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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera"...

A cryptid hunter...

...becomes the hunted.

Yikes! Oh, my God.

A UFO breeds other UFOs.

is that thing?

Holy.

I've never seen anything like this one.

- Wow. - It was very strange.

The ghost of a grieving woman

is visible on camera,

but not to those standing next to her.

The security officers do not see her at all.

Zilch. They see nothing.

Two brothers reckon with a ghost...

who starts fires.

My brother freaked out.

He didn't sleep for about three, four days.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see to believe.

Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

Deep within the vast jungles of Indonesia,

there is said to exist a race of mystical beings

whom locals refer to as the orang bunian,

"the hidden people" --

a group of inter-dimensional ghostly entities

that live on the outskirts of humanity.

According to legend, the bunian are beautiful, powerful,

and said to be visible only to those with spiritual sight --

humans with an innate sensitivity to the supernatural.

But if you're ever feeling bold enough

to actually go looking for them, beware.

If they feel threatened, rumor has it...

...the vengeful beings...

...can make you vanish without a trace.

2019 -- the jungles of Indonesia.

A man embarks on a quest

in search of the mythical orang bunian.

Perhaps as a way of warding off his fear,

he starts talking about his own bravery...

...and comparing it to the bravery of his friends

who have chosen to stay back

while he ventures forth on his own.

As he sweeps the forest

for any signs of the orang bunian,

he gets farther and farther away from his friends...

...and from anyone else who can come to his aid.

Then he begins to taunt the orang bunian.

Watch again in slow motion

as two creatures appear in front of them.

The smaller of the two seems to lunge after him.

Without ever looking back, he runs full tilt...

...to his much wiser friends.

Yikes! Oh, my God.

Like, that... Was it...

Okay.

You saw, like, a taller and then a smaller, right?

And then the smaller was, like, coming to get you.

that. What is that?

What's that? Because what is it?

This video is really terrifying.

First of all, you're kind of disoriented,

out in this dark jungle at night.

And the person watching the video,

or taking the video, is obviously terrified.

I would be, too.

I would be out of there in a heartbeat.

Whatever this guy came upon in the woods,

and you only see it for a few seconds,

but it looks like a... like a boogeyman.

I mean, it looks, like, really scary.

Which doesn't necessarily jibe

with what we know about the orang bunian.

According to legend, this is a benevolent creature.

It doesn't mean any harm.

The orang bunian have a civilization,

a language, a hierarchy entirely their own,

very much like humans.

They have royalty. They have peasants.

They have different personalities.

And some of them are curious about mankind.

Some of them just want to be left alone.

They're considered to be benevolent beings

that teach us, you know, what it is to be human.

What we saw in this video is not that.

It doesn't feel like it's there to do good.

So, is it possible that there's a, like,

fantastical group of creatures

living in the forest?

Yeah. It's possible.

Was it the orang bunian? I don't know,

because those things did not seem benevolent to me.

But legend has it,

there are instances in which these beings grow hostile

when they feel threatened.

And like the hidden people of Iceland,

the orang bunian have been rumored

to kidnap children and adults alike.

The orang bunian specifically means "hidden people,"

which is really interesting because in Scandinavia,

the elves and fairies are called huldufólk,

which means "the hidden people."

And it's the same word that's used

for the same type of creature.

It seems like every culture across our planet

and across different time periods

seems to have a legend of a race or creature

or something that lives just beyond our borders

that we have to fear and be careful of --

and even, in some cases, revere and give respect to.

But could it be possible that all these cultures

and all these tales and all these myths

are describing the exact same thing?

Anything is possible.

But whatever these things were,

they certainly scared the courage

out of the man who had been hunting them.

And little did he know just how close he got to disappearing

into the jungles of Indonesia forever.

Coming up...

Never take home anything

from a paranormal investigation...

Oh, my God.

...or else.

There's a sacred rule among ghost hunters --

when the paranormal investigation is over,

do not, under any circumstances,

take any objects from the location home with you,

especially if you've been warned not to.

But when these paranormal investigators

finished their tour of a haunted South Dakota hotel,

they didn't heed the warning --

a decision that would come back to literally haunt them.

Woman: Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

In March of 2018,

Rita Alaniz and Bobbie Erickson,

members of the Midwest Ghost Hunterz team,

investigated the notorious Bullock Hotel

in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Can you play with our EMF detector?

There you go. Can you make it turn red?

After getting some interesting feedback from the EMF machine

and witnessing a wealth of odd happenings firsthand...

- Did you hear that? - Yeah, I heard that.

...the team determined that the Bullock was indeed quite haunted

and concluded the investigation.

But before heading out,

in spite of the hotel manager's warning,

both women took home some rocks from just outside the hotel.

My name is Rita Alaniz.

And my name is Bobbie Erickson.

The rocks aren't forbidden to take,

but they warned us not to take them

because other people have drove all the way back

to return the rocks.

Because of that paranormal activity

and stuff in their houses.

Still, Rita and Bobbie didn't think

a few rocks could cause much harm,

so they brought them home.

Then, a short time later,

Rita began experiencing a series of bizarre activity

inside her house,

beginning most notably with an incident in her kitchen.

My microwave door literally just opened by itself.

Not really sure why. Um...yeah.

So me and my dog have been sitting here creeping out.

I've grabbed his leash, so I'm going --

Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

The kettle, when I was recording in there,

it, like, spun and went and hit the ground.

It was...

That was terrifying to me because, for one,

I was by myself with my dog,

and for two, I had never seen anything move like that.

So that scared me.

Drawing from her experience in the field,

Rita decided to set up cameras around her house

to see if she could catch anything else.

This is from the night-vision camera in her bedroom.

Watch the sheet on top of Rita.

Oh, my God!

When I rewatched the video, I felt scared.

And it was scary because I felt targeted.

The cameras also picked up

a mysterious, dancing flash of light

in the dining area.

It was then that they started to suspect

the manifestation of a presence.

Yeah, I felt pretty excited

to actually see something on camera.

And I kind of also felt a little uneasy,

to be honest with you, just because of the fact

that we've had so much activity,

and to see something like that

kind of kind of gave me an uneasy feeling.

A little creepy.

Yeah, it was a little creepy.

Not long after,

Bobbie lent a hand with Rita's investigation.

She volunteered to lie on Rita's bed in the dark...

when this happened.

Watch the bedside table behind Bobbie.

Whoa!

Did you catch that?

Look again, closely,

as an object moves off the side table.

Whoa!

I felt really uneasy.

I felt a cold breeze, like, by my feet.

I kind of look over in the video.

Like, I felt like somebody was, like, looking at me.

And then that's when the object moved,

and I freaked out and just took off.

Taken individually,

these would be powerful little segments.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God!

Whoa!

But rolled into one story,

you have an awful lot of unexplainable phenomena

happening in this one location.

McNEILL: This is an actively haunted house.

This is one particular place

where a lot of different stuff is going on.

Things are being disturbed in the middle of the night.

Her blanket's being moved up.

Things are falling off the nightstand.

The kettle in the kitchen, I think, is one

of the most striking ones because we're close to it.

Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

The light that we see in the video

is not like anything I've ever seen before,

and it's very bright and very strange.

Like, I just don't know.

I don't even know where to begin how to guess what that is.

It does seem to be a spirit that's kind of mischievous,

if not malevolent.

Oh, my God.

It was doing the regular ghost stuff --

you know, pulling down sheets and knocking things over.

It seems to have some kind of intelligence to it,

not just something that flies by in the middle of the night.

So it had to be attached to them for some reason.

And after a while,

that reason became clear to Rita and Bobbie.

The rocks that they had taken from outside the hotel

were now at Rita's house,

and the warning that they ignored about those rocks

was proving to be true.

Something was attached to them.

Oh, my God.

We can blame it on the rocks, but...

It's just our theory.It's just the stories we heard about it.

And we took them anyways, and then all that happened.

If you're going to do a paranormal investigation,

don't take anything from the scene.

It's irresponsible, and you're opening yourself up

for future hauntings.

Deadwood was a mining town.

I think the last thing you want to do

is take a rock from somebody else's claim.

I have heard many reports of people who have taken an object

who have come home with something from an investigation,

and it seems that the phenomena that might have been happening

at the original location is now happening in this person's home.

Something bumped over here.

Are you in here, in the kitchen?

When you study evil, evil studies you.

It's not like a TV, where they go,

"Oh, done watching this show," click.

They went and then they said, "Okay, we'redone,"

but that contact was made.

So unless they said, "Look, we're done with you.

Don't follow us home. Stay right here.

No, I see you following me to my car -- stop, stay."

Spirits have free will, so them coming back just to check out

who was checking them out is a common occurrence.

Though Rita and Bobbie now claim to be reasonably comfortable

with the presence in the house,

they do have tentative plans

to bring the rocks back to Deadwood.

I'm kind of 100% -- we're gonna bring the rocks back

and then see when we come home, see if it's still active.

Yeah.

I think that if you bring them back

and you believe that there was an attachment with it,

they should set those back and say, "We apologize.

Here you go. Back in its place.

Now, let's call it a day and stop this activity."

But that doesn't mean it necessarily willstop.

They may have opened a Pandora's box.

And once that's open,

they can't necessarily control what happens next.

Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

Coming up...

a mother ship UFO...

- Wow! - ...unleashes an army.

Most UFO sightings share the same general themes.

Someone notices a strange object hovering in the sky above.

That object is then filmed for a few fleeting moments,

where it blinks or flashes or moves in a strange way

before it ultimately disappears for good.

But what if a UFO suddenly did something

that was somehow even more bizarre,

incredible, and terrifying?

What if you saw it suddenly start releasing smaller UFOs?

Would you think this was the beginning...

of an alien invasion?

Maybe you should.

It's 2:40 p.m. on October 21, 2017.

Jim Martin steps outside of his new house

in Long Beach, California,

to do some yard work in the middle of a beautiful day

when he looks up in the sky and sees this.

Whoa, what the is that thing?

Wow!

Holy.

A bright mother-ship-like object

hovering in the distance,

from which three smaller objects in the shape of a triangle

float away.

Then, just minutes later, Jim captured the mother ship

spitting out rapid-fire orb-like objects

- into the daytime sky. - Wow!

Holy.

My name is Jim Martin, and I recorded the video.

Wow!

When I first saw the object,

it ejected these three smaller spheres

that formed a triangle formation.

That in itself is very rare to see.

And so that was very surprising and shocking to me.

Initially, I'll film a lot of objects in the sky,

but they won't emit a series of smaller objects,

so that caught my attention right off the bat.

When the object emitted a fleet of these smaller UFOs --

50 and counting --

I was just shocked by the displayed activity

and very excited to have captured it on film.

I've never seen anything like this one.

It was very strange.

The rapidity with which these objects emerge

from "the mother ship" is impressive to me,

and I don't know what else

could be causing that speed.

I felt like I was watching "Star Wars"

and there was all these TIE Fighters

coming out of the main Star Destroyer.

Whoa, what the is that thing?

This made me think most of the way

that baby spiders will drop off their mother spider

in a little cluster of tiny, terrifying baby spiders.

That's what this reminded me of.

It was sort of like a, you know, Space Invaders game.

Here's the mother ship,

here's the fleet, we might say, of UFOs

that are coming off of it.

Obviously -- maybe not obviously,

but as far as I know -- an invasion hasn't happened yet.

So maybe we escaped this time.

But if you think the idea

of an alien invasion is far out,

Jim's theory as to why it was raining UFOs

is even more extreme.

He believes he summoned them.

I have a positive association with the phenomenon.

I view it as connected to my own consciousness.

I go outside and I actively pursue contact,

then they respond visually.

I had just moved to my new house in Long Beach,

and I was trying to initiate contact

and jump-start the activity at the house,

and I'd been recording a series of these sightings

over a few weeks,

but this was just the most extreme event that had happened.

Wow.

When you interact with a phenomenon

and you learn how to use your consciousness

to connect with it, you will start experiencing

a series of these encounters. And as you go,

they will become more and more intense.

Holy.

There are so many UFO witnesses

that describe this same behavior,

that once they've seen the thing,

then they know when they're around,

that they can point them out, they can bring them to you.

It's a strange phenomenon.

Whatever the reason for their appearance,

Jim believes they come in peace.

I think these phenomena on these recordings

are widespread around the world. I think they're deliberate.

And I think it's a process of acclimating the society

to their presence in a slow disclosure

through a series of these recordings

by individuals such as myself.

The idea that aliens are benignly allowing us

to ease ourselves into comfort with their existence

is, like, really quite sweet,

you know, as far as what could be happening.

Conspiracy theories are usually quite dire and dramatic

in what they suggest is happening.

I kind of like the idea that aliens might be like,

"I'm gonna let you get used to this

so it'll be less scary when we actually show up."

That's really nice of them. I hope it's true.

Coming up...

an arsonist ghost.

The world can be a loud, unpredictable place

filled with threats...

...of every shape and size,

which is why there is no place like home --

a place to feel safe and secure enough

to let down our guard,

close our eyes, and rest.

But while a home may protect you against many earthly dangers,

it does very little to protect you from the paranormal...

as this family discovered

when they encountered a ghost...

...who starts fires.

In 2017, Christopher King and his brother began to notice

strange things happening in their Albion, Illinois, home.

So they set up multiple cameras and began to amass evidence

of what looked more and more like a haunting.

It began innocently enough, with the kitchen sink

turning on and off when no one was around,

this toy doll moving on its own...

...as well as this ball,

and the front door...

...suddenly swinging open.

But the final incident caught on camera

was so disturbing, so extreme,

the brothers began to wonder --

was this ghost out to hurt them?

Keep your eye on this oven mitt.

The mitt slides across the stove,

directly onto a burner.

And here is where things get downright horrifying.

An invisible force turns on the burner...

...and the oven mitt...

catches fire.

The fire burns unattended for what seems like forever.

And the house's fire alarm

never goes off.

Finally, Chris smells the smoke.

Chris did not want to speak to us

about his terrifying experience,

but his brother Zach agreed to tell us what happened.

My name's Zach King.

I was living at the house

at the time of the video's occurrence.

My brother freaked out.

He didn't sleep for about three, four days after that.

Me? I was scared, that's for sure.

But I was also wanting to catch something

because we wanted something so we could prove

that we weren't insane.

There was a camera in every room.

There was actually two in every room.

It got to the point where we couldn't stand it no more.

We was doing anything we could to get answers.

This is a really dangerous thing to have happen in your house,

to have your oven mitt or potholder

or whatever it was to land on a stove

and then to have the stove --

somebody or something turn the stove on

and set a fire in a kitchen.

If that is an apparitional type of haunting

or an intelligent type of haunting

and it is the consciousness of somebody

that has survived bodily death, they're trying to hurt this guy.

Oh, it's definitely not accidental.

There is intended malice.

That potholder could have been thrown on the floor

or into a ceiling fan, but it wasn't.

It was not only moved to the burner --

the burner was turned on beneath it

so that it would burn.

The smoke alarm didn't even go off.

I mean, this ghost, entity, whatever it is,

they have a lot to deal with electricity.

So it could have turned the fire alarm off on purpose.

If there is an actual effort to destroy the home,

there could be a really, really nasty negative energy

that's existing in that place. If the house was owned before

by someone who experienced something terrible,

who simply wants to see that place eliminated,

that's a cause for concern.

Or could the entity's intent be something far less malicious?

Sometimes I wonder if this is a type of phenomenon

that gets misinterpreted as, like,

"This thing's trying to destroy my home, destroy my life."

But, really, it's something

lifting a potholder in a kitchen.

Is this like an energy trying to cook?

Because if this energy had the capability

of taking that potholder off, lighting it on fire,

if it really wanted to cause some serious destruction,

wouldn't that energy have taken that flaming potholder

and thrown it somewhere else?

After multiple attempts to remove the spirit,

including having a preacher bless the home,

Zach, Chris, and his family all moved out,

hoping to leave both the house and the spirit behind.

And though things seem to be going well for them thus far,

it might not be that simple.

Something that is that strong,

if it's attached to the land, fine.

But if it's attached to you,

you got to figure that out real quick.

Coming up...

a specter shows up on camera...

and nowhere else.

There are ghosts all around us.

And though you can't see them

and you can't hear them

and you can't feel them,

there are still those times

you can't shake the distinct feeling

that the building is haunted.

But if you want proof,

here's a suggestion --

check the security cameras.

Because sometimes, as a security guard in Mexico

recently discovered, security cameras catch things

that your eyes don't,

like this spirit of a woman in mourning.

2018 -- Nayarit, Mexico.

Two workers were in the middle of their shift at a factory

when a security guard named Jose spotted

something strange on his security camera feed.

A woman dressed all in black was on the warehouse floor,

facing the factory workers as if she was trying to talk to them.

At first, Jose wondered, who is this woman?

Why are the workers ignoring her?

She's standing right there.

Then it suddenly struck him --

maybe they can't see her.

Maybe she's invisible.

Maybe she's a ghost.

To confirm his suspicions,

and not wanting to alarm the workers,

Jose calmly tells them there is something behind them

and to take a few steps back.

Now watch as the workers appear to go right through the woman.

There is 100% clearly a woman standing there.

This is not a hazy glitch

or a beam of light

or even an orb that could be something or could be dust.

This is a woman standing next to these two men

who very clearly have absolutely zero awareness that she's there.

They're putting their flashlights

through this figure. They're moving their arms.

They walk right through it a couple times.

The woman is completely stationary.

She does not move at all.

But these guys that are on the floor of the security office

do not see her at all.

Zilch. They see nothing.

And if you look closely, she seems to be wearing

some sort of, like, mourning veil, almost like a widow.

And she's standing in what looks like this

very somber body language.

And it's very unusual to see that,

especially when you have two people

that do not see this individual there.

It's very goth. It's very drab. It's very sad.

So maybe this entire place is more haunted than people expect.

But not necessarily haunted

with the type of ghosts most people are familiar with.

I think the thing that's most telling about this clip

is, whatever it is,

it doesn't respond to the men walking around

and searching for it. It doesn't respond.

It doesn't move at all. So I would probably classify it

as a residual haunting -- something that is just an echo

of what was. Because it doesn't interact,

it's probably something that will never interact, and people

will just see it over time.

It could be that she died there.

It could be that someone she loves died there.

Something about presence. Something about waiting.

Something about being on that space.

We see that often in things like loss and grief,

if someone has spent a long time

waiting for someone else to come home.

But why would a security camera pick up

something that our eyes can't see?

Ghosts oftentimes communicate through electricity,

so you can see them messing with lights,

you can see them on camera,

but you won't be able to see them with the naked eye.

There is something about technology

that can offer a bridge to the other side.

The idea of ghosts either existing on a different plane

or in a different dimension or simply being ephemeral

and translucent is a very popular trope in ghost belief.

We see it in popular culture a lot, too,

that things can pass through other things.

Where we see it now mostly is in those times

when technology is doing the watching for us.

The only way a spirit can be seen,

especially on camera,

is if they project that image onto the recording media.

We have to remember, a spirit doesn't have mass

to reflect light.

This woman is not moving, so it doesn't seem

that there's any kind of interaction

or she's trying to get a message across.

She just is.

And that is just the energy of her

left over, almost like a shadow.

And I think that's why the camera picks up that energy

and then the people that are standing right next to her

aren't picking up that energy.

Security guard Jose later showed

the footage to the workers,

and they were in disbelief.

But it was nothing compared to how Jose felt

when he first realized he was seeing a ghost

and they weren't.

It's sort of like seeing a shark in the water.

And swimmers are out in that water,

and you're trying to say, "Hey, there's something out there,"

and they can't necessarily see it from their perspective,

But you can.

Psychologically, that's very tense.

And it makes you fearful for whether it's your co-workers

or a stranger or a family member.

So, seeing that on camera is a whole different experience

as opposed to seeing it in person.

Coming up...

- It's fizzy. It should work. - A Coke and Mentos challenge

- is interrupted... - Shh! Shh, shh!

...by a ghost.

Let me out, let me out!

If you believe your house is haunted,

take note.

It's nearly impossible to make a ghost manifest

by simply walking around the house

and willing it to happen.

That's not the way it works.

Paranormal activity happens on its own schedule,

not yours or anyone else's.

Which is why when you finally stop trying to find it

and are just hanging around with your best bloke...

It should work.

...just doing stupid, fun guy stuff...

- I feel it -- no, no, no. - Shh, shh, shh! Shh, shh!

...and this happens...

...it's all the more terrifying.

May 2012 in Middlesbrough, UK.

After a few months in his new house,

Curtis Robinson started to hear strange noises.

He suspected that the house might be haunted,

so he set up cameras to capture whatever

or whoever was causing the issue...

with no results.

Days later, seeking a mental break

and with help from his friend John operating the camera,

Curtis attempts the Coke and Mentos challenge,

in which the subject eats Mentos and drinks soda.

- How many you got left? - 32 left.

Right. Well, yeah, just through through, then.

Yeah, it should work.

Now, in theory,

a gastric eruption will take place.

- Working? - No.

Make sure. Go on, give it a bit.

Give it a bit.

What's it?

- I feel it -- no, no, no. - Shh, shh, shh! Shh, shh!

- What? What? - Shh!

What?

- What's up? - Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

- What? What? - Dude!

- What? - Look!

Let me out, let me out, let me out!

Dude, dude, dude, dude.

The closet door swings open.

Something walks out and pulls down the ironing board.

Let me out, let me out, let me out!

I love this clip so much

because it is so pure and it feels so authentic.

- What's up? - Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

- What? What? - Dude!

The first thing I notice in the clip

is I hear something first.

- I feel it -- no, no, no. - Shh, shh, shh! Shh, shh!

- What? What? - Shh!

What?

You hear, like, the door just violently rattling.

And then, of course, it captures his attention,

so he moves the camera over and he's like, "Yo!"

- What's up? - Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

- What? What? - Dude!

- What? - Look!

I love a good bro haunting.

Yeah, it should work.

We don't get a lot of bro hauntings,

because I feel like guys are a little bit more

embarrassed to be like, "Oh, I saw a ghost!"

- Shh, shh, shh! - What? What?

Shh!

Ghosts feed off of your fear.

So the fact this kid showed so much fear,

this ghost is probably patting itself on the back

for a job well done.

Let me out, let me out!

If you show a spirit or a ghost

that you're afraid of it, you're giving it power.

You're letting it know that it has an effect on you.

And I feel like a lot of times, that's what these entities

are looking for anyway. It's why they move things.

It's why they open and close doors and rattle things.

They want your attention.

Maybe they want you to be afraid.

And if they see they're getting somewhere,

they're only gonna escalate that activity.

Curtis was baffled.

He suspected the house was haunted.

But why did the presence show itself now,

when he wasn't even paying attention to it?

That is so often the case, that you spend all your time

trying to intentionally document something,

and the one time you finally give up

and you're not trying to document it,

it happens.

Paranormal phenomena happens when it wants to happen.

You can never anticipate it

and know exactly when it's gonna happen.

It's kind of like when earthquakes happen.

There are little tidbits that you can, like, pick up on.

You're never gonna know

exactly when that's gonna happen.

You just hope to be at the right place at the right time.

Let me out, let me out!

Could it be that the spirit

is a little jealous or a little frustrated

that nobody's paying attention to them?

- Working? - No.

Make sure. Go on, give it a bit.

Sure. I think that happens more often than we think.

- What's up? - Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.

- What? What? - Dude!

- What? - Look!

We live in an age now

where almost everything we do is caught on camera.

We live our lives to post on social media.

We take even the most mundane of activities and say,

"Hey, guys, look what I'm doing."

And as a result, we seem to be getting more and more videos

where things that we weren't expecting

make their presence known, like spirits...

...like cryptids...

...like UFOs.

Whoa!

So maybe those things were here all along

and we just didn't notice,

or maybe we've just stopped paying attention to the point

where we're so involved in our own daily lives

on our phones that those things are saying,

"Hey, you used to be excited by us.

We're still here."

As for Curtis,

what should he do with his new roommate?

I think a really good psychic medium in this place

would do them some good,

to see if this is an intelligent or an apparitional haunting,

if the consciousness of a deceased person is hanging out

in this house with these guys. The medium would be able

to connect with that and get answers.

Let me out, let me out!

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Be confident...

Bunian!

...not cocky.

Take all warnings very seriously.

Oh, my God.

Show gratitude when appropriate.

Thank you, my friends.

And if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com

and connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal Caught on camera"