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Next on "Paranormal Caught On Camera,"

a poltergeist torments a woman in California.

I got really bad anxiety living in that house,

so I had to start taking things for anxiety,

and that wasn't like me.

Is this asylum harboring the spirits of former patients?

Bro, legit just saw someone someone walk past there.

I told him, "Look, I just saw what I saw.

I'm scared. I'm done.

A powerful thunderstorm

gives birth to a strange, glowing entity in the sky.

I wouldn't call it alien in nature,

but it's definitely something supernatural.

A mother finds a ghost living in her baby's closet.

Unh-unh!

I just grabbed my baby and ran out of the house.

And even more paranormal footage you have to see...

What the is that?!

Bro, I just got cold chills.

...to believe.

Many asylums of the past have dark and sordid histories,

and the Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania is no exception.

Opened in 1908, it was home to thousands of patients

with cognitive and physical disabilities

whose families were unable or unwilling to care for them.

An investigation in the 1960s

revealed that many of these patients

had been terribly abused over the years.

It finally closed its doors for good in 1987.

But many believe the nearly 80 years of pain and misery

left the building haunted by tormented spirits.

What the is that?!

Recently, a team of ghost hunters investigated the asylum.

And what they experienced

left them terrified and deeply shaken.

- Did you just see that? - What just walked past?

November 2019, Spring City, Pennsylvania.

Hi, guys. Right here is somewhere special.

Carlos Maestri and a team of ghost hunters

are here to explore the notorious Pennhurst Asylum.

Thanks, guys, and hope you guys enjoy.

Dubbed by many as the shame of Pennsylvania

because of its long history of patient abuse,

it is now reportedly haunted.

From the outside, it looks like any other abandoned building,

but inside, the building

almost seems to pulsate with dark energy.

I feel really weird about entering this area right here.

You do? Yeah.

Like, I'm getting crazy goose bumps.

My name is Carlos, and this is my video.

I initially walked in there,

you get this sense of, like, heaviness.

I'm scared.

Felt the tension.

Like, "Okay, there's something here,

and it's already attacking us."

Carlos begins by trying to communicate

with a Spirit Box app on his phone...

Is anyone here?

Dude, that's your name.

...and immediately gets some frightening results.

Eleven.Eleven.

Normally, in a haunted situation,

I would assume that there would only be one or two spirits

maybe inhabiting a building,

But in a place like Pennhurst, the sky's the limit.

There could literally be hundreds,

if not thousands of ghosts, if you want to call them that,

living within the walls.

And because of the abuse that ran rampant at the asylum,

including allegedly keeping some of the patients in cages,

those ghosts are bound to be unhappy.

Did you say demon?

Is there demons here?

I just heard "Yes."

Said it again! It said yes like three times!

As the disturbing EVPs continue to come in,

Carlos suddenly senses something in the distance.

Did you just see that?

Watch closely, as a shadow figure

appears to walk past the doorway at the end of the hall.

Did you just see that?

I just saw that.

Bro, legit just saw someone walk past there.

I felt like something was there, and I turned around,

and next you know, I see -- look, I'm getting chills --

I see the shadow walk by.

I was ready to run.

And I'm part of the military,

I don't really get scared that often.

I was ready to run.

Who just walked past?

Here, we have one of the most common occurrences

during a paranormal investigation --

the shadow figure at the end of the hall.

Here, we see something pass by a doorway.

It seems darker than the darkness around it.

And there are tiny glints of lights that make you think,

"Okay, there must have been somebody.

Somebody must have been walking around."

But then the investigator shines his flashlight on the doorway,

and there's nobody there.

There couldn't be anybody there.

So, what was it?

Could it be one of the asylum's former residents,

who was cursed to roam the halls, calling for help?

Who's down here with us?

This seems to be a residual energy of a person

who may have died there, and if that is the case,

this is the darkest type of residual energy

the place can have.

This was a horrible place to live.

It was a Dickensian sort of hell.

These people lived lives of fear and anxiety.

If these lives get cut short,

there's a tragedy there that just can't be underestimated.

Some probably just wanted help

to get to the other side, to rest,

but there's most likely a lot of them that are just angry,

'cause that's the sense I got, was "angry," like they were mad.

While Carlos is terrified, he soldiers on.

You saw that guy, right?

What it was, it was a black shadow that came through --

But suddenly, something moves in the next room.

Oh! Oh!

What the is that?!

Oh!Oh. Oh.

Bro, I just got cold chills.

Dude, will you see that?

Oh, my God! No, like --

Watch again, as an empty industrial cable spool rolls --

first one way and then the other --

all by itself.

Bro, get the out of here.

I felt cold wind go past me. Like, it got cold.

It didn't scare me.

I was more intrigued on what moved it.

McNEILL: The spool footage was really compelling

because it rolls first in one direction,

with clearly nothing visible to have set it off,

and then changes direction and rolls back.

So any easy explanation of

"Oh, the ground's obviously just sloped" doesn't hold water.

Why would it roll, then, back in the opposite direction?

The floor was actually level.

I'm a home inspector also, so I look at things like that.

It was level all the way through.

Something like that speaks to, if not an intelligent energy,

some sort of energy that can manifest itself on purpose,

something pushed that spool, made it roll one way

and then roll back the other way.

In the short amount of time the team had been in the building,

they have already received numerous EVPs,

seen a shadow figure

and now witnessed a powerful show of force.

To Carlos, there was only one way to interpret

all of that activity.

They didn't want us there,

because the longer we stayed there at night,

the more activity started coming.

As soon as we start getting towards closer to the midnight,

1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, it started getting more intense.

You start feeling the heaviness, you start feeling the draining.

This is the creepiest place I've ever been.

I'm extremely scared.

They decide to call it a night -- while they still can.

And Carlos is in no rush to get back there anytime soon.

Obviously, we get scared, but...

Pennhurst is a different monster.

I'm going to tell you right now, it's a different monster.

Coming up, a poltergeist flexes some muscle.

So, you've finally found your dream home,

whether it's a fixer-upper, a modest ranch,

or a mansion in the sky.

You've done your research,

inspected for termites and a leaky roof.

But how much do you know about its history?

Because if a house has a dark history,

creaks and cracks are the least of your worries.

Just ask a woman in California

whose dream house became a nightmare

when she met the poltergeist that came with it.

2014 in Mountain House, California.

Tammy Gyarmathy and her husband

have just moved into their new home,

and almost immediately, something seems off.

My name is Tammy, and this is my video.

As soon as we moved in, things started happening in that house.

I had doors opening and closing in one of the dressers,

I heard a door slam.

I was there by myself,

and, like, at 3:00 in the morning

there would be loud banging on the wall behind my bed.

Incredibly, the activity continued for years

and took its toll on Tammy.

I had trouble sleeping -- a lot.

I had really bad insomnia.

I got really bad anxiety living in that house,

so I had to start taking things for anxiety,

and that wasn't like me.

Finally, after nearly 6 years of living in fear,

Tammy and her husband decided to move out

of their dream house in late 2019.

And that's when the home security cameras

started capturing things like this.

Keep your eyes on the hanging lamp on the left,

as it swings back and forth on its own

and then suddenly comes to a full stop.

There's no vent near the light.

Like, it swung, swung, and then it just stops.

Like, how did it do that?

'Cause that next morning, I tried to debunk it with my mom.

Like, I pulled the light out and I swung it,

but it's still swaying until it was done swinging.

The swinging light, sort of on a pendulum,

goes back and forth very oddly, very slowly.

And this particular light,

I have a very strong opinion here.

It's either a ghost or it's a hoax.

There are no other options. There's no middle ground.

It's one or the other.

Night after night, room by room,

chilling activity was captured on camera,

from lights turning on and off

to objects moving on their own.

Watch the grandfather clock to the left.

The clock face door suddenly swings open.

McNEILL: When the grandfather clock opens it doesn't pop open,

like it's been waiting to open

and just the latch was partially hooked or something like that.

It opens in what almost seems to be

an intentionally menacing way.

It swings open slowly, as though something is opening it.

The crazy thing about it opening is it sticks.

Like, it doesn't open easy.

You have to really pull to get it open.

So that really tripped us up 'cause I was like,

"Okay, that couldn't have, like, accidentally happened."

There's no way this thing opened by itself.

To me, it definitely feels like

they have a poltergeist on their hands.

Poltergeists are known to be pranksters,

and so the fact that a lot of this activity

is happening at night,

when nobody is there to physically witness it,

you know, it's almost as if it wants to be seen later,

you know, as a little treat to freak them out later.

And each new capture did freak them out.

Watch as this hand truck seems to almost levitate

before rocking back and forth,

and then settling back to center.

We see this hand truck, and it is being moved to and fro,

as if something is yanking on it just out of frame.

It's impressive, and it's also a heavy object,

and that makes you wonder, how strong is this entity?

McNEILL: One of the things that I noticed

was that the cat is caught in the video,

clearly watching the dolly.

If there were someone out of screen,

really trying to trick us,

holding a fishing line, making that thing rock,

the cat would be looking at the person.

Then, just 2 days before they were set to move out,

one of their cameras captured this.

Watch the left opening on your screen,

as what can only be described as a creepy shadow figure

seems to peek in.

The last video that we got

in literally maybe a day or 2 before I moved.

Now it's showing itself to us.

Like, that's creepy.

We start with a couple moving objects.

The next thing you know, we have

a full-fledged shadow figure peering around the corner.

I don't know where it's getting the energy,

but it seems to be increasing.

But why would the activity be increasing now,

just days away from them leaving the premises?

One of the most common reports

when it comes to haunted activity

is that when people move or are doing construction

or redecoration in a home, activity kicks up.

And the reason for this, I believe, is the energy flow.

It's not so much that ghosts don't like change

and they're upset by something that's happening.

It's the fact that you're altering the environment

to allow for a different flow of energy.

Whatever the cause,

as far as Tammy and her husband were concerned,

it just confirmed that leaving was the right choice.

A few days later, they moved nearly 2,000 miles away,

to Texas.

Unfortunately, even that might not be far enough.

I'm like, "Okay, we're going to move to another state.

Everything's going to be great."

And then I see a shadow figure here.

So I'm like, "Did it follow or..."

I don't know.

Coming up, a fleet of UFOs in the Arizona sky.

The alien invasion.

For most people, that means UFOs suddenly sweeping over cities,

raining down destruction from above.

And thankfully, nothing like that has happened.

Yet.

But what if an extraterrestrial takeover

doesn't start with a sudden attack?

What if it starts, as many believe,

with simple observation and intel gathering from above?

And what if this observation started decades

or even centuries ago?

Sounds crazy, right?

Not to a young man in Arizona, who captured what he believes

is just the beginning of the end.

September 2019 in Yuma, Arizona.

Eloy Jaime was doing his usual nighttime longboarding

through downtown at around 8 p.m.,

when he glanced over toward a baseball field in the distance.

The field lights were all on,

which wasn't unusual for this time of night.

What wasunusual were the spectators --

hovering high up in the sky.

What is happening?

A cluster of 4 or possibly 5 orange lights.

And then another...

and another.

But this one glowing white and approaching from the right.

The white object remains stationary for a few moments

and then leaves the scene.

Then, moments later, another white light suddenly appears

right next to the cluster.

The lights continue to appear and disappear in different areas

above the baseball field.

Eloy is freaked out.

My name is Eloy, and this is my video.

I was skating downtown, and I was going down my usual path,

and I just saw, like, some lights in the sky,

and I freaked out, and I, like, pulled my phone out.

Immediately, it was like, "Aliens!"

You know, like, it looked crazy, so...

What is that?

They appeared one at a time, and then they would disappear,

and then they would reappear in different spots.

I was posting on my social media, too,

'cause I was asking people, like, "Does this look

like something you know what it could be?"

And people were saying that it could be, like, military flares,

but the way that they moved was not a military flare.

Like, I was like, "There's no way that's a flare."

I've never seen military flares suspend in the sky like that.

I don't see trails of them being shot up.

I don't see the burnout trails of them falling down.

I don't know how these orange lights

are suspended in the air like that and clustered together.

It's unusual to see.

The original 4 come back in their original pattern,

which rules out a lot of manmade crafts.

These can't be incendiary in any nature.

These can't be lanterns or the after-burners of jets.

Things like that can't go out and then come back.

What I find most interesting about this clip

are the hyper-white lights

that seemed to be a little inquisitive

and they're coming in to observe these clusters of orange lights.

Eloy believes at least one of those 2 white objects

may have been a plane observing the observers.

It looked like I saw a plane go from, like, the right,

and it, like, went around, and it, like, stopped next to it,

and it just goes back down.

And I was wondering, like, if they saw it, you know,

like, why wouldn't they share it?

Could it be that whoever it is

feels we're not quite ready for that kind of information?

Which then begs the question --

is this a friendly extraterrestrial visit

or something more that should concern us?

Are we being monitored? Are we being documented?

Are these alien anthropologists coming

with well-meaning intentions to bring back information

about our civilization to their cultures?

Or are we being scouted for invasion, for destruction,

for weapons of mass destruction?

Who knows?

The lights eventually disappeared,

and Eloy hasn't seen them since.

And though he's still unsure exactly why they were here,

Eloy's cautiously optimistic about the encounter.

There's no way that we're the only living beings here,

so I saw it, and, like, I was really excited.

Like, "Aliens!" Like, "I seen them,"

Like, "Finally, I get to see them!"

I was really excited about that, but then I was also like,

what if something happens?

Wonder if I'm about to die.

Coming up...

...the bogeyman is alive and well...

Unh-unh!

...in Kentucky.

As a parent,

the instinct to protect our children is hard-wired.

No, no, no, no!

But what happens when kids need protecting

from things you can't see -- like the bogeyman?

You tell them it's not real, you check under the bed,

turn on a night light, and leave the bedroom door open a crack,

all the while assuring them they have absolutely nothing to fear.

But for one Kentucky mom,

those assurances came back to haunt her

when she discovered the bogeyman

living in her daughter's closet.

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

It's 2019 in Henderson, Kentucky.

Destini Palen has just finished tucking her children in

and settles down to watch a scary movie.

Suddenly...

...she hears terrified screams

coming from her toddler's bedroom.

She rushes to her room

but sees nothing out of the ordinary.

Still, when Destini returns to her own bed,

she can't help feeling they are not alone.

My name is Destini, and this is my video.

I went to sleep that evening, and I felt that feeling

like somebody is just standing there watching you.

I was hearing noises, rattling and stuff,

throughout the closet that night.

And that's just the beginning.

My kids started having more nightmares.

They were crying in the middle of the night,

complaining that they were scared,

hearing stuff down the hallway.

Most often, these things happen at night, around bedtime.

But one evening, Destini hears some music playing

from inside her daughter's closet,

which continues intermittently throughout the night.

The next morning, desperate to make it stop,

she goes to her daughter's closet and opens the door.

If it plays again, Addy, it's going in the trash.

I was like, I'm going to take a look at it,

and sure enough, as soon as I went to record it,

I mean, you've seen what I seen, and it was the craziest thing.

Watch this small light-up toy on the floor.

Yep -- trash.

Look at that.

All night long.

Now keep your eyes on the rack of clothes to the right.

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

Watch again in slow motion,

as a hanger begins to swing back and forth on its own.

Then, the rack of clothes also begins to move,

as if pushed by an invisible hand.

Finally, the closet door swings closed.

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

And then I run in there, and I show people

because I knew I wouldn't have believed it, you know,

so I wanted to show that there was nobody in that closet --

just me.

When I actually went into the closet,

I pointed down to the toy.

You could see that the power was actually off on the toy itself.

See? The power's off.

And it was off all night, as well,

and it was still going off.

All night long.

And then as soon as I did that,

I was like, "What am I thinking?"

I just grabbed my baby and ran out of the house.

If it was just the toy, we could probably explain it

as a malfunction, you know, that happens.

But...

Yep -- trash.

...the toy turns on...

All night long.

...and then the clothes move, and then the door moves.

Unh-unh!

When you add all of that activity together,

that's what really makes you feel like something's going on.

I didn't ever feel like it was a nice presence.

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

I was a little afraid

and afraid for my children, as well.

Let's examine the trigger object.

She bought this as a toy for her child,

and something seems to be playing with it.

Look at that.

All night long.

But let's not assume that the spirit is a child itself.

Maybe it's just using whatever it can

to try to get its message across that "Hey. I'm here."

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

It seems to me that whatever this poltergeist or spirit is,

it's just starting out.

I mean, it's starting out

with fooling around with electronic toys

and it's starting to move the clothes around.

It's possible that, you know, if this keeps going on,

it's going to intensify these hauntings even more.

But after everything she'd been through,

Destini had no interest in seeing

just how much more intense it could get.

We just moved to Florida, just bought a house.

So far, so good. Haven't heard anything.

My kids are sleeping well at night.

So, hopefully, everything stays that way.

Addy, come here.

Unh-unh!

Coming up, what kind of evil

lurks behind this door?

People leave all kinds of things on the side of the road,

for all kinds of reasons --

most often because they no longer want it.

And as the saying goes,

one person's trash is another one's treasure.

But if you do find a discarded item

you want to bring into your home, be warned.

That special piece

may be carrying something hidden within it --

something evil that will keep you up at night

and threaten to drive you from your very home.

And we're not talking about bedbugs.

January 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa.

James and Randi have recently moved into a new house,

and James brings home a unique statue he found

on the side of the road.

He gives it to Randi as a funny housewarming gift,

but it gives her the creeps,

and she throws it out the next day.

Not long after, Randi is home alone,

when things get a little weird.

My name is Randi Meyers.

My name is James.

And this is our video.

We had our Christmas lights stored in a garbage bag,

and they just started flickering really fast by themselves.

They weren't plugged in. There's no way to explain that.

And I called him, and I told them to come home right away.

The bizarre activity and the way it makes Randi feel

immediately brings to her mind the statue James brought home.

Could there be a connection?

It was very, very weird and very weird-looking,

and it just gave off bad vibes from the very beginning.

She chalks it all up to a bizarre coincidence

and tries to forget about it.

But the disturbing activity continues.

We woke up with scratches on us,

and we felt like we was in danger

and that this entity was gonna harm us.

I was waking up every morning drained.

And I wasn't sleeping. I was having nightmares.

So I ended up going to my mom's.

One night, while Randi is at her mother's house,

she video-chats with James, who is still at home,

when suddenly, in the middle of their conversation,

James sees this.

The basement door shaking violently,

as if someone were trying to get in.

I thought somebody had broke in at first.

James is terrified

but works up the courage to approach the door.

Nothing.

At least, no livingthing.

But then...

more rattling and knocking, coming from the next room...

...this time,

from a small cubby closet in the wall.

Yeah, I was too scared at that point.

I was frightened to open up the cubby.

Being home alone and that start knocking in the door...

I just figured

I'd better not keep teasing it more.

The rattling eventually stops.

James and Randi are completely freaked out.

When you see a locked door rattling like that,

it's incredibly scary.

That's an aggressive thing.

If you saw that, knowing there was a human on the other side,

you would still be scared.

So for a spirit to have that kind of aggressive energy

is terrifying.

All these doors, it almost seems

as if there's something outside the house

that's looking for a way in and they're trying every lock.

When Randi and James became more and more afraid

of the presence in their home,

that's when the activity began to escalate.

Spirits can sense when you are afraid,

which is why it's really important

to try as best as you can to be really confident

and tell them they are not welcome here.

Now convinced that the statue they threw out

somehow allowed an evil entity to enter their home,

James and Randi turn

to a paranormal investigator named Aman

to help rid the home of this unwanted presence.

He instructs them to use energized water

to purify the house.

But while they are doing that,

two terrifying written messages suddenly appeared,

captured here in photos.

This thing wrote "Help, Aman" on our door,

and then, in the bathroom, it said, "Help me."

We believe it was trying to get Aman's attention through us.

This is an interesting case where these people brought in

someone to do a blessing or an exorcism,

brought in blessed water to put in the space

and the spirit responds.

And this is a classic trope that happens in a lot of hauntings,

that when the big guns are brought in,

when religious artifacts or prayer

or sage smudging is brought in, that the entity wants to stay

and gets agitated and angry and clings to it.

With the writing literally on the wall,

James and Randi move out of their home

as soon as they're able.

When we moved, we was a little worried

that it was going to follow us.

So far, nothing has happened to us,

and we're really grateful for it.

Coming up...

thunder from down under

gives birth to a bizarre, glowing entity in the sky.

The Earth is an amazing place,

filled with a seemingly infinite number of natural wonders.

And perhaps none is as awe-inspiring --

and, at times, terrifying --

as a good old-fashioned thunderstorm.

The spectacle of light and sound has inspired many

to pull out their cameras and risk their own safety

in hopes of capturing a piece of Mother Nature's wrath.

But be warned --

as thrilling as capturing a thunderstorm on camera may be,

there is the slim chance

that you'll inadvertently see something else

that will make you question everything you believe.

It's December 2018 in Kalgoorlie, Australia.

Leigh Stevens is getting ready to settle down for the evening,

when a violent thunderstorm

starts tearing through his neighborhood.

The storm is so powerful

that Leigh tries to capture some of it on video.

He points the camera toward the most active part of the sky.

Then suddenly,

as he's facing a streetlight two blocks away...

Watch again and listen carefully.

Just after a high screeching sound is heard...

...a bizarre green glow fills the sky.

Leigh is freaked out.

This is no ordinary thunderstorm.

My name is Leigh, and this is my video.

We had a pretty hectic lightning storm that night,

big thunderstorm came through.

I was outside trying to get video of the lightning

'cause it was striking over and over in the same spot,

so I thought that was pretty cool.

Little green thing popped up in the sky, so...

We get a lot of electrical storms here,

but we've never seen anything quite like this.

We heard the little noise,

because it makes a little noise at the beginning as it pops up,

and we're like, "Wow, that's pretty interesting."

And there's something else about this green glow

that makes it even more interesting.

It's just a bit weird

because we couldn't actually see it out there with our eyes.

We could only actually see it through the phone.

So like, wow, it's not out there,

but the phone is saying it isthere.

My first thought would be maybe is it some sort of reflection.

If you're shooting through a window, that's something you have to look out for.

But if you're not, man, all bets are off.

I have no clue.

You can see, as I panned the phone around to both sides,

it actually stayed center.

It stayed where it was.

It wasn't something in the phone.

This looks like a blanket.

It looks like a projected grid that's suspended somewhere

between the surface of the Earth and this crazy electrical storm.

And I can't dismiss that gnarly sound

like this crunching of metal that happens

right before this green light manifests.

I will look at a video and watch it five times

until I find out how you fooled me.

And there's no fooling here.

It's not a glitch in the camera. It's not a light reflection.

It's nothing mechanical.

It almost looks like something is being projected

against the sky.

That makes me wonder if it is extraterrestrial in nature.

Perhaps there's some sort of signal

being communicated to the ground

or even a symbology being conveyed.

So, the question must be asked --

is this extraterrestrial in nature?

The obvious go-to would be some sort of UFO ship,

but why would it suddenly appear like that?

A lot of people believe that maybe it was struck by lightning

and deactivated a cloaking mechanism

that it had on the ship itself.

Or could this be something else entirely?

This thing, it looks almost alive,

like a stingray in the water or something like that,

but it's in the air.

I wouldn't call it alien in nature,

but it's definitely something

maybe supernatural, you know, in a sense

where, like, you have a lot of weird weather conditions

and you just have something at the right time

just going off that no one's ever saw before.

No one, including meteorologists and scientists,

seems to have a definitive answer

as to what this unusual aerial sighting was --

or, at least, that's what they're saying.

How are scientists saying, like, "Oh, yeah.

We don't know what that is," and then, "Okay, cool.

Well, see you at the next one."

What is that?

We are living in the Marty McFly future,

and I still can't explain a huge object in the sky

that's right in front of me?

Come on. I want to know more.

I'm pissed.

To this day, Leigh is no closer to understanding

what it was that he captured that night.

But he hasn't lost hope.

We never saw it again. That was the one and only time.

I'd love to one day find out what it was, yeah,

then put my mind and a lot of other people's minds to rest.

I still get questions from friends --

"Did you ever find out what it was?"

And it's "No. No, I didn't.

Look.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep your eyes open wide.

Did you just see that?

Don't let your fear overwhelm you.

But know when it's time to go.

Unh-unh!

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."