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Austin to team, we're going airborne.
I have a visual on the laser.
There it is. There it is.
I've never seen a heat signature
that is near freezing but a humanoid shape.
That doesn't make sense to me.
In three, two, one...
Demonic entity that stalks people in their sleep.
One!
Is anybody here with me?
I have got some anomalous movement on the lasers,
and there's nothing showing up in the theater.
Oh, my goodness!
There's a flying saucer.
I'm getting a series of lights right there.
So you're seeing what I am seeing?
What the heck is happening?
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All right. Here we go.
So, why don't we start out with Austin?
All right, guys.
I have a really interesting video for you.
It's this giant, bright, illuminated white sphere.
It's just hovering over the night skies
of bodega bay, California.
It was actually shot pretty recent.
It was August 25, 2011,
and Joel Varain is just sitting at his computer,
he looks out the window, and he sees this light.
Well, he immediately starts shooting,
and check out what he captured.
Wow.
What is that?
It's almost like it's at a certain elevation
and it's floating,
and then you see the reflection off the water,
I actually checked the lunar phase,
and the date that this was recorded,
the moon was in a Crescent phase,
only showing 17% of the moon.
So that's not the moon.
This area certainly has had its share of UFO sightings,
and the belief is that UFOs
are somehow attracted to these places,
which are often near water,
to somehow recharge or draw in energy from the environment.
Exactly. It's for this reason
that a lot of paranormal researchers
actually believe bodega bay to be an energy vortex.
This is an absolutely unique piece of footage, Austin.
This is a good clip.
Well, let's keep this in the running--
Definitely at the top. Who's up?
Well, I've got some video that was shot in 2010
by some fishermen in rural Virginia
that supposedly depicts the infamous dark-hooded figure,
which is the legendary demonic entity
that stalks people in their sleep.
There's really never been a lot of visual evidence
to support its existence, so I'm anxious to show you guys.
So, Ben, why don't you play this clip,
and everybody watch on the far side of the shore.
Look at that.
That's weird.
Is it floating, or is it running?
It's almost like it has a cloak on.
So it kind of started
with him emerging from either that dock
or even coming out of the water-- I can't tell.
My problem with this video is that
it doesn't seem to be anything otherworldly happening here.
It's not floating across the ground.
This would be very easy to re-create.
This could be just a person in a cloak.
Right, Devin. I agree with you.
This the spot that gives it away for me.
Right here, it looks like a flesh-tone foot.
Yeah. Absolutely.
It's like almost as if it, you know,
the person's foot is peeking out
from under the robe as they're running.
Okay. Well, when you guys go to sleep
and this guy comes to visit, don't say I didn't warn you. Hey!
All right, I believe. I believe.
Bill, I don't think we dismiss the legend, the phenomena.
Let's just get more back story,
see if other people there have actually witnessed this
and if there's other evidence.
Okay. I'll do some digging.
Lanisha, you're up.
Okay, guys, I'm really excited to share this footage with you.
It comes from the Jersey shore.
All righty.
So, this video was shot in January of 2009
by members of the garden state ghost hunters society
while investigating the historic
and allegedly haunted Paramount theater.
Now, this footage was shot in the backstage corridor
right outside the dressing rooms on the second floor.
Now, when they looked down the hallway,
they didn't see anything with the naked eye.
It was only when they looked at their FLIR thermal camera
that they saw the entity.
So, here it is.
Wow!
It is definitely in the middle of the hallway.
That's crazy. 'Cause it looks like the shape of a person,
but it's not warm enough to be anything living.
So whatever it is down there is freezing.
Absolutely.
I mean, the theater is definitely historic.
What's the paranormal lore there?
In September of 1934,
the theater served as a makeshift morgue
and infirmary for the victims of the SS Morro castle,
which caught on fire and burned,
killing 137 passengers and crew.
It was pretty tragic.
And later that same decade,
there was a tragic fire in the backstage area
and that trapped cabaret dancers
that were in one of the dressing rooms,
and they couldn't escape and they burned to death.
Where this clip was shot
is actually right outside those very dressing rooms.
I really like this.
It's got everything that I'd look for in a case.
What do you guys think about it?
I've never seen a heat signature that is near freezing,
but a humanoid shape-- That doesn't make sense to me.
Well, not counting that time you were in the ice tank, Austin.
I would love to go test that.
Yeah, I agree.
This is the case I'd like to investigate.
What do you say we make this one a main-course meal?
Well, let's see what else we have.
I have a series of photographs
that were captured at Hibbing high school
in Hibbing, Minnesota.
In 2009, this series of photographs
captured what appears to be an apparition
manifesting itself in seat j-47
of the school's auditorium.
Check it out.
These pictures were actually taken
by the school's stage manager-- His name is Chuck Perry--
With his old Polaroid camera.
Look at that.
Dude, I can see a full person.
It's creepy, right?
I see the actual outline of the clothing.
I see the head.
You can see the face looking down.
But, you know what, guys?
This could simply just be a case of double exposure.
Do we even know these are polaroids,
or do we just have images that appear to be polaroids?
Well, see, that's what I was thinking.
Because it is possible to take a regular photograph
and apply a polaroid effect to it.
So it sounds like we're already doubting the testimony
of our witness, and we haven't even taken on this case.
But I would have an open mind
if we can get the actual photos themselves.
If they are done on polaroid, we'll go from there.
I'll keep digging and see if I can.
Okay. Let's think about the other videos.
What's your favorite one?
I'm gonna have to go with the FLIR phantom in Jersey shore.
I really want to go to that location.
Without a doubt, Paramount theater.
I like my series of photographs from Hibbing high school,
but since we still need to do
a little more research behind that,
my other choice would be the bodega bay mystery light.
Yes. Thank you. I'm with Jael. I brought the case.
I want to find out what's in the sky.
I think an icy phantom on a thermal imager
is a very compelling piece of footage for us to run tests on,
so I'm for Paramount theater.
Devin, Bill, Lanisha-- Paramount theater.
And I would love to do bodega bay with Jael and Austin.
Perfect. Done.
Guys, just look at this coastline.
It is absolutely stunning.
We're, what, 90 miles north of San Francisco.
Bodega bay, California--
This place has such a mysterious vibe.
A lot of suspense/horror movies were filmed here.
"The Fog," Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds,"
and "The Puppetmaster."
I can see why. I mean, look at this location.
And I think the video that we're investigating
is one of the better ones that we've seen.
It's a gigantic, luminescent, sphere-like UFO
that's hovering over the foggy bay at night.
Well, I'm definitely excited to talk to Joel Varain
and get his firsthand account on what happened the night
that he captured this footage.
Hey, guys. Thanks for coming.
I'll meet you inside.
Thank you. It's great.
Joel, hi. Hey. How's it going?
Nice to meet you. I'm Jael.
This is Austin and Ben.
Thank you so much for having us here.
So, tell us about that night
and where you were and what happened and what did you see.
Yeah, I was actually sitting right here on the couch
about 10:30 at night,
and we have the nice view of the ocean right here,
and I saw this big, bright ball of light.
It obviously caught my attention.
I went in the other room, grabbed my camera, walked out,
and started filming right from out here.
So this is it? Is is it, yeah.
I was filming right from the spot, just with amazement.
So, can you describe this object in detail?
What was it about it that caught your eye?
Just the sheer brightness of the light.
I've seen boats come in to the bay.
The lights are probably an eighth or tenth of that size.
It was just a really big light.
What happened to the object after the video ended?
It was a really foggy night,
and basically it just faded out into the fog.
So, let me just get this right.
This object looked like it was hovering above the water.
It didn't look like it was on the water. Yeah, definitely above it.
I mean, to me, from my vantage point,
I'm guessing, I don't know, 300 feet maybe above the water.
What was going through your head when you're seeing this?
I've never believed really in UFOs,
or you always say, you know, "I'll believe it when I see it."
And I saw it.
I saw something that just blew my mind,
and I was just in amazement
that there really was something happening there.
What do you think it is?
I can't explain it. There was no sound.
I think it's a UFO-- Unidentified Flying Object.
Would you happen to still have the same camera
that you used to film the footage that night?
Yeah, definitely. It's a Kodak ZI8.
I would love to borrow it if that's okay.
Yeah, definitely.
Thank you for having us here.
Thanks for coming out. I'm excited to see what happens.
If you need anything, I'll be inside.
Take care, guys. Fantastic.
All right, guys.
I'm really excited to start some experiments
and see if there's actually
a natural explanation for this light.
Well, the first thing, I think,
is we got some great landmarks here.
This power line plus the trees, which are further back,
kind of frames the area,
and the object and the reflection
take place beyond it.
Okay, well, if that's the case,
we're gonna need a very large, powerful light source
that can be seen from the house
and that we can actually position over the water.
I think we're all on the same page here.
I have something that just might do the trick,
and on top of that,
it would naturally be in the area above the bay.
We just have to take a ride.
Okay. Let's ride.
All right.
Looks like your ride's here, buddy.
Let's go check it out.
What do you guys think?
It's a good-looking vehicle.
You guys, I think this Robinson r44 raven ii helicopter
should do just the trick for our experiment.
I mean, since helicopters are seen over the bay quite often,
whether it's for just tourists sightseeing
or even for the occasional search-and-rescue mission,
I think this is what we could be looking at.
If we have a helicopter that was equipped with a search light,
it really could be what we're looking at,
and one thing we should definitely do
is see if we can actually hear this helicopter.
Because Joel did mention that there was no sound.
Well, guys, the first part
is gonna be getting this bird up in the air, right?
Then, to make the whole experiment come together,
we can use this.
Now, this should be more than sufficient to do the trick.
Average search light is about 30 million candle power.
This thing's 40 million.
So, this will work. All right.
Jael and I will head up to the house right now,
and as soon as it gets dark, off you go.
All right. That works. See you guys in a bit.
Make it happen, buddy.
Austin to team, we're going airborne.
Copy that. We're in position and ready to record.
So, we're gonna start right here.
See the transformer? Yep.
It creates this little triangle between those two power lines.
Do you have a visual of us?
There they are.
Okay.
Affirmative.
Austin, I'm gonna paint a target for you
with a laser on the water.
That's the point where your light
should hit for the reflection.
I copy that.
I have a visual on the laser for our start point.
Okay. Killing the laser.
Starting mock search-and-rescue experiment.
Three...
Two...
One.
There it is. There it is. Okay.
So, we're up in the air,
trying to do a mock search-and-rescue attempt.
Hopefully that'll recreate the same light
that we're seeing from the object in the video.
I have a visual on the laser for our start point.
Okay. Killing the laser.
Starting mock search-and-rescue experiment.
Three...
Two...
One.
There it is. There it is. Okay.
We have visual on the light, Austin.
All right. That's pretty good.
He's silhouetting the trees, the power lines,
everything right where we need it.
I did not expect for the helicopter to be this loud.
I can hear it loud and clear.
Yeah, I didn't think it would be this noticeable.
You know what, Ben?
I think we've got the best we're gonna get.
Let's do a side-by-side and see what it looks like.
All right. We'll bring him down.
Okay, Austin. Go ahead and come down.
Meet us at the house.
Copy that.
Oh, God. That was a rush. How'd that look?
It was good.
Let's take a look at this.
So, Austin, as you can tell,
the spotlight looks really good.
It's nice, it's bright.
We've even got a reflection down on the water.
But Ben and I could hear you. I mean, it was so loud.
And Joel did mention that this thing was silent, right?
So that's one thing.
Another is that, you know,
this light in the original footage
seems to almost meet the surface,
where we don't have that here.
There's a wide gap between you and the surface of the water.
We were as low as we could safely go.
Any lower than that, we'd basically be on the water.
Well, this was good.
We know that we need something closer to the ground.
Yes, and something that's not audible.
Well, here in the bay,
we do have a piece of land that juts out.
Maybe we can go to plan "B"
and use something that will actually give the illusion
that it's happening in front of that piece of land
and over the water. Shall we?
Plan "B" it is. Let's go.
Pretty cool.
Yeah.
All right, guys. Let's take a look at our map first.
Now, as I was scouting the area,
I found this piece of land, which is right there.
That's where â£ we're at right no.
Now, Joel's house
and the POV is at the top of the bay on this side,
way up there on the hill.
So, theoretically, if we put our light
kind of in this general area,
we'll be able to see it from his house.
One way to get a lot of light into a dark environment
is to use big, illuminated balloons
that movie and TV crews use all the time.
They're used for parties.
Even construction sites
that need to work throughout the night, they use them.
We would just have to get that balloon up high enough
and that light powerful enough
to be able to be seen from Joel's POV.
Well, that shouldn't be a problem.
I mean, these things are built to be powerful.
They're actually bright enough to do damage to the eye--
I mean, permanent damage if you look directly at it.
So don't do that.
We can safely put one of these things
80 feet up in the air.
All right. Let's get it set up.
Let's go.
This is a hydragyrum medium-arc iodide lamp,
or simply an HMI.
It's a large, heavy-duty lamp
that can simulate daylight over a very large area.
This balloon is going to inflate into a 14-foot sphere
in which our two HMI bulbs are going to be housed.
Now, the surface of the balloon
actually defuses the light of it,
and since it inflates into a sphere,
it's gonna give us 360° illumination
of whatever is surrounding it.
Hopefully it's bright enough to match the luminosity of the UFO
in the original footage.
All right, guys. Once this finishes blowing up,
we have to throw these lines over the balloon,
attach it at the bottom,
and then we'll attach those to the rest of the tag lines.
Once the balloon is full,
I'll turn the ballast on, we'll let our light warm up,
and then hopefully it'll light up the sky.
Okay, guys. I think it's sufficiently full.
We don't want to get it all the way full yet,
because once those lights come on,
it's gonna heat up the air
and then it's gonna expand even more.
All right.
I'm gonna turn the ballast on, and we'll light this baby up. I'm gonna step away.
Get it? Sounds good.
Yeah!
What do you say you head up to the vantage point
and we'll get it up in the air?
Copy that. I'll stay in touch.
Start releasing this thing slowly.
Okay. Here it goes.
Once we get it up there, Jael should be in her place.
Cool.
Team for Jael.
How's our elevation?
There's a big gap between the light and the reflection,
so can you lower the balloon about 10 feet?
Copy that, Jael.
Hey, guys. Hold it right there.
The balloon is at perfect height.
The only thing I will say is that while I'm filming,
I notice that the balloon is so bright,
it's lighting up the jetty.
We are gonna go ahead and dim both bulbs down 50%
and see how the illumination looks after that.
Copy that.
That's perfect, guys.
It's actually gone. It's totally gone.
I think I've got what we need
from over here at the vantage point,
so I'm gonna come on down and do a side-by-side with you.
Hey, guys.
All right. Why don't you take a look at this.
That's awesome. We have a definite reflection.
That's a plus.
Definitely the circle of light here
actually looks pretty good.
Yeah. It does look good.
But the reflection and the actual balloon
in the video.
Plus, our UFO, our balloon,
is not in the same place as the original one.
Joel's camera was handheld,
so I'm sure there was some movement as he was filming.
I tried to compensate a bit by moving the camera,
but the problem was that in the frame,
I could see the lights from the town.
I was hoping the jetty would be far enough out
into the water, but it's not.
Unless a light like this went rogue,
went flying off by itself, it wasn't this type of light.
With the helicopter, it was a little bit too high,
and the reflection wasn't as close as we needed.
Think about how far we had to pull this down.
We started at almost 80 feet,
but to get the gap to close from the object in the sky
to the reflection on the water,
we had to pull this down to, what-- A few feet?
That's true.
So, what do you say we bring this thing down?
Let's do it.
This clip was shot in 2008 in northern California
during a high-school football pre-game show.
When the videographer went to review the tape,
he noticed a ghostly image on the field
that he couldn't explain.
So, is this ghostly entity fact or faked?
The answer coming up.
This clip from a football game in 2008
depicts a ghostly entity hovering over the field.
But is it fact or faked?
Faked.
Notice the tell-tale haze around the edges?
That's caused by something moving very close to the camera.
The movement and shape suggests this ghost
is nothing more than a classic case of a bug on a lens.
With our illuminated balloon experiment,
we ran into some pros and cons.
The good news is the illumination was almost spot-on.
Size was great.
However, we noticed from the framing
that it was simply at the wrong angle.
Whatever was in the sky in the original video
couldn't have been on land.
We realized that it has to be on the water.
Well, guys, our previous tests
all involved getting a light over the harbor.
Now, I think we should follow that hypothesis,
but this time get a light
that we can put in the middle of the bay
and safely bring it down to a level above the water
that is gonna match the video.
Think about it-- We're in the harbor,
and this place is surrounded by commercial fishing boats.
These guys leave early in the morning
before the sun comes up,
and they usually come back after the sun goes down,
when it's dark.
Maybe what Joel caught on camera that night
was one of these boats
navigating its way home through the harbor.
It does make sense.
It's possible that what Joel was looking at that night
was some kind of specialized, high-powered boat light
that he didn't recognize.
Yeah. Okay.
Well, there's only one way to find out.
I've arranged for a local fishing boat to help us out,
and I think they're coming, right there.
There it is.
Check out those lights.
Oh, that's perfect.
Austin and I can stick around.
We'll get on the boat,
and you can head over to the vantage point
and tell us what those lights look like
and see if we match Joel's video.
Okay. Sounds good.
So, what we've got here is a 40-foot
commercial crab-fishing boat.
And it's also got a bank with sodium lights.
They're really bright.
Ben's gonna head over to the vantage point,
and Austin and I are gonna go for a spin on the boat
around the harbor,
and hopefully the lights will match
whatever Joel was seeing
the night that he shot the original video.
Team for Ben, how's our position?
You're looking good in the channel.
All right, copy that, Ben.
I'm gonna go down to the galley
and turn the light on.
In three... Two... One.
Awesome! That looks great!
So, about those lights again.
Still haven't figured it out.
Tell us, how did your investigation
into the bodega bay mystery light go?
Well, as you remember,
we went up to bodega bay in northern California
to look at this mysterious light
that was hovering over bodega bay.
For our first experiment,
we decided to test a misidentified explanation--
This was simply a rescue helicopter
with a search light flying low over the water.
So I grabbed a high-powered search light,
jumped in the copter, flew out over the bay
to where Joel said he saw the UFO.
Check out what happened.
There's a helicopter.
Oh, wow. Look at that.
Well, that's not too bad.
The luminosity looks good.
Yeah, there's definitely some similarities,
but as you can see,
it's a bit too far up in the sky.
Oh, yeah.
Clearly a big difference.
Trying to match the size of it,
we had to bring it pretty close,
and then obviously we could hear it at that point.
And that was a big issue,
which meant it wasn't a helicopter.
So, we decided to test the next most logical explanation.
Now, illuminated balloons are used on movie sets all the time
to illuminate a large space at night.
And in this bay, there was a jetty of land
that was sticking out into the water,
so we decided to launch
our tethered, illuminated balloon from there.
So these are the results we got.
Wow! This is a pretty good match.
Yeah. Nice.
You know, we definitely got closer,
as far as the gap closing,
but when you look at the original,
I mean, there are points
where the reflection and the light source
merge together to become almost one light.
We're still lacking that with our experiment.
So, we moved on and tested another logical explanation.
Bodega bay is actually a commercial fishing town.
These are large boats
coming in and out of the harbor continuously,
all of which are equipped with large towers
and giant spotlights.
So we started thinking
maybe that's what we were seeing in the original video.
That makes sense.
So we chartered a crab boat,
powered up these large sodium lights,
and this is what happened.
Whoa!
That looks great.
That's it.
And to top it off, where I was filming from,
I thought for sure you're gonna be able to hear boats, right?
But at the speed they're going and trolling,
you can't hear anything from there.
It appears our UFO was just
a misidentified fishing boat light
through a layer of fog.
You guys nailed it.
So, guys, how did it go for you in the Paramount theater?
We traveled to the Asbury park boardwalk on the Jersey shore
to investigate that strange apparition
caught on a thermal camera.
Here's what happened.
Guys, here we are on the Jersey shore.
I'm really excited to be here in Asbury park,
investigating the famous Paramount theater.
Now, the Paramount theater
was considered to be the jewel of the boardwalk.
Tony Bennett, Bruce Springsteen,
and even Bon Jovi have all played there.
Well, according to multiple eyewitness reports,
it's not just the living that make appearances at the theater.
Apparently, this theater is host
to multiple paranormal residents
resulting from tragedies
dating all the way back to the 1930s.
Now, the evidence that we're here to investigate
was captured by a team of paranormal investigators
using a thermal camera
and shows what they believe to be
a full-bodied apparition in one of the theater hallways.
Well, the team investigating the theater
was the garden state ghost hunters society,
led by Bonnie Bates.
Now, Bonnie and David Goldstein,
who was the videographer that night,
are waiting at the theater to talk to us
about the night they captured the thermal apparition.
Look. There's the theater.
Let's go see what Bonnie and Dave have to say.
Coming up on "fact Paranormal files"...
We had no idea really what it was.
Make it cold!
There's definitely something up here with me.
We just arrived at the Paramount theater.
And we're about to meet Dave Goldstein and Bonnie Bates
to find out exactly what happened the night
they filmed the mysterious thermal apparition.
Hey, folks.
Dave?
Bonnie?
How you doing? I'm Bill.
Hi, Bill. How you doing?
What are some of the paranormal hotspots
here at the Paramount theater?
Well, you have your projection room up there,
all the way at the top of the stairs.
And of course you've got the dressing-room areas.
Shadow people on the stage is one of the main things
that you can actually take a seat and see for yourself.
One of our investigators was going up to the stage,
and her earring basically was pulled
right out of her ear,
and it landed on the floor, about four feet away.
Oh, my God.
Cleaning people wouldn't go to a back room
in the hallway where there was the fire.
They said there's a lot of noise
and things being tossed around, as they told me.
Let's talk about that video.
Can you take us to where you guys filmed that apparition?
Okay. You lead the way. We'll follow you.
Okay.
So, is this where the camera was? Here?
Well, Bonnie and another team member were holding the FLIR.
I was shooting over the shoulder with my Sony TRV camera.
The recorder that was connected
to the FLIR camera wasn't functioning,
making my over-the-shoulder shot the only surviving record.
So you were just filming the FLIR lcd.
Is that correct? Yes.
When you recorded this thermal apparition,
could you see anything with the naked eye?
There was nothing you could see with the naked eye.
We had no idea really what it was.
Eventually, we started to move forward
and get a little bit closer to it,
and that's when it disappeared.
So, how long did the apparition last?
It was just a couple of minutes.
Was the heating in the building on?
Well, they had turned the heat off early on
when we started our investigation,
and it was a comfortable 50° or so.
Can you guys say without a doubt
that you weren't involved in any kind of hoax
or creation of this footage?
Oh, absolutely not. Who has time for that?
Is it all right if we borrow some of your equipment
so we can match the setup? Absolutely.
Dave, Bonnie, thanks for your time.
Thank you guys so much. You gave us a lot to work with.
Good luck.
Now we'll use Dave and Bonnie's eyewitness testimony
to recreate the same conditions that were in the night
they recorded the ghostly manifestation
in the thermal imager.
So, we know that the manifestation
in the original video is cold.
So is not just a random person at the end of the hallway.
Maybe this is just a case of misidentification,
and it really is just a cold pocket of air
at the end of that hallway.
Well, it is another popular theory
that there's cold air leaking from one of the many pipes
that you guys see here or even an AC vent above.
Look at this, guys. See?
Oh, yeah, there's a hole in that pipe right there.
Exactly, so maybe cold air is the culprit.
We're also seeing the temperature gauge on the lcd
on the FLIR camera,
and we're seeing that that thermal entity
appears to be about 40 degrees and so are areas of the walls.
So maybe the gauge is corroborating the fact
that it could be just a leak.
Well, did you guys notice that in the original video,
there's kind of like almost a shadow,
a blue shadow along the wall?
I mean, what if that's the source of the cold air?
Maybe we need focused and compressed air like co2.
That could work. If we're using something
that would have, like, a cold nozzle,
then that would create that umbilical-cord type of hinge
that we see coming off the left side in the original clip.
Good call.
Let's get set up for some co2. All right.
We're operating under the theory
that there's a leak in a pipe somewhere
and cold air is escaping,
so we're gonna place a co2 tank at the end of the hallway,
and Bill right now is connecting the hose.
He's gonna be in charge
of releasing cold air out of the valve,
so that way we can give it that shadow look
that leads off to the left.
All right, guys. I'm set down here.
All right, Bill! We're recording!
Make it cold!
All right, so he's on the exit sign.
Then he pans down to you.
Oh, wow. Look at that.
Do you see that? I do.
It's faint, but I can definitely see something.
We got to get Bill back here to see this.
Hey, Bill!
Why don't you come back over for a side-by-side?!
You know what?
We were successful in creating that appendage
like you see in the original clip right here.
The other thing, too,
is that this is all one cold temperature.
That's not what we have here.
We have different gradations of cold.
So if a pocket of air is not the culprit here,
then how do we get that humanoid shape?
What if this is just some kind of hoax?
Somebody could have draped themselves in a cooling blanket,
giving us that shape that we see here in the original video.
Well, cooling blankets are really easy to get ahold of.
We actually have one in our safety medical kit,
so we can use that.
Okay.
Let's do this.
Well, we've proven that the phantom
is not a cold pocket of air,
so now we're gonna continue with our investigation
and test a theory that maybe it was just a person
draped in a cooling blanket at the end of the hallway.
This would be a possible hoax scenario.
Now, this scenario suggests
that the investigators present that night
were in on manufacturing this thermal apparition,
but it's worth testing.
Well, we have got to get these blankets chilled,
so let's get them on ice.
And we'll leave them there for a little while.
Hopefully they'll go down to about 40â°.
And once again, I'll be operating the FLIR camera.
And I'm gonna be operating the TRV 37.
So, Devin, you're gonna be our cold apparition.
I don't mind being the cool one.
All right. See you guys in a minute.
All right. Sounds good.
All right, we are rolling.
Devin, are you ready?
Okay, I'm ready!
Okay, on three...
Two...
One.
Step in the hall!
Yes!
So, we're testing the theory
that someone was dressed in one of these cooling blankets
and was hidden in this corridor
and then popped out into frame at the perfect moment.
I'm gonna be standing by, draped,
and when Bill gives me the cue, I'm gonna be the apparition.
Devin, are you ready?
Okay, I'm ready!
Okay, on three...
Two...
One.
Step in the hall!
There you go.
There he is.
Ooh, I see it. Okay.
This is actually really good.
Hey, guys. How's it looking?
Why don't you come back over for a side-by-side?
You got it.
There it is.
Wow, that looks pretty good.
Yeah, it does.
So, right off the bat,
the first thing I notice is that we've got a silhouette
at the end of the hallway
and it's cool compared to everything else.
And, you know, it's humanoid.
You can definitely see that it's an upright figure.
But we don't have that appendage in our footage
that we see in the original video here.
For me, you guys, the fact that we got an apparition
to stand there is where the similarities stop.
We couldn't get the appendage,
and we couldn't get that look of a head
and almost two legs at the bottom.
It's just not quite matching for me.
I think we've been focusing too much
on the physical environment
and not enough on the internal settings
of this thermal imager.
And this particular model of FLIR
is best used for very short-range applications
because of its short focal length
of 6 to 15 feet, maybe 20 Max.
Let's just see how long this hallway is.
So, we're looking at 130 feet on this hallway.
And if this FLIR camera is meant to go 15 to 20 feet,
it's clearly not the right camera or lens
for the length of this corridor.
So, being that we're using a camera
with a very short focal length in this very long hall,
we're possibly getting lens artifacts
that's making it look like there's a solid object
when actually there's nothing really there.
Let's test this.
All right. Let's do it.
You guys are set? You're recording?
All right, guys. Here we go.
Three...
Two... One.
Just adjust this focus. There we go.
Yes! That's it!
We got a match!
That's spot on!
I mean, I even see the outline.
Look. This is the apparition,
and right here, you've got-- Looks like a person--
Even with legs-- Standing at the end of this hallway.
So this is distorting even the cold spot
on the floor from the stairwell.
You guys, this makes complete sense. Look.
The camera can only focus at 15 to 20 feet,
but our apparition is at 130.
So what it's doing is it's blending that 130 feet
and trying to come up
with whatever temperature is at the end,
and we're getting an inaccurate reading,
and that's what's causing this blue apparition at the end.
And I think because the thermal imager
that we're using has such low quality,
if we use a lens with a longer focal length,
we wouldn't be seeing this artifact that we're seeing here.
Well, let's put the nail in the coffin
and pull out our FLIR 600 series.
Nice. Yeah.
So, look at this, you guys.
The end of the wall is completely in focus.
We have a blue square at the end.
That is the end of the hallway, okay?
Here we have an apparition that looks like a man
standing at the end of the hall
because it can't focus down there.
It certainly does. You're totally right.
I mean, Dave and Bonnie never were hoaxing anything.
They were just misinterpreting the data.
But with that said,
I really want to stay and do a nighttime investigation
here at the Paramount theater.
I mean, there are reports almost daily
of paranormal activity here at the theater.
And there's so many decades of history here.
I think that we wouldn't be doing our jobs
if we didn't stay and investigate the theater.
Well, let's get ready for a night investigation.
Nice work, guys. Yes, excellent.
Although we were able to replicate the video
and found that it does have a natural explanation,
with all the paranormal history
and eyewitness accounts here at the Paramount theater,
we want to do our own nighttime investigation
to see what we can find.
All right.
This is our camera setup, okay?
We've got five monitors,
each corresponding to a different camera
set up throughout the theater.
One infrared camera is set up in the projection booth behind us.
One is set up downstairs in the audience seating.
This infrared camera is set up in the room
where the cabaret dancers died from that fire.
And these two are set up at the vantage point
matching the original footage.
One is an IR camera,
and the other one is a FLIR camera.
And we also have a high-powered laser grid
that's set up to monitor the entire length of the hallway.
If anything with substance passes through the laser grid,
then the grid points will move
and that'll alert us to any presence that could be there.
I'll stay here at base camp,
and I'm gonna be monitoring this entire theater.
All right, guys. You ready to go green?
Let's do this. All right.
Devin, I'm backstage right now.
I'm heading upstairs to the dressing rooms.
Copy that, Bill.
Devin, I'm in the dressing room
where the cabaret dancers died in a fire.
I'm gonna have an evp session here.
Copy that.
Hey, Devin.
I just got to the projection booth.
I'm gonna do a sweep up here with the thermal imager.
Copy that. Be safe out there.
Oh, what was that?
This is Bill.
I'm in the Paramount theater,
Asbury park, new Jersey.
Can you leave me a message?
Hey, Devin. I'm picking up a heat signature
up here in the projection booth.
There's definitely something up here with me.
Oh. It's just a mouse.
I'm in the shower stalls now--
Where the cabaret dancers died.
Is anybody here with me?
Hello?
Was that you?
Hey, Devin, I'm picking up all these sounds,
and I'm not sure what they are.
I'm creeped out right now.
I don't know what it is.
Hello?
Was that you?
I just heard something in the roof,
like something fell.
Is there anybody up here?
Hey, Devin, I'm not sure what it is,
but it's definitely getting more violent.
Why don't you head back to base camp, see what you got.
Look at that. What is that?
Devin for Bill, do you copy?
Go for Bill.
Bill, I have got some anomalous movement on the lasers.
There seems to be something interrupting the beams
in the center of the hallway,
and there's nothing show up on the FLIR right now.
On the way.
Bill, I just got another pass in front of the lasers.
You in the hallway right now? Wait. Devin, stand by.
Devin, can you tell me what you're seeing here?
This is when it started to get good,
'cause at that exact moment,
some of the laser dots were flickering on and off
in sporadic places.
Take a look at this.
This happened at the exact moment
that the knocking was going on.
Something is interrupting the laser signal.
I didn't see anything at all
that could be blocking the laser.
There's nobody there. There's nothing there.
It's one laser, and it's got a beam splitter,
so you think it'd be all or nothing
or something physically passing in front of it.
Well, if somebody was also passing in front of it,
all that it would do is the laser would project
closer to you on that thing.
This is absorbing light.
This is the last thing we expected.
It was a really wild night.
So, I went into the dressing room
where the dancers retreated
when there was the fire in the backstage of the theater.
From what I understand,
they went all the way into the shower stalls
as their, like, their last hope for surviving.
And it was in the shower stalls
that I asked for a communication.
Why don't you go ahead and play this audio file?
Is anybody here with me?
Oh, my gosh!
That is clear.
Was that you?
Again?
Wow.
There was really no source for it.
It was a completely enclosed area.
I heard it with my ears, and I captured it digitally.
That's pretty cool.
Well, you guys, there's no denying those results.
I mean, you asked for interaction-- You got it.
Does your experience here in the night investigation
change what your verdict was with your experiment?
I think we, to our satisfaction,
were able to explain the cause for that original anomaly,
but we ended up taking away our own evidence
that there is likely paranormal activity
occurring at the Paramount theater.
There's just been so many reports over the years.
There's definitely a heavy sensation there at the theater.
So I'm gonna go with, it's haunted.
Paramount theater-- Haunted.
Nice job. All right.
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