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A drumming session in New York...

Hi, Stan!

...is interrupted by a terrifying apparition.

Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums.

We all freaked out.

To this day, I can't explain it.

Prison guards in Brazil go on high alert

when a dark specter is seen scaling the walls.

Prisons are notorious spaces for hauntings.

A museum in Indiana

gets an unexpected visitor after hours.

Well, the only thing we could come up with is

it must be some kind of ghost.

Two sisters in California...

- Ohhh! - What is happening?

...spot multiple UFOs in the sky.

It was very strange. I'm just like, I have no idea what I just saw.

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

Looks like a portal opening up.

...to believe.

Does your basement give you the creeps?

If it does, you're not alone.

Whether finished or not, these lesser lived-in spaces

can be downright unsettling at times,

and are often the part of a house

that has paranormal activity.

But why?

Maybe it's because these spaces are ideal

for spirits to avoid people

and hide out,

or, could it be that basements are a little closer

to where the bodies are buried?

We may never know for sure,

but these sublevel encounters abound.

Just ask a woman in New York,

who was filming in her basement

and captured this.

I won't break them!

Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums.

February 2, 2011.

Syosset, New York.

Stephanie is filming her friend Michelle

playing the drums in their basement

to send to their roommate, Stan, who is away.

- Are you videotaping? - Yeah. For Stan.

Hi, Stan!

Now, watch closely.

Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums.

Did you see it?

Watch again...

Hi, Stan!

as a ghostly figure...

Michelle's getting, like...

...is seen staring at them from the closet.

So you might have some competition when you get back!

When she pans back, seconds later,

it's gone.

Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums!

Neither Stephanie nor Michelle

sees the figure at the time.

But when they watch the footage the following day,

it's unmistakable.

My name is Stephanie, and this is my video.

I didn't notice when I was recording,

and I uploaded it to my computer,

and we all freaked out.

We freaked out completely.

Michelle's getting, like--

It just looks so clear,

like it's someone standing in the closet.

It's the right height.

It's the right size.

...good at the drums.

And then, it disappears on its own.

So you might have some competition when you get back!

To this day, I can't explain it.

Hi, Stan!

There is no doubt in my mind

that this figure is a woman in a long, white nightgown.

It is clear as day.

This is a full-bodied apparition.

Everything about this clip

is just spot-on perfect

as evidence for a really, really, freaky haunting.

This is, to me, really one of the best clips I've seen.

And there's more.

Nine days later, when Stephanie gets home from work,

she's concerned when her dog, Bella,

isn't waiting for her at the front door.

She normally comes running to the door,

and she didn't, and I called out her name.

I'm walking around looking for her.

She finally finds Bella,

standing guard, in front of the same basement closet

where the figure recently appeared.

Even just seeing her there by the closet,

I'd already freaked out,

but I was like, "I'm gonna record this,

in case anything crazy happens."

Bella is so intently focused on the closet,

she doesn't react to Stephanie at all.

Um, she hasn't acknowledged me at all

since I came home, which is very weird.

Bella?

She's not even answering to her name.

She was just facing the door.

She was acting the same way she would when she was trying

to get into one of our bedrooms at night,

or if there was something in there that she wanted.

See, baby? There's nothing there.

She went right in when I opened the door, to sniff around.

Came back out, 'cause there was nothing there.

There's nothing in there, crazy lady.

And then, once I closed the door again,

she was still standing outside the door.

Oh, she's back to sniffing it again!

This is freaking me out.

We know that animals have this ability

to sense spirits that we can't see.

They have this ability to pick up on other people,

or creatures, in and about our vicinity.

And the fact that this dog is zeroing in, focusing in

on that closet, where this apparition was seen,

is no coincidence.

I was definitely scared. I didn't like it.

And I didn't get any sort

of negative energy, or anything,

from, um, this spirit, if that's what it was,

but I didn't like the fact that it was involving my dog.

I guess I felt protective.

But it definitely bugged me out.

Oh, she's back to sniffing it again!

This is freaking me out.

It freaked Stephanie out so much

that she leaves a camera pointed at the closet door.

And sure enough, three weeks later,

while another roommate, Reese, is downstairs alone...

It opened out of nowhere, for no reason.

And of course, with everything else going on,

it was about 100 times scarier, now.

Can we talk about the scare-trot

that Reese does, out of that room?

I know this walk.

I like this walk.

This is a walk that says...

"I'm okay. It's cool.

Definitely nothing to be scared about.

I'm just going to quickly hoof it out of this location,

uh, on unrelated business."

The door opening on its own

is the final straw for Stephanie.

I ended up moving. Michelle did stay there.

She said nothing else really happened.

Um, she basically avoided the basement after that,

so things could have been happening,

and she wouldn't have known about it.

So, what exactly is happening here?

I think all three captures have to do with that culprit

that was captured, which was that woman in a nightgown.

There's something going on in that closet,

or at the space that it sits on,

that's allowing this entity to manifest

in more ways than one.

Perhaps that closet is a portal to the other side.

As ridiculous as that sounds,

it has to come from somewhere.

Unfortunately, wherever it did come from

remains a mystery.

But Stephanie is still grateful

to have caught it all on camera.

The experience definitely made me feel

more open-minded towards

things having to do with paranormal in general,

and just also believing people when they tell you

that they experienced something,

because we were lucky to have this on video,

um, that we could show it, but I think that if I had been

told the story of the figure that appeared

while Michelle was playing the drums,

I wouldn't have believed it.

Hi, Stan!

I won't break them.

Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums.

Coming up, a ghost hunter in Texas

is pursued by a shadow figure.

The Alamo is one of the most iconic landmarks in Texas.

It represents the 13-day, bloody battle

between Mexican soldiers and Texans in 1836.

And just across the street is yet another iconic building.

The Menger Hotel.

Built in 1859,

upon the grounds where the battle was fought,

it's the longest-running hotel west of the Mississippi,

and has a long list of notable guests,

including,

Ulysses S. Grant,

Robert E. Lee,

and Theodore Roosevelt,

who gathered his Rough Riders at the hotel's bar.

Given its rich history,

it's no surprise that the Menger

is considered to be one of the most haunted hotels

in the Lone Star State.

Recently, a ghost hunter went there,

and believes he captured proof.

August, 2020. San Antonio, Texas.

Justin Soto is conducting an overnight investigation

at the Menger Hotel.

When he arrives,

the staff tells him where most of the activity happens,

so he begins there.

Third and second floor,

where I'm at, are the most active.

My name is Justin Soto, and this is my video.

What I've learned was, is that they have about 30

spirits that roam this hotel,

so that piqued interest right away.

One spirit, in particular,

stands out to him.

There was one apparition that's always seen and heard.

She was a maid at this hotel in the 1800s.

Her name was Sallie.

She ended up dying a tragic death,

by gunshot wounds from her husband.

They say they see an apparition of a woman,

on this floor and the second floor.

And after just a few minutes of roaming the halls,

unbeknownst to him, Justin's camera microphone

picks up a message,

seemingly, from beyond.

Listen closely.

Listen again,

as something seems to whisper,

"Follow me."

When you hear the words, "Follow me,"

it sounds like whatever this spirit is,

wants them to go around the hotel,

and maybe, seek it out.

Could be.

Or, it might be a precursor to what's about to happen.

So, I just learned that people have been seeing a spirit,

of a maid that used to work here,

going up and down these stairs,

between the second and third floor.

Justin sets up a static camera,

pointing at the stairs,

and lets it roll.

All right, I got it going,

and I'm gonna let that run for a little bit.

I'm gonna walk the second floor again,

and see if we can get anything.

Watch closely.

Did you catch that?

Watch again,

as moments after Justin leaves,

a dark, misty figure

seems to follow him.

When we see a very obvious shadow

get up out of the chair, and walk down the hallway,

my jaw dropped.

I mean, this is an incredible capture.

This is a place that is known to be haunted.

We can see that there's nothing that would cause

that shadow to happen.

It simply manifests, gets up from the chair,

walks down the hallway.

There's Sallie.

Sallie or not,

Justin doesn't see the shadow

until he reviews the footage later,

but he does seem

to sense it.

I really feel like something's

like, up on me.

Now confident that there's a presence here,

Justin meets up with three of his friends,

in what is considered to be one of the most haunted rooms

in the hotel,

to conduct an EVP session,

using a spirit box

that scans radio stations.

Where are you? What is your name?

With the spirit box, what it does is,

it scans every single radio frequency,

including white noise stations.

It's believed that spirits can communicate

using radio wave frequencies,

and you can hear their voice in real time.

Which is exactly what seems to happen.

Tell me more.

"I ain't telling."

If you hear, like, full sentences,

you gotta remember that it's sweeping

through radio stations, at a...

at such a fast rate, that to hear a full sentence

go through multiple stations,

is... It's unexplainable.

Unexplainable,

and sometimes,

terrifying.

Give me a sign that you are here.

"I'm in the room."

- "I'm in the room." - "I'm in the room." Ooh!

As investigators, we're always asking the question,

"Is there anyone here with us?

And furthermore, where are you?"

And when you get a response like this...

"I'm in the room."

- "I'm in the room." - "I'm in the room." Ooh!

...it's pretty specific.

And it's pretty clear.

Clear enough to convince Justin

that the hotel is indeed haunted,

and worthy of much more investigation.

I would love to go back there

and spend, like, a week in that hotel.

The fact that it's sitting where the original battlefield

of the Alamo... I mean, that right there is amazing.

And there's definitely some energy

that is in that place.

Coming up,

what did two sisters in California...

- Ohhh! - What's happening?

...witness in the night sky?

- Oh, my God. It's just so... - What is happening?

It just, like, came off...

Some people seek out paranormal experiences,

and go to great lengths

for a glimpse of the extraordinary,

while others don't think too much about it,

making it all the more life-changing

when those astonishing encounters

suddenly occur,

which is what happened to two sisters in California,

who were simply driving in their car

when they witnessed something

that blew their minds.

- Ohhh! Sierra! - What's happening?

March, 2021.

Buena Park, California.

It's about 9:00 p.m.,

and Sierra and Savanah Llamas are driving home from work,

when something bizarre in the sky

catches their attention.

As they pull in to their driveway,

Sierra grabs her phone,

and starts recording.

Oh, my God!

What is that?

It's three bright lights

arranged in a formation.

- Look at it. - Oh, my God, Sierra.

- What is that? - What in the world?

Hi, my name is Sierra.

And I'm Savanah.

And this is our video.

It's just floating up there.

Looking at it, we were just kind of like, "What is this?"

and I don't think we really knew what to think,

but I didn't feel scared. I felt more, like, intrigued,

and, like, curious about it, because

there was nothing like that that we've seen before.

They're just, like, red dots.

It looked to be something like

these three red lights in the sky.

They were kind of moving very slowly towards one direction.

And then we compared it

to the other things in the sky that we were seeing.

Hey!

That's a plane.

That's the plane blinking.

- And moving. - Blinking and moving.

- But... - But...

There's a full moon.

I've got a full moon, right there.

But look at those!

And we were like, "That looks nothing like the plane.

"Nothing like the stars."

So, it was very interesting.

As Sierra and Savanah

try to make sense of the anomalies in the sky,

things suddenly take a turn

for the truly bizarre.

Ooh! Look what's up with the middle one!

Once the middle one started flashing,

I'm like, "There's something happening here."

Like, "We gotta keep recording."

Like, "What is this?"

Ooh, Sierra!

What is happening?

That's the...

It's gonna...

- Oh, my God! It's just so... - What is happening?

It just, like, came off!

Watch again,

as the object in the center

drops a glowing ball,

which seems to cross the path

of an approaching plane.

Wait, what are we, like, watching?

The front two are disappearing, like, they're kind of going...

Yeah, they're flashing in and out. - Look at this...

Then, the same thing happens again,

from the one remaining object.

Look, oh look, it's gonna drop something again! - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, it's dropping! It's dropping it again. -

- What is it? - It's so...

This is scary. That... - It is so bright!

After about five minutes,

all of the lights fade away...

It just disappeared.

It disappeared.

...leaving the sisters completely baffled.

Now they're gone.

Oh, my God!

It was really weird, and I'm just, like,

"I have no idea what I just saw."

It was just very strange.

Strange, indeed.

This is insane!

So, what did Sierra and Savanah witness that night?

They look solid.

They're bright.

They're brighter than the plane lights.

It doesn't seem to have any kind of propulsion to it,

and you certainly don't hear an engine noise,

so, really, a legit UFO.

An unidentified flying object up in the sky.

- Sierra! - What is happening?

Right away, when you see that light

start to lose its formation, and start to drop down,

it seems to be on some sort of a mission.

It seems to be on some sort of trajectory

to go check something out,

and to me, this is not behaving

like normal aircraft or drones.

This is something that is leaning, for me,

for more alien than anything else.

Ooh! It just, like, came off!

There are multiple sightings

where people report seeing something ejected

from another object in the sky,

and we've even seen that on this show before.

So if this is extraterrestrial in origin,

what are they up to?

Are they making some sort of delivery?

Or could this be an "away team"

on a scouting mission?

It just disappeared. - I know!

The one in the sky's disappeared, too!

Oh, it came back! It came back.

Where the lights came from,

or what they were doing,

remains a mystery,

but Sierra and Savanah

feel lucky to have captured a glimpse

of the unexplained.

This experience was very interesting.

I'd never seen anything like that,

so it was pretty cool to see.

I hope to see something like this again.

I'm just, literally, looking at the sky

all the time. It's creepy, like,

I feel like at first, I was looking for shooting stars,

but now, I'm looking for, like...

...aliens.

- Sierra! - What is happening?

Coming up, a mysterious apparition

checks out a museum display

in Indiana.

Museums are some of the most haunted places

in the world,

and it's not hard

to imagine why.

After all, these spaces are dedicated

to preserving various types of significant relics,

and it's believed

that the rich histories of these artifacts

may not only attract people,

but also

ghosts,

which might explain

what happened recently in Indiana,

when a security camera inside a museum

captured this

creeping around.

April, 2021.

Huntington, Indiana.

Eric Bruce is on the board of directors

of the Huntington County Historical Museum.

About six months ago,

he set up a few CCTV cameras around the building,

to keep an eye on things.

One afternoon,

while the museum is closed,

Eric gets an alert

that movement is detected in the annex room,

so he rushes to the museum, reviews the footage,

and sees something unimaginable.

Watch closely,

as some kind of shadowy figure

walks out, by a bookcase,

and then,

retreats back

to where it came from.

Then,

just minutes later,

what looks like a different shadow figure

follows suit.

Eric is shocked.

My name is Eric, and this is my video.

Well, when I saw that shadow,

I felt kind of strange about it, because it was, uh,

it was odd.

It just kind of appears, and then it kind of darts off,

and then comes back into the frame.

The second figure, it looks to be very similar

to the first figure,

except that maybe it's a little taller,

but it has the same kind of transparency,

and it seemed to move in and out

a little quicker than the first figure.

Not sure what to make of it,

Eric tries an experiment

on a day the museum is open.

Had a couple people try to recreate it.

And they look like live people,

where you can tell it's a person,

you can, you know, make out features, and clothing, and all that stuff.

Which leaves Eric and the employees

with only one other possibility.

Really, the only thing we've come up with is,

it must be some kind of ghost.

This seems to be a classic example of what we term a shadow figure.

Something dark, shadowy,

not made of light, but almost composed

of shadow, of darkness.

Now, that's not to say it's evil or malevolent,

it's just composed of something

that makes it hard for us to see.

I like this capture because of how

intangible this form is.

Even when it takes on a more human shape,

it still doesn't look solid,

and certainly not like any living human I've seen.

The second time it came out,

it looked like it was carrying something,

and it walked over to this bookcase,

almost like it was replacing something on this bookcase.

I think there's a potential

that they could be two different entities.

If it is two different types of entities,

they never get too far from that beginning point,

so maybe there is something with that dark corner,

that is a portal of some sort,

allowing entities to come to and from.

Or, it could be the same entity

it's just capable of manifesting

in different ways and shapes.

My interpretation of that second appearance,

was that it was the same apparition that we were seeing before.

This is an entity doing what we all do in museums,

looking at the collection, engaging with the exhibit,

trying to find something,

perhaps something that might contain information,

or some sort of personal connection

to whoever that apparition was.

My question is,

what's in that corner of the museum?

What's on that shelf at the foot of the stairs?

Very good question.

That's an area, what they call the Huntington Honors.

It's a display to honor our people in, uh, Huntington County,

so that's a display case that has

just information and photos of people

that are on the Huntington Honors.

Whatever it was that was snooping around,

and whatever they wanted,

Eric hopes they come back.

I do check it more often than I have.

Um, and we have yet to catch anything even similar,

uh, or anything out of place.

I think we would, uh, help,

maybe further the story,

so I think that it would be great to capture something else.

Coming up,

a dark entity,

scales a prison wall in Brazil.

There are plenty of reasons

why you'd never wanna end up in prison.

Loss of freedom.

Terrible food.

Bad neighbors.

But, perhaps one of the lesser known reasons,

why you wouldn't wanna find yourself behind bars,

is that many of these facilities

are thought to be haunted.

And a couple of CCTV cameras

may have captured proof.

February, 2017.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Wardens at Campo Grande,

a maximum security prison,

are on high alert,

when they see a dark figure scaling the walls

on one of their security cameras.

Thinking it's a prisoner attempting to escape,

they sound the alarm.

But when they search the area,

they find nothing.

And when they review the footage,

they discover that it's not an inmate after all.

At least...

Not one that's living.

Watch as the dark figure

seems to float through a wall.

Then...

Rises up out of the earth...

And climbs around again.

What is going on here?

The figure itself seems to be

about the right size and shape to be a person,

but it's got no definition.

No features, no detail.

Um, and it sorta seems to change shape as it moves.

If there's anything that speaks volumes

to how real this shadow is,

the fact that security guards

thought they were witnessing a prisoner trying to escape,

moving through the cells,

going through the walls,

so, to me, this just corroborates this video and this experience,

that this was a real shadow,

whether this was a prisoner,

or another dark energy that resides here,

it was captured on video, and it's a really compelling one.

So, if this is in fact some kind of spirit,

whose might it be?

Some of the inmates believe it's the soul of a prisoner

who was executed.

It's certainly tempting to imagine that

it is the spirit of an inmate

who perhaps died in the prison.

Of course, that begs the question,

well, wouldn't a spirit be set free upon death,

and leave the prison?

But, a lot of times prisoners get out of prison

and wish they were back in,

so, um, it's certainly

not beyond the realm of possibilities that, um,

this is the place that the person knew in life,

and this is the place where they just gravitate toward in death.

Could be, but whatever's happening,

this isn't the only facility of this kind

to experience bizarre activity.

For years, many of the officers

at the Espanola Police Department in New Mexico

have believed their precinct

is haunted.

They've been hearing unexplained noises,

and feeling something breathing down their necks.

And on September 20th, 2014,

it became clear that those feelings

were justified.

Watch, as a surveillance camera

pointed at a holding area,

picks up a misty figure

walking through a locked chain link fence,

and across the yard.

This is really cool.

We have a security camera,

a passive eye,

that's watching an area at this police department

that by all counts, is inaccessible.

It's a locked space,

it's not an area that anyone could get into

without setting off an alarm,

without having to open a gate,

which would also be noticed, we assume,

on the security camera, and we

fairly clearly, see an apparition,

walking, moving,

through this yard space.

I personally love security footage captures,

especially when they're coming from

a credible place, such as a police department.

This is a place that's not going to be pulling pranks on us,

or altering their footage.

And what we're seeing here,

it's not the clear image of a person,

but it gives the impression of a person.

It really looks as if there is a faint image of a person,

just walking around.

Possibly someone

who once worked there.

It's a very demanding and stressful job,

and sometimes when people have a very demanding job

in life, they tend to keep working in the afterlife.

Or, could it be something

even more bizarre?

I can't help but think about these police officers,

who are on the scene of crimes

or places where people have lost their lives.

How, what if, some of those spirits,

are actually attaching themselves to the cops,

and travelling back to the police department?

Terrifying.

Whatever these figures are,

one thing's for sure.

As long as there eyes in the skies,

covering every corner of these facilities,

it's only a matter of time

before they're caught on camera.

Coming up...

Where on Earth did this man...

just teleport from?

When you hear the word "portal",

there are a few things that may come to mind.

A mechanism by which people are beamed

from one location to another.

A gateway to the underworld.

Or perhaps, an alien

entering Earth's atmosphere.

All of these sound like fantasy.

That is, until you see the incredible phenomena

that some people around the world

have captured on camera.

Looks like a portal opening up.

January, 2017.

Japan.

It's a rainy day,

when a dash cam

captures something mind-boggling.

Watch closely.

Did you see that?

Watch again.

As a man seemingly drops out of nowhere,

and into the middle of traffic.

Luckily, he appears to be unharmed.

But...

Where did he come from?

This is so bizarre to me.

I watched, and re-watched,

and re-watched this clip so many times,

trying to find where on Earth did that person come from.

I have no idea where he came from.

All of a sudden, he just manifested out of the front tire.

I really wondered if it was just a guy,

jumping out of that car,

but, based on the speed that this vehicle is traveling,

it doesn't look like a person could fall out of it,

or get hit by it,

and still just nonchalantly get up, and walk away.

My first thought on seeing this was like, man, that's like,

everyone's worst fear for an outcome of time travel, right?

Like, someone did not calculate their coordinates of arrival successfully.

And showed up in a really bad spot.

The following year,

another similar, yet unique event

occurs in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

Kristina Gyarmati is filming a thunderstorm,

when she inadvertently

captures something far more captivating than lightning.

Watch very closely.

Watch again, slowed down,

as a bright column of light

falls to the Earth.

This is interesting.

It seems as if something is coming down,

almost literally like being beamed down,

either from above, or below,

and the fact that it has to be slowed down

so much to even be perceived,

is something else.

Now imagine for a moment that this is extraterrestrial in origin,

and maybe this is the beaming down of a crew member.

How quickly it occurred,

this could be happening hundreds of times,

hey, thousand of times a day,

on our planet, and we won't even see it.

Mind-blowing.

But, perhaps the most awesome example

of a potential portal to another dimension

is captured on October 16th, 2020.

In Bend, Oregon.

Calvin Brown is traveling,

and has just stepped outside of his hotel,

when he sees this.

My name is Calvin, and this is my video.

It looked like a huge, vibrant,

dark pink donut.

It was stationary and it was eerily quiet.

Even though I was in the city,

it was like there was no other sound around.

Looks like a portal opening up.

It was like a hole up in through the third density to the ethereal plane.

And it just felt like there was an opening occurring.

Calvin is awestruck.

Not only by what he sees,

but also, by how it makes him feel.

There was an electric energy

that I've never experienced before, and the next day,

energetically, I was just wiped out.

I mean, I just, I felt really drained.

So...

What did Calvin capture here?

When you see stuff like this in the sky,

you think the end of the world is about to happen.

You think you're gonna get sucked up

into some kind of space time continuum,

that you'll never come back from.

It is hard to imagine

that this is any sort of natural weather phenomenon,

that is not about opening a gateway between worlds.

I mean, it is so,

not just vibrant in the sunset sense,

but vibrant in the gaping maw

in the fabric of the world sense,

that it's hard to see it as anything but

a trans-dimensional portal.

The portal-like sky anomaly

sticks around for about an hour,

but the effect it had on Calvin,

will last a lifetime.

It's the only video I've seen like that,

of, you know, eight billion of us here on the planet,

and it was a privilege to be able to see something like that.

It was a humbling experience.

I walked away kinda feeling small,

but at the same time,

realizing that there is so much more out there,

um, that we don't understand.

Looks like a portal opening up.

What should you do in the event

you witness something paranormal?

- "I'm in the room." - "I'm in the room." Ooh!

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Keep your eyes on the sky.

What is happening?

Check your footage for anything unusual.

Trust that what you're seeing really is otherworldly.

Um, Michelle's getting, like, really good at the drums.

And, if you do catch something...

Or connect with us on social media.

Your footage could be seen right here,

onParanormal Caught on Camera.