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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

three boys discover massive footprints in the tundra...

...that lead to a terrifying encounter.

Whatever it is seems huge.

A home tour...

...reveals a horrifying shadow person.

To see that thing laying in the bed like that,

that would scare the hell out of me.

A bizarre sight over Southern California

leaves a teenager trembling.

Oh, my gosh, you've got to stop shaking.

I thought it was, like, aliens coming to invade.

Like, I have no idea.

An incredible ghost capture in Gettysburg...

Right there, see it?

Uh-huh. Look.

This is some of the best footage that,

in my opinion, has been captured.

...and even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

Oh, my God.

...to believe.

Siberia -- one of the most remote,

uninhabitable places on Earth.

From around 1920 to 1952, 18 million people

were sent to Stalin's gulags or forced prison camps,

where many died of starvation, disease, exhaustion

or were simply executed.

But there is one half-man, half-beast cryptid

that locals believe is alive and well

in this part of the world -- the yeti.

Similar to the Bigfoot in America,

the yeti is believed to have terrorized the continent of Asia

for as long as humans have lived.

And now three Russian boys

may have captured terrifying proof of its existence.

Kemerovo, Russia, a city in southwestern Siberia.

In 2012, three boys were playing near the woods

when they stumbled upon some large footprints.

According to the boys,

the footprints you're seeing here

were about 16 inches long and 7 inches wide.

Not sure what creature could possibly make tracks that big,

the boys did what most curious kids would do in that situation.

They followed the tracks...

...while recording their adventure on a cellphone.

Despite their obvious fear...

...the boys kept going.

Suddenly, they reached the edge of the forest,

and when the camera pans up, they see it...

...a large, furry...

...beastlike creature.

Could it be...

...a yeti?

The fact that these kids take off running

tells me one of two things.

One, they're smart kids.

Even if this is a person,

it could be a dangerous situation

and two that they were actually scared of what they saw.

They didn't seem to be laughing or playing.

They seem generally frightened and wanted to get out of there,

so that tells me that whatever they saw wasn't natural to them.

Not natural and terrifying.

This is great footage

of some kind of a humanoid figure.

We get a pretty clear look at it,

this what looks just like you would imagine

a Bigfoot-type creature to look like.

To me, its reaction seems to be that it's hearing them

following it and pauses briefly,

looks kind of over its shoulder to see if it's being followed,

and then when it senses that they are there...

...it turns and quickly runs in the other direction...

...which they do also,

which I think is a great reaction

because I would imagine that yetis do run better in snow

than small boys.

And if this was in fact a yeti,

the boys made a very wise choice.

It has been reported that the yeti has a long

and violent history in Russia,

one gruesome incident occurring just over 1,000 miles away.

Many people claim

that the yeti is a more violent cousin

of the American Bigfoot or Sasquatch,

and there's certainly some evidence to back that up.

You have the Dyatlov Pass from 1959.

Several skiers were actually killed.

McNEILL: A group of young people were camping out,

going skiing, disappear, found days or weeks later

appearing to be crushed somehow,

one of them missing their tongue.

They didn't exit their tents normally.

They ripped their tents open and went out the backs of them.

Many people believe that the violent death

that they succumbed to was a result of a yeti attack.

Fortunately, the boys all made it out of there safely,

but whether or not they narrowly escaped

from the clutches of a yeti remains a mystery.

One thing is for certain.

They will never forget their encounter

with a Siberian monster in the woods.

Many believe that when people die,

their spirits leave their human form

and move on to the afterlife, possibly for all of eternity,

but in the days immediately following a death,

there have been reports of a spirit lingering on Earth,

maybe to say goodbye one last time

or to take care of unfinished business.

They make their presence felt in mysterious, intangible ways,

like a rustle in the wind,

a light touch somewhere on the body

or perhaps if you're lucky,

an appearance on your back porch.

There is an orb in our backyard, oh, my God.

In the spring of 2019,

just a day after his father passed away,

Jeffrey Maxwell's wife asked him to investigate

what triggered the security camera at their home

in Gilbert, Arizona.

So our camera is picking up this white blur,

but there's nothing outside, no light, no bug.

This is live view.

The glowing, perfectly round ball of light

hung in the air, completely still

as Jeffrey grew increasingly disturbed by its presence.

Ang, this -- I'm not -- This isn't fun anymore.

It's still there.

I'm gonna open the door.

I'm going to walk out to it.

Jeffrey Maxwell in Gilbert, Arizona.

I ran outside to see what it was,

and when I couldn't see it physically with my eyes,

I took her phone,

and I was looking at her phone, and I'm like, "This is crazy."

I'm just doing this.

Okay, I'm right next to it.

There is nothing here, nothing.

Jeffrey then gave the monitor to his wife,

so she could direct him.

When I went outside, I was trying to...

because I couldn't physically see it with my own eyes.

My wife had her camera, and she's like,

"Come forward. Come forward."

Closer?

A little bit in the front, yeah.

Right here? No, you're too far.

Well, no, come forward.

And I put my hand through it.

I put it behind it, and I put it in front of it,

but I couldn't really feel anything

other than the hair on the back of my neck

because I was kind of creeped out,

is how I would put it.

There is nothing here.

Come forward.

Now wave your hands through it again.

For people that believe

that orbs are supernatural in nature,

there's several different causes for these things to come out.

Some people claim that they're balls of energy

that just travel the countryside.

Some people talk about ball lightning.

Other people think that they're actually

the manifestation of human souls or energy.

Jeffrey firmly believed

that the orb was in fact a soul

and not just any soul.

There's something here.

Is it you, Dad?

Jeffrey was sure it was his father

coming back for one last visit.

My father passed away the day after Mother's Day, so May 13th,

and this was May 14th when this happened.

I was like, "Oh, wow, this is crazy."

I'm in a professional work field,

and to show them this, I was like,

"Oh, I don't want people thinking I'm crazy

for it or anything like that,"

but, you know, it is what it is, right?

It was my father.

He had a lot of unfinished things that he needed done,

and I told him I'd finish them for him.

It's okay, and so I have a feeling

that was him coming back.

Dad, is that you?

My hair on the back of my neck

started when I started asking it questions like,

"Hey, Dad, is this you?"

That's when I started getting a little more nervous,

a little more like kind of like,

"What the hell is going on?" kind of a feeling.

Your right hand is, like, right in it.

There is nothing here.

It's oft been reported

that when spirits do make contact

or try to make contact with the living,

it is directly after their passing,

and then often,

those people never experience anything else again.

This is insane.

Turn the light off.

Still, nothing changes.

No light changes, nothing.

That's certainly one of the tropes in,

you know, paranormal activities, unfinished business.

People need to come back and finish something

they didn't get to do while they were living.

Come on.

That has to be Dad.

Could this be a visitation?

It's comforting to believe that,

and I don't think any investigator worth

their salt would contradict him

if that's what he feels, if that's what he believes.

I think he's a big thing in our life,

and I think that if he had one chance to,

"Hey, let me say something before I leave,"

I think that he would ride that,

which I think he did, you know, and it was just...

It's just an ugly event altogether,

and, you know, he made something positive out of it

and touched me with it, so it was good.

Dad, is that you?

Coming up, one of the most famous

ghost captures of all time.

Right there, see it?

Uh-huh. Look.

Narrator: From July 1st through July 3rd, 1863,

the Confederate and Union armies engaged in the deadliest battle

of the Civil War in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

More than 7,000 men tragically lost their lives,

many of which were never given a proper burial,

so it should come as no surprise

that the Gettysburg battlefield is considered

to be one of the most haunted locations in the United States.

More than a century later,

one couple staked out the area with their video camera

and caught some of the most definitive proof

of that haunting you will ever see.

Right there, see it?

Uh-huh. Look.

Gettysburg is a very paranormal area.

Thousands of people lost their lives,

you know, during the Civil War there,

and that kind of violence is imprinted in that area.

One area that's said to be particularly ripe

with hauntings is a 3-acre site

that saw intense fighting on the second day of battle,

the triangular field.

The triangular field is one of the places

where people have seen things for generations now.

It was just such a bloody battle with so much loss of life,

all young lives for the most part,

people cut down before they really experienced a full life.

So you have these spirits in a kind of a turmoil,

and if it's a violent death,

there might be a reason for these people to hang around

and not really be resting in peace.

What's really interesting

about the triangular field at Gettysburg

is that the National Park Services

have cleared out all the new growth

since 1863 to keep it looking

exactly like it did the day of the battle.

And that makes for a perfect environment

for residual energy to play over and over and over again.

Some visitors to the field claimed their cameras

and watches stopped working, while others have reported

hearing unexplained sounds of battle...

...but this pales in comparison with the footage

that Delia Underwood and her husband captured back in 2001

when they set up their video camera on a tripod

and pointed it toward the triangular field.

First, watch as they witness

mysterious flashes dancing in the trees.

Wow, you see those sparklies?

Hon, did you see that?

Yeah, I saw that.

Now look. Watch.

Watch it.

Then moments later...

Keep your eyes on the left side of the screen.

I don't see nothing down there.

Did you catch that?

A series of figures walk into the woods.

There's another sparkle. You see what I'm saying?

What's that?

What is that?

Tree?

No, you moved it.

It's right...right there, see it?

Uh-huh.

Look.

Then finally, more figures appear

and walk upward through the trees.

My name is Delia Underwood, and I am the person

that videotaped the Gettysburg ghost video.

There is no way a human person could go that high.

Right there.

They were walking up like they were going into heaven.

See it? Uh-huh.

Look. There's nobody there.

Anybody that's well-versed in paranormal investigation

has probably seen this Gettysburg clip,

and, you know, the clip speaks for itself.

First, you're looking at what appears

to be lightning bugs or fireflies.

That quickly gives way to flashes of light

and what appears to be sections of human figures.

You can see the upper torso,

and they seem to, like, ascend into the sky.

It is really amazing to see it

because I have personally experienced apparitions

that look just like that, half-bodied apparitions,

half forms like that, just the legs,

just the torso, maybe half a torso, one arm.

That footage validated so much for me.

I was like, "Wow, I can't believe

you could capture this stuff on camera."

Look right there.

See it? Uh-huh.

Now, when I originally saw this clip

years and years ago,

I was like, "Well, it's reenactors.

It's people moving around,"

but it turns out that that field is about a 20-foot drop,

so you're actually watching figures

walking through the trees.

There's no ground where those figures are.

And there was nobody down there.

I walked down all the way around and took pictures

and there was nothing.

What I believe is being captured

are residual energies of soldiers

who passed away while serving at Gettysburg.

It looks like they're marching in formation

or marching up a hill or getting up and moving.

It's almost like they're dead,

but they don't really realize that the war is over.

Maybe that's a residual haunting where they just keep doing

what they were told to do by their general,

and I guess their orders will never end.

Look. Look at the people.

Delia and her husband knew immediately

that they had captured something very special.

We got home, and we put it on the TV,

and we looked, and we looked at it again.

We looked at it maybe 10 times

to see what we were really seeing.

To me, it was amazing because we actually got some proof.

Proof that thus far

has been nearly impossible to debunk.

What I love about this

is that this was shot on tape.

We forget that those things exist now,

but, yes, this was shot on a tape, not an SD card.

There's no way to tamper with this piece of evidence.

I believe the videotape was investigated,

and it wasn't manipulated in any way.

On her tape, there are people moving through the trees.

End of story.

I mean, that's what's on the tape. It's there.

As far as ghostly activity is concerned,

this is some of the best footage that,

in my opinion, has been captured.

It's certainly one of the best videos

to ever come out of Gettysburg.

Even after all these years,

Delia feels fortunate to have been the one to capture it.

I still find it amazing.

I'm like, "Yes, we finally got something, you know,

that we can prove, you know, to the world of the nonbelievers

that this is really real."

Coming up, a man captures a shadow figure

lying in his bed.

You know that feeling you get

when you're offered a great deal that you simply can't pass up?

Recently, a man from Colombia thought he'd hit the jackpot

when a fully furnished apartment

became available for a low price,

but soon after moving in,

he realized that when something seems too good to be true,

it probably is...

...unless you don't mind

sharing your bed with a shadow person.

Late 2018, in Cali, Colombia,

Jairo Páramo was just moving in

to his new furnished rental apartment,

an apartment he had found for an incredible price,

when he noticed something odd.

Random personal items had been left behind

by the previous tenants.

It appeared the renters before him had left in a hurry.

Curious, Jairo did some asking around,

and he found out that the reason they had left so quickly

was due to a series of strange events

that made them fear for their safety.

Jairo was disturbed but decided to remain in the apartment

because it was such a great deal.

It was a decision he would come to regret.

It all began with the door to his balcony.

Night after night, Jairo would find it open

even though he was sure he'd closed it.

Then came the maggots, dozens of them,

accompanied by a foul odor,

both of which suddenly disappeared

as quickly as they had appeared.

The noises came next,

like the sound of someone snoring right next to him

when he laid down to go to sleep

in the bed that was leftover from the previous tenants.

But maybe the most disturbing change

took place in his faithful companion,

Octavio, when the normally affectionate cat

suddenly turned into the devil's cat.

While all of this was happening,

Jairo had been posting about it to his social-media account

and had gained a large following.

One night, his followers requested

a live tour of the apartment,

so they could check it out for themselves.

Jairo was happy to oblige,

but he had no idea what he was in for.

Everything seemed normal as he walked around the apartment.

Then he passed through the bedroom.

Did you catch that?

Watch again closely.

There, lying on his bed, a shadow figure.

Jairo didn't notice at the time,

but his followers did and immediately alerted him.

Jairo quickly rewatched his post and was terrified.

Interpreter: My initial reaction was disbelief...

This one sort of creeped me out

because I don't think this gentleman was faking.

I don't think this was staged.

Clearly somebody is laying

in this guy's bed as he walks through.

To see that thing laying in the bed like that, God,

that would scare the hell out of me.

I would have to move out of there.

It's terrifying.

It's almost like a corpse laying on the bed.

How he didn't see that when he walked into the room

is almost unbelievable.

I mean, perhaps he was looking at the camera in front of him

rather than looking at the bed,

but when we see it over his shoulder, it's like,

"Whoa, what is that?

Dude, get out of the house."

Jairo was too freaked out to stay

in the apartment that night, but he did return the next day

and decided to dig a little deeper

into the apartment's history by, again,

speaking to some of the neighbors.

He found out that a disabled man named Tito

had been living there before the family who left in a hurry.

Tito's family had apparently abandoned him,

and he ended up dying there all alone in that very bed.

It's unnerving because that's the bed that he sleeps on.

That's the bed that he's been hearing snoring,

so that definitely validates the fact

that something weird is going on.

Whatever energy is stuck there probably sees it

as the same familiar environment and has decided not to leave.

If I lived in this home, I think I would pass up this good deal

and move out.

The activity that he describes, the figure in the bed,

the snoring alone would be enough

to keep me from wanting to stay there.

Despite the appearance of the shadow figure

and the information he'd gathered,

Jairo stayed in the apartment for almost a year

until one particularly scary event convinced him to leave.

However, he was willing to return to the apartment

for this interview.

Needless to say,

everything that Jairo went through in this apartment

has changed his belief system forever.

Coming up,

a security camera captures a bizarre alien being.

I can't think of anything in normal life

that would cause that.

What if we told you that, at any given moment,

you're surrounded by an infinite number of beings

from other dimensions, and for the most part,

those beings are as unaware of you as you are of them?

Because although these dimensions are all

inextricably linked within the greater universe,

there are invisible walls

that keep us hidden from each other for our own protection.

But every once in a while,

someone or something slips through,

and if you're lucky enough to have a security camera

pointed in just the right direction,

you just might catch a glimpse, but be warned.

Once you see it, you will never be the same.

In June 2019, Stan Amtower from Portage, Michigan,

noticed that something triggered his home

security camera the night before.

When he played back the footage,

what he discovered was unlike anything he'd ever seen.

The elongated rodlike form approached the camera,

seemed to disappear for a moment

and then return before taking a position much farther away,

almost as if it were both aware of the camera

and slightly wary of it.

Stan was baffled.

I'm a pretty big skeptic.

I tried to think, like,

would there be people with a laser pointer,

but a laser pointer would be just a single dot,

so that wouldn't be it.

I can't think of anything in normal life

that would cause that.

This video even introduced me to something different.

I had to consider, "Okay, well, what is it?

It's not a lens flare.

It's not someone with a laser pointer."

I'm trying to figure out what this could be

and what's causing it,

and every time I think I have a handle on it,

it exhibits a behavior that throws that out the window.

It looks like a fluorescent tube

without the glass around it.

You know, it seems to have some kind of intelligence.

It's not, like, a bird or whatever flying by

because you would know what a bird looks like

in a video camera.

As bizarre as this sighting is,

Stan isn't the only person

who has captured these entities on camera.

Whatever these things are,

they've been filmed all over the world,

from Canada to England,

and they're sometimes given a peculiar name.

The theory behind these skyfish is that they're considered to be

some, like, extradimensional creatures,

things that live within our planet,

within our realm, just in another dimension,

and I can't argue with that because I like to believe

that maybe there are other dimensions out there,

things that coexist with us and we are unaware of.

Sky rods really pretty much showed up as far

as I know in the 1990s.

Did an alien life-form show up at that time?

Did our technology develop to the point

where it could capture something that's always been there?

Or did our technology create something

that we are misunderstanding?

And it's hard to know.

Whatever these things are,

Stan doesn't seem too concerned

as long as they keep their distance.

None of this really scares me because nothing is poking you,

touching you, you know, so as long as that doesn't go on,

that's okay, you know?

They're there. They can be there.

As long as they're not poking me, that's fine, you know?

Coming up, a man summons a spirit...

...and instantly regrets it.

If you've never communicated with the dead

but would like to give it a try, we have some words of advice.

Find an experienced professional that can help guide you.

Try to be specific about who you want to contact

and what you'd like to know, and above all else...

always expect the unexpected

because as one man in England will tell you,

once you open that door, it's hard to close back up.

And if you're not prepared for what follows,

it can be a pretty unpleasant ride.

One night in 2016, Ian Hawk from southeast London

decided to try to communicate with the spirit world

for the very first time.

Ian had heard about a young man named Buster

who had recently been murdered in his neighborhood.

Perhaps his spirit was still there.

He enlisted the help

of paranormal investigator Danny Wood.

I'm just doing the tech side.

The two men set up shop in Ian's living room

and livestreamed their attempt to an audience

of a few hundred people.

Under the guidance of Danny,

Ian placed some items on the sideboard in his kitchen.

The hope was that Buster or another spirit

would communicate by moving one or more of the items.

The team also set up

an electronic voice recorder on Danny's phone

and an infrared camera on his computer.

Now it was time to get to work.

They waited for a few minutes when...

Little did Ian know,

Buster, or whoever it was, was just getting started.

When I feel like people get really excited

on investigations like this,

it can actually amplify the energy,

so if there's any inkling of fear that's going on or anger,

depending on the type of energy that's in the home,

it will feed off of that.

Regardless of his obvious discomfort

and unsure of who exactly he was dealing with,

Ian soldiered on.

Although we don't know precisely what the spirit

might be trying to say,

it does seem to be trying to intimidate the cameraperson.

Poltergeist activity usually escalates,

and so to me, it seems like it's already gotten

to a pretty powerful level, and so I highly recommend

that they try to de-escalate it as soon as they can.

Ian apparently agreed,

as he had already gotten much more than he had bargained for.

He and Danny packed their things up

and left the house for the night.

Though uncertain if he managed to make contact

with the spirit of Buster, he is 100% convinced

he was interacting with someone or something from beyond.

Coming up, a scary sight over San Bernardino.

Oh, my -- That's not normal, dude.

Oh, my Lord Jesus.

If you're lucky enough to catch them,

the sky can offer up some spectacular sights,

from mesmerizing meteor showers to moonbows

and, of course, the aurora borealis,

also known as the northern lights.

And while few things in this world

can compare to natural phenomena like these,

every now and then, there are some things

from out of this world that blow them away.

Oh, my gosh, that's not normal, dude.

In September of 2018,

Evelyn Zamora was visiting her uncle in San Bernardino

when an anomaly in the sky literally shook her to her core.

Oh, my -- That's not normal, dude.

If you come this way, you can look at it better.

Why don't you have shoes on?

Oh, my gosh, you've got to stop shaking.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my Lord Jesus.

I've never seen anything like that in my life,

almost as if the sky was, like, opening up

and, like, colors were coming out.

Oh, my gosh, are you guys seeing this?

In person, it was a mixture of, like, colors

that were, like, fading into the night of the sky.

It was almost like an aura surrounding,

like, the area that was opening.

I don't know if it was a part of it,

or it was, like, reacting to the sky or something,

but that's what I saw.

I must admit,

this is a really beautiful piece of footage.

It almost reminds me of when you're looking at galaxies

through the Hubble telescope.

You see all these beautiful lights.

It looks like a giant sort of amoeba of a cloud.

The curious thing about it, though,

is that it's illuminated from within,

almost like a living cell with a spotlight in it.

Oh, my gosh, you got to stop shaking, oh, my gosh.

I base a lot of how I react to these things

on how the person filming it reacts to it.

They're privy to a lot more sensory input.

Are you guys seeing this?

All we have is that two-dimensional screen.

They're there.

Oh, my gosh, I'm shaking.

They know this is something very unusual.

The sight was so unusual

that Evelyn and her uncle

weren't the only ones who took notice.

My uncle's dogs were actually freaking out

because they were actually looking up to the event

that was happening in the sky, and they were barking,

which made me freak out even more

because I know dogs have, like, a sense of, like,

when something bad is happening,

so I could tell something was going on.

As excited as Evelyn was,

she was also simultaneously terrified for obvious reasons.

I thought it was, like, aliens coming to invade.

Like, I have no idea. I didn't know what was going on.

Like, I had no idea what was happening.

There is a lot of awe and scary just, like, gut feeling

that you would get when you capture something like this

that you have no idea about,

and I'm sure this would be

a beautifully terrifying experience to encounter.

- Check it out, man. - Look at it.

Oh, my gosh, it's so...

If I saw this, I would be just totally freaked out.

I would think it's the end of the world.

Luckily, the world survived,

and the UFO eventually faded away.

Later, Evelyn posted the footage online,

hoping to find some answers.

While most viewers agreed it was otherworldly,

some speculated it could be a rocket,

but Evelyn begs to differ.

It looked nothing like a rocket.

It didn't even move.

It just stood in one place.

It's certainly not a rocket

because they move pretty quickly,

and you can sort of see the propulsion.

And if you were somewhere near where they're launching rockets,

you would expect that.

This does not seem to be an everyday occurrence,

wherever this was shot.

As far as Evelyn is concerned,

this surreal experience solidified her belief

that there is life beyond Earth.

I honestly do believe that there's aliens out there.

I think I've always knew,

but I feel like this really confirmed it for me.

Like, there's something definitely out there.

Oh, my gosh, I'm shaking.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Oh, my God.

Keep a safe distance from the monsters.

Check all your footage for something strange.

Trust your instincts that what you're seeing

really is otherworldly.

Right there, look.

And if you do catch something,

e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.com,

and connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."