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a ghost hunter is manipulated...

Stop trying to turn my head.

...by the dead.

I can't. Stop.

My head just started being pulled and pulled,

and just... I couldn't move.

A legendary cryptic surfaces in Nashville.

It's a mermaid.

I was amazed. I was really shocked.

A woman sees a UFO,

and it sees her.

It's like I feel like it knows I'm watching it.

There was just an inner excitement.

I knew that this was something really interesting.

Are these the spirits of two little boys

and the dog who found them.

Out of nowhere.

Everybody in my house just, kind of, jaw-dropped.

And even more paranormal footage

you have to see...

- Whoa! - ...to believe.

What was that, then?

Do you suspect that your house is haunted?

Maybe there are unexplainable noises

in the middle of the night.

Strange footsteps in the hall,

or inanimate objects moving on their own.

If so, you might want to research

the history of your home.

Because, as one couple in Illinois found out,

what happened in the past can often explain

the bizarre things

that are happening in the present.

Like tiny handprints appearing out of nowhere.

It's really small compared to my hand.

You see that? Look at that.

August 30th, 2020, in Herrin, Illinois,

Kelsey Groves and her fiance, Chris,

live in a home with a dark past.

A two-year-old who lived there before them died tragically.

My name is Kelsey Groves,

and this is me and my fiancee's video.

The people that actually lived here before,

they had two small children here,

and because something had happened,

and the child had passed away in the house.

I didn't know that had happened here

until after I had lived here for about,

I don't know, probably six months.

The story disturbed Kelsey,

especially because she and Chris

had kids of their own.

She tried to move past the house's dark history

until strange happenings made it impossible

- for her to ignore. - So you can hear footsteps

running up and down the hallway all the time.

We have a dog, and she'll just

stare at things for a while, and then she'll jump back

like something goes to touch her,

but there's absolutely nothing there.

We get all kinds of weird things.

But perhaps none weirder

than the night of the 30th when Kelsey and Chris

were getting ready for an evening out.

We had just drop our kids off for the night,

um, at my mom's house because I had

to take a shower, and we were gonna go out,

you know, and I heard a noise.

You know, I was like, did you hear that?

And he was like, "Yeah, you know, what was that?"

And I popped my head out of the curtain.

And when she does, she sees this.

A small handprint on their bathroom mirror.

Chris grabs his phone and begins filming.

The mirror has this handprint right here.

I don't know if you can see it.

He first notes its size.

It's really small compared to my hand.

You see that? Look at that.

Then, watch closely

as Chris conducts an experiment.

Now, another funny thing is

I put my handprint up here just earlier.

This one does not go away. Mine will.

This one's still staying.

It's crazy.

Chris's handprints have disappeared

while the phantom handprint remains.

You seeing this, babe? You see all my handprints?

Yeah, they all disappeared.

It was unsettling because it was...

it's such a small room, and I'm like,

there's something in the room with me.

It's still there, it's crazy.

Like, I'm excited, but I'm also scared

because I don't know

what exactly it is that's in here with me.

We had even, you know,

the next day brought our children in

to see if it had matched their handprint.

My oldest, it was way too small for him,

and my youngest can't even reach the mirror.

This seemed to be something

out of one of these classic horror movies

where you're in the bathroom,

the mirrors are all fogged up,

and this handprint emerges from the depths.

And we get to see along with them in real time

how quickly the handprints they make fill in with steam.

Yeah, they all disappeared.

Look, I've got one literally right next to it.

And yet, that first handprint,

it remains.

It's often believed that mirrors

are portals to other dimensions.

These doorways can allow things

to come through.

Is this evidence of that, or is this just evidence

of something knocking on that door saying,

"Hello, I'm here"?

Given the home's history,

Kelsey believes she knows the answer to that.

It's the spirit

of the departed child.

I... I told my fiance, I was like,

look, he came to see us again.

Because we've had so many small things

that it would just have to be a child.

I think it had a little connection to it

because I'm a mom, you know?

It, kind of, makes that link there.

The loss of a baby's life is an unspeakable tragedy.

There is so much emotion and pain tied up

in that moment.

And to know that, that leaves its mark

on a place makes perfect sense.

And you have to remember if... if a child dies,

where's the spirit gonna go?

This is probably the only home that, that child ever knew.

So it would stand to reason that this would be the place

that it was still bumping around in the night.

But surprisingly, Kelsey says

she feels like the child

might not be the only entity running around the house.

I know that his spirit is here,

but I believe we have others as well.

The energy is a little bit more malicious, I think.

We had, like, lamps fly off the counter.

We've had a knife come out of the sink.

I think we need to keep in mind

that friendliness to two-year-olds

can look like throwing objects around,

and making loud noises, and, kind of,

generally stressing out the adults in the space.

That child passed away when it was two years old.

So it's barely educated, in, like,

what's safe and what's not.

It definitely seems like the activity

that's happening in that house could be potentially caused

by just the child's spirit alone.

Whatever it is, Kelsey and Chris

have learned to live with it.

We try to, like, brush off most of everything

unless it's, you know, like... The... The handprint one,

it's like... it's very prominent.

You... You can't ignore something like that.

You just, kind of, got to live with.

You seeing this, babe?

Yeah.

Coming up, a ghost takes control...

Stop trying to turn my head.

...of a paranormal investigator.

I can't. Stop.

Ask any paranormal investigative team.

In order to be good at your job...

What was that?

...you must expect the unexpected...

There's another one, a little one.

...and embrace the unknown.

Look.

And perhaps most importantly,

if you're going to ask intelligent spirits

to make their presence known to you,

understand that they might have

their own special way...

Who are you?

...of saying hello.

I feel like something's pulling my head over here.

Come on, man. Stop. Stop.

Let go of her.

December 2019, in Tuscola, Illinois,

Ainslie Heilich is the co-owner

of a two-story building

with a tattoo shop on its first floor

and an odd fellow's lodge on its second,

both of which he helps to run.

Over the past nine years, some strange activity

has led him to believe that the building is haunted,

and he's managed to capture some proof.

My name is Ainslie Heilich, and I am one filmed the video.

Me and my business partner, we've owned the building

for about nine years now,

and going into it, uh, we, kind of, had been told

that there had been a lot of paranormal activity.

We put in security cameras because it's a tattoo shop.

You want to, you know,

make sure your stuff's protected.

So we started, just by chance,

catching stuff on camera. as it happened.

The first occurrence is in 2016.

Watch as a box of colored pencils

throws itself off the table.

A week later, a pad of paper is pulled

from underneath the table.

Then two years later, in 2018,

Ainslie's decorative Samurai sword

is somehow thrown into the middle of the shop.

What we're looking at

is classic poltergeist behavior.

There does seem to be quite a bit of physical motion,

and in some cases, a pretty substantial force

that's being used.

The sword on the wall is clearly sitting

in a, sort of, hook-shaped carrier for it.

So, it's not something that can just tip forward,

and fall off the wall.

It moves like it is flying off the wall,

and that's really compelling.

Ainslie posted the videos online,

and it eventually attracted the attention

of a nearby paranormal investigative team

who were intrigued by what they saw.

Hi, my name's Eleena Mullins.

And my name is Matt Mullins, and we shot this video.

Matt saw that video on YouTube,

and reached out

because it was actually so close to home,

and asked, um, Ainslie if we could just come

and investigate,

And Ainslie was like, "I guess."

And so, Matt, Eleena and their team

visited Ainslie's building for a formal investigation

with Ainslie himself tagging along.

And while they don't find much downstairs

in the tattoo shop,

it's a completely different story upstairs

in the odd fellow's lodge,

particularly when they employ

a more controversial form

of contact called the Estes Method.

Moving.

Moving where? Moving what?

The Estes Method is a method that you use

on a paranormal investigation

to communicate with the spirits.

And the way that works

is that one of the investigators,

sort of, acts like a human spirit box.

You'll put on a blindfold.

You put on headphones that are playing white noise frequencies

so that you can't hear what's going on outside.

There's a deep voice coming through, but I can't make it out.

Who's this deeper voice man?

The theory is that if there's any spirits in the room

they'll be able to manipulate the frequencies.

And then the person wearing the headphones can relay the words

that they're hearing through the headphones.

I don't know what that was. It was deep.

So, basically, you're their microphone.

Yeah, they're channeling you.

- I'm here. - Okay.

Can you tell me your name if you're here?

And while Elena is wearing the blindfold and headphones,

she is indeed channeled,

but not in the way the team expected.

I feel like something's pulling my head over here.

Someone or something is pulling Elena's head 90 degrees,

and it's not letting go.

Guys, I can't turn my head back.

I don't know where.

My head just started

being pulled and pulled and just I couldn't move.

It was just like this, like just being pushed like this.

And every time I tried to put my face forward,

it would just come back and it would just push and push.

I kept trying to figure out what was going on,

but I couldn't hear anything.

I can't turn anymore.

Stop trying to turn my head.

I can't. Stop.

This is first for me to see something

that could be very dangerous.

And you wonder, you know, you've been choking,

ability to close someone's windpipes if they can turn

someone's neck like this and their head.

This is scary stuff when this is actually happening,

Stop trying to turn my head.

Finally, after nearly five excruciating minutes,

Come on, man. Stop.

she is released.

You okay?

The team wraps up their investigation

shortly afterwards.

And though they didn't get any specific answers

as to why the activity was taking place,

both the investigators and Ainsley

were more than convinced that there was indeed a presence in the building

and it meant them no real harm.

Elena's head turning experience notwithstanding.

I don't think anything was negative,

demonic or evil

or anything like that.

I think the spirits are just moving around

doing what they used to do.

It was definitely a very eye-opening experience

to actually kind of see a little behind

what was happening.

Come on, man. Stop. Stop!

Coming up...

Could this actually be what it looks like?

It's a mermaid!

Mermaids...

Stories of half human, half sea creatures

have persisted around the world for thousands of years.

Some believe this ancient legend is just a fantasy

cooked up by seafaring men from long ago.

While others think they could be based on sightings

of marine mammals like manatees.

But there is one woman in Tennessee

who believes that they're in fact very real.

This better not be what I think it is.

Because she captured this footage on a hot summer afternoon.

Nobody's saying nothing,

people out there are just looking at 'em.

It's a mermaid!

July 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee,

Wayuana Demonbre is sitting inside her parked car

listening to the radio alongside Percy Priest Lake.

When a strange shape in the water catches her attention.

She quickly grabs her phone and starts recording.

At first.

Wayuana is not quite sure of what she's seeing.

But then the mysterious figure dives below the surface

in a very revealing way.

This better not be what I think it is.

It's a... It's a mermaid.

It's a mermaid!

I saw a mermaid!

Hi. I'm Wayuana Demonbre and I'm the one who recorded the video.

I went to the lake just to vent.

It's just like my place to basically, just to vent.

And all of sudden, I saw somebody

swimming in the water and they, like, disappeared.

To a point. I had to, like, move my camera to find it.

And it got down underwater

like two minutes or minutes of time,

and it would come back up

and the way it was, something like it was playing.

Incredibly no one else around the lake at that time

seems to take notice of the apparent mermaid.

Okay, I'm seeing

like, nobody noticed this mermaid in the seat

like nobody see this mermaid, bruh.

It felt like everything stopped and it froze.

And I'm just looking at everybody, trying to see if they've see it.

And nobody seen it but me.

It was like I was looking past it.

And it was like, it was invisible to them.

It's a mermaid.

It's a mermaid!

And I was amazed.

I was really shocked.

I saw a mermaid!

What the

That is the exact right response to have

when you see something like this

swimming around in a lake.

This woman sounds genuine. She is surprised.

She has no idea how to explain what she's seen,

but she explains it to a T.

It's a mermaid in the water.

It's a mermaid!

A human woman wearing a mermaid tail

is not gonna be able to swim that fast.

She's not gonna be able to hold her breath that long.

The way that an actual mermaid would be able to.

I've heard about people have swimsuits that looks like fish.

This don't look like no swimsuit.

It was see through very transparent.

The gills are very sliming.

And the fins you don't see no fingers, no nothing.

You could see the flippers if you look very closely.

So, I was just like,

I don't care what costume you put on.

It doesn't look like anything I saw.

I'm there like that.

And while mermaids are often portrayed as seductive,

kind hearted creatures in popular culture,

the origin of their legend is actually a little more depraved.

I heard myths but I know it's true.

I was scared because I've heard legends that they'll call for you.

And if a mermaid sees you and you speak to it

or you swim out to it in the water,

they'll pull you down

and I'll keep you down there for years.

They look like humans, but when they pull you down under,

they'd look like ugly fish.

In a lot of stories Mermaids are not all that nice

to the sailors that they encounter,

certainly not Disney's version of Ariel.

These were often like sirens that would lure men to their doom.

In the Philippines, there's something called as Sedona,

and they pretend that they're drowning in the water.

So when you go over to save them,

that's when they pull you under and you.

So I don't really know at what point we decided mermaids weren't scary.

For her part,

Wayuana is determined to continue her search for more evidence.

I'm always looking to see if I can find that mermaid

actually, every time I go just to see if anybody else might see it too.

Like, I just want to just experience it one more time.

Like, I'd have more proof actually.

that I've seen an actual mermaid.

It's a mermaid, man.

It's a mermaid!

Coming up...

The spirits of two boys and a dog

are captured on a security camera.

There's some paranormal stuff going on around my house.

Dogs have earned their man's best friend moniker for many reasons.

They're playful,

full of unconditional love and most of all, loyal.

And in some cases, their value to humans

goes much further because many believe that dogs

using their unique visual spectrum

can detect the presence of ghosts.

Ghosts that maybe completely invisible to us.

Just ask one man in Oklahoma whose dogs went absolutely nuts

when they saw this.

Look, out of nowhere.

August 2020, in Wagoner, Oklahoma.

It's almost 10:00p.m.

And Adam McAdoo and his family are sitting in their driveway,

relaxing at the end of the day.

When suddenly their dogs

start barking from the backyard.

My name's Adam McAdoo,

and I am the person that shot the video.

My dogs in the back,

they just went completely crazy on us

and nobody was around and everything.

So I pulled up my phone

and check my cameras to look around the back.

Adam is able to see

all of the feeds from his home security system

on his phone.

And there was nothing there.

So we just kind of kicked off and went on about our business,

And I got wondering later,

I was like what were they working about?

So that's when I went back there

and pulled up all four angle cameras that I have.

When he does,

he finally sees what caused the dogs to freak out.

First, a car drives by.

Look. So a vehicle goes by my security camera.

Now watch right here.

Then seconds later.

Look. There's the kid.

A wispy,

childlike figure appears in the middle of the street,

Right where the car just sped through.

Out of nowhere.

And then...

Look, there's the dog.

A dog like figure,

almost transparent, enters from the right.

Then a second childlike energy

joins the duo.

Out of nowhere.

Originally, I was like, okay, this has been a kid or something

and ,you know, it was like, well, they couldn't know.

We were all sitting out there at that time

because we remember the truck that went by at first.

We're like, Well, we were sitting out there when all that happened.

There was no kids behind that truck.

No kids, no nothing.

And a vehicle just went through.

So there's no way those kids were in the street.

Everybody in my house just kind of jaw dropped

and I didn't know what to think at that point.

Were like, wow, we actually caught something on camera

and they freaked all of us out.

You see a vehicle go by very solid and then,

after that, you see these two shapes

running to the street and appears to be a boy

and a dog and they're translucent.

They're clearly not solid shapes.

I was fascinated by the way that these figures of the boy and the dog move.

It didn't seem 100% natural.

It certainly didn't look like a boy walking his dog down the street.

They seem to b in a sort of ethereal sense of play about it.

They seemed almost lighter than air.

After we see these two shapes,

a third one emerges in the left hand part of the frame

and that looks like another childlike form.

It looks like it's almost moving about on the fringes,

part of the action, but not directly involved.

Adam put the video online and got lots of feedback.

Some people suggested that Adam researched the area

to see if anything might help explain what he captured.

And after asking around town,

one particular legend seemed to fit the bill.

Apparently, there was a set of kids that had went missing,

and the bodies were found over in the woods to the right of my house.

Apparently, these woods right here, right next to my house,

there was two younger kids found in there that were deceased,

and they were found by a bunch of stray dogs.

The stray dogs kept going in and out of the woods, in and out of the woods.

And finally, I guess one of the homeowners there followed the dogs in,

and that's when they found the bodies of the kids.

And I'm like, I'm never going back in those woods again.

Are these dogs and these children connected in the afterlife?

Are these children fond of these dogs because they discovered them?

They were playing in the woods, and these dogs gave their families closure.

It seems to me that the intelligent energy

of the missing children lured the dogs

to where their demise happened.

And then again, in spirit,

is being recognized by a new set of dogs.

But, you know, the owners' dogs that are barking hysterically

at these energies,

it paints the whole picture and, and a whole story

that's actually pretty sad, but also pretty amazing.

Look, there is the kid.

But, as the footage reveals,

while the story might be sad, the spirits don't seem to be.

The only consolation that I have with this whole footage is that

even though there was such an awful thing that happened to two children nearby,

the energy and interaction between the two children and the dog

seemed to be playful and seemed to be lighthearted.

The way that I see, they were just out there

walking their little ghost dog,

so I don't think they mean any harm or anything.

As long as it stays peaceful, I'm good.

I won't have to call in no priest and bless everything.

Coming up...

A woman makes a connection with a UFO.

It's like I feel like it knows I'm watching it.

Imagine being from another planet,

traveling light years through the galaxy,

hoping to discover new forms of life.

Once you've found them,

how do you introduce yourself and to whom?

You probably want someone who is deeply spiritual

and open minded to the possibility that you existed all along.

That ideal person might be one woman in Europe

who may have been on the receiving end

of an intergalactic introduction from another world.

September 1, 2020.

In Budva, Montenegro, Esther Bartkiw is headed to the beach,

planning to snap a few photos of the full moon rising over the Adriatic Sea.

But just as she arrives and takes out her camera,

a bright shape in the sky catches her attention.

And it's not the moon.

Okay, so I don't know what this is,

but it's moving in very strange patterns.

It's just stopped now.

I'm Esther Bartkiw,

and I'm the person who filmed the video.

I noticed right above me,

there was this big spotlights,

and it was so bright like a floodlight.

When you go to a football stadium and the, the lights are there

shining down on the crowd, that's really what it looked like.

It was really big.

And then all of a sudden, the spotlight started to move,

and I thought, okay, this is not a spotlight.

So, it stopped again.

What the heck?

Super bright.

This was not a plane.

It was not a satellite.

It was just an inner excitement.

I knew that this was something really interesting.

What hovers like that?

This bright object doesn't move like

a lot of things that we would expect to see in the sky.

You can see that it brightens up

and seems to get even bigger, and it's self-illuminating.

It's creating a light on its own, so this isn't reflecting the sunlight,

but it seems to be light itself or made of that substance.

It seems to be like changing, you know, what it is.

It looks like at one point, it's a UFO craft-like thing,

and then all of a sudden, it turns into a hyper white orb in the sky.

Whatever this thing is, Esther believes it is aware of her presence.

It's like I feel like it knows I'm watching it.

I could see the people in the town close by.

Nobody was really noticing this and I kept going,

"Oh, my gosh! Can't they feel this?

Maybe I'm the only one who was seeing this."

The mysterious, glowing ball begins to flash.

It's blinking.

And change colors... - And it's a red blinking.

...before finally disappearing for good behind a nearby building.

Down, down, down, down, down. Oh!

Part of me is wondering if this craft

is just kind of like trying to communicate something.

Well, if this strange object is trying to communicate,

it picked the right person.

I do energy healing work.

I'm a spiritual mentor, holistic therapist.

So I'm very in tune with energies and what's happening in the sky,

and I really trust my intuition.

I feel like it knows I'm watching it.

It's those senses that kept telling me that this was something to take note of.

What the heck?

I find that people that are in tune to a certain vibration

spiritually, mentally, physically

become beacons for supernatural and, you know, alien encounters.

Whatever was happening between Esther and the object,

this experience reaffirms her belief in extraterrestrial life.

I'm a believer that there is a life out there,

that we're getting visitations from other galaxies.

For me, it was like, "Yes, it's happening and I've had the pleasure of seeing it."

I feel they're making themselves more and more visible

and it's, it's exciting.

I feel like it knows I'm watching it.

Coming up...

Ghost hunters in a haunted care home...

...get a less than friendly welcome.

Whoa!

For millions of elderly people around the world,

a care home is where they'll spend the last days of their lives.

As a result, death is a common occurrence in these places

and thus the rumors of them being haunted.

Which is what brought paranormal investigator

Danny Duffy and two colleagues

to an abandoned care home in England.

And when they looked around,

the residents who had passed away there, had a simple message.

Whoa!

Get out.

October 2019.

In Cheshire, England,

Danny Duffy and two fellow paranormal investigators,

Andrew and Olivia,

are on their way to a care home that they have been told is haunted.

Hi, my name is Danny,

It's freezing tonight.

And only a couple of minutes into the investigation,

the team sees their first possible manifestation

of that haunting.

Bro! Bro!

Bro!

Whoa!

On request! You asked for that to happen, and that happened.

The activity we're seeing was happening on command.

And that is the investigator's dream.

That's what we hope for.

We ask a question, we get a response.

We say, "Can you do something?"

And it's done.

- Bro, bro! - Oh, my God!

My theory is that maybe if this is an intelligent spirit,

it is somebody who passed away in this care home

that wasn't necessarily ready for it to happen.

So they're still wandering these walls

because they don't understand that they're dead.

Whatever it was, it was having a negative effect on Danny.

And unfortunately for Danny's physical well-being,

as they moved through the building,

the activity continues.

Our door is moving.

Oh!

Sensing an unhappy presence,

the team tries to make contact using a makeshift spirit box.

Whoever's here, do you want us to leave?

Does it make you angry that we're here?

You say go away

if you want us to go away.

Whoa!

What just happened?

Watch again as a door behind them slams shut,

as if in answer to their question.

If you want us to leave...

Whoa!

Even if an energy or spirit is angry because you've entered their space

or disrupted their energy in a form that they didn't like,

doesn't necessarily make that spirit a malevolent spirit.

I mean, think about like the old disgruntled man

that yells, "Get off my lawn!"

It, it's a bombardment of energy that

may be unwelcome to the spirits in that place.

Oh, no, bro. I'm shaking.

Malevolent or not, it's enough to push Danny

and the team toward the exit after about 25 minutes.

But first, a quick confirmation.

- Holy... - Right, Olivia, grab my bag.

Grab my bag, please.

What should you do in the event you witness something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Some there, mate!

Keep an eye out for the little things.

Let the ghosts come to you.

Stop trying to turn my head.

Check your security cameras

and then, check them again.

Out of nowhere.

And If you do get something, email us.

at submitparanormal at gmail dot com

and connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here onParanormal Caught On Camera.