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Next, on a special episode of

"Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

a fishing trip in Oregon...

...is interrupted by a speeding boat

with no driver.

Hey!

I hop up on the transom of the boat...

Hey!

...and that's when I realized

there was nobody looking back at me.

How did these two men in Canada...

...walk away from this devastating crash?

I actually saw two guardian angels

and my father standing between them.

Truly a paranormal experience.

A man in Utah

stumbles upon some baby cougars...

You're a good little kitty cat!

...and stares death in the face.

Go away!

I was literally holding my breath,

because I couldn't imagine

how he could get out of this situation.

And even more terrifying footage...

Go!

...that will have you screaming...

Oh, my God!

Every year, millions of people around the globe

have miraculous, life-changing experiences.

They stare death in the face...

and survive to tell about it.

There's a psychic medium who has a lot to say about this,

because he was left wondering

how he survived his brush with death.

Was it sheer luck,

a miracle,

or, maybe, guardian angels.

You be the judge.

May 30th, 2017, in Virgil, Canada.

It's mid-afternoon,

and two old friends -- Blair Robertson

and Eddie Diijon -- both of whom are psychics --

are catching up over lunch at Silk's Country Kitchen.

Hi, I'm Blair Robertson.

I was eating at a restaurant when something crazy happened.

I was up in Canada on tour doing some live events,

and while I'm on tour,

I like to visit some of my friends

when I get the chance.

So one of my friends and I went to our favorite place,

and I normally don't like to have people behind me,

but my friends sat down with his back against the wall,

so I was sitting where I normally would never sit.

The waitress came and gave us our meal.

I picked up my fork and knife.

I was about to bite into my eggs Benedict,

and all of a sudden,

I hear this big, giant --

"explosion" would be a good word.

It sounded like a bomb going off.

Watch again in slow motion

as a car smashes through the restaurant window...

...sending Blair flying several feet

and pinning his friend Eddie against the wall,

I was just looking down at the car in disbelief.

It's like, you know,

"I'm eating inside a restaurant,

and I've got a car parked on my leg.

The restaurant staff and another patron

immediately rush over to Blair and Eddie's aid.

The car had bounced when it crashed through the window

and actually lodged my leg underneath the the car,

but I was seated in a very, very heavy-duty restaurant chair,

and it actually locked me in the chair

so I was unable to fly through the air or anything.

I probably would have been dead had I.

And I still remember the table flying up,

and it actually saved my friend, because he's in his 80s.

It pushed him up against the wall

and protected him from the glass that was flying by.

He was injured, but he would have been dead

if it had of been any other way.

After what seems like an eternity,

the car -- whose driver is an 85-year-old woman --

reverses a few feet...

...freeing the two men from their pinned positions.

Amazingly, both Blair and Eddie gather themselves

and begin walking around --

dazed, but somehow, seemingly okay.

"OMG" doesn't even begin to cover this video clip

that we're seeing here.

I had to actually stop and replay it several times,

because this could have been so much worse.

The most remarkable part of that footage

was seeing Blair's neck snap back,

which, classically, we call whiplash,

which can cause permanent damage.

You could all say it's a miracle

that he was able to get up and walk around after that.

Blair and Eddie are taken by ambulance

to the emergency room,

where doctors are amazed at what they see --

or rather, what they don't see.

They insisted that I had broken ribs,

that I must have had a damaged neck --

all of that.

They X-rayed me, and nothing.

No damage to my neck, no broken pieces -- nothing.

Bruised like you can't believe.

From my neck down to my ankles,

bruises and blood everywhere.

But all the cuts were micro,

and they said, "You can go home."

Eddie was also relatively unharmed,

as was the driver.

The fact that they both walk away

with minor aches and pains --

it's just sort of begging for explanation.

Like, "Is there a guardian angel here?

Is someone watching over them?"

Funny you should ask.

I remember looking up and then straight ahead

when it crashed through the window...

...and I actually saw two guardian angels

and my father standing between them.

He's deceased...

but I knew it was him,

and his calmness, in some weird way,

gave me calm in that moment.

I think it's entirely possible

that when you're essentially staring death in the face,

that there is some force at work --

something bigger than you

ready to protect you

or kind of remove you from danger.

I believe that my father was just there

to give me comfort during that traumatic moment.

It was a beautiful thing.

Really, truly a paranormal experience.

But there is one question

that begs an answer --

if Blair and Eddie are psychics,

why didn't they see this coming?

It's a huge misconception

that psychics, you know, see the future.

Our life paths are not meant to be defined

so that we know every next step that's happening to us.

Obviously, I could literally say to you,

"I should have died this morning,

so I stayed home."

And because I stayed home, now I can't prove

that I almost died this morning, right?

When you flip the script around,

it's like, "That doesn't make any sense, either," right?

So you have to go through these things to experience them,

and karma's a weird, strange thing.

It'll teach you a lesson.

Looking back, it's terrifying.

I have a hard time watching that video,

but the reality is, is that it made me value

and appreciate what I do as a healer,

and it gave me a greater gravity

to every day as a blessing.

And I love my life,

and I love the calling that I have.

Coming up,

how could anyone survive this?

BLAKE:!

Go!

Skydiving...

Possibly one of the most visceral,

thrilling activities

a human being can ever experience.

And it's no wonder --

you're thousands of feet in the air...

...free-falling at 120 miles per hour...

...with nothing more than a large swath of silky material

to slow you down.

And yet, despite the obvious risks --

a malfunctioning parachute...

...a mid-air collision with another skydiver...

...the mortality rate

is, amazingly, under 1 in 100,000.

But, of course, there are those less obvious risks

that no one could see coming.

Like the time two planes over the Midwest

collided at 12,000 feet...

BLAKE:!

...sending nine skydivers

and the burning wreckage of a plane

tumbling toward the Earth.

November 2nd, 2013.

In the skies above Superior, Wisconsin...

Mike Robinson, Amy Ebling,

and seven others who all work at Skydive Superior

are going for one final jump at the end of the day.

But this isn't just any jump.

For this run,

the group is planning a formation dive.

Hi, my name's Mike Robinson.

I'm a skydiving instructor.

Hi, my name is Amy Ebling,

and I am one of the skydivers

in the insane footage that you're going to see.

We had nine skydivers

and two pilots in two different airplanes,

and we had a lead plane and a trail plane.

And your lead plane is going to be forward

and slightly to the right

and just a little bit below the chase plane.

Chase plane is going to be back and above to the left.

And the jumpers inside those planes

are going to time the exit

to be able to come together and make one skydive.

When they reach 12,000 feet,

the skydivers in both planes prepare to jump.

Mike is in the lead, or lower, plane.

I was the last jumper on the lead plane to leave,

and I was just to the doorway of the airplane,

and I was halfway in and halfway out.

Amy is in the top, or chase, plane.

I was fourth out of the chase plane.

Ready!

Two of my friends -- Dan and Sarah --

were already out on the wing ready to jump,

and Trish was climbing out of the plane.

But then...

something goes terribly wrong.

The planes have collided,

forcing all nine skydivers and both pilots

into a sudden free fall.

Watch again as Amy and Michael take us

through each terrifying moment.

It's hard to explain how confusing it was

seeing the two planes coming together.

I've been here before,

and that's not where that plane should be.

Bam -- we got hit from above.

Our wings folded up

and lit on fire right there.

I mean, just four feet from our heads.

In the footage, you can hear Blake, my pilot, scream, "Go!"

His guttural scream -- "Go!" --

was like, "All right, well, I'm not waiting.

I'm not gonna see what happens next."

I knew I had my son to get back to,

and I was going to fight to get out of that plane.

Oh,!

!

BLAKE:!

Choosing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane

has always been the thing that I found scary about skydiving,

but being forced to leap out of a flaming wreckage around you...

Now, that's truly terrifying.

There's already an awareness of risk and danger,

and this just blows that out of the water.

Mike, Amy and the others free-fall to an altitude

safe enough to deploy their parachutes

while trying to avoid falling debris

and locate their friends in the sky.

I started looking around at the other canopies

that were in the air with me,

but I also remember being very clear

that Dan was definitely dead.

Sarah was absolutely dead.

I mean, she was impacted by by a plane at 100 miles an hour.

I figured that plane must have just disintegrated

and been destroyed,

so I didn't figure that pilot could survive the experience.

I wasn't sure that the jumpers could have survived that.

But, incredibly...

all nine skydivers land safely on firm ground.

Even more amazing,

both pilots also survive.

The pilot in my lead plane bailed out.

He had an emergency parachute.

My pilot, Blake, he knew he could at least glide

and make one shot at landing.

How the hell can he fly that airplane?

Hang in there, Blake.

And Blake made what he will even admit to be, like,

his best landing ever.

Come on, Blake, you got it!

Come on!

Oh, God!

And so, "The Miracle 11"...

as the media later dubbed them...

cheated death that day.

You would expect one, two, three people

could have been easily killed in this crash,

but the fact that we all survived

and the fact that nobody was seriously injured

and nobody on the ground was hurt, it's just beyond belief.

I'm not particularly religious.

I can't say that it was faith or divinity.

I -- It was badass.

Go!

Coming up, man versus cougar.

You're a scary kitty cat.

Guess who wins?

No!

Man...

The land animal who some people might think

sits at the top of the food chain here on Earth.

But those people...

would be wrong.

It's not even close.

In fact, according to a recent study,

when it comes to the food chain,

humans fall somewhere between pigs...

and anchovies.

Way, way behind the apex predators

who actually do sit at the top --

large cats.

This hierarchy couldn't have been more evident

than when a man in Utah came face to face with a cougar...

Okay.

This is when I die.

...and had nothing but his wits...

...to protect himself.

No!

No!

October 10th, 2020,

near Provo, Utah.

It's a beautiful fall day,

and Kyle Burgess is going for a run

on the Slate Canyon Trail.

Name is Kyle Burgess,

and I live in Orem, Utah.

I usually go on this trail probably once every two weeks,

just depending on kind of the feeling.

I mean, living here in Utah,

I'm super close to a lot of different trails,

and so, I kind of just pick and choose

which one I'm feeling that day.

But today, Kyle's run takes an unexpected detour.

I'm kind of hustling.

I'm going at a decent pace.

I'm going downhill.

I then saw the baby cubs in the trail,

so I pulled my phone and kind of stopped...

'cause I really thought they were baby bobcats.

I've seen them before, and what happens --

Usually, they see me. They run away.

Everything's fine.

But this time, Kyle is mistaken.

They were not bobcats.

Oh,. Oh,.

Oh,!

,,!

!

They were baby cougars.

Holyface!

That's when I knew I messed up.

Watch again as a mother cougar

comes bounding around the corner

and runs straight for Kyle.

Oh,.

Oh,. Oh,!

Oh,! ,,!

!

I have never seen cougars, ever...

in my life, until now.

Oh,!

No!

Get the away!

The first thing that I did was, I honestly just started thinking

of tons of different things in my head.

One, obviously, I was scared,

another, I was excited,

and another, I was just like, confused.

No!

Not really thinking of what was happening.

Go away!

Go away! Please go away!

But then, I kind of put two and two together

and started just kind of calming myself down

so that I could kind of focus on what I should be doing.

You're good.

You're good, little kitty cat.

Hoh...

Holy...

And kind of what I realized, obviously,

was that she wants me away from her cubs.

Nice and slow.

Come on.

And so, my biggest concern was to get away from the cubs

as fast as I could.

Go get your babies.

I'm not coming back down, I promise.

Holy...

Every time I crouched or I would even look away

just to even think about grabbing a rock

is when she would pounce on me.

No!

Run away! Run away!

Kyle's been backpedaling for minutes,

but the cougar is only getting more aggressive.

Nope!

No!

I hike those kind of trails,

and I have always thought, "Man, if a cougar comes at me,

I'm just gonna punch it in the face."

No!

Get the away!

Then you see what they look like

when they're mad,

and all thought of running up to that cougar

and punching it in the face goes bye-bye.

No, dude.

Dude!

Finally, after six minutes of being pursued,

Kyle is able to grab a rock

and throw it toward the cougar before she can pounce...

Yeah, get the away from me.

...and that's enough to scare her off.

Oh, damn it.

That was a very long 6 minutes,

the longest 6 minutes of my life.

Yeah, so that just happened.

Wow. You see that? I'm somewhat calm actually.

6 minutes felt like 6 years.

And I was literally holding my breath...

No! No!

Because I couldn't imagine

how he could get out of this situation.

Go away. Go get your babies.

Kyle handled this superbly

and calmly in a really scary situation

where I think most people's instincts would be to run.

I'm not gonna back down, I promise.

Honestly one of the most incredible videos

I've ever seen.

Oh, yeah.

Luckily, Kyle didn't see the cougar again

on his way back home.

Oh, oh,

oh

Holy

And from now on,

he'll approach his time on the trails a little differently.

I definitely have a new appreciation for wildlife

and that when I go into their territory,

I got to be more cautious of what I'm doing out there.

Go away! No!

No!

Coming up, a woman in Georgia runs for her life.

There are a few things more terrifying

than unexpected reminders

of how quickly one's life can end.

A near miss by an oncoming car,

stopping yourself inches from a terrible fall,

ducking at just the right moment.

Now, imagine a terrifying moment like that happening

while you're enjoying a beautiful day

with your family in your own backyard.

That's what happened to one woman in Georgia

and it changed her life forever.

July 9th, 2020, in Alpharetta, Georgia,

Melissa Resendiz and her two sons

are in their home's backyard,

soaking in the summer sunshine by their swimming pool.

Hi, my name is Melissa Resendiz and this is my video.

It was a normal summer day and it was after lunch

and my kids wanted to swim in the pool.

So we went out to the pool and I brought a book,

hoping to just relax and read for a little bit

while they happily played in the pool.

But this normal summer day was about to take a terrifying turn.

As I'm sitting there reading my son,

my older son, in the pool was making a whole bunch of noise.

So I told him, I said,

"Bryson, stop making all that crazy noise."

He pops up on the edge of the pool and he said, "what?"

'Cause he couldn't hear me. And I said...

And then as soon as I finish saying that, I heard a crack.

Specifically, the unmistakable crack of a tree breaking.

I just immediately got up out of my seat and I ran.

Watch again in slow motion

as an enormous tree falls directly onto the chair,

Melissa was just relaxing on less than a second earlier.

I turned around and I saw that tree

directly on the chair that I was sitting on.

I was in shock.

I mean, it was just right

where I was sitting, right where my head was.

The first thought through my head which I said out loud, was,

I almost died. like I came so close to it.

It was really disturbing.

And I was really shaken up

afterwards in shock and just disbelief.

Wow. Reaction time really matters.

Oh, my God.

How lucky is this woman that she survived this?

She would have been flattened like a pancake.

When you see the photo of the fallen tree

and it's dented the metal gate

and it's landed right where she was sitting,

that's when my heart stopped 'cause I was like,

oh, she absolutely would not have survived that.

Where she was sitting, I mean,

that would have been potentially a fatal head trauma,

a fatal chest trauma, blunt trauma,

and would have been life ending.

So, how did Melissa escape

what surely would have been a death blow?

Sheer luck? Or maybe something else?

About 7 years ago, we were living in a different house

and it was early morning.

I was getting my kids up in the morning

and there was a strong gust of wind

that just started blowing and the whole house started shaking.

And I just felt like "What is happening?"

So I scooped my kids up

and we were heading downstairs to go to our safe place

because I felt like, is this a tornado? What is this?

And as we were coming down the stairs,

I heard the crack of a tree

and a tree fell directly onto the roof of the house.

That sound of a tree falling was like ingrained

in my head from that moment.

One of the interesting things that psychologists look at

is the way that trauma actually

physically changes the structure of the brain.

And perhaps that traumatic experience

actually changed her brain and primed it

so she was prepared to respond to another traumatic incident

that's very similar in a very rapid way.

Looking back on that first tree, it's like, why did that happen?

And then you fast forward 7 years to this moment

and it kind of puts it into perspective,

like maybe God just had a reason

for that first tree, you know?

So that I would have that sound in my head

so that I would get up and I would move

when I heard this, the second tree falling.

I definitely understand why Melissa felt

like the hand of God was at work,

either that God kind of got her out of that chair or, you know,

that she felt something strong enough to react.

I don't think God's micromanaging things,

but I do think at moments when something's at stake

that God can move us to act.

Whatever the reason, Melissa is just grateful

to have come out of this experience unscathed.

And with a new perspective.

Just imagining

what my children would have experienced

if I had not gotten out of that chair,

like they would have watched me get crushed

and that would have been an experience

that would have ruined them for their entire life,

like they would never be the same after that.

So I'm just so grateful.

Coming up, a fishing trip...

Hey!

...turns into a nightmare.

Hey! Oh my God!

Taking your boat out to the middle of the water

to do some fishing can be a pretty spectacular experience,

especially if you're able to share it with friends.

After all, you're far away from the stresses of daily life,

taking part in one of the oldest sports known to mankind.

With no one else around you as far as the eye can see...

...well, usually no one else around you.

Because there was one fishing party in Oregon

that did spot a boat far off in the distance

that kept getting closer...

Hey!

...and closer...

Hey!

...and...

August 12th, 2017, at the mouth

of the Columbia River near Hammond, Oregon.

Chris McMahon and two friends, Ronnie and Brian,

are on Chris's boat enjoying a relaxing morning of fishing.

Hi, my name is Chris McMahon, and this is my video.

We typically take a two week vacation

and go salmon fishing down at the mouth of the Columbia River.

It was the first day and I invited Ronnie and Brian

to come down and fish with me.

And it was kind of like the first deep breath,

You know, when you get settled in for vacation,

you know, the first deep breath

getting ready to enjoy a couple of weeks off

and good times and fishing.

And for two and a half hours,

that's exactly what it is.

You're doing a great job, bud. You're doing a great job.

We just caught a fish,Brian did.

and we had got to the end of the section

that we were fishing with the current,

and we decided that we were gonna run back up

to the top end again and go through that same spot.

So that's what we did.

But the trio's relaxing morning...

...suddenly becomes a nightmare

when a boat appears in the distance.

Hey! Hey!

Hey!

Watch again as Chris takes us through each terrifying moment.

When you see a boat coming your direction at a distance,

you don't even really think much of it.

Hey!

And then you realize, hey, this thing's getting closer.

Hey!

I hop up on the transom of the boat,

which is the back of the boat, to get a higher profile.

Hey!

And that's when I realized there was nobody looking back at me.

This is a horrific video.

I mean, my God, this is like the worst thing

that could ever happen to you on the water.

The disbelief is palpable in this.

Hey!

There's no way. That boat's gonna turn.

Hey!

There's no way, no, there's no way,

there's no way that boat's gonna keep going.

What floored me about this

was I think there would have been denial,

there would have been like, wait, what?

Why would a boat come towards us?

This makes no sense.

But he committed and said,

we're off this thing -- into this cold water,

all of us in our clothes, with our fishing rods go now.

And the fact that he did that saved everybody's lives,

that blew me away 'cause most people would have hesitated.

And even after Chris narrowly avoids death by boat crash,

the worst is yet to come.

I popped up and I seen his boat on top of mine.

I had no idea where Ronnie and Brian were.

And then they popped up shortly after me.

I always had heard, if you're in the water, don't panic,

because when you panic, that's when you lose it.

And I looked over at the bank and when I looked at the bank

and saw how fast we were getting pushed out to the ocean,

That's when I started to lose my stuff.

My mind started going in a bad way of "this could be it,

this could be the end of things for me.

I'm not gonna see my family again.

I'm not gonna see my wife again.

And that was that was tough.

And you got to really reel it in

and that's what I tried to do.

Fortunately, Chris, Ronnie, and Brian

were all able to reel it in,

long enough to be rescued by another boat.

The fact that they were able to stay calm,

I do believe saved their life.

Chris later learns that the driver of the boat that hit them

set, a course, sat down, and was not able to see Chris' boat.

But he's just grateful that they all survived

what could have been a tragic situation,

the fact that all three of us were faced with the decision

and we all came out of it to live another day is amazing.

I mean, just for that alone,

because for it to go right for all of us is a miracle.

Hey!

Oh, my God!

Coming up, the down side to back country skiing.

For the adventurous athlete,

there's nothing quite like backcountry skiing.

Far from the designated trails,

backcountry skiing allows you to blaze your own path

through a fresh layer of powder with no rules to rein you in.

But of course, it does come with its share of risks.

And as one man skiing in the back country of Utah

recently discovered, some of these risks are deadly.

January, 2017, near Lindon, Utah,

Devin Stratton and his friend Matt are back country skiing

down Mount Timpanogos for the very first time.

My name is Devin Stratton and this is my video.

We had planned to ski from the summit of Timpanogos,

conditions were perfect,

and there was obviously lots of perfect powder.

We followed all the safety protocols and kind of took turns

going back and forth watching each other.

Devin records his journey down the mountain

with a new helmet cam

that his sister gave him for Christmas,

and as he gets closer to the bottom,

he feels more and more adrenaline.

I just had the best day of skiing in my life

and I just let my guard down and just got so excited

I just was going for it and not paying close enough attention.

And Devin's lack of attention is about to catch him by surprise.

Whoa!

Watch again in slow motion.

As Devin plummets off a 150 foot cliff

and lands directly on his back.

Just this sinking feeling in my stomach like, well, I'm dead.

Whoa!

But miraculously, Devin is just fine, thank you.

When I heard the young man say, thank you, I was moved.

I really believed that he was thanking,

you know, not himself, not looking in the camera

and saying, you're wonderful, but thank you, God.

Thank you.

It was a miracle that I survived it I think.

In my head, I thought I was for sure dead.

Whoa!

But I think I slowly started to move.

My head hurts a little and my ribs in the back.

I think I'm good.

I realized my neck wasn't broken,

but I was just shocked.

As he should have been,

because, let's face it, how is Devin not dead?

The fact that he went head over heels,

landed on his back means a couple of things.

It means that his jacket and his skis

were acting as a bit of a drag on his fall

so might have slowed his fall slightly,

kind of like a parachute.

And the fact that he's landing on powder

as opposed to something packed hard

were suddenly your speed goes to zero

and all your organs squash.

That powder probably saved him from severe injury or death.

Or if you ask Devin...

Thank you.

There may have been something else

or someone else helping him out that day.

My younger sister, Rachel,

she got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer

when I believe she was 17.

They gave her 6 to 9 months to live.

She made it just over 3 years, actually.

So she did really well.

She did an early Christmas for all of us

where she had bought us things and she bought me that GoPro.

Thank you.

And yeah, I feel like maybe she was she helped me out,

I don't know.

Can't be for sure but it was pretty cool,

like first time I used that GoPro

something like that happened.

When he thinks about his sister already having passed on,

being there to watch over him, to make sure that he is safe,

that his parents don't lose two kids,

I think that's really incredibly significant.

I think at the end of the day, when people pass on

and if you're close to those members,

those spirits will live vicariously through you.

So I think they want to have him continue to ski and be happy.

If that's the case, it worked,

because Devin was back on the slopes the next day,

fully aware of just how fortunate he was.

A mistake that big, a drop that big,

it probably should have cost me my life.

And so I can't say for sure

But in my mind, it was definitely a miracle.

Whoa!