is an approximation

of the human form that a spirit that does not have a body

can easily occupy and manipulate

because it was something familiar.

Two arms, two legs, a head, a body --

These are things that they know how to manipulate.

If I would have saw that video, I would have been gone.

But Jim said he had to sign a waiver from the hotel,

agreeing that he would not ask for a refund if he left early.

You get scared, and you leave, it's on you.

It's really, really great to have corroborating evidence,

so if you've got physical movement

of an object on the same night

that you feel you've witnessed an apparition in a mirror,

I mean, that's just two kind of huge events

to happen to you on a single night,

which would lend me to believe that this is a location

that's got some activity going on.

Convinced he was a witness to something truly paranormal,

Jim no longer doubts the rumors of the 17Hundred90 Inn.

About 6 months later, I thought about it,

and I was like, "Well, you know, whatever this was,

I was fortunate to have that experience."

You know, I had an opportunity to do it.

I want to go back there and just see

if we could make another connection.

My advice to people who stay in places like this --

Enjoy the history.

Enjoy the kitsch of the room.

Enjoy all the things that it is.

If you didn't want a haunted experience,

you would have stayed at the Holiday Inn.

Coming up, two glowing orange lights

are seen high over the Vegas Strip.

What in the world?

People have been known to devote their lives

to the search for Bigfoot.

They dedicate innumerable hours of their time

to hiking through the wilderness on the hunt

for any evidence or sightings of the elusive cryptid,

often without any luck.

So imagine the shock of two friends

in the southern Virginia woods

who seemed to stumble upon the creature

when all they were looking for was a little off-road fun.

On April 5, 2009, friends Eric and Chuck

were out riding their ATVs.

They took turns driving up a stream

while the other filmed the impressive feat.

During Chuck's final ride of the day,

he caught sight of a massive creature that stopped him cold.

As he approaches this thicket of trees, he stops,

and at first you think, "Ran out of gas. Hit a pothole.

Hey, what's that thing in the background?"

It seems like he's authentically surprised,

shocked, and, at the very least...

What was that?

...wondering what the heck he just saw.

Doesn't look like it's a man in a gorilla suit.

It actually looks like some kind of hairy creature.

Maybe this is the real deal.

What was that?

When we're looking at video

and photographic evidence of legends,

the one thing that can kill it is intent.

Anyone who sets up a camera to find Bigfoot

is immediately questioned in the veracity

of their finding of Bigfoot.

Someone who's out there filming themselves,

hanging out in a river, riding an ATV,

you know, spending the day with their family

who happens to catch Bigfoot?

That's potentially valid.

Well, we can rule out just about

every indigenous animal in that region.

What was that?

Obviously it's not a canine of any kind.

It's clearly not a bear.

Bears can walk upright.

They generally wouldn't if they were crossing

a fast-moving stream like this.

It just doesn't make any logical sense.

So, this area of the country,

the Appalachian Mountain range,

has its own legends and folklore.

I actually grew up there, and one of those legends

is about a creature called the Woodbooger or just the Booger.

And it's a 6- to 8-foot-tall hair-covered creature

not unlike the North American Bigfoot.

And it certainly seems that that may be

what these gentlemen ran into that day.

In general, it's considered

that Bigfoot is an elusive creature.

Though why was it out with as much noise as the ATV made?

There have been so many sightings

around civilized areas,

and maybe it's just the encroachment of people

that these creatures have no choice

but to try and live amongst us.

Spooked by what they saw...

What was that?

...Eric and Chuck didn't take any chances.

They hopped on their ATVs and rode out of the area

as quickly as possible.

Of course, some people are like,

"Maybe he should drive after it."

I'm gonna say leave it alone because I don't know

what would happen if you drive after this thing.

Just go about your day, enjoy your life.

You had the luxury of seeing a Bigfoot.

That's the best you can do.

What was that?

The bright lights

of the Las Vegas Strip are a beacon,

attracting gamblers and fun-seekers

from around the world,

but if the two UFOs seen hovering recently over Sin City

are any indication, those lights may also be luring visitors

who are not of this Earth.

What in the world?

Ralph Krauss and his wife live about 10 miles

from the Las Vegas Strip

and are no strangers to seeing all the crazy visuals

Sin City has to offer,

but one night, when they were on their way to bed,

they saw something out their window

that was unlike anything they had ever seen.

They went out to their balcony to get a better look.

My name is Ralph Krauss.

I am the one who filmed the video.

It was two big orange lights

that were just hovering over the Las Vegas Strip,

and they were suspended for a few minutes,

not moving, not descending or rising. Just there.

It's certainly nothing like anything that I've ever seen.

Yeah.

Like, if you see the planes, like, over there...

So, obviously these lights are near an airport,

so you want to say,

"Oh, these are just airport lights,

you know, guiding planes in and out,

whatever they might be doing,"

but it seems as if the optics, when the plane takes off,

it's much, much smaller than it should be

if those would be lights attached to the airport.

These things are definitely there for a reason

and seem to be on the same mission, whatever that might be.

They just seem to be quizzical

about whatever is going on beneath them,

and they stay there a long time.

If you take a look at where these lights

are hovering over on the Vegas Strip,

it is in between Mandalay Bay and the Luxor.

Now, what do we know about the Luxor?

It's in the shape of a pyramid.

And most ufologists and ancient alien enthusiasts believe

that the pyramids were actually ancient alien constructions

that the Egyptians gathered from, you know, the gods then.

Not only is the Luxor in the shape of a pyramid --

It also boasts the most powerful light on Earth,

beaming into the sky.

With 39 lamps shining over 2.7 million watts of light,

it's visible from hundreds of miles away

and shines straight into outer space.

So, you have this ancient alien construct

beaming light into space.

Doesn't that come off as, like, a beacon?

And if you were of alien descent,

wouldn't you want to come in

and check out what's going on on Earth?

Ralph and his wife watched the lights

until they finally disappeared.

They just went away, like, after a few minutes.

The lights are getting fainter and fainter.

What the hell?

They did get -- They disappeared.

It wasn't like the lights were getting smaller.

I think they just kind of faded or dimmed away.

Ralph posted the video online,

hoping someone might have an explanation.

Some people were saying that it could be,

like, Chinese lanterns.

We've pulled up videos of that online,

and all of them were ascending.

None of them were, like, suspended for a few minutes.

We've seen flares.

We've seen fireworks and stuff like that,

and there's no break or tail, like, following,

and it's just frozen.

It's really strange.

UFOs are not necessarily aliens,

so these orange balls of light could be something else.

This could be something supernatural

that has manifested over the Vegas Strip.

And while there's no way to know what exactly

those lights were meant to accomplish,

at least one person can attest to an effect their presence had.

All I know is that it was really out of the ordinary.

We've never seen anything before that,

and we've never seen anything since.

Coming up...

is a spirit visiting this man while he sleeps?

Going to thrift stores and estate sales

can be the perfect place to get well-made,

top-of-the-line, quality items for less,

but bringing these objects with an unknown history

into your home may have some unintended consequences...

as one Albuquerque resident was about to find out.

In March 2019, Rick Reichard went to bed

after a successful day of shopping

with his girlfriend and daughter.

His girlfriend had bought a secondhand leather jacket

at a thrift store, which she left with Rick

before returning to her own home.

Rick hung the jacket up in his bedroom before he went to sleep.

When he woke up the next morning,

he had a strange feeling, and it felt as if someone

had been in his bed with him the night before

despite the fact that he had slept alone.

I kept waking up, feeling like something was sitting on the bed

or tugging the covers,

and I usually sleep pretty still.

After waking up with the same uneasy feeling

two mornings in a row,

Rick decided to set up a camera in his room to record

while he slept to see if he could capture

what might be causing this.

I didn't think I was gonna catch anything.

I just -- You know, why not?

When he reviewed the footage in the morning,

he was startled by what he saw.

First, I thought it was me when I looked.

I was like, "Oh, I got up."

But looking closely, I was like,

"Oh, but I can see through me, and I went into a wall."

I don't know what it is.

I don't think it could possibly have been me.

At one point, you do see the sheets

billow up pretty large,

and you see what looks like a figure

on the left kind of move down behind the bed.

I can't figure out what body part it would be

'cause it seems to travel from --

all the way from the top left to the bottom right,

so it definitely looks like

there's something more going on there

than just a person tossing in their sleep.

That was a little freaky.

I have to admit -- That was a little freaky.

It actually sat on my --

You know, I felt something sitting on my bed,

and I felt the sheets being tugged,

so I was just a little concerned at what I found.

It didn't scare me.

It just kind of validated things for me.

This phenomenon is something that's reported quite often --

the moving of blankets or the yanking of blankets

while people are trying to sleep.

And many investigators wonder if it may be a ghost

trying to get the attention of somebody

that may be ignoring them while they slept.

Rick couldn't figure out

why this seemingly spiritual visitation

was suddenly occurring after years of peaceful slumber.

Then he remembered something.

The leather jacket his girlfriend

had bought at a thrift store days earlier

had been in his room this whole time,

and as this was the only new element in his room,

Rick suspected that this could be the cause.

I mean, if something's attached

to something that they truly like,

if there are spirits, you know, they can stay with it

for a while or travel with it or...

It's nothing evil. It's just a presence.

If you think about it, if the person

that was living loved this jacket,

wore this jacket every single day,

perhaps some of his or her energy

has been rubbed off on the jacket,

and when some new owner takes it into their home,

you know, it basically opens the floodgates.

Even though Rick didn't feel that whatever was visiting him

in the night was malicious,

he was in need of a restful night's sleep,

so he brought the jacket outside to the garage.

At the very least, it would test his hypothesis.

When bringing in a possibly haunted item into your home

that triggers activity,

removing it after observing this activity

is a good way to test to see, "All right. Is it that item?"

The change was immediate.

As soon as I hung it out there, took it out in the garage,

it just seemed like everything kind of calmed away,

calmed down a little bit.

Rick has not brought the jacket

back into the house since.

There's just no need to mess around anymore.

Coming up...

friends investigate the legendary Ozark Spooklight.

Joplin, Missouri, is home

to one of the longest unexplained phenomena --

the Spooklight.

Described as a floating, glowing orb,

it has been regularly spotted

on a particular stretch of dirt road

going back to at least the 1880s.

The reason why the bright light

appears in the same exact place around the same time of night

and what exactly causes it has stumped locals for generations,

leaving many to wonder if it could be supernatural.

And in February 2016,

three friends took a drive out to see

if they could finally answer the question --

What exactly is the Ozark Spooklight?

Dude, this is crazy.

Jake Stogdill grew up hearing stories about the Spooklight.

My name is Jake Stogdill.

I'd heard about it my whole life,

and I think it's probably my dad was telling a story about him

and his sister went out there to see it once.

And it's not just the locals

who are fascinated by the lights.

There have been many attempts

by scientific investigators from all over,

including the Army Corps of Engineers,

to accurately classify the light.

The Army Corps of Engineers actually saw it

and tried to test it

and did everything they could think of,

and that was their analysis,

was that it was a mysterious light of unknown origin.

Some people like to explain it as reflections of car headlights

or natural gas emissions,

but the light had been seen before cars or highways

were even in that area,

so we still don't even know what's causing it.

One would think that we have the technology.

We have satellites.

We have things that could look down from space

and pinpoint where this is coming from.

And yet we still can't find out the origin of them.

I'm baffled.

But Jake was not surprised by their lack of findings.

Living in the Ozarks, there's all kinds of folklore

about witches and ghosts and orbs,

and, you know, black panthers and Bigfoot.

You name it, there's people

that have claimed to have seen it out here,

so that's just kind of commonplace, really.

Jake decided he wanted to see for himself

and asked two of his co-workers,

Jeremy and Robby, to come along with him.

So one day, after they closed up the music shop

where they worked, they hopped in their truck

and headed out to investigate.

It's kind of cool to go see something

that you just can't explain.MAN: Yeah.

That there's still mystery for.

We didn't really know what to expect.

The basic description that you get from everyone

is, it's just a big ball of light,

so you don't know what that means.

After driving for 40 minutes,

they finally arrived at the stretch of road

that they had heard was the best vantage point

for viewing the lights.

It was just after dusk.

It was just almost dark.

You know, you could look on the horizon

and see just barely any daylight,

and we spotted it as soon as we got in the area.

And we need to tell people the red light

that you see is a tower.

Yeah, the red light you see is a reception tower

way in the distance.Yes.

The little gold light that's in the center

with all the little weird sparkling stuff

going on around it, that's the Spooklight.

It was all different colors.

It kind of looked like a fire the way it would glow,

but not necessarily...

It didn't seem like a beam of light shining in your eyes,

but it had a glow to it.

Man, that is too cool.

Yeah, I don't know, you know.

And, see? Look. It's just about flickered out.

The light is flickering, and now...

It's just exactly like a fire.

And until you see it, when you actually see this,

you can easily tell it's not, like, car headlights

or something like that

because it's just a totally different kind of light,

and the way it acts --

It can split into different pieces and disappear

and reappear other places.

What's really frustrating about something like this

is that the light is always far away.

It's off in the distance.

My thought is, "Well, get closer. Go closer.

Go over there."

But those who have seen the light through the years

have reported that as they tried to get closer to the light,

it would mysteriously disappear or move,

making it harder to analyze and find the actual source,

which was exactly what Jeremy and his friends found.

That's pretty cool.

I didn't know what to expect when we were -- Just

I didn't know what to expect when we were headed up here.

I mean, I didn't doubt that people see this thing.

At one point, Jeremy and myself got out of the van

to walk toward it on foot to see if we could get any closer.

We got fairly close.

I would say within a couple hundred feet at one point.

We could never seem to get any closer than that, though.

It would kind of just dissipate and go away

and then reappear somewhere else off to the side or behind us.

Jeremy, his heart started beating fast,

and his hair was standing up on end and things like that.

It's kind of hypnotizing to watch it.

Yeah, and it... Look at that.

Yeah, it breaks -- Man.

By then, they had been there for over an hour

and decided it was time to leave.

Jake and his friends were happy to have seen the Spooklight,

but felt no closer to understanding what it is.

Every now and then, as is the case with these Spooklights

and other mysterious things, we find something that infuses

a little wonder back into our world.

It was a really neat experience,

but, you know, beyond that, who knows?

Like I said, people a lot smarter than me have tried

to figure it out and can't.

Coming up...

an amateur musician gets the shock of her life.

Whoa!

And something is flying dangerously close

to an active volcano.

Learning a new instrument can take countless hours

of practice and patience.

The budding musician often takes pride

when they learn a new song

or successfully get through a piece without messing up.

So in the beginning of 2019, when the hard work Sarah Martin

had put into plucking away at the ukulele

had finally started to pay off,

she wanted to record her progress

and post it for her family to see.

I've been working on this song for about a week now.

But instead of getting praise from her family,

she may have gotten attention from a more unlikely fan.

Whoa!

Okay. So, I've been working on this song for about a week now.

Hi. My name is Sarah Martin, and I shot this video.

But while Sarah was playing...

Can you imagine making your own video

and, all of a sudden, the whole room

just fills with energy

and everything flies around and everything?

She's not even talking about anything remotely paranormal,

but stuff starts happening behind her.

Whoa!

If you look closely, you can see the postcards on the string

seem to move or fluctuate a little bit

before a large gust of wind or something comes by

and practically knocks them all off the cable.

Something's going on here.

I just don't know what it is.

Whoa!

One's first thought might be that it was simply

caused by some wind through an open window, but...

And what happened next truly terrified Sarah.

Okay. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Okay. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

It's often the case that if there's a spirit present,

that it affects electrical fields.

This is really one of the ways

that ghosts generally make their presence known.

You know, occasionally they can do a little manipulation

of material things, like those photos behind her,

but more often than not, some sort of electrical impulse,

whether it be lights flickering

or something along that nature is very common.

Okay. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Because of the timing of everything,

it makes me feel like it's a poltergeist

that really wanted her attention.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

It's not uncommon for music to stir up activity.

I use that as a method all the time on my investigations.

Do you see that?

I mean, we all know that ukulele music can be a little annoying.

And I say that as a ukulele player myself.

Whoa!

Nope. Nope.

Do you see that?

Okay. Nope. I'm out of here.

Sarah isn't sure who or what was trying

to communicate with her that night,

but she has since decided to move out of the apartment.

Okay. Nope. I'm out of here.

Mount Mayon in the Bicol Region of the Philippines

is the country's most active volcano.

It recently erupted in 2018,

sending lava nearly 1/2 mile into the air,

causing a massive evacuation of the area.

These days, it is safe to visit the infamous natural wonder,

and tourists can still see huge steam plumes

rising into the sky.

However, in April 2019,

one visitor spotted something even more alarming

than lava and smoke hovering above.

Andy Saunar and his family were visiting from Manila

and had just spent the day at Mount Mayon.

The following morning,

he was looking over the footage of the volcano

he had taken on his phone when something caught his eye.

I was just reviewing the video.

And then, suddenly, I noticed there was something there.

This video was clearly just meant to be,

"Hey, look. Look at the smoke.

Look at the volcano."

"And what is that?

What's that black form floating, hovering within the smoke?"

It is clearly a craft of some kind.

Where it is is a place where no craft would want to be.

This is an active volcano.

It's spewing smoke and ash and most likely noxious gases.

Apparently over the last decade or so,

UFO sightings above erupting volcanoes has increased.

There was one at Yellowstone,

in El Salvador, and Mexico,

and now the Philippines.

Volcanoes store massive amounts of energy,

and when it erupts, it can create,

like, electromagnetic disturbances.

Imagine a volcano just uprooting all this heat

that's, like, almost nuclear in nature.

I definitely would imagine it'd be attractive

to any type of alien being if they're trying to learn

how to harness types of energy.

I mean, we, as human beings, have done that.

Andy still isn't quite sure what he captured on video,

but he feels strongly it was not of our world.

Whatever it is, if it's got living organisms inside of it,

they're really playing a dangerous game.

Coming up...

a time-lapse captures more than just a sunset.

Let's face it -- Spending time with one's in-laws

can be a scary experience.

It can be a difficult time

that leads to horror stories of overbearing

and controlling family members.

But for one man, who was visiting his wife's family

for summer vacation, this wasn't the case at all.

In fact, it was outsidethe house,

while pursuing his love of photography,

that the truly terrifying activity occurred.

In July 2013, amateur photographer Nathan Ziegler

was in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, at his wife's parents' home.

Looking for a place to try out

the time-lapse setting on his new camera,

Nathan settled on the Old Pioneer Cemetery,

a final resting place for the first settlers of the town,

including those that came by the Oregon Trail.

He set the timer to take a picture every 30 seconds.

My name is Nathan Ziegler.

I am the one that did the time-lapse in the cemetery.

I had it on a tripod.

And so, I set it up there a little bit after 8:00,

and then I went back to get it at about 10:00.

The next morning, Nathan was reviewing the photos

when something in one of the pictures stuck out to him.

There's a little blip that caught my eye

in one of the images.

It's not in the frame before, and it's not in the frame after.

What's great about time-lapse photography

for paranormal research

is that you always have a control photograph

to show you the environment of the location

before a spirit is there and also right after.

You can see which direction that the phenomena is moving in.

You can see how it manifests.

And that way, you could also get kind of a time stamp

as to when the phenomena occurred.

It looks like some type of human shape.

You know, the arms are down by the side.

It looks like there is a human type of head,

but it's a very odd-looking head.

It definitely seems to be a figure.

Who that figure is or whether they were actually alive or dead

is sort of -- That's the question.

Everything about it looks like classic shadow person.

Shadow people, they manifest --

They could be there in a second and gone the next.

They're very elusive,

and they don't try to make themselves known.

They're more of an observer type of energy.

Nathan wondered about the link between the cemetery

and the Oregon Trail.

I'm not ruling anything out, but I'm not sure.

It is right along the path where that was.

During the mid-1800s,

the Oregon Trail was used by thousands of travelers

to emigrate west across the United States.

At times, it was treacherous, and many perished along the way.

The amount of death energy

that is associated with this trail

and the people who walked it

very well may result in hauntings,

not to mention the fact that we remember it

and acknowledge it almost re-energizes the energy.

He showed friends and family the picture

and asked for their input.

I was, yeah, just curious myself and thought,

"Well, I might as well check out

what different people were thinking,

just to try to rule some things out."

People said it must have been a branch of a tree that fell.

You know, some people said, "Oh, it must have been a speck

of dust on the camera."

But the shape of the image, it doesn't look like

it would be a speck of dust or anything else.

When no one had an answer,

he set out to conduct a follow-up investigation.

The next day, I went up there with my brother-in-law,

and we did some searching.

What I like about this guy is, he didn't just

take this picture and let it stand.

He's like, "I'm gonna go investigate this

and see what the heck happened."

Now, this guy isn't

a professional paranormal investigator,

which, in my opinion, gives him more validity

because he might not be sort of skewed

by the desire to find a ghost.

There's a lot of things that still didn't quite add up.

There were no tree branches that had fallen.

It's really, really important

to try and re-create things.

It's impressive when you see somebody

who's not in the field catch something

and is interested in it and tries to re-create it.

Nathan set up the camera in the same position

and had his brother-in-law walk by the tree

and then compared the two.

We did a couple of tests just to walk across a frame.

In the picture from the original time-lapse,

you can see that the image

is much more blurry around the edges,

and the image of my brother-in-law,

it's a lot finer edges to it, and so that was one piece of it

that I noticed was quite different.

Between the picture that he captured and his re-creation,

they're not exact, but similar enough to go, "Hmm.

Maybe there was someone,

something standing by that tree."

Despite Nathan's thorough search,

he still can't say for certain what was in that photograph.

That was the first time in my life

that I had seen anything that was like that,

and there hasn't been anything since.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Always expect the unexpected.

Keep your eyes on the skies.

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