1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 The following program deals with a controversial subject. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretation. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Tonight on Sightings. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 From deep beneath the earth, are these the voices of the dead? 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Is this family being haunted by ghostly victims of a murder suicide? 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 He just stood there like he was watching her take me in. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Could these photographs be proof that a woman was molested by a ghost? 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 What we saw, we were able to get on film. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And using his video camera, this man claims that he has contacted his dead child. 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 It's an opportunity to witness things that we've been taught all our life cannot be. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 It's a connection with the unknown. 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Do ghosts exist? 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 One in ten Americans claims to have seen or been in the presence of a ghost. 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Are these people dreaming, hallucinating, or are they actually experiencing spirits from another dimension? 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Hello, I'm Tim White. I'll be your host for Sightings. Tonight, ghosts. 17 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 The Perception 18 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,000 According to a Gallipool, one in four Americans believes in ghosts. 19 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 What you'll see tonight might contradict what you think you know about ghosts. 20 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 The perception most of us have of ghosts was manufactured in Hollywood, 21 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:05,000 where until recently, the paranormal has been treated as a source of either light-hearted comedy or heavy-handed horror. 22 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 One of Hollywood's most recent attempts at treating the paranormal in a more sophisticated fashion 23 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 resulted in the surprise blockbuster Ghost. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 TV and movies are chock-full of eerie and eye-opening effects, 25 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 but you won't see any Hollywood-style ghosts tonight. 26 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 What you will see is concrete evidence that something is there, 27 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 and you'll share the real-life experiences of people who have witnessed apparitions, hauntings, and poltergeists. 28 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:41,000 They were ordinary people leading ordinary lives until they were touched by an unexplainable force. 29 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,000 And obviously, it frightened me, though I just stood there and looked at it and it disappeared into the wall. 30 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I saw a silhouette of somebody watching my room. 31 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 The feeling of fingers moving up and down your arm. 32 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 She was floating horizontally up and down in front of the window. 33 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And I ran in a room to find her bed elevated off the floor about maybe a foot, foot and a half. 34 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 You could not see through him. It was solid. 35 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,000 And I had the feeling that somebody was trying to enter my body or make a contact with me in some way. 36 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,000 About a foot from my bed was standing a ghost. 37 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Whatever they are, whatever you call them, ghosts, spirits, shades, spectres, apparitions, 38 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 there is not a corner of the world they do not inhabit. 39 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 From this haunted castle in England to this haunted house in Hawaii, 40 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:45,000 a Bavarian monastery, an Italian apartment, mansions in the south, taverns in the west. 41 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 From this farmhouse all the way to the White House, we have a fascination with ghosts. 42 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,000 But I have to tell you, I am puzzled because every once in a while our little dog Rex will start down that long hall toward that room, 43 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:11,000 just glaring as if he is seeing something and barking and he stops in front of Lincoln's door, the bedroom door, and would not go in the room. 44 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,000 One of the most interesting things about this phenomena is that it is not culturally dependent. 45 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 For example, leprechauns are seen only in Ireland, gargoyles in Eastern Europe, 46 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000 but haunting or ghost phenomena has been reported in all cultures since the beginning of time. 47 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 How do you turn myth and legend into scientific fact? 48 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:40,000 The search for photographic evidence has produced many hoaxes, but a handful of pictures defy explanation. 49 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Startling images, spectral apparitions, are these people from the past trying to make contact with the present? 50 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:57,000 There is a lot of fraud in this, there is a lot of imagination, there is a lot of wishful thinking, 51 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:05,000 but when you strip that all out, there is about 20% hardcore stuff that is exceedingly difficult to explain. 52 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Within that 20% haunted longleaf castle in England. 53 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:15,000 In 1965, a film crew in search of a ghost set up an infrared movie camera. 54 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,000 After hundreds of hours of filming, they captured this extremely rare moment, 55 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 a light emerging from one door and disappearing into another. 56 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 All the lighting conditions were controlled, the windows were blacked out, 57 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 there was no possibility of moonlight or car headlight, so anything coming through. 58 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:43,000 When we saw the stuff later, there was this shaft of light, which to me is completely unexplainable. 59 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And indeed, this paranormal phenomenon has remained unexplained for 35 years. 60 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,000 This New Orleans mansion's haunted history is chronicled in diaries written over 100 years ago. 61 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 The family that originally lived here buried their dead infant in the wall of the nursery. 62 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 The ghost of that baby's nanny is said to haunt the house to this day, 63 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 a benevolent spirit watching over the people who live here now. 64 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 I've had dinner parties since she'd walked through the room, everybody at the dinner table would see her. 65 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,000 She just ignores you, she just walks through us, oh no one's there. 66 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:18,000 She never looks at you, nothing's just walks through. 67 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 But there's a darker side to the hauntings here. 68 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Other ghosts who the residents say are not kind but malevolent. 69 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Two family dogs, a male and a female, have been recent victims. 70 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,000 The female jumped out of the second floor window to the ground below, 71 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 and the male was dead in the cellarium. 72 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 No marks or anything else, he was just dead. 73 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 But there was obvious signs of them trying to get out, 74 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 they had clawed their way halfway through a wooden door. 75 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Something had frightened them to that point of mass hysteria. 76 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:57,000 When the apparition resembles somebody who used to live in the house, 77 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 it seems to be evidence of survival. 78 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But there's another explanation, 79 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 and the only way is that it's just energy recorded in the environment 80 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:14,000 that gets played back by our brains, kind of acting like a needle on a phonograph. 81 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,000 And perhaps that's what may be happening on this abandoned aircraft carrier, the USS Cabot. 82 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:26,000 The ghostly forms of crewmen who met with violent death in World War II have been seen again and again. 83 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 One witness who had a chilling encounter on board was Jill Alexander. 84 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 When I turned, I was looking at a man in a uniform. 85 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 It was an incredible feeling, and I couldn't speak, I couldn't move, 86 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 and my friend kept pulling me to go up the stairs, and I said, 87 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Barry, you're going to think I'm crazy, but I think I'm looking at a ghost. 88 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 And when I said that, he just took off with me and we flew down the boat. 89 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 The evidence we have is as strong as the witnesses that we have. 90 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 You have to take a look, start taking a look at witness testimony. 91 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Now, many people in social science will say that a human witness is not a good witness, 92 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,000 and yet our entire legal system seems to be based on that. 93 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And interestingly, the one place where ghosts have been proven to exist is in a court of law. 94 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 When Jeff and Patrice Stambofsky bought this house in NIAC, New York, 95 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 the owner didn't tell them her house was haunted. 96 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Two weeks after buying the house, they wanted out. 97 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 They sued to get their money back, and a New York appellate court ruled in their fate. 98 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,000 They scared me. I can't live in any place that someone's telling me that it's haunted 99 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 and ghosts leave things around for people and close doors and shake beds and things. 100 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,000 In New York State, there really is not a disclosure law for the seller. 101 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000 It's about beware. And when you buy a house and there's something wrong, 102 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,000 if you haven't checked it out, then that has to be your responsibility. 103 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,000 In this case, clearly, ghosts fall into a different category. 104 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:59,000 The owner had claimed for years that her house was haunted, and that was proof enough for the court. 105 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Their definition of a haunted house is, if the owner says it's haunted, then it's haunted. 106 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 She can't come back to court to dispute that fact later on. 107 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 So to my knowledge, it is America's only legally haunted house. 108 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Coming up next, an average American family that claims their home is haunted 109 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 by the ghostly victims of a murder suicide. 110 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I haven't been alone in the house since that time. 111 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 By and large, people who believe that they've encountered a ghost are frightened. 112 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,000 So beyond gathering evidence, a critical role for the ghost investigator is crisis counselor 113 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 to reassure people that they're not losing their sanity. 114 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:46,000 You're about to meet a typical American family, their ordinary people, caught in the grips of an extraordinary situation. 115 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:53,000 In 1985, the Brown family purchased this Victorian-era home in Portland, Oregon. 116 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 It seemed to be a perfect place to raise a young family. 117 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,000 When we first moved into the house, I got this strange feeling like we were never alone. 118 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Perhaps the eerie history of the house played a role. 119 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 In 1973, the house was the scene of a grisly murder suicide. 120 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 A distraught husband shot and killed his wife, and then turned the gun on himself, 121 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 a crime of passion that left their five children orphans. 122 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 I decided, okay, it happened. We'll just forget about it. 123 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Then when things started happening, I started really wondering, was it them? 124 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 It had to have been them, a husband and a wife. 125 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 At first, the disturbances were minor, lights going on and off, 126 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:41,000 trouble with the VCR and electrical outlets, occurrences easily dismissed as typical in an old house. 127 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 But no one could dismiss what daughter Cassie saw. 128 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Two apparitions, a woman tucking Cassie's blankets into the bed 129 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 and a strange man lurking in the background. 130 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 There was a guy standing by the door. 131 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I was really sort of afraid of him because he did nothing. 132 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 He just stood there like he was watching. 133 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Her tuck me in or something. 134 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:16,000 After the third time, her coming to me with the lady tucking her in, 135 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,000 I decided to kind of check while they're asleep, check their beds to see. 136 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 And it was, it was tucked in between the mattresses. I don't do that. 137 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,000 It sounds like that what's being reported are figures that interact. 138 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 They are therefore seemingly self-conscious, self-aware, 139 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,000 which would be replaced them in the category of apparitions or ghosts. 140 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Initially, Caroline wondered if it was all in her head. 141 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 I didn't understand why this was going on. 142 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,000 It was kind of confusing. You know, you try to look for the logical explanations. 143 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And so to me, it had to have been me, even though it was something I didn't do. 144 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 And then when I started really paying attention and watching, I knew I wasn't doing it. 145 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And I knew no one else was doing it. 146 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Since 1985, the Browns have experienced over two dozen ghostly episodes. 147 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Footsteps, voices, flying objects. 148 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Once a space heater was mysteriously plugged in and turned on to warm the children. 149 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Family Pets refused to stay inside when no one's home. 150 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:27,000 The family says much of the haunting occurs on or around the anniversary of the murder suicide, December the 23rd. 151 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I went down to the landing and I saw someone by the Christmas tree. 152 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:39,000 And I thought it was Santa, so I jumped up and slapped my hands. 153 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:45,000 And they turned around and it surprised me. 154 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:52,000 And they disappeared somehow. I don't know. 155 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 The hall lights always left on for the kids and everything. 156 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 And my door was left open a little bit. 157 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000 I woke up and I saw a silhouette of a man coming towards me. 158 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:11,000 My first thought is intruder. I got to get the light on, get the guns. I had to react. 159 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:18,000 So I'm watching. I'm watching this and we have the lights that have the rope down from the ceiling. 160 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,000 So I'm scrambling, looking for that, keeping this sight, you know, this person in sight, 161 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:30,000 ready to fight, ready to do anything I needed to do. Got the light on. It was gone. 162 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 The incidents in the house have not been limited to the immediate family. 163 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000 I was on the second floor cleaning and I was to take some boxes of excess toys up to the third floor. 164 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,000 I was sleeping on the couch. I think it was like a kitty corner from the door. 165 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I was upstairs. A kid had taken the two children to school and there was no one in the house. 166 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 I heard a woman shriek. I heard shouting that woke me up. 167 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I heard the footsteps, fairly heavy ones going upstairs to the third floor. 168 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:06,000 And then there was some movement on top of a box that was already sitting there on the floor. 169 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,000 I saw the silhouette of a man and a woman. 170 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 I haven't been alone in the house since that time. 171 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,000 It was hard for me to, you know, accept because it was so real. 172 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 You know, when you're so positive someone is there. 173 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 I know I'm. 174 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 I know I'm very unusual. 175 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 But for all the occurrences, the family has never really felt threatened. 176 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Nothing's happened that's been real negative. 177 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 It's been nerve-wracking. But anything that's happened to the kids has been positive. 178 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:48,000 It's like taking care, you know, making sure watching over them. 179 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Me, it, even though you get nervous, you just decide, hey, this is my house. 180 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,000 I want to live here and you deal with it. 181 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Lloyd Auerbach is the co-founder of the Office of Paranormal Investigations. 182 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,000 He specializes in helping families through haunting situations. 183 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And he recently investigated this case. 184 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 This is a real interesting case because the sheer number of witnesses that we have, 185 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 the testimony from them seems very good. 186 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 The folks are very, very normal. 187 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 And I like their attitude that, you know, they've been a little uncomfortable, 188 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:26,000 but they're living with it and are taking control that they have really done all the right things 189 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000 without us even being here to begin with, just intuitively. 190 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Caroline's first instinct was to comfort her children 191 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 and to try to eliminate the anxiety that comes with the unknown. 192 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,000 What Cassie does to deal with her fear, we have Bales hanging up. 193 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 She rings this before climbing into bed. 194 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Then she comes up here, rings this bell. 195 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 With the children, Auerbach stresses the importance of treating the haunting as a game. 196 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Special toys can help alleviate fears. 197 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Caroline has devised her own combination of lavender and water 198 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 that Cassie can use to fend off ghosts. 199 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It's important to set ground rules both with the ghosts, 200 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 but certainly with the kids so they understand how to deal with ghosts. 201 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Yeah, well, I've told the ghosts. 202 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,000 In fact, it was the last time that Cassie had seen him, the man in our room. 203 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 The next day I got up and I walked around saying, 204 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 you will not show yourselves to the kids. 205 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 You will not do any pranks around the kids. 206 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 You will not scare them. 207 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I think that with a situation with a murder, suicide, 208 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 you have obviously heavy emotion that's put into play here. 209 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 If we're dealing with apparitions in this case, 210 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 where they're a little self-conscious and self-aware, 211 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 the reasons why they're staying around are their reasons. 212 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 They're not because they died in a murder suicide. 213 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I feel like the couple is somehow grounded here. 214 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 I'm not an expert. I don't know. 215 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I can just guess they like being with the kids, I think. 216 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I feel like maybe they miss their own kids. 217 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 That's, you know, a lot of kids to leave behind. 218 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,000 And somehow they feel a little bit more comforted maybe, being with mine. 219 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 We're a family and I think they like family atmosphere. 220 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Whether they're really ghosts there or not, this taking control, 221 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 this responsibility issue on the part of the living family that's there, has worked. 222 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,000 We can't prove from the perspective of we can't point a meter at these ghosts 223 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 and say that they're there. 224 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,000 We can't say that the subjective experience of the family has been dealt with 225 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,000 in a way that makes them feel comfortable and that resolves to the point that they want. 226 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,000 When you're going through it, it'll make a believer out of you. 227 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,000 When you have all these unexplainable things and you start seeing figures, 228 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,000 you change your mind real quick. 229 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Coming up next, researchers who claim they have contacted the dead 230 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 and captured voices from beyond. 231 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:09,000 In the past, people tried to make contact with ghosts through mediums and spiritualists 232 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 and seances that were often clearly frauds. 233 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Today, investigators are taking a much more high-tech approach. 234 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,000 A worldwide organization of over 300 researchers is now working in the area of EVP, 235 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 an electronic voice phenomena where voices supposedly from ghosts 236 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 have been imprinted directly on audio recording tape. 237 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Please try to speak, please try to give us a message. 238 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Please tell me who is here. 239 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Please try to give us your name. 240 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000 The time is 11.50 a.m. 241 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Sarah E. Step recording. 242 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Sarah E. Step is the founder of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena. 243 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,000 She considers herself a modern medium, attempting to capture the voices of the dead on audio tape. 244 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 The microphones are yours. 245 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Here is for me. 246 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000 I'm recording voices from other dimensions. 247 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I started a little over 15 years ago. 248 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 As a psychical investigator, I was very skeptical about the phenomena, 249 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:31,000 but I decided to try and see if I could get voices, and I did after seven days. 250 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,000 I started picking up voices on my own, and I have continued ever since. 251 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:42,000 EVP recorders worldwide conform to exacting standards to eliminate the possibility 252 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 that their machines are simply picking up ambient sound or radio signals, 253 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 and only new commercially packaged tape is used. 254 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Surprisingly, the ghostly voices are not audible during the actual recording process. 255 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,000 They're only discovered later when the tape is played back, 256 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,000 and in some cases, the voices are recorded on the reverse side of the tape. 257 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Generally, the words are only heard once. We are repeating them here for clarity. 258 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,000 The voices are often recorded at places that are reputed to be haunted. 259 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,000 The Westminster Church and Bering Ground in Baltimore is one of the oldest in America. 260 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Many of the graves here date back to the 1700s. 261 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Edgar Allen Poe is buried here, alongside his young wife, Virginia. 262 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Beneath the church, catacombs reach deep into the earth. 263 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:44,000 According to parish records, many of the people entombed here met a violent death. 264 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Legend has it, the place is haunted. 265 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:52,000 When Sarah E. Step came to the catacombs, she recorded these voices. 266 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 The catacombs are recorded in the same place. 267 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000 I was here a few years ago, and I picked up the message. 268 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 We leave the soul right down here. 269 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Glad to speak. Glad to hear from you. And the message was. 270 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Don't let this go right down. 271 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Point Lookout Light stands on an open promontory on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. 272 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Many instances of paranormal phenomena have been reported in this desolate place, 273 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 events that may reflect the area's tragic past. 274 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 During the Civil War, 50,000 Confederate prisoners captured at Gettysburg were held here. 275 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Forced to endure freezing cold, disease and starvation, thousands died 276 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 and were buried in mass graves near the lighthouse. 277 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:15,000 The prisoners were brought here largely by steamboats and were made to walk along the sandy beach 278 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:20,000 up to Fort Lincoln where they were then turned inland and marched to the prison pen. 279 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Over 50,000 Confederate prisoners made this march and over 4,000 of them, 280 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 it was the last march they made since they died. Prisons of the war. 281 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:38,000 This has to be one of the places that I've investigated, that it's just the whole area is just full of activity. 282 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:43,000 It's not just localized to one building or one spot on the grounds. 283 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:49,000 It includes the whole area. I've never come in contact with anything like that before. 284 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:57,000 The phenomena at Point Lookout seem to follow one of the classic patterns of haunting. 285 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Some ghost researchers suggest that highly charged emotions from the past 286 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:10,000 may actually become imprinted on the environment and in fact, many people have reported seen apparitions in uniform. 287 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,000 The Calling Point Lookouts tragic Civil War history. 288 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:22,000 When I was driving, I saw a figure of a man dressed in long pants and a gray coat run across the road behind me. 289 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,000 It was actually where many thousands of the Confederate soldiers were actually buried. 290 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 I immediately returned and when I got to where I'd seen him across the road, 291 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 there was no trail coming out of the woods on one side of the road 292 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:39,000 nor trail into the woods on the other side, nor was there any sign of anybody in the area. 293 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000 This has happened different times, always on the same section of road. 294 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 I've never been able to explain this occurrence. 295 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Over the years, many paranormal investigations have been drawn to Point Lookout. 296 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Photographer Ron Stallings took this picture inside the lighthouse. 297 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Next to Nancy Stallings is what appears to be the faint image of a man in uniform. 298 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Electronic voice phenomena has been recorded in several locations inside the lighthouse. 299 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:15,000 The basement seems to be the focus of this activity. 300 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Some scientists believe EVP may be caused by the researchers themselves 301 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:36,000 imprinting on the tape through psychokinesis or as the result of electronic interference. 302 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 But there is one aspect of EVP that defies explanation. 303 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 When the recorder asks a specific question and gets a direct answer. 304 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Here in the basement of the lighthouse, I recorded the clear voice of a young boy that said, 305 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I was seeing the war. 306 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Were you a soldier here? 307 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 I was seeing the war. 308 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 I was seeing the war. 309 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Coming up next, the horrifying real life investigation that led to the best selling thriller and motion picture, The Entity. 310 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 What we saw, we were looking on film. 311 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 The following program deals with a controversial subject. 312 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretation. 313 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,000 The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information. 314 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000 In the quest for evidence, two researchers from UCLA got more than they bargained for. 315 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Kerry Gaynor and Dr. Barry Taft were witness to one of the most celebrated cases in ghost hunting history, The Entity case. 316 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 It was later popularized in a book and a film called The Entity. 317 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 But what the real investigators found when they met the victim of the hunting, 318 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 was more bizarre and more compelling than any movie. 319 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000 When I went over to her house, we conducted about a two hour interview. 320 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,000 And during that time, she told us a lot of interesting experiences, but I knew she was holding something back. 321 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:10,000 And at the end of the interview, she finally admitted to us that she was attacked and raped by the ghost. 322 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 At that time, we thought she was probably crazy. 323 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:23,000 The events that then transpired over the next 10 weeks were chronicled in the Journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 324 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,000 Including the night, the investigators went from being skeptics to true believers. 325 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,000 The lady screamed out, it's in my bedroom. We ran in there. She shouted out, it's over in the corner. 326 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:41,000 We fired our Polaroid camera in the direction that she said. We didn't see anything, but the picture came out bleached out white completely. 327 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:47,000 She shouted out again, it's in the corner. Again, we fired our camera and it was bleached out completely. 328 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:54,000 At that point, I thought the camera was just malfunctioning. I waited till she said it was gone and I took two control pictures. 329 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Those pictures are perfectly normal pictures. 330 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,000 The only difference, she said it was in the corner and the first ones and in these, she said it was gone. 331 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,000 A few moments later, we felt a cold breeze of air coming through the door, accompanied by a horrible stench. 332 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 A stench so foul, some people were vomiting. We fired the camera in the direction that that breeze was flowing towards us. 333 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:20,000 And again, the picture was bleached out completely except at the bottom of the doorway, you can see a little round ball of light. 334 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:28,000 A few minutes later, she screamed out, it's right in front of my face. We fired the camera and the face was completely obliterated. 335 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:35,000 But you can see the curtains behind her. You can see her dress. She shouted out again, it's right in front of my face. 336 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Again, the face is completely obliterated. Now those were her exact words. It's right in front of my face. 337 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Once again, I wanted a control picture. I waited till she said it was gone and I took the final picture. 338 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,000 And this is a perfect normal picture. It's just dark because we didn't adjust the setting. 339 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,000 There's a scratch on it, which we put on it when we tried to clean it a little bit. But otherwise, it's a normal picture. 340 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,000 The only difference between these two, in one she said it was in front of my face and the other one she said it was gone. 341 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Even with these pictures, Gaynor still had trouble convincing his colleagues at UCLA that he was on to something significant. 342 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Initially they would say, well, you're hallucinating. So then I would look at them and say, well, we've got 20 witnesses. 343 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 And they would say, well, then it's obviously mass hallucination. 344 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Gaynor returned to the house a number of times, bringing more witnesses with him. And the eerie phenomenon became even more pronounced. 345 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,000 And I started seeing balls of light lighting up the walls. And everybody in the room would see this. 346 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,000 And the lights would get bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter. And at some point I finally started talking to it. 347 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:46,000 And I said, well, if you're really here, come off the wall. Because what I was concerned was that somebody in the room was faking it. 348 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 And they were projecting the light onto the wall. 349 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Well, when I asked that question, the light lifted off the wall, floated into the middle of our room, started spinning and twisting and expanding in different directions simultaneously. 350 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:04,000 It had full parallax. We could see it from all sides. And I had nine professional photographers set up in the room that were shooting it from all sides. 351 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,000 The lights came in. It was like, it almost came in like in a state of anger. It almost came, all right, all right, here I am. This is me. 352 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000 And it came in, I kind of did a little thing in the group and then it was gone. 353 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:23,000 It was the most extraordinary thing we've ever come across. It happened over and over again. We experienced a plethora of phenomena during that investigation. 354 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:30,000 The part that interested me the most was the fact that what we saw, we were able to get on film. 355 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:37,000 The photographers at that session had only limited success capturing the entity on film, with one notable exception. 356 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:44,000 What we see here are reverse arcs of light. One arc goes right here, another arc goes right here. 357 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Now, the reason this picture is so important to us is that the arc on the wall, if it were really on the wall, would be bent. 358 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Because those two walls there are perpendicular. It's not bent, which means the arc is floating in space. 359 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:05,000 The significance of that for us as researchers is, of course, that that means it's dimensional and very, very difficult to fake. 360 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,000 This was not somebody with a flashlight shining it on a wall. That light is in empty space. 361 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:19,000 The negative of this photo was authenticated by popular photography and was the only alleged ghost photo ever published in the magazine. 362 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Frank DeFelida, the author of Audrey Rose, was also witness to the phenomena. 363 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:34,000 His incredible first-hand experience in the Culver City, California house, inspired him to write The Entity, which was later made into a motion picture. 364 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:40,000 All the instruments started clicking away. So I knew everyone was seeing this at the same time that I was. 365 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,000 And we were ducking and everyone was saying, oh my God, oh my God, look at that, oh my God. 366 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000 And then Dara started screaming. That was the woman who was being belabored by this creature. 367 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 So I was screaming, I don't want to see your lights. Show us yourself. Damn you. 368 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Show us yourself. So I was cursing and swearing at it. And there, lo and behold, at that point, it started to appear. 369 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:10,000 It sort of developed a kind of, a kind of arm was articulated. You could see sort of like an arm and then a neck. 370 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:17,000 And then of all things, a kind of bald head. Now this could have been our imagination, but collectively we saw the same thing. 371 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 Every one of us, we saw the same thing. 372 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:29,000 We don't consider our pictures proof of anything. We consider them part of the struggle to gather evidence to try to understand this phenomenon. 373 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000 During our investigations, we spend thousands of hours trying to be in the right place at the right time. 374 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,000 In the entity case, for some reason we were there. We were there at the right time. 375 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,000 And we were experiencing the phenomena over and over again. Although some of the people there found it frightening, 376 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,000 I found it very exciting and exhilarating. That's what I'm in this for. 377 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:53,000 It's an opportunity to witness things that we've been taught all our life cannot be. It's a connection with the unknown. 378 00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Traditionally, a haunting is associated with a place, but investigators in the entity case always suspected that this haunting was somehow connected to the woman herself. 379 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 And in fact, when she fled the house, the entity went with her. 380 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:14,000 For five years, the haunting diminished gradually and is now completely disappeared. 381 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 When we return, a team of paranormal experts stalk ghostly apparitions in a special investigation. 382 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:28,000 And a man who claims to have contacted his dead child with his video camera and recorded it on tape. 383 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,000 The study of ghost phenomena is still in its most primitive stages. 384 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Trying to gather data that will conclusively prove the existence of ghosts as a time-consuming and usually unsuccessful process, 385 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000 often carried out in the shadow of disdain from the scientific mainstream. 386 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000 How exactly do ghost investigators conduct their research? 387 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000 Now, we'll take a look at the anatomy of a ghost investigation. 388 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,000 We'll follow one from the beginning to the end. 389 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:10,000 The investigation site is a Japanese restaurant in Georgia where customers and employees report frightening, unexplained phenomena. 390 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:19,000 There would be a lot of weird noises at night, footsteps, people would see things or lights would flash. 391 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,000 There's certain areas in the restaurant that just kind of give you the creeps, you know, make your hair stand up. 392 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:34,000 There's a place back in the back part of this area that is just kind of an ominous feeling where you just feel like you can't breathe. 393 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000 The air is real heavy and nobody wants to go back there. 394 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,000 I mean, we even have a few chefs that when they have to go past the area, they run. 395 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:50,000 You'll see somebody like at a corner and they just barely see them and they'll be turning walking away from you. 396 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:56,000 And you'll think it's your friend or somebody and you'll call out their name and go over and talk to them or something and they won't be there. 397 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,000 One morning I was downstairs getting ready to open and I saw someone come down the hallway. 398 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:08,000 I thought it was the manager at first and I said good morning and nobody answered and I thought it was strange. 399 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000 I looked up and whoever it was just took two steps and was gone. 400 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:20,000 At a loss to explain these eerie occurrences, the restaurant management contacted Dr. William Rawl, one of this country's foremost parapsychologists. 401 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:30,000 They were having disturbances that resulted in their employees leaving and their customers asking questions. 402 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,000 They were seeing apparitions essentially. 403 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:42,000 So it's a unique opportunity for us because as a haunting case, it's a sort of strong case. 404 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 There was some definite phenomena according to witnesses. 405 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:51,000 To investigate the restaurant haunting, Dr. Rawl brings together a team of well-respected paranormal investigators, 406 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,000 each an expert in a different area of scientific inquiry. 407 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Dr. Michaelene Mayer, a pioneer in statistical analysis of psychic investigations. 408 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Christopher Chacon, co-founder of the Office of Paranormal Investigations. 409 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000 He brings a battery of high-tech instrumentation to the site. 410 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000 And psychic, Daniel Brinkley. 411 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Dr. Rawl believes Brinkley may have a gift for making contact with apparitions. 412 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Since most of the apparitions have been cited at night, the team agrees that an overnight surveillance will be the most productive way to utilize their diverse talents and equipment. 413 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,000 This all-night vigil is preceded by days of information gathering. 414 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:41,000 As in any investigation, the first step is interviewing the witnesses, in this case the workers who have seen the apparition. 415 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 Then Dr. Mayer has them indicate on a floor plan where they saw them. 416 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,000 She next brings in psychics who try to sense the presence of paranormal activity. 417 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Some people, psychics, and sensitives believe in ghosts, believe that they can experience these ghosts. 418 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:11,000 And indeed, when we have these people walk through a site where a ghost has been reported, often, not always of course, but often, they're able to pick up on the very sites where something paranormal has been previously reported. 419 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:21,000 By correlating the responses of the workers and the psychics, Dr. Mayer hopes to pinpoint the paranormal hotspots the team should concentrate on. 420 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Christopher Chacon's first step is to take baseline readings throughout the restaurant when no apparition is present. 421 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:36,000 That way, he'll know if any changes in electromagnetism, atmosphere, or light do occur that could be associated with a ghost sighting. 422 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:46,000 The idea is to monitor the environment. And that's all the equipment can do. It cannot theoretically pick up the existence of some entity. 423 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Since there's no way we really know how to measure the phenomena, perhaps if we were to look at the environment, we might be able to pick up something out of the ordinary. 424 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:05,000 A good analogy might be, we're not really monitoring the person who's walking on a beach. We're looking at the footprints left on the beach after the person walks by. 425 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Since no one knows how, or even if, apparitions affect the physical environment, Chacon uses equipment from many different scientific disciplines, including chemistry, physics, and meteorology. 426 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:29,000 With the hygrothermograph, we could utilize this instrument along with individuals who might feel a sensation if they in fact feel a cold spot or even a warmth feeling and it's not something subjective. 427 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:39,000 It should in fact also be picked up by the instrument. The Intevac 9-10 Vision goggles will help me monitor the instruments I'll be using in total darkness. 428 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And it might be actually in fact possible to pick up an anomaly through the goggles because of the technology that is being utilized. 429 00:37:49,000 --> 00:38:01,000 For Dr. William Rohl, the most important piece of equipment may be a magnetometer, he believes that there may be a connection between magnetic fields and human ability to experience apparitions. 430 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:11,000 He theorizes that electromagnetic changes affect certain super sensitive people and that this sensitivity allows them to experience the paranormal. 431 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:24,000 The investigation begins at nightfall. The first few hours yield nothing, but then Christopher Chacon begins picking up high electromagnetic readings in and around one hallway. 432 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Michael E. Mayer independently confirms his readings. Her statistical analysis has already pinpointed this same hallway. 433 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:44,000 As psychic Daniel Brinkley walks through the restaurant, he too records his strongest psychic impressions in the same hallway Mayer and Chacon have already pinpointed. 434 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:53,000 The findings of the three team members are further confirmed by a former manager of the restaurant who witnessed apparitions in this hallway on numerous occasions. 435 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,000 When asked to return to the site with Brinkley, he's reluctant, but agrees. 436 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:05,000 And you said, I always see him here staring at me. Do we feel him? 437 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:17,000 Unexpectedly, he feels the presence of an apparition at that moment. And at the same time, the monitor in equipment is picking up even higher levels of electromagnetism. 438 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:31,000 Although no apparition appears that night, the fact that each of the researchers has been independently led to the identical spot using different investigative techniques is considered a victory for Dr. Roll's magnetic field theory. 439 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:49,000 The areas where the ghosts were experienced were associated with higher magnetic fields. It seems possible that the witnesses may have been sensitive to such fields. 440 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:55,000 All in all, the investigative team has been encouraged by the advances made this night. 441 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,000 You might think this was a small result for so much concerted effort, but for the research team, this was an important step forward. 442 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:10,000 Their findings establish a stronger foundation for further study. Dr. Roll's work at the restaurant continues. 443 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Coming up next, a man who claims to have contacted his dead child with his video camera and recorded it on tape. 444 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:36,000 To deny the existence of ghosts is easy. Skeptics say, now I'll believe it when I see it and walk away. But the people we've met tonight can't just walk away from what they've experienced. 445 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:46,000 Those who have had a paranormal experience remembered for the rest of their lives. But for some, the experience changes their lives forever. 446 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Driven by his own experience, Klaus Schreiber has become a leader in the field of paranormal video phenomena, PVP. 447 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:02,000 At his home in Luxembourg, Schreiber points his video camera at the blank screen of a TV, which is on but not set to any channel. 448 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:13,000 He sends the picture of that blank screen from his camera into the TV and begins videotaping, so he is essentially shooting a picture of a picture of a picture into infinity. 449 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Nothing appears on the screen while he's shooting and nothing shows up on tape until he views it one frame at a time. 450 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:27,000 What he discovers then are seemingly unexplainable images of human faces. 451 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:33,000 It's already my calling coming. There she is on the right hand side. There she is. Hold her. 452 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:42,000 The images are truly startling, but the most shocking one of all is a face that Schreiber is convinced is that of his deceased 17-year-old daughter. 453 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000 He believes she is trying to communicate with him. 454 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:56,000 There are as yet no explanations for the images Schreiber finds on the videotape, but others, who have repeated the experiment, have gotten similar results. 455 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:06,000 PVP is one of the newest methods employed by those seeking a window into another world, and it's still extremely controversial within the field of paranormal research. 456 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:16,000 But Klaus Schreiber isn't deterred by skeptics because his is a personal mission. He's not just trying to make contact with the afterlife. 457 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,000 He's searching for one specific person he thinks he'll find there. 458 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:30,000 For those like Klaus Schreiber, who believe that they've experienced the paranormal, a desire to understand what's happened is often felt on a deeply emotional level. 459 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:39,000 Those who investigate the paranormal are driven by different needs, a scientific desire to find explanations to the seemingly unexplainable, 460 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:45,000 and in the process, to perhaps find the answer to mankind's deepest question. 461 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000 Is there some form of life after death? 462 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,000 I know we live in an age where people say, oh, it's all nonsense. 463 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:02,000 Well, it's not all nonsense. There's something still left that needs explaining, which science at the moment doesn't seem to want to look at. 464 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:13,000 I don't believe, I can really honestly, I don't believe in ghosts. But yet again, I can't explain to you why these things happen. 465 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:23,000 There's something to be explained and to be explored. There's a lot we can learn about human behavior from looking at what these things are. 466 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,000 I find it fascinating that we might be able to continue on after death. 467 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:34,000 I find it fascinating that people might be able to move objects with their mind, that we can pick up information recorded into the environment potentially. 468 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:51,000 A lot of things that's happened here, you can't explain. So, to me, the next logical conclusion is there's got to be another force, another entity, something. 469 00:43:52,000 --> 00:44:09,000 But seeing this event, these two events make me believe that there's got to be something more to life after death than that we bargained for. 470 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:14,000 I think that that's encouraged me to believe that maybe this isn't all there is. 471 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:29,000 To ignore it is to retreat into ignorance, to pursue it is to pursue one of those baffling enigmatic mysteries that we have ever confronted about the nature of our being. 472 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:39,000 And in so doing, I think we have an opportunity to take a quantum leap in our understanding of ourselves, indeed, in our understanding of reality itself. 473 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:47,000 The people who have been touched by the ghost experience wonder why it's happening to them. 474 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:56,000 And investigators continue to search for answers. Their research and technology point to the fact that something is there. 475 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,000 Just what that something is has yet to be determined. 476 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000 For Sightings, I'm Tim White. Good night. 477 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Tomorrow night, Fox presents a night of special presentations, beginning with a one-hour cop-sit Mardi Gras. 478 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,000 Tonight is like the calm before the storm. Tomorrow we can expect mass hysteria. 479 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:26,000 After that, it's Cop Killers, a special edition of America's Most Wanted. Then, we roll out the door. We never know what we're going to run into. 480 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:34,000 Ride with the firefighters of Rescue One on Firehouse, hosted by John Walsh. It all happens tomorrow on Fox.