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Next, on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

an investigator in Tennessee crosses paths...

...with an eerie apparition.

That's considered the holy grail,

is capturing a full apparition.

A couple on a notoriously dangerous highway

in California...

...drives by a ghost.

This is the spooky fuel that I fill my car up with.

Did the owner of a haunted hotel...

...capture the spirit of a young boy?

You can see the little boy had a jacket on, buttons.

It's almost like he was disfigured.

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

...to believe.

When it comes to haunted locations,

the Jefferson Palace Hotel in Texas...

ranks amongst the spookiest.

The nearly 175-year-old building has changed hands

dozens of times and was once

a livery stable,

a family's home, a brothel,

and a speakeasy during Prohibition.

It's also where at least 30 deaths are said

to have occurred.

With such a long, dark history,

it's no surprise the hotel is said to be brimming

with paranormal activity.

Just ask the current owner,

who not only runs it, but also...

lives there with his family,

who the spirits interact with nearly every day.

June 2023, Jefferson, Texas.

Jeromy Jones and his daughter Mackenna are sitting in what

they refer to as a disappointments room.

A small, secret room

in the Jefferson Palace Hotel's attic

that's believed to have been used in the 1800s

by a family who, to avoid shame,

hit a child with a disability or disfigurement

when guests came over.

And while such a room is inconceivable today,

Jeromy is parked here

because he thinks the room's dark history could make it

the source of some paranormal activity within the building.

And just moments into his vigil...

My name is, this is Jeromy, and these are my videos.

As we were in there, we were hearing noises,

footsteps, the usual thing we hear here at the hotel.

So I decided to snap some photos.

It's really dark in that disappointments room,

so as I was snapping the photos, I was editing them,

just making them brighter.

One particular photo stood out.

I kind of froze up, 'cause I knew what I saw.

And what he saw was this.

It was a little boy...

pushed back about five feet, coming out of the hole,

which is the original entrance to the disappointments room.

You know, I started getting emotional.

You can see the little boy had a jacket on, buttons.

The thing that really stood out to me though

is the facial expression on the boy.

It's almost like he was disfigured,

which would make a lot of sense

if it was in, you know, a disappointments room.

This image is really impressive, in my opinion.

A lot of times, you look at these so-called ghost photos,

and you have to squint to try to figure out what the other

person says they've captured. But in this case,

this looks like a young person, likely a little boy

with a cropped collar and this somewhat mournful expression.

It's unmistakable.

There is a image of what looks like a perhaps young boy

wearing, it looks like a pea coat, right?

I don't know how you can say that is not.

And the face itself I will point out,

does have some kind of grotesque features.

The look on the face of the boy is really

kind of sorrowful.

If, in fact, this is the spirit of the boy who once inhabited

that-- that bedroom in the attic,

you can certainly understand why he would feel that way.

My immediate thought is that

his spirit stayed within this place.

He was almost held into this room, not allowed to leave.

So it almost seems he was a prisoner in real life.

And in the spirit realm, he's also stuck

in this particular room.

And it seems the boy's spirit

isn't the only one stuck within the hotel walls.

Another day, Jeromy wakes up to find some curtains

drawn across one of the hallways,

but when he checks the security camera

to see who pulled them closed...

...no one is there.

And what Jeromy sees when he looks at the curtains

from another camera angle...

is even creepier.

Probably about eight feet past where the curtains got pulled,

there was a shadow on the door.

Well, then all of a sudden, the shadow turns

into a solid figure.

It almost looked like it was cloaked,

and it was approximately eight feet tall.

If, in fact, this is what's known as a shadow figure,

it's certainly doing just what shadow figures seem to always

be doing in videos, and that is to kind of peek around, uh,

from around a corner, and then corner quickly make their exit.

You would probably be not too far off if we said that is

connected, whatever the shadow was,

to the movement of the curtains.

So you kind of have a culprit, you have an action,

and it's captured from at least two different angles.

When you see something like that on camera,

you start to wonder,

am I being watched all the time?

Are there spirits everywhere and I just can't see them,

but they can see me and they're playing tricks on me?

If they are... Jeromy and his family

don't seem to be too bothered by them.

It seems like almost every day something happens to where

a normal person would come in here and be very shocked about,

you know, maybe something flying off the wall or hearing

a disembodied voice in the next room or a door

opening and closing.

Whereas, you know, that's-- that's our daily lives,

and so it doesn't really shock us that much anymore.

Which is good, because let's face it,

they did purchase a haunted hotel.

Coming up, a couple driving in California...

...has a close call with a ghost.

2 Because of its sharp curves,

narrow lanes,

roaming wildlife, and hilly terrain,

California's Highway 17 is known as one of the most

dangerous freeways in the country.

So much so that locals have dubbed the road...

Killer 17, a nickname earned not only for the treacherous

driving conditions...

...but also, as one couple recently discovered,

for the ghosts of those who've been killed there.

May 2025, outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Sabrina Valderrama and CJ Esparza

are traveling back home from a friend's concert,

when their vehicles the navigation app

takes them unexpectedly onto Highway 17.

And while the unfamiliar stretch of road is a bit

of a challenge for Sabrina,

it seems straightforward enough.

That is, until this happens.

Watch closely.

Watch again.

As Sabrina and CJ cruise down 17,

a figure

seemingly standing between lanes of the highway

and scaring the life...

...out of both Sabrina and CJ.

- Hi, I'm Sabrina. - I'm CJ.

And this is our video.

When we were driving downhill, we didn't realize we were, like.

in mountain area, and up high, and going downhill

because we were unfamiliar with the road.

We didn't drive it during the day when we drove up.

So I'm just trying to control and just focus on coasting,

realizing we're picking up speed.

And when that thing appeared, I screamed.

Because I don't scream. I'm not a screamer.

It scared me half to death because then

my thought process says, what was that?

And then, oh, my God, we almost died,

'cause if I would have hit that person, it would have,

you know, injured them, killed them, and then we could

have flew off the road.

But for Sabrina and CJ, perhaps the most horrifying

part of the experience happens the following morning

when they check what their vehicle's side

and back dash cams recorded at the time of the incident.

Watch and listen very closely.

While the front dash cam and Sabrina and CJ

pick up a figure,

the back dash cam and side dash cam...

capture nothing.

On that back window angle, we didn't realize until later

that there is a street light shining in that space.

So if he were to just run towards the cliff wall...

...you would have been able to see something.

You would have been able to see if he got stuck in his footing

and he went back or continued onward down the freeway.

You would have been able to see it,

but you don't see any of that, which makes it really weird.

This is the spooky fuel that I fill my car up with.

I thrive on this kind of footage.

I love it so much.

It's so weird and creepy and also freaking unsettling.

It looks like a fairly contemporarily dressed person.

This isn't like an old-timey

image of a person standing in the middle of the road.

It looks like it really could be a living human standing

in the middle of the road, just narrowly missing,

being seriously injured or killed

by being hit by this car.

It really has me confused, right?

It's semi-transparent at first, then it's solid enough that it

casts a shadow, but then when you look in the rearview

camera, it's gone.

It's not there, sort of there, and then gone altogether.

So then, if it just simply vanished,

then what exactly...

was that thing?

The first thought that pops in my mind is this person may be

there because they were in a car accident or there was

a fatality in this particular spot and that's why they seem

to be showing up or revealing themselves there.

Possibly.

And given the stretch of road Sabrina and CJ were driving on,

that certainly makes sense.

California State Route 17, or as it's better known,

Killer 17, is a 27-mile stretch of road that is known to be

quite treacherous because of its narrow lanes

and blinds and sharp curves.

History is full of stories of roadside ghosts,

ghosts who appear at the site of an accident,

at the site of their own tragic accident,

at the site of other accidents as warnings

to forestall future accidents.

This whole concept is incredibly common,

something that we see worldwide.

So the fact that this footage was captured on this particular

road to me says 100% paranormal.

It was in the back of my mind.

I was like, oh man, I've heard this story so many times about

the ghost crossing the road, or "I almost hit someone,"

or, you know, "But they weren't there, you know, mysteriously."

But yeah, it was in the back of my mind.

I definitely went there.

And having done so, both CJ and Sabrina learned what

they consider to be some life-changing lessons.

Growing up in the Bay Area, you always heard about Highway 17,

always about the watchers or the ghost stories how,

you know, so many people die on that-- on that highway.

I learned that all the stories of Highway 17 are real.

The ghost stories are true.

And if you believe in them, or if you don't,

you'll probably see something.

And then also to be a cautious driver and, you know,

pay attention to your surroundings.

- Absolutely. - And to invest in a dash cam,

'cause you never know what you're going to catch. - Yeah.

Coming up, did an investigator in Tennessee...

...capture an apparition standing by a tree?

2 If, as many believe,

the paranormal is always around us in one way or another,

why does it seem so difficult to see it with one's own eyes?

One reason...

could be that with so much filling our senses,

we are simply too distracted to notice...

...what's right in front of us.

Don't believe it?

Uh, here's what I wanna show you guys.

Just ask one explorer in Tennessee...

This is an abandoned farmstead.

They say it's haunted.

...who passed right by something that his camera

couldn't miss.

November 2017, just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Look at this.

Out here in the middle of nothing.

It's about 3 AM, and Jon Turner is exploring

a 100-year-old farm for his online followers.

This is an abandoned farmstead that has been abandoned

for a long time. They say it's haunted.

Growing up nearby,

Jon has heard macabre stories about the property,

including someone being murdered there...

and another person dying by suicide...

which has led him to believe

that its haunted reputation is well-earned.

My name is Jon, and this is my video.

As I got on the property, it was just a calm stillness.

You know, you kind of felt the eeriness.

I attributed it to being an abandoned building sitting

in the woods for many years.

This was actually a thriving farm at one point.

I felt really at peace there, but it definitely had

kind of that eerie vibe of, like,

you didn't feel like you were alone.

And it turns out he may not be,

because as he moves to scan the property with his camera,

watch very closely.

Did you see it?

Watch again...

as Jon's camera picks up what appears to be

an apparition of a woman with long dark hair

standing next to a tree,

which Jon doesn't notice until he posts it online

and one of his eagle-eyed viewers points it out.

I got a message from someone saying, "Hey, at this timestamp,

"there's something weird in the background.

It looks like a woman."

Sure enough, as you slow it down and freeze it,

there is an apparition of a woman

standing there watching me, essentially.

When I realized what I was looking at,

I'm like, it kind of put chills on me

'cause I didn't even see it.

When you kind of hone in on that moment

and you freeze on this apparition of a woman,

it's almost kind of phantom-esque.

And one thing that really unnerves me about this

is the way she's kind of positioned,

the way she's standing kind of...

in this bent neck and straight body.

It almost-- is reminiscent of when

somebody, you know, has hanged themselves.

It's very unnerving.

It's a solid full-bodied apparition.

It seemed to be glowing in its own kind of ethereal light,

comparatively speaking, to, like, the rest of

the things that he was shooting.

She obviously stood out against the backdrop of the night woods.

The fact that he didn't see it until he played it back later,

you would think a white-clad jet-black-haired figure,

you would see this.

This happens a lot.

We still don't know why sometimes we don't catch things

with our eyes or our senses, but our devices do.

A lot more foliage in here since the last time I was here.

Blown away by the possibility, he crossed paths with a spirit,

Jon returns to the farmstead later to see if something else

could have been mistaken for the apparition.

OK, so we're here at the tree.

I searched the place high and low.

I set up exactly the way I was in the daytime.

You see that tree right here?

I waited until dark and did the exact same movements I did

to try to recreate this moment.

I explored the area around the tree

where you see the figure.

So I started here, and I just kind of panned around.

And could not create or find anything that would have caused

that apparition to be there.

So if there is no natural explanation for it,

who or what was out there with Jon that night?

You know, a lot of these locations, even though there's

no longer human activity or anybody living there,

they do have some sort of energy or memory

from when someone was living there,

and that apparition could be a previous owner

or someone associated with that home.

Whatever the case,

even though Jon didn't see the ghost

with his own eyes that night,

he believes that what his camera captured

is tangible proof of the afterlife.

As someone who is in the paranormal community,

that's considered the holy grail,

is capturing a full apparition.

I'm very happy and proud that I was able to capture that.

Coming up, did a webcam overlooking Loch Ness...

capture proof of Nessie?

2 It's believed that cryptids

possess the ability to evade humans

in a variety of ways.

Like Skinwalkers...

...shape-shifting into animals or people.

Bigfoot...

camouflaging itself to blend into the environment.

And the Mothman,

flying away at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

But as more and more cameras cover the Earth,

some recording 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

that ease of anonymity could be coming to an end.

And one need look no further for proof of this...

than what one webcam captured at the birthplace

of perhaps the biggest cryptid... of them all.

July 5th, 2025. Donegal, Ireland.

An avid Nessie hunter is at home on his computer,

watching one of several live webcam streams

that overlook Scotland's Loch Ness,

hoping for the off chance he'll spot the legendary cryptid,

when lo and behold,

something catches his eye.

Watch closely.

Did you see it?

Watch again.

As what appears to be a large mass...

breaches the surface

before quickly disappearing back into the abyss.

Thinking it may be a glimpse of the elusive lake monster,

the viewer reports the sighting to the tourism board

that maintains the cameras, which quickly triggers

a close review of the footage by Ellen Walker,

destination director of Visit Inverness, Loch Ness.

I'm Ellen, and this is footage from one of our webcams.

The cameras that we have set up cover the length of the Loch.

We are very fortunate to have a team of very dedicated

Nessie hunters who do survey all our footage and watch

the webcams on a daily basis.

And they are very well-trained at looking out for very minute

changes in and waves and things like that to distinguish

between what they consider to be optical illusions

and real Nessie sightings.

So what I see in the clip is absolutely a disturbance

in the water, and there's potential of it

being a large creature in the water for sure.

Um, and I think it's one of the most compelling instances

where we've been able to capture it on footage.

It does really kind of have the hallmarks of what we would

see in those grainy old black-and-white images

of Nessie coming out of the lock--

something black is kind of emerging from under the water.

We can see it rising up.

And it appears that this long-neck creature,

if you will, comes out with a very small head,

prehistoric in nature.

And obviously it's not a massive piece of driftwood

bursting up and then going back down.

This was something that was sentient, aware,

uh, mobile, and intelligent.

It has to be large.

I mean, this is something that to me seems to be

bigger than a boat.

It's so visible when it does come out of the water

and go back in that we might just be seeing a small piece

of the Loch Ness Monster.

Whatever this thing is, it's certainly much larger than

the usual species of all the fish and other wildlife

that live in Loch Ness.

But despite its relatively substantial size,

the dark figure isn't quite the behemoth one might expect,

especially when compared to previous sightings,

leading some to believe it could be...

a juvenile.

It's reasonable that this wouldn't be the same creature

that's been sighted throughout the centuries.

Instead, it would have to reproduce, so...

maybe this is not Nessie the original,

but maybe Nessie 2.0, 3.0, maybe 6.0?

And if so, maybe this newer Nessie

will be a little more amenable to being captured on camera,

considering how many of these devices

are now continuously streaming from its home base.

The fact that now we can use technology to really enable us

to better engage the marvelous and the fantastical is maybe,

in my obviously biased opinion, one of the best uses of

this kind of technology that we have.

We can tune in.

We can go back and review footage.

We can let artificial intelligence

tell us motion was detected.

Make sure you look at this particular time window.

All of that just ups our chances of being able

to engage with these incredible legends,

and I think that is an incredible benefit.

Which, according to Ellen,

is not just the point of their webcams,

but the Loch Ness Monster legend itself.

Nessie is more than just a monster,

and so is this entire area.

I think Nessie is a symbol of the community of storytellers

that we have within the Highlands,

and that spirit is in the water.

And for many people, a trip to Loch Ness is not as achievable.

And the webcams that are around Loch Ness, the Nessie Cams,

are one of the services we feel is necessary to provide

and hopefully enable people to feel connected to the Loch

in ways that they might not have been able to.

Coming up, a woman from Wyoming...

communicates with UFOs.

2

While being lucky enough to spot a UFO

may seem like an exciting moment in one's life,

for some, it can lead to complications,

like being misunderstood by peers who may be skeptical.

Especially if the UFO encounter was much more involved

than just a sighting,

which is why sharing one's experience...

takes great courage.

Just ask a woman from Wyoming,

who is not only willing to tell her incredible story,

but has also dedicated a part of her life

to helping others do the same.

January 17, 2024, Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Rachel Yedinak is outside

when she spots something peculiar in the sky,

so she pulls out her phone and starts to record.

It's a distant, white, tic-tac shaped object darting

across the sky, and Rachel is sure that it's not only a UFO,

but it's also...

very aware of her presence.

My name is Rachel and these are my videos.

I looked up in the sky and there it was,

and I saw it go behind that pine tree.

So I walked over there and I stood in front of that pine tree,

and anytime I would move right, it would shoot out

the back sides of the tree left. Anytime I went left,

it shot out...

to the right side.

And it really felt playful and intentional.

You can clearly see this isn't a plane.

This isn't a helicopter.

It seems to be reacting to the person, the experiencer.

There seems to be some sort of a connection to them.

A connection that, according to Rachel,

started over a decade ago

with one extraordinary event.

I stepped out onto my front porch one evening

to watch the sky

and saw a strange object coming from the west,

headed east in my direction.

And I questioned, is that an airplane?

The next thing I know, I am in a triangle craft.

Repeating the same actions that I was prior to being inside

of that triangle craft. And after that happened,

it was a slow progression with these orbs

and other things that I see.

A slow progression that has led to hundreds

of encounters like this.

November 2024.

Rachel spots another orb near her home.

This one, glowing red and white.

Those are what I call fireballs,

and that's what they look like in person.

They look like giant balls of fire,

um, constantly strobing with different colors.

Even more remarkable, is that Rachel claims

these objects show up

whenever she invites them to,

as evidenced by what happened on this night...

in June 2024,

when another orb appears to be responding to Rachel

as she flashes a red light toward the sky.

It's really not uncommon within the UFO experiencer

or abductee community for people to believe

that they have a special relationship

with these extraterrestrial visitors.

I think of it more as being a participant

in a relationship, connection, or partnership.

A partnership that has led her to become a MUFON

field investigator.

MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network, as it's called,

is one of the oldest UFO or now we call UAP

investigating organizations around.

You can actually go become certified as a MUFON

investigator by going through their training programs,

which are actually quite good.

It's a position that Rachel, needless to say,

is uniquely qualified for.

It's very hard for me to keep my eyes off of the sky.

I'm constantly looking.

Every night I'm out sky watching.

I always feel fascinated and intrigued,

and I feel seen.

Coming up, church-goers in the Philippines...

witness a miracle in the clouds.

2 One's faith...

can profoundly affect how they see the world

and influence how they interpret...

what happens around them...

whether a message from loved ones who have passed...

...or a sign

from a specific higher power.

And while non-believers

may simply chalk these things up to wishful thinking,

some events, like what happened one day

in the Philippines,

are so seemingly obvious, it's almost impossible to see

it as anything other than...

divine.

June 14th, 2025, Naga City, the Philippines.

A local church is holding a youth day

where hundreds of young people have gathered to pray.

But this special event becomes much,

much more so as they begin to file out of the church...

and see this.

A vertical, wispy cloud

that looks remarkably...

like perhaps the most meaningful figure...

in the Christian faith.

This is a pretty traditional depiction of Jesus.

We get a sense of legs, arms outstretched.

We even get a pretty clear indication that they're wearing

a robe or some sort of flowing garment.

You don't even really have to believe

that this is a miraculous manifestation to think,

"Wow, that's incredibly cool."

I don't know, I was ready to just say this is pareidolia

and us seeing a recognizable shape in a random pattern,

but I can't say that. I see a human-like shape

in those clouds.

And on top of that, it was spotted over a large community

of worshipers near a basilica.

That's a hell of a coincidence.

Or, sorry, a heavenly coincidence.

The way clouds usually form and appear

because of crosswinds and whatnot,

it's usually a horizontal vector.

This was almost as if something flew up through the cloud,

making this vertical column.

It didn't look like it was naturally formed.

Was it intelligently formed? Was it meant as a sign?

Maybe-- and if so, it certainly...

wouldn't be the first time.

Throughout the Old and New Testament

of the Judeo-Christian Bible, there are more than 100

references to clouds as symbols of God's presence.

They occur in Genesis, Revelations, appearing to Noah,

Moses, and also as a symbol of the Holy Spirit.

So clouds being connected

to a heavenly appearance is nothing new.

Whatever it is, it's not something

that the powers that be take for granted.

The Catholic Church, in fact, just updated their policies

on how they determine what is considered a miracle.

They have what's called the "Dicastery of the Doctrines of the Faith."

And there's actually a protocol now to determine

when something can be put in the record books as a miracle.

And while it's unknown

what the official stance is on the sighting,

after video of it is widely seen,

more than 8,000 people travel to the basilica

to pray in honor of the incredible sight.

When you see something like this actually attracting

all these other people to go there, people are seeking

that spiritual connection to the Creator, to God,

and maybe this served exactly its purpose.

People are looking for hope.

And this is definitely something that makes people

wanna really have something that they can look forward to

and be happy about.

And nothing says that more than, you know,

seeing a sign from the Lord.

What should you do in the event you witness

something paranormal?

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Check your footage and then...

check it again.

Trust that what you're seeing

really is otherworldly. - Yeah, I see you.

Don't stop recording...

Just love being out in the woods at night.

...even if you're scared.

And if you do catch something, email us at

submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen right here on

"Paranormal Caught on Camera."