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Next on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

a man in the Nevada wilderness comes within a few feet

of an enormous Sasquatch.

When I first saw the silhouette, the hair on

the back of my neck stood up, and the adrenaline spiked.

An investigator's hair is toyed with

by a playful spirit in Wisconsin.

Is this tiny flying orb

the spirit of a beloved dog?

It looks like a frisky little dog running in a straight line

until it disappears out of frame.

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

This is a UFO.

...to believe.

When entering an allegedly paranormal hot spot,

especially when just starting out,

perhaps the most important thing to remember is this--

if you try to make contact with the dead,

you are implicitly

giving the dead permission

to make contact with you.

That's a voice.

And in the case of one investigator exploring

a haunted Wisconsin schoolhouse,

the dead's preferred method of communication

got a little bit

hairy.

Oh.

2024, in Glenbeulah, Wisconsin.

Dyllon Maddox and Rae Retzlaff

are inside the allegedly haunted

Old Glenbeulah Schoolhouse

to conduct a Spirit Box session.

It's the very first paranormal investigation that either

Dyllon or Rae has ever been on,

which makes what happens to Rae during the session

all the more extraordinary.

Watch very closely.

Oh, sorry.

I think that was my hair or something.

Did you see it?

Watch again in slow motion.

As Rae listens to the Spirit Box,

the tip of her hair

rises up by itself

and touches her chin.

Oh, sorry.

I think that was my hair or something.

How is that possible?

I'm Dyllon.

- I'm Rae. - And this is our video.

As soon as we got home, I said, "We need to review that,

because something happened there."

It looks like something goes up and just, with two fingers,

grabs your hair and just - Yeah.

pokes her in the chin with it.

Yeah, it literally, it separated from the rest of

my hair, curled up, and then touches my chin.

And as soon as we saw it move, like, we just started,

like, screaming.

- It was a pretty cool moment. - We were like-- yeah.

This was crazy.

That would not happen naturally.

That's not her hair was caught on something

and kind of relaxed.

No, it lifted up

and went upward.

There doesn't seem to be any perceivable breeze blowing in

the room, we don't see anything like a spider web or an insect,

but something is propelling that lock of hair upward

toward her face.

When your body is touched or when something on you

is physically moving, it's harder to process

because how can something physically manipulate you?

How can something physically manipulate your hair?

How does that happen?

I mean, it was super shocking.

And I think that's part of, like, why I was so,

like, mind-blown when we saw the footage.

And to experience it myself

and be like, that actually does happen, is amazing.

Amazing, but also perhaps

not so surprising.

Sorry.

Considering where it happened.

The Old Glenbeulah Schoolhouse in Glenbeulah, Wisconsin,

operated from 1916 to 1995,

before going abandoned for nearly three decades.

And the school got a real reputation for being haunted.

People would report hearing children laughing and giggling

and running up and down the hallways.

The story goes that in the early 1900s,

there was a young boy who was being bullied.

And because of his mistreatment,

his mother, who practiced the magical arts,

was said to put a curse, not only on the school,

but on the entire village.

Terrifying.

Though Dyllon and Rae's interpretation

is slightly less threatening.

I think it was the spirit of a child,

just because of how

playful it was - Yeah.

and maybe being drawn to just Rae and her hair

and wanted to kinda say "Hello" in its own way.

You think of the energy of a school, and you think

of all the different kids and that energy.

It's a playful energy, and I think that's what people

have reported here, that there's been experiences

and encounters and what some would refer to

as being haunted.

But it seems to be more of a positive, playful type

of interaction that's happening.

It doesn't seem to be anything nefarious.

Whatever it was,

and whatever the reason for interacting,

the effect on Dyllon and Rae is unequivocal.

The pair can't wait to investigate again.

I wouldn't say I was a skeptic.

I always kinda believed in it.

But this was like that nail in the coffin of there is other

stuff out there that people just can't explain.

Science can't explain.

But it also, like, really motivated us to start

doing this all the time.

So now we go and we do investigations a lot and we've

gone to a lot more places and made videos, and it's been

a really great, yeah.

Kind of a hobby out of nowhere.

- Yeah. - That's for sure.

Oh, sorry.

I think that was my hair or something.

Coming up, an explorer in the Nevada desert is stalked

by a very territorial...

...bigfoot.

2 According to eyewitness reports, the average bigfoot

can measure up to 10 feet tall.

And yet, despite its overwhelming size,

the cryptid is gifted

at hiding in plain sight.

And while its threat level to humans

is a matter of ongoing debate,

the thought of any huge, hairy creature being able

to approach unseen...

...is absolutely terrifying.

Case in point, a man in Nevada who had no idea he was being

stalked by one.

Until it was standing

right in front of him.

July 2025.

Near Pahrump, Nevada.

Bigfoot researcher Bret Johnson has returned

to a remote area of the desert.

A three-hour hike off a desolate dirt road

to try to find a mysterious creature that months earlier

in the same spot, according to Bret,

screamed at him from a distance.

And soon into his exploration,

his camera

catches something startling.

Watch very closely.

Did you see it?

Watch again, in slow motion,

as Bret pans his camera across the brush.

A figure, dark, hulking,

and possibly

keeping a watchful eye on Bret,

who has no idea what he's captured

until he reviews the footage later.

My name is Bret and this is my video.

I decided I was gonna take a big loop around the canyon.

It's like a four- to five-mile loop just to get around

the backside of this canyon.

As I continued, I could start hearing sticks snapping.

And cats don't do that.

You don't hear that happen very much.

So I just started filming. I was just filming the trees.

I was filming everything that was there.

I didn't realize that I had filmed something walking

probably 400 yards from me.

Through the trees, we just catch a fleeting glimpse

of something walking, but it's enough of a glimpse

to see that it doesn't look like a person.

It doesn't look like a hiker walking through the woods.

It's tall and very, very dark.

In areas where perhaps hunting is a common practice,

you don't wanna be mistaken for a creature.

You make your presence known.

So something like this, where this creature was clearly

looking to stay out of the way, I think lends itself toward

an interpretation that we might be looking

at some kind of cryptid here.

Which makes what happens just minutes later

that much more terrifying.

When I first saw the silhouette...

...the hair on the back of my neck stood up

and the adrenaline spiked.

And then that's when my heart rate went through the roof.

And I'm thinking, "OK, this is what I wanted to film.

What do I do?"

I tried to film as long as I could, but then it started

swaying back and forth, which gave me the vibe

that I was too close.

This rather large form

is hiding behind a tree, and you can see what appears

to be hair looking rather coarse to me, and it does seem to be

shifting back and forth.

Maybe it's shifting from

the weight on its left and right feet.

It's rocking in such a way that it's almost trying

to emulate a tree swaying back and forth.

And this caught me right away, because this is reported a lot.

They don't really reveal themselves completely,

but they seem to try to act or look like a tree or respond

in some way to stand still.

Maybe that shifting back and forth is a way of it doing

a sort of a passive threat, like, "Yeah, I'm here,

"and I know you know I'm here now.

Go away."

It got to a point where, once it started to sway, it was

life or death in my mind what I was gonna do.

And I doubt, honestly, it would have charged, but I don't know.

So I felt like I've gotta do something, because I've got

a wife and kids-- I gotta move.

Which is exactly what Bret does

immediately.

I took off.

Not on a run, but I started walking pretty quick

until I got away from it.

But incredibly, despite the apparent close call,

Bret feels compelled to return again someday to hopefully

find out more.

It's like a dang addiction.

You gotta go back.

And it's not that I'm excited to go back, but I just feel

like I need to.

Though he plans to proceed with extreme caution,

just in case.

We don't know what they're capable of.

And if they're meat eaters, who knows?

The human could be on the menu.

And being that tall and that big,

you're just easy to snatch.

Coming up is this tiny orb,

the spirit of a long-lost dog?

2

Losing a beloved pet

is one of the most difficult things

a person can go through.

But in the aftermath, if you're looking for signs of comfort...

...the best advice might be simply

to pay close attention.

Because if your situation is

anything like one family in Maryland,

the smallest things could end up

being the most meaningful.

2018,

in Baltimore, Maryland.

Having just launched her own hairline, Aiyanna Terry

is shooting a selfie video

in an effort to promote her new business.

But when she reviews her footage,

she sees something that potentially

ruins the shot.

Did you see that?

As Aiyanna shows off her hair,

a small particle

flies across the screen

before abruptly

changing direction.

But to Aiyanna, something about it seems

different than just an ordinary piece of dust.

So Aiyanna and her mother, Nicole,

review the footage again,

zoomed way,

way in,

and begin to realize

they are seeing something

absolutely

mind-blowing.

I'm Aiyanna.

And I'm Nicole, and this is our video.

At first, I didn't think anything of it.

And as I'm looking at it, I'm like, "Am I seeing stuff?"

So that's when I went to my mom.

I'm like, "Do you see this?"

And then when she's seen it as well, she's like, "Wait,

Aiyanna, that's Chino."

I zoomed in. I said, "Wait a minute."

Then we start seeing the tail.

We start seeing the fluff.

I'm like, "Wait a minute." That's my baby.

Watch one more time, as indeed, the tiny piece

of fluff bears a striking resemblance

to a little dog running.

Specifically,

Chino, their Pomeranian,

who passed away only months earlier.

Oh, my goodness. It was amazing.

My first thought at the start of this was like,

"Is it that, like, tiny speck of dust that's floating through the air?

Is that what I'm looking at here in this video clip?"

But then,

oh my goodness, what looks to be like a speck of dust floating

on a consistent trajectory through the air makes a sharp,

acute turn.

And then it looks like a frisky little dog running

in the opposite direction, sort of in a straight line

until it disappears out of frame.

And I ended up kind of going,

"Yeah, it looked like a tiny little ghost Pomeranian."

What's compelling to me is it doesn't look like a traditional

orb of dust or something that's just floating, right?

Normally, those go along in an air current.

They're slowly kinda moving or meandering,

sometimes quickly going by if it were sort of an insect

close to the camera.

But this particular one looks like it comes down at an angle,

and then it does seem as if it has a life and shape

of its own, like it scurries across the frame.

And that small detail is particularly meaningful

to the family, considering Chino's condition

toward the end of his life.

Chino loved to run, and we had like a grassy hill,

and he would just run like he would just love to run.

And it used to hurt our heart.

I'm like, "Come on, Chino." He's like .

So it was a great feeling.

You could clearly see his tail and his feet.

And I said, "He's running."

He's able to freely

run without having to stop for breath or anything like that.

It looked like the tail was wagging.

It looked like if that was a puppy, they were very,

very happy.

So when you think about it that way, it's really beautiful.

But beautiful as it might be,

why so tiny?

When we think of another world, whether that's

the afterlife or some other dimension that we exist

alongside, we tend to think of it as in relative scale

to our own existence.

I do not think it is a prerequisite of an actual

apparition or manifestation that it match its size as it

had been in our living world.

If a spirit of a small dog coming back absolutely

miniaturized but so recognizably familiar

in its shape and its movement, if that's the way that that dog

is able to manifest, great!

And while the package may have been small,

the message it contained

couldn't have been more impactful.

I feel

grateful that he chose to show that he's OK,

that he loved us,

you know, and to come share that moment,

to come back and visit.

A visit that has changed Aiyanna and Nicole

forever.

I do believe, you know, once we pass on,

you're still here with us in spirit.

You know, our loved ones, our pets are still with us

in spirit.

And they have a way of showing themselves,

letting us know that they're OK.

Coming up, is this dark figure

the infamous

Hat Man?

2 Thanks to the internet, people across the globe

can come together in huge numbers

to share their ideas, experiences,

humor, and sometimes

even nightmares.

But be warned,

while it may provide solidarity and comfort for those trying

to cope with their fear,

there are some

who believe the constant online chatter can actually

tap into the paranormal

and bring those nightmares

to life.

Just ask one woman in South Carolina

who was getting ready for bed

when she was visited by something

that could not possibly

have been from this world.

Oh, my God!

August 16th, 2025, in Anderson, South Carolina.

It's the evening, and Naomi Grissom

and her husband are lying in bed

when they get a notification that something has set off

the motion detector on their live security camera

in their living room.

And when they check out the feed,

they see this.

Oh, my God.

In the reflection of the TV, a figure.

Tall, dark,

and appearing to stroll through the living room.

Naomi and her husband are totally freaked out.

My name is Naomi Grissom and this is my video.

Oh, my God.

Like, hold on.

Let me look at that again. Like, maybe that was a glitch.

I'm like, "Wait, no, there's no glitch that looks like that."

No, it was wearing a hat.

It was actually, like, taller than the window in my house.

And the ceilings were, like, 12, 13 feet tall.

So it being taller than the window,

was at least six-, seven-foot tall in itself.

Even more confounding, from what Naomi and her husband

know about their home and camera setup.

What they are seeing

simply is impossible.

The way that the camera was angled, it was angled

at my front door, so if someone were to walk in my house,

I would catch them walking in my house.

Just like anybody who's walking through the house, they will be

visible in the reflection, and they will be visible

in the camera walking past the TV.

If it was a real person, you would have seen

them standing there in the camera's view too.

So then,

if not a real person, then what exactly

is it?

It's completely featureless.

It's almost as if we're looking at its back.

It seems to be a tall man

standing there in a black cloak or robe wearing

some kind of a hat or helmet.

When they get to the edge of the frame, it looks like

they just sort of dissolve.

I know that we're looking kind of at a reflection

off of a TV set,

but even a solid, you know, living, breathing person should

be solid until they kind of reach the edge where they walk

off the frame, and that's not the case here.

Looking for answers,

Naomi posts the video online

and is immediately inundated with comments from people

claiming to recognize the figure

from their own nightmares--

the Hat Man.

The Hat Man is sort of a digital folklore phenomenon,

something that people started reporting and talking about

in a lot of online forums in sort of the mid-to-late 2000s.

This figure of a man, ostensibly, in what appears

to be some sort of trench coat wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

A lot of people started sharing their experiences with

this character, and it created a mass hysteria event that now

when people go to sleep, they're scared of coming across

the shadow figure of the Hat Man.

And that fear from millions of users online reading

these stories has now snowballed into what we call,

in the paranormal field, an egregore,

this very real energy in the likeness of their fear.

I started looking into the lore of the Hat Man,

and it kinda adds up with what's going on in my life

with the lore of, you know, how he follows people who are going

through really hard times mentally.

And having no interest in something like this adding

to her stress, Naomi does whatever she can to

protect herself and her family.

I researched some cleansing prayers, and I just started

shouting them through my house.

I don't know if it helped.

Obviously, the activity's still here, but in that moment,

it calmed down,

and it got quiet, and it felt better for me.

Like, I felt instant relief, and I've got a lot of faith,

so that's mainly what I've been relying on lately.

Faith and a brand-new perspective.

I was always a believer, but to know that there's really

that other realm where the spirit world is and,

you know, they're walking around with us, but not with us,

it's fascinating and it's terrifying and it's beautiful

and it's scary and it's all of the feelings,

but it's definitely been life-changing, definitely.

Oh, my God!

Coming up, a couple inside a famously haunted hotel

are spied on

by a shadow figure.

2 The Congress Plaza Hotel was built on Michigan Avenue

in Chicago in 1893.

And over the years, thanks to its numerous documented

deaths, accidents, and unfortunate incidents,

the magnificent property

developed a worldwide reputation for being haunted.

And if the footage from one couple who stayed there

recently is any indication,

that reputation,

even 130 years later,

is extremely well-earned.

March 2021, in Chicago, Illinois.

Maggie Tweed and Chris Bowton

are exploring the Congress Plaza Hotel...

...roaming around on an unoccupied floor.

When Maggie, with her phone recording,

accidentally filmed something hair-raising.

Watch closely.

Did you catch it?

Watch again.

Though Maggie doesn't see it in the moment, at the end

of the hallway, on the other side

of a door leading to a stairwell,

a figure, dark and seemingly

aware of Maggie's presence.

- Hi, my name's Maggie. - And I'm Chris.

And this is our video.

I was, like, in total shock.

It just looks like a black face.

And then it looks like a tall man that is looking at us,

and he turns away and just goes.

The shadow figure, I don't know,

from what I've seen in other clips,

it's like the black shadow figure people.

Mm-hmm.

All of a sudden, we see this head pop up,

but it's not a head with a face.

It's very dark and featureless, like just a dark, dark shadow.

And it appears to be peering directly through

the glass at the woman filming the video.

It seems to follow that same pattern where you are

capturing a glimpse of this shadow person.

It doesn't seem to wanna interact with you, but it seems

to be as curious in you as you to it, or him or her.

Shadow people show up, I mean, literally in all

shapes and forms.

I've seen legitimate photographs of them

just being blobs.

I have seen shadow people with the naked eye,

and they look more humanoid.

Sometimes they're transparent.

Sometimes it looks like they're, I mean, thick like a blanket.

Like, there's, you can't see through them at all.

Sometimes they are stationary. Sometimes they peek in and out.

I was like, "Oh, my God!" 'Cause I would have probably

left the hotel if I would have seen it.

I would have tried to chase after it.

Yeah, he would have-- I would have been done.

But, if Chris had chased after it,

considering the history of the hotel,

he may have soon found himself

surrounded by other entities.

The Congress Hotel opened in 1893 as part of

the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago, and it is noteworthy

for hosting multiple presidents, but also a lot of ghosts.

There have been several documented deaths in

the history, some of them quite violent and even gruesome.

A little boy died here.

Suicides, several of them have occurred here.

I know people who have gone and investigated

the Congress Hotel and even people who have just stayed

there because they're interested in the history of it.

And they all had very similar accounts of saying that that

hotel made them feel darkness.

The hotel has a lot of dramatic and traumatic history.

So we just wandered the hotel.

And they allow you to do that there.

And at this particular time,

there weren't many other guests to get in the way.

It was in March of 2021, right after the stores started

opening up from the COVID pandemic.

When we got there, half the hotel was shut down,

and that floor was actually one of the ones that was

closed off, so there was nobody even on that floor.

It's really interesting to me to think that in that sort of

quiet quarantine period, spirit presences,

various entities that are sometimes normally maybe kept

at the margins of spaces,

are ready to take over, roaming the halls.

This is my hotel now.

And then as people start to trickle back,

the idea that encounters might go up

as, you know, the normal order reasserts itself,

I think that's really fascinating.

Maybe the spirit wanted to just come out and kick it.

You know, they were aware that, like, ain't nobody really

in the hotel. Now this is my time to shine.

You know what I'm saying?

Maggie and Chris certainly do.

And they also have a new appreciation

for the other side.

I've always believed. I've seen things before.

What I think is that it definitely confirmed that there

is something else out there.

Coming up,

a woman on a cruise ship spots an object in the sky...

...in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.

2 Miami.

Bermuda.

San Juan.

Individually, perhaps, dream vacations.

But taken together,

something decidedly

less pleasant--

the three points

of the Bermuda Triangle.

An area where countless ships and planes have vanished

without a trace,

leaving many to believe that the region is haunted

by something supernatural.

And if the footage from one woman passing through it on

a cruise ship is any indication,

the paranormal presence in the triangle

remains alive and well.

This is a UFO.

August 2025, aboard a cruise ship traveling

from New York City to Bermuda.

It's about 1:30 AM,

and Dana Riendeau is on the balcony of her cabin

when she spots something in the sky

that blows her mind.

A multicolored ball of light

hovering, pulsating,

and irresistible to Dana

watching below.

This is a UFO.

Hi, my name is Dana, and this is my video.

The only way I can describe it is it was like a disco ball,

and it was shiny, and it had all these sparkly,

like, silvery-white lights.

And it looked larger than a star, because there were

other stars, like, faintly next to this?

It's one thing to see lights.

It's one thing to see something moving on the horizon.

But when you see something like this flashing

and different-colored lights and just something dynamic,

what could be causing that?

It's kind of like there's like this moray of light around it,

kind of this rainbow effect or other times almost kind of

a plasma look or ring around it.

It's almost as if it has kind of a force field in a sense.

Maybe it's a form of protection.

Maybe it's kind of the energy that's emitting from this

with whatever technology it uses

for propulsion and to traverse, right?

We don't see that with man-made objects.

A fact that sticks with Dana and sends her mind racing.

I watched that thing and videotaped it for like

an hour, and then I finally went into bed

and I couldn't sleep 'cause I was like,

"What if it's still out there?"

'Cause I really wanted to watch it to see how it disappeared.

Like, did it just fly off?

Did it go into the ocean?

After like an hour, I actually went back out, but it was

literally out there in the same spot an hour later.

It's much too large to be one of the planets in

our solar system, and they never appear to be as close

as this thing is.

And they certainly don't

throb and change color like this either.

Good point.

And then, of course, there's also

the location.

The Bermuda Triangle definitely has its share

of UFO, UAP activity.

It's been going on for what's believed

to be hundreds of years.

And there's a lot of strange disappearances

of planes and boats.

So it's considered to be one of these areas where there could

very well be some sort of a portal or opening to another

realm because people seem to vanish and never return.

If that's the case, perhaps Dana

should count herself lucky.

Now, throughout history, there have been plenty of tales

of sea monsters and sirens, things that waylay sailors,

that call them to their doom.

Now, could this light described as a disco ball be

a modern evolution

as bait for whoever could be seeing it today?

If she had the means to hop in a boat and go check it out,

would she be now amongst the missing?

Thankfully, Dana is still very much with us.

But she does believe that one day she and all of us

will know more.

I think this experience just solidified the fact that I do

believe that there's other life out there.

There has to be.

We're just such a vast universe.

It's just one more piece to the puzzle, and maybe we'll

find out someday and they'll actually come and visit us

for real.

This is a UFO.

What should you do in the event you witness

something paranormal?

You gotta be kidding me.

Here are some tips to get it all on camera.

Check your footage.

And then, check it again.

Be aware of the dangers

lurking around you.

Trust that what you're feeling...

I think that was my hair,

...really is something paranormal.

And...

This is a UFO.

...if you do catch something,

email us at submitparanormal@gmail.com.

Your footage could be seen right here on

"Paranormal Caught On Camera."