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A spirit in Canada trashes a room.

My chair, my paintings, my keyboard.

Okay, no.

My stuff was everywhere.

I was definitely scared.

A freakish cryptid is spotted in Indonesia.

McNEILL: This creature was really good and creepy.

Super, super scary.

Fireballs light up the sky in California.

What is that thing?

It kind of put a fear into me of what's to come.

A ghost capture that will blow your mind.

I'm getting goose bumps thinking about it now.

It still freaks me out.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

...to believe.

Before there were cellphones

that could capture high-definition video,

there were clunky cameras and videotapes.

And although the quality of the footage on those VHS tapes

doesn't quite hold up to today's digital standards,

they did share one remarkable trait --

the ability to capture ghosts.

Case in point, nearly 30 years ago,

a young man in England filmed something on VHS

that's considered to be one of the most authentic

ghost captures to date.

1992 -- West Yorkshire, England.

After a series of strange events,

like the sound of footsteps throughout the house,

doors closing on their own,

and the feeling of being pulled out of bed

in the middle of the night,

15-year-old Adam Mawson was convinced

that his home was haunted.

So he set up his father's video camera on a tripod

in various rooms in the house,

pressed record, and left.

He repeated this over the course of a few months,

recording several VHS tapes' worth of footage in the process.

Then he sat down to watch them.

Now, 28 years later,

Adam takes us through his incredible footage.

My name is Adam, and this is my video.

I was intrigued. I wanted to know what it was.

You are at that age -- you want to figure out what is going on.

We had about seven tapes from different rooms and...

It didn't take long to see that he had captured

some startling activity.

First, listen carefully...

...as the sound of loud footsteps can be heard.

We got the running up and down the stairs,

which was really freaky. That creeped us out.

But those sounds pale in comparison

to what was captured on a camera that was set up in the hallway

just outside of his bedroom door.

Watch closely,

as a shadowy figure seems to materialize

in front of a wicker chair.

It moves in and out of the frame...

...then finally exits through a wall on the left.

Moments later, another figure enters,

remains for a few seconds,

and then exits the same way.

Adam was beside himself.

I'm getting goose bumps thinking about it now.

It still freaks me out.

...watching this.

I wouldn't leave the room until somebody came home,

'cause I was just totally freaked out by what I'd seen.

So when my parents came home,

I showed them the footage, and my mom says,

"Oh, yeah, I've seen that before."

I'm like, "You've seen this?"

And she says -- I remember it to this day.

She says, "If you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone."

And I'm like, "You have got to be joking."

I could not believe she said that.

Adam's mother said she kept it to herself

because she didn't want him to be afraid.

A wise choice.

This is as close to an authentic ghost video

as I think you can really get.

this video has stood up to a lot of scrutiny

over the years since 1992,

and I haven't seen anybody who's been able

to really debunk this video.

I think this is the real deal.

McNEILL: This is a really solid apparition.

The fact that we get almost a full body shape,

that we can see clear movement.

We can distinguish the head from the shoulders

from the body. We can see movement of walking.

We can see movement of sitting and standing up.

It almost reminded me of something from a horror movie.

It was that clear and that solid,

but still really believable.

Freaked out and wanting to know

who was haunting his home,

Adam did some research

on the history of the street he lived on.

There was a mill built whereabout the two houses

at the top of the road, and there was a fire

in the mill and it was burnt down.

I think there were a couple of fatal--

I heard there was a couple of fatalities.

If indeed this house was built on an old cemetery,

it is the classic "Poltergeist" the movie problem.

You only moved the headstones, but you didn't move the bodies.

And across the cultural board,

desecrating gravesites stirs up a lot of bad juju.

This was a cemetery before anyone built on that,

and after that, it was a mill,

and now we have this particular family's home,

and we have this entity manifesting in it --

It's hard to not read all of those different

layers of history of that location contributing

to what it is that we're experiencing.

Whoever was haunting the house

remains a mystery.

And while Adam no longer lives there,

his father still does,

and seems to have inadvertently scared off any ghosts.

Me dad converted to Jehovah's Witnesses

back in 1997.

And within, I'd say it was about 12 months,

it just stopped happening.

We weren't really religious people.

We didn't go to church, that kind of thing.

And he brought religion in and it kind of just disappeared.

Regardless, the time he spent living there

left a lasting impression.

Do you know, I never believed in ghosts

before we moved into the house.

Having that experience,

it's kind of...

Coming up...

a creepy cryptid emerges in Indonesia.

Being a wildlife expert

can be a dangerous job.

You may find yourself in precarious situations

when searching for certain species

in the wilderness.

After all, you are on their turf.

And if you do come face-to-face with something bigger than you,

you generally have only your wits and expertise to draw upon.

But what if the creature you come across...

is unlike anything you or anyone else has ever seen?

That's what happened to one group of men in Indonesia

when they found themselves pursuing,

and perhaps being pursued by...

...this.

December 2019 -- Indonesia.

It's late at night, and Panji Petualang,

who is considered to be the Steve Irwin of Indonesia,

is with his crew hunting for frogs to feed his pet snakes.

Along the way,

they come across all kinds of indigenous wildlife...

...like a baby cobra...

...and an owl.

Then, about a minute later,

Panji suddenly spots something unfamiliar

in the distance.

The crew gives chase.

But whatever it is gets away.

Panji is totally baffled by what he thinks he saw.

So they play back the footage to get a better look.

At first, they don't see anything.

But then...

they rewind a bit further back...

...to just before Panji spotted whatever that thing was.

Watch closely, in slow motion.

An alien-like creature scurries away

from Panji's headlamp light.

Watch again.

The crew is stunned.

Going home sounds like a great idea.

But just as they're about to leave,

you-know-who makes another appearance.

Here it is one more time in case you missed it.

Once again, the men are unable to catch up to it.

And let's face it --

that's probably for the best.

Feeling outmatched, Panji and his crew call it a night.

I can't be certain of what it is

that we're seeing in this video,

but I'm almost positive that it's not human.

McNEILL: This creature was really good and creepy.

One, it was sort of white, pale colored,

a light gray, maybe.

If I had to pick something that this looked like, bizarrely,

I would probably say it looks like the Rake.

That image of this long-limbed, disproportionate,

terrifying, white creature running through the dark,

and it looks vaguely humanoid.

Super, super scary.

That's the Rake.

The Rake is a much more malevolent type being,

one that seeks out individuals to harm them.

This one seems much more subdued and very terrified

to be stumbling across human beings.

It ran like a bat out of Hell.

So I think this is some sort of interdimensional being,

another type of humanoid creature

that is not of this Earth or plane.

What's very unusual about the second clip

is that when we first see it,

it's crouched down

as if it's a quadruped.

Then when it stands up and runs, it's definitely bipedal.

You don't see that too often, where something can so easily

go from four legs to two.

Whatever this sort of amphibious-looking creature is,

it seems to move through this underbrush

as if it is its natural habitat.

And if Indonesia is its natural habitat,

that could explain a lot.

Although it only has just 1% of the world's land area,

Indonesia is a smorgasbord of biodiversity.

There are new discoveries occurring there all the time,

and so much of this island nation

remains shrouded in mystery.

I think we often forget that so much of this world

is still unexplored and undocumented.

So it wouldn't be a surprise

for people in areas like these to discover

something that we've never seen before.

This guy is out there looking for frogs.

And instead, he finds a bipedal lizard cryptid.

Who could ask for anything more, honestly?

Panji and his crew have yet to find out

what it was they saw that night.

In the meantime, their incredible video

has racked up more than 5.5 million views online.

A catch like this is amazing

because it keeps the conversation going.

It keeps our imaginations involved.

There's something else out there.

There's something more than just our average,

ordinary, everyday lives.

There's still wonder in the world,

and that maybe this creature

is evidence of something new that we've yet to meet.

Coming up...

Are these floating lights messengers from beyond?

I do think it was something totally paranormal for sure.

Throughout history,

people who have had a near-death experience

and those who are close to the end of their lives

have reported encountering angels

or loved ones who've already passed on.

These visitors can take many forms --

an animal at the window,

a familiar face in a dream,

or a light floating in the air --

and are believed to help with the transition

to the next phase.

Amazingly, a woman in California

may have captured proof of this phenomenon

when just weeks before a loved one passed away,

she saw these dancing lights outside her window.

It's July 2019,

in Fontana, California.

Wendy Ramos is getting ready for bed.

Her terminally ill mother is staying in the room with her.

Before turning in, Wendy checks her outdoor security camera

to make sure all is well.

But what she sees on the screen defies all logic.

There are two ethereal forms dancing around her front yard.

Wendy is stunned.

My name is Wendy Ramos, and this is my video.

I just happened to look at my cameras

and I just caught these little light things dancing around.

And I was like, okay, am I seeing the right thing?

What's going on? So I look outside,

and then I'm looking at my phone,

and then I'm looking outside, then I'm looking at my phone,

and they're just dancing around.

But I can't see them with the naked eye,

but I can see them on my phone.

For the next three hours,

Wendy is baffled by the two mysterious light anomalies

popping in and out of view.

I thought I was losing my mind for a second.

I couldn't sleep the whole night.

I was just, like, hooked to my phone.

I do think it was something totally paranormal for sure.

These were really compelling...

I don't even know what noun to use --

creatures, beings, entities?

Because at times, they looked almost like rods,

just a line of of lighted dots connected vertically.

And then at other times, there was obvious

evidence of movement,

of what appeared to be steps being taken,

of something walking along or in a circle.

Initially, I thought that maybe these lights were just insects,

which is typically what they tend to be.

But the way that their flight path is, you know,

didn't really feel like that was the case.

The lights are moving more like a human would move.

What's really interesting, I think,

is that this woman who was watching it

said that she could see it on the motion detector camera

and she could see it on her phone even,

but she couldn't see it with her naked eye.

It's very common in paranormal activity

to not actually see it with your eye,

but to then catch it on camera.

And that's because spirit interacts

with radio frequencies,

interacts with camera frequencies and light

in a different way than it can interact with you

on the physical realm.

Wendy has a theory as to why those light anomalies

appeared that night,

because just three weeks after she captured them on camera,

her mom passed away.

I was thinking maybe it was my mom making connections

to the other side.

You know, them trying to bridge that connection with her

and build those relationships.

Maybe it was her mom, my grandma.

Maybe it was her brother had passed.

In many belief systems all over the world,

there's this thought that as you come to the end of your life,

you almost have one foot in this world

and one foot in the next, to the point

where you start seeing deceased loved ones,

other spirits who have come to bring you to the other side.

And sometimes when you're really close,

even people around you can perceive those entities.

And it can be a scary feeling

or it can be a comforting thought

that we don't stop,

we don't die and become nothing --

there is a next step, an afterlife.

Wendy couldn't agree more.

It really does bring me comfort

'cause I do feel that my grandma was waiting for her

and she's in a better place, so I feel good about it.

It's been something that has made me realize,

like, you know, maybe there is more out there.

Who knows, maybe after we die, something stays around.

I don't know.

You know, and I'm okay with not knowing.

One day we'll find out, I guess,

you know, when we're no longer here.

Coming up...

A young man in Canada...

Is anybody here?

...with a ghost problem.

Oh, my God.

I'm pretty sure my house is 100% haunted.

For thrill seekers,

there's an app called Randonautica

that can help you choose your own adventure.

Or rather,

choose one for you.

It uses a quantum random number generator

to give users coordinates within their radius

to go explore places they might not have known about otherwise.

For many, it's a way to discover new things

and bring some adventure into their lives.

But for one college student in Canada,

it brought him more than just adventure.

It brought him a ghost.

Holy

June 2020 in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Matt Hall is using the app Randonautica

for the very first time.

So, I saw this thing that a lot of people

were doing on TikTok called Randonauting.

So I downloaded the app

and I thought I'd try it out for myself.

And it's generated a location nearby

that he's about to go explore.

It gave me a spot in the middle of the woods

that's kind of close to my house,

but it looks like it's along the ATV trail, so...

...and let's go see where it takes us.

Alright, so we're at the location, and this is...

this is weird.

There's a car just chilling in the woods.

How did they even get in here, though?

Like, there's trees everywhere.

There's no way a car could get in here.

Matt looks around for a bit.

Then...

...a noise in the distance.

Holy

Did you catch that?

Listen again, carefully.

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A disembodied voice

seems to call for help.

My name is Matt Hall, and this is my video.

In the moment, I was just scared

that I heard a voice, and I knew

it wasn't, like, an animal noise or anything.

Holy

I didn't know what it said.

So, first off, I was terrified.

I just ran back to the ATV

and started to go back home as fast as I could.

...I played it a couple of times.

Holy

That says, "Help me." And my heart sank.

Holy

Matt is disturbed by what he hears on the video

and is glad to be home.

But later that night,

his curiosity gets the better of him

and he goes back to that same spot to investigate further.

Alright, I don't know if this means anything,

but there's a shirt here,

a water bottle with water in the bottle,

these, like, children's toys, like, all broken.

Alright. That's creepy.

This is a middle of the woods. There should be nothing here.

I'm so confused.

Then...

Is there anybody here?

Guys, I think I just heard something.

Listen again as a voice asks,

"Wanna play a game?"

Again, I didn't know what it said at the time.

I just heard another voice.

And then I looked over and there was nothing there.

That's what I just said, "Okay, I'm gonna just go home now.

Like, that's enough."

I'm starting to get creeped out here,

so, yeah, I'm not coming back here anymore.

When he gets home,

Matt listens closely as he plays back the footage.

Is there anybody here?

I just watched that back and I realized

that it asked me to play a game.

Matt's totally freaked out,

but again, feels safe being at home.

Then, a few nights later...

And I just got woken up

by the loudest, like, crashing noise in my other room.

Dude, what?

What the

My chair, my paintings, my keyboard.

What?

My stuff was everywhere.

Like, there was stuff crashed all around my room.

So yeah, I was definitely scared.

What the -- my keyboard.

What?

Okay, no.

And the activity continued.

I swear to God,

I just saw someone sitting in this chair

and now it's rocking a little bit.

Hello? Is anybody here?

Could it be that whatever was in the woods...

What do you want?

...followed him home?

The kind of manifestations that he's experiencing at home

are pretty typical,

sort of poltergeist-like random energy.

He's not getting a really clear-cut,

singular message out of it.

It's more like there's something there saying,

"Hey, FYI, here I am."

And if that started after this really creepy experience

of finding the car, hearing the voice...

...I think it makes sense to connect those two things.

I think what we are witnessing is an attachment.

It would seem to me that this young man encountered

something in the woods and brought it home with him.

I'm pretty sure my house is 100% haunted.

So, is it possible that the app led Matt

to a haunted location in the woods?

It's been leading people to some pretty strange locations.

In Seattle, for instance, a group of teenagers were given

a latitude and longitude randomly by Randonaut

where they discovered the body of two human beings

severed and stuffed in a black suitcase.

And it's so strange that it's been generated by random numbers

because, like, no one's responsible for pinpointing

where bodies have been found.

Which then begs the question,

could there be another factor at play?

Okay, no.

Maybe energies and spirits

are starting to hack Randonaut's system

to lead people to places to solve their crimes

that have been committed, to find answers.

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Whatever the cause,

the experience has definitely changed Matt's perspective.

I was a skeptic before all this stuff

started happening.

I mean, I've seen the horror shows.

I'm just like, it's for entertainment.

What do you want?

And then once this happened to me personally, I was like,

okay, maybe some of these things are true that people experience.

Holy

Coming up...

A fire-dripping UFO hovers over California.

What is that thing?

Throughout history,

empires have sought to increase their power

by aggressively expanding their borders,

often at the expense of smaller, less powerful societies.

But as an empire grows, there's always the threat

that someone even bigger is planning their own takeover,

be it another country

or perhaps...

another species...

from another world.

Which is what may have been happening

when one California man saw these balls of light...

Whoa.

...dropping to the Earth.

What is that thing?

It's May 2020,

in Fontana, California.

Jason Guerrero is in his garage, about to take the trash out

when he notices a bright light outside.

He assumes that it's a car pulling into his driveway,

so he steps outside to check it out...

and sees this.

It was really bright. I was seeing the thing.

The sky got really bright right now.

It's a shining ball of light hovering in the sky...

What is that?

...that suddenly starts to drop what appear to be

small fireballs toward the Earth.

What is that thing?

My name is Jason, and this is my video.

The sky lit up so bright white.

So I ran out there and looked in the sky

and it was that I could see that thing flying,

descending down like that, dropping that fire.

And I was like, "Wow."

They looked like little raindrop fireballs.

It almost looked like when you leave the water on

and not shut it all the way off

and the faucet just drips like that, then all of a sudden

it might drip faster or slower.

It looked kind of like that, but they were smaller,

but they still had to be big themselves.

What could be on fire in the sky like that

and burn for so long without sort of incinerating itself?

I mean, we've all seen sky lanterns,

and they don't flare up like this.

It's just sort of a dim, gentle glow

that glides off into the ether.

But this thing seems to really have a combustibility to it.

It almost appears like magma,

lava coming out of whatever it is,

and so high in the air.

It's confusing to think that, okay, is this a craft?

Should it be leaking that way?

Does this mean it's damaged? Is it about to fall to Earth?

Or is this a technology that we're unfamiliar with,

something organic in nature?

What is that thing?

Those fireballs dropped down from quite a ways.

You know, look, maybe 500 feet or 500 yards or something

and then it turned off or whatever it did,

disappeared or wherever it went. Who knows what?

Probably ships or something that's dropping out of there.

If Jason's right

and he was seeing ships dropping down,

could it be that the largest light

was actually a mother ship?

Whoa.

If indeed what we are witnessing is a mother ship,

then that would suggest strategy, coordination,

and even intelligence.

That's a lot scarier, if you think about it.

The idea of, like, you know, four aliens,

four, like, long grays on a ship together

poking around the galaxy is almost a little fun.

But once you start introducing the idea of fleets,

then it becomes a little bit more militant.

While it's not clear exactly what he saw that night

or what its purpose was,

Jason has a theory.

And if true,

it requires us to be on our best behavior.

...then I think that they're probably trying

to see what's going on.

They're trying to monitor the situation.

You know, I'm sure they know that chaos is being created.

It kind of put a fear into me of what's to come.

What is that thing?

Coming up...

Is this young man proof...

...that vampires exist?

Vampires --

terrifying creatures of the night

that have fascinated and frightened people

for millennia.

They are most often portrayed

as fictional bloodsucking monsters,

in legends, horror stories, and popular films.

But is it possible that these mysterious, bloodthirsty beings

could also have some basis in reality?

Footage of a teenager in Africa has recently come to light

that has led some to believe that it's not only possible --

it is, in fact, very, very real.

It's 2014,

in Cazenga, Angola.

At first glance,

15-year-old Manuel Joao seems like an ordinary teenager.

But according to reports, his grandfather was a wizard,

and the boy inherited a trait that some consider a curse.

Watch and listen closely.

First, you can hear an almost wolflike growl.

And then...

...Manuel seems to grow vampire-like fangs.

Watch again from another angle.

First, no fangs.

And then...

...fangs.

I have never seen anything like this before,

and I doubt I will ever see anything like it again.

The muscles in his shoulder and his back

sort of tense up and contort.

He bends over, and then as he comes up,

you see these fangs appear and his eyes roll back in his head

and there's this sort of low, guttural growl that he makes.

I have no idea what's going on here.

My gut reaction is to go, "Oh, that's fake."

It's just the sheer amount of evidence

that support this organic happening

that makes me doubt myself.

You can see the physical pain in his body.

You can see him almost, like, cough up this thing.

And the pain on his face and the exhaustion

on his face afterwards is very real.

It's been said that every time

Manuel summons his fangs,

it's so taxing on him that he's left exhausted

and even gets headaches from the ordeal.

McNEILL: The transformation does not appear to be

a comfortable process, and that makes sense.

Any sort of physical transformation

that comes to us from the realms of folklore and legend

is never understood to be a pleasant one.

So if we think about people transforming into werewolves,

the reshaping of the body that takes place

while the person is conscious,

we get a little taste of that here.

This does not seem comfortable for this young man.

It looks like whatever is possessing this kid

is just draining him of his lifeblood,

so to speak, you know, in vampire terms.

Manuel's fangs have never harmed

another human being,

and he does just fine in the daylight.

So, could he really be a vampire?

McNEILL: Vampire lore is fairly complex,

and it comes to us both from folklore

and also from literature.

But one of the most consistent understandings of vampires

that we have

is that they can't be out during the day,

that these are creatures that arise, that are active,

that are out there causing havoc only at night.

So to have a vampire

with fangs designed for the feeding on blood,

be active and awake and out there in the daylight,

gives us this special subset of vampire known as a daywalker.

The concept of a daywalker is actually pretty common,

mostly because these vampiric entities

are normal human beings during the day,

and then at night, they're able to transform

into something else.

Whether a vampire, daywalker,

or just a young man who can grow fangs on a whim,

one thing's for certain --

his friends are highly entertained

by the transformation.

McNEILL: I'm gonna be honest and say that if I had a friend

who could manifest vampire fangs on command

and then not immediately turn around and kill me,

I would probably ask that person to do it a lot.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep your eyes on the skies.

What is that?

Pursue any leads that come your way.

Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.

And if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com,

or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here

on "Paranormal Caught on Camera."