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00:00Tonight on The Proof is Out There.
00:03On this special episode, we're investigating evil.
00:07Did a malevolent spirit drive this burning bus?
00:11This video actually sent shivers down my spine.
00:14Is this a recording of a real demonic possession?
00:17In the United States, exorcisms happen almost every single day.
00:21Did a trail camera capture a satanic ritual in the woods?
00:24There are satanic cults that engage in sacrifice in order to get power.
00:31And did scientists record horrific howls of the dam?
00:35Are these sounds the anguished cries of those in hell?
00:42Around the globe are videos.
00:44What are those things?
00:46It's moving.
00:47Photos and sounds that defy explanation.
00:54We don't know where they come from, who made them, or how they operate.
01:00What are they?
01:01Some sort of bizarre mutation.
01:03What's exciting is nobody really knows.
01:05Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.
01:09I'm Tony Harris, and as a journalist for more than 30 years,
01:13I've followed the facts where they take me.
01:16Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation to the world's strangest sounds and images.
01:21We'll analyze each one with top experts.
01:25It's a credible case.
01:27It's a credible video.
01:28And pass a verdict on what it is.
01:31This video was clearly fake.
01:33The proof starts now.
01:42Good evening, everyone, and welcome to The Proof is Out There, The Satan Files.
01:47Tonight, we are not giving sympathy to the devil, but we are giving him an hour's worth of attention.
01:54That's because while the concept of Satan dates back to at least 600 B.C.,
01:59there are many people today who say there's proof he's real.
02:03We're not speaking metaphorically here.
02:05We are talking about a powerful, malevolent, supernatural entity,
02:09real enough not only to bring evil into this world,
02:12but to physically possess bodies, minds, and souls of innocent people,
02:17and in some cases, even inanimate objects.
02:21Think it's all just superstition?
02:23Well, tonight, you'll see several videos and hear audio recordings that might challenge your view.
02:29But first, let's give the devil his due.
02:33Dante described him as a monstrous winged beast.
02:36Milton described him as a Promethean-like hero.
02:38As long as humans have been talking about good and evil, they've been talking about the devil.
02:45This stuff is accepted in most cultures in the world and throughout history.
02:51Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan, whatever you call him,
02:54the concept of the devil can be found mentioned across a multitude of religions,
02:58including Judaic, Islamic, and Christian faiths.
03:01Although many believe he appears in the Bible as the serpent in the Garden of Eden,
03:05a more humanoid form first appeared in the book of Job as a servant angel named Ha-Satan.
03:13And the devil we know and recognize today would materialize much later within the scripture of the New Testament.
03:20Biblically speaking, when we talk about demons or devils,
03:23we're actually talking about fallen angels,
03:26these preternatural realities that have turned their back on God forever.
03:30To this day, Satan and his menagerie of demons remains front and center in our films, books, podcasts, and TV shows.
03:39And some would argue that their presence in the real world has been rising as well.
03:44In fact, a recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that more than 62% of Americans
03:49believe in some version of hell, up from 58% in 2014.
03:54So it's no wonder that demonic encounters are being reported with great frequency.
04:00Take, for example, this 2020 video from Beirut that shows a horrific warehouse explosion.
04:08Many believed this crimson cloud left in the aftermath actually revealed the devil himself.
04:15I would say that evil, broadly speaking, yes, it does exist.
04:22Now, as far as the figurehead that we know as Satan or the devil, that's very difficult to say.
04:30With a recent influx of devil-related conspiracy theories,
04:34it's not surprising that reports of demonic activity appear to be on an upswing,
04:39and with it, a worldwide increase in the art of exorcism.
04:44We might assume that exorcisms are extremely rare.
04:50But there are reports that exorcisms happen almost every single day.
04:55In Italy, there are now 500,000 requests for exorcisms every year.
05:01Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Richard Gallagher has been witness to dozens of exorcisms
05:05and has worked as a psychiatric advisor to faith leaders around the world.
05:09When exorcists need help, he's the one they call.
05:12I'm extremely committed to the scientific method.
05:16My essential task is to make sure there's no medical or psychiatric explanation.
05:23So I'm ruling out the kind of conditions that often get confused for demonic conditions.
05:30People who have severe personality disorders, people who are very hysterical or histrionic or suggestible,
05:39multiple personality disorder.
05:42These are the most common conditions.
05:44Gallagher eventually became a scientific advisor for the International Association of Exorcists,
05:49an organization recognized by the Pope himself.
05:52And it's not just the Catholic Church taking up the charge.
05:57New-age exorcists like Jeffrey Seelman are working with an increasing number of businesses and residences,
06:04all claiming to be disturbed by something sinister from beyond.
06:07Unfortunately, in my line of work, I have to tell people that the reason that their house is under attack or their business or their daughter or their child in the cradle
06:19is simply because the spirit wants to see how far it can go.
06:24It wants to destroy all things that are good.
06:29But the question still remains, can we confirm that any of this demonic activity is actually real
06:35and proof of some nefarious underworld?
06:40We begin with the idea that evil forces cannot only possess people, but objects as well.
06:47Stephen King's famous novel, Christine, was about the possession of a 1958 Plymouth Fury.
06:52And this video is about the alleged possession of a bus.
06:58June 2022, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.
07:02Craig Meek and his daughter, Amy, are visiting family in Raumati Beach when they smell gas.
07:09They wander outside right as the lights on their neighbor's vacant bus turn on.
07:14Meek pulls out his camera and records this.
07:16A bus is engulfed by a mysterious fire with a ferocity that is sure to spread to the neighboring homes.
07:24Inexplicably, it turns on and lurches across the road, but there's no one inside.
07:30Onlookers scatter in bewilderment as the fiery phantom vehicle is finally stopped by a cluster of trees.
07:36You've got a bus that has just started moving on its own, engulfed in flames.
07:43The lights were flashing, the horn beeping.
07:48The question is, what's driving this thing?
07:50There's some, what appears to be, invisible force that's navigating this.
07:56Brooks says the idea of spirits possessing inanimate objects is nothing new.
08:00Possession from a traditional understanding has to do with this idea that there's some kind of intelligence
08:08that wants to control something outside of itself.
08:12In some cases, possessing inanimate objects.
08:16That inanimate object, like a bus or even a doll, can become animated and do certain things
08:23that would frighten the heck out of people.
08:24This is Robert the doll, which sits in the East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida.
08:31Robert was given to a boy named Robert Eugene Otto, who owned the doll until he died in 1974.
08:38Over the years, the doll has allegedly moved its head, changed its facial expressions, and even giggled.
08:44According to legend, the doll had been cursed in a voodoo ceremony as revenge for something that family had done.
08:50If any of that's true, could the bus be under a similar spell, the one that's more benevolent?
08:57This is a bus that was owned by a man and his wife, and the husband said that the wife loved this bus.
09:05Now, as if this weren't spooky enough, it turns out the wife passed away while sitting inside this exact same bus.
09:16So when we see the bus drive across the street to a safer place where it won't catch the house on fire,
09:23we have to ask, is this the spirit of the wife trying to protect her husband and their home?
09:30It's a theory the widowed bus owner believes.
09:33The fact that the headlights came on and the horn continues to be the wife or some force is trying to get people out of the way.
09:52Back in 2003, a story surfaced about a small wine cabinet that many believe was haunted by a debuk,
09:59a demonic spirit from Jewish folklore.
10:03This debuk box supposedly exchanged hands since the Holocaust, bringing illness and bad luck to all of its owners,
10:10until its last owner took a rabbi's suggestion and locked it inside a container lined with gold,
10:17where the spirit is said to be imprisoned until this day.
10:22Could this bus be hosting a similar entity?
10:25Let's go to the experts.
10:29A positive spirit could very well have operated that vehicle and driven it to safety across the street.
10:43There are so many more positive spirits out there than negative spirits.
10:48It's just that negative spirits get all the credit.
10:51Sometimes miracles do happen.
10:53But theoretical physics professor Michio Kaku thinks the explanation behind this video is far less supernatural.
11:01We've all seen the movies where the bad guy gets into a car, steals the car by hot wiring the car.
11:08Underneath the steering wheel, there are two wires, normally uncrossed, but you can short circuit the circuitry and the car starts up all by itself.
11:17Now, same thing here, the fire melted the insulation so that two wires crossed and the engine started all by itself.
11:27But the one thing that's not so explicable is how this vehicle moves the way it does.
11:32According to Kaku, that would require an exceptional series of coincidences.
11:36First of all, you have electricity in the car, next you have gasoline, and then you have all the gears and the mechanical mechanisms.
11:44Here's a situation where all three must fail and the road may not be perfectly flat, which could cause the tires to swerve.
11:53Maybe you can explain away a lot of these incidents.
11:56But I can see why people believe in ghosts, because once in a while, something bizarre happens, something very unusual.
12:02Our verdict, we're going with unexplained.
12:13Unfortunately, we can't quite determine how or why the bus moved the way it did.
12:19In the meantime, be wary around any odd behaving objects.
12:23You never know what type of unknown force may be operating within.
12:28This next story is perhaps the most famous real-life example of demonic possession, so viewer discretion is advised.
12:40September 1975, Klingenburg, West Germany.
12:44After years of their daughters continually declining health and increasingly strange behavior,
12:50the parents of 23-year-old Annalise Michelle turned to the Catholic Church for help.
12:54Recording devices capture these conversations in German over the course of a harrowing 67 exorcism attempts.
13:12If you can believe it, that's Annalise speaking in a voice allegedly not her own.
13:19How did this all begin?
13:32At the age of 16, Annalise Michelle had some severe experiences, such as blackouts and feeling a heavy weight pressing her to her bed.
13:41She was diagnosed with epilepsy, but the medication didn't seem to help.
13:46And by the age of 20, she began to hear noises and had a great distaste for being in the presence of religious objects, crucifixes or relics.
13:57She began to injure herself.
13:59She bit the head off of a bird.
14:00She drank her own urine from the floor.
14:03She was barking like a dog.
14:05It was at this point that everyone around her thought that she was truly possessed.
14:09The increasingly desperate family turned to their local priests for help.
14:15In 1975, exorcisms began on Annalise Michelle on a bi-weekly basis, each lasting as long as four hours.
14:23Annalise began to claim that she was possessed by people like Cain and Hitler.
14:29This story does not end well.
14:34On July 1st, 1976, after 10 months of continuous exorcisms, Annalise died in her home.
14:42The priests and her parents claimed that just before she passed, she was freed from her possession.
14:48And the exorcism was a success.
14:50Let's see what our experts think.
14:51First, forensic audio analyst Rob Maher takes a listen to those supposedly inhuman noises.
15:05If we compare the girl's speech in the recording to what a voice actor is able to produce...
15:13That voice actor is able to produce a very similar quality to what we hear from this girl.
15:28Since the growls could be easily produced by a human play-acting,
15:32many are skeptical that this was a legitimate demonic possession.
15:36According to Seelman, the demon is more likely to attack the person performing the exorcism,
15:50not the religious institution.
15:51The demonic spirit is going to try to make the priest feel weak, insult their personal lives.
16:00Everything that I heard was really anger at the Catholic Church itself.
16:07And it was well known that the people of this town were very conservative and religious.
16:15No dating, no fun, no going out at night.
16:19And so it would not be surprising that Annalise Michelle was pretty unhappy with what was going on.
16:25Dr. Hope agrees.
16:26This culture, combined with Annalise's previous diagnosis, seemed to create a perfect storm.
16:32She had a diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy,
16:35which can lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.
16:42Having very religious beliefs, those stories and themes of the devil became very real to her
16:49and must have been absolutely terrifying.
16:51But if this was epilepsy, why wasn't Annalise responding to standard treatment?
16:56Even today, with these type of illnesses, we aren't always able to get people symptom-free.
17:03It doesn't mean that the diagnosis wasn't correct or that other diagnoses such as demonic possession are an explanation.
17:11So how did this disturbing scenario ultimately reach its end?
17:15In the last few weeks, she was not able to eat and drink very much at all.
17:18It was noted she had bilateral fractures, so broken knees due to the fact that she was praying so much.
17:26She died at the young age of 23 and weighed only 68 pounds.
17:32The actual cause of death was malnutrition and dehydration.
17:35Her parents and the priests were charged and convicted of negligent homicide.
17:40And the state prosecutor sadly said that even up to a week before her death,
17:46if she'd have got treatment, then her life could have been saved.
17:52Our verdict? Mental illness.
17:55We agree with that historic conclusion,
17:58in part because of the analysis of the recordings themselves.
18:02Hopefully, Annalise is finally resting in peace.
18:06These next images raise a disturbing question.
18:12Are people practicing satanic rituals in the woods?
18:16The incident involves a naked woman, a mutilated deer, and...
18:20Well, just look for yourself, if you dare.
18:25February 21st, 2021, Powell River in British Columbia, Canada.
18:30Local resident Perina Wallace-Chuck's grandfather comes across a deer carcass
18:34while walking just outside his property.
18:37He had a little chat with the neighbor,
18:39and he agreed to let him put up a trail cam
18:42just to see what maybe killed it.
18:46At around 5 o'clock, the motion sensor camera snaps away at a bobcat.
18:51But then, an hour later, after it gets dark
18:54and the camera switches to night vision,
18:56it captures a macabre scene.
18:58A sequence of photos depicts a nearly naked woman with long, dark hair.
19:03She crouches down, holding the deer's leg near her mouth
19:07as a second long-haired person joins her
19:10before both mysteriously disappear.
19:13I was pretty creeped out.
19:15My thoughts were either someone's on drugs
19:18or they've got a really weird kink.
19:21Perina eventually decides to put the pictures online
19:25to see if she can get some answers.
19:26I originally posted it on a Facebook group I'm on.
19:29Like, what do you think of this?
19:32And that's where all the, like, oh, witches,
19:35all these things came out.
19:37After many likes and shares,
19:38these fawn feasters make international headlines.
19:42Author Alexis Brooks says that's for good reason.
19:44Clearly, this was a very strange act.
19:47It almost looks like they are bending over
19:50in a sign of devotion.
19:52I think we're looking at some sort of a really, really dark ritual.
19:56So is it possible we're witnessing the aftermath
20:00of some witches' satanic supper?
20:02There are certain satanic cults that engage in sacrifice
20:07to get power from the soul of the animal
20:12and bring that power into the individual
20:16that is doing the sacrifice
20:18or a coven of satanic worshippers.
20:21In fact, Brooks says there's a recent alleged case
20:25of satanic animal sacrifice from 2021,
20:28which will blur because it's disturbing.
20:30Several dead goats were discovered,
20:32found dumped in a northeast El Paso desert.
20:36Texas parks and wildlife officials say
20:38some of these goats were actually missing bodily fluids like blood.
20:42So they directly correlated it to a potential satanic act.
20:47Sacrificing animals for a cult-like ritual sounds pretty gruesome.
20:55But get this, the United States has legislation
20:59protecting ritual slaughter for some religions.
21:02So is there any meat on the bone
21:05in this potentially fiendish feast?
21:07Let's ask the experts.
21:09Anthropologist Kathy Strange says that
21:15though people often associate witchcraft with Satanism,
21:19this connection is mostly a myth,
21:21especially in modern times.
21:22Witchcraft in general is still plenty alive
21:25in Canada and America,
21:26and it's really just as tame as maybe palm or tarot readings.
21:30They perform seances, cast spells, conjure the dead,
21:34that type of thing.
21:35It's more like Wicca where you worship nature as a whole versus Satan.
21:42Yet that doesn't make what these people are doing any less dangerous.
21:46Emergency medicine physician Dr. Ed Hope
21:48shares some raw truths about animal flesh.
21:51Eating raw meat, you are at serious risk
21:54of getting a zoonotic infection.
21:56That is one pass from animal to humans.
22:00In fact, dining on a decaying carcass can be downright deadly.
22:04The carcass is going to have lots of bacteria,
22:06such as E. coli or salmonella,
22:09but also there are some that are specific to dead animals.
22:13One of these diseases called tularemia,
22:16also known as rabbit fever,
22:17and this is an extremely deadly bacteria.
22:22Yet is this mysterious figure
22:23actually even consuming the carcass?
22:26I mean, we can't say for sure if she's trying to eat it.
22:29She's certainly holding it up close to her mouth,
22:32but she could just be looking at it.
22:33There's no conclusive evidence to say
22:35she is actually eating it from what I see here.
22:39But even if this woman is not eating the dead deer,
22:42her actions still seem to defy logic.
22:44So how do we slice this one up?
22:46To me, what we're seeing here is obviously a hoax.
22:49These two people probably thought it would be funny
22:51to dress up in long wigs,
22:54take off some of their clothing,
22:56and get their pictures taken on the camera.
22:58But I don't think these people
23:00had any ill intention to be called a witch
23:03or anything like that.
23:04They just thought it would be funny.
23:06Corina herself agrees.
23:08There's a trailer park down the road.
23:10A few questionable characters live there.
23:13I'd like to think that was the prank.
23:15That's what makes me sleep at night, thinking that.
23:18Our verdict, though these pictures are pretty creepy,
23:27this incident is likely a hoax.
23:29Trail cameras have a tendency to attract
23:31all sorts of tricksters and attention seekers.
23:37Does hell exist?
23:40Today, most people think of it as a spiritual place,
23:43but historically, it was thought to be
23:45a physical place, deep underground.
23:47And when one research team decided to dig
23:50as deep as humanly possible,
23:52they may have recorded something truly unholy.
23:57It's 1989 in Murmansk, Russia.
24:01A Russian government project named
24:03the Kola Super Deep Borehole
24:05is in the process of trying to drill
24:08the deepest hole in the world
24:09as part of a drilling race with the U.S.
24:12to uncover scientific mysteries close to the Earth's core.
24:17But when these scientists reach 7.6 miles
24:20into the Earth's crust,
24:22their equipment begins to suffer odd malfunctions.
24:25According to the story,
24:27several heat-resistant microphones
24:28were lowered into the hole
24:30in an attempt to discover what was going wrong.
24:33Years later, a recording surface
24:35that alleges to capture what these mics picked up,
24:38and the sounds are nothing short of terrifying.
24:40We hear what sounds like
24:47an endless cacophony of human screams.
24:50The scientists themselves
24:51allegedly refer to it as the sounds of hell.
24:59Unfortunately, the Russian government
25:01is not releasing a lot of information,
25:03but it could be some kind of warning,
25:06like a bad spirit,
25:07saying maybe you shouldn't drill down this far
25:09because you're not going to like what comes up.
25:13Christians began to quit,
25:14concerned that perhaps this was something
25:17that they should not have done,
25:18or for fear of divine reprisal
25:20for accidentally or purposefully drilling into hell itself.
25:24At this time, speculation began to swirl
25:26about why the Russians were drilling in cola
25:28in the first place.
25:29A lot of religions believe that hell itself
25:32exists below the surface of the Earth.
25:33There was some questioning as to whether the Russians
25:36were attempting to make contact with the devil.
25:40The majority of human beings throughout history
25:43have always believed in hell.
25:45I've had so many experiences
25:46at exorcisms and evil spirits,
25:49they certainly acknowledge
25:50that they are coming from hell.
25:53But if hell exists,
25:54is it underground?
25:56While the general idea of hell
25:57goes back to the time of Christ,
25:59it wasn't until the Middle Ages
26:01that hell was depicted as a pit of pain and torture.
26:04We really get our most descriptive versions of hell
26:08from Italian poet Dante,
26:10who wrote The Inferno or The Divine Comedy.
26:12We see kind of this layered approach
26:14as Dante goes deeper into hell,
26:16and the final circles of hell
26:18are these horrible, fiery places,
26:21and souls are essentially tortured
26:23for their evil deeds on Earth.
26:26If we believe that hell is a real physical place,
26:30it stands to reason that those millions of souls
26:32would scream out in agony quite loudly
26:34from the bowels of this hellish cavern
26:37through the Earth's mantle.
26:43Back in 2016,
26:45a Michigan-based priest
26:47claimed he got a glimpse of hell
26:49after suffering a heart attack.
26:51He said he saw his soul travel
26:52deep into the center of the Earth,
26:55where he witnessed men being burned alive
26:58and humanoids that walked on all fours.
27:00Could this audio recording help verify those visions?
27:05Let's listen to the experts.
27:11NASA geologist Bob Anderson
27:13explores the initial problem
27:15with the Kola super deep hole,
27:17those odd equipment malfunctions.
27:19As you go deeper down into the rock,
27:22the Earth is getting warmer.
27:24And so as they go down,
27:26the drill bits start slowing down.
27:27When they put the microphones down,
27:29the temperature was increasing
27:31to a very high temperature.
27:33We don't have microphones
27:34that can handle 2,000 degrees.
27:36And so basically,
27:37the microphones are deteriorating
27:38as they go down,
27:40and you get some really weird sounds.
27:43So the heat might have produced
27:44the recorded sounds.
27:45But to many,
27:47they do sound human.
27:50The sounds that we can identify
27:52are moans and howls
27:54that are within the frequency range
27:56and the characteristics
27:57that a human could produce.
27:59Could this truly be a chorus of the damned?
28:02According to Maher,
28:03the devil is in the details.
28:05There are several characteristics
28:07in the spectrogram that we can see
28:09that have an identical duplicate
28:11at other points in the recording.
28:13So there's a particular shriek utterance here
28:16which matches one at the beginning
28:18and then that same utterance
28:20appears here at the end.
28:26It would be literally impossible
28:28to make those exact duplicates
28:31that we see here.
28:32So again, the indications are
28:34that those are simply loops
28:35of a single recording.
28:37This was mixed or put together
28:39rather than being
28:40a continuous authentic recording.
28:43Our verdict?
28:48We are saying this is a hoax
28:50tied to a real event.
28:52Well, the drilling operation itself
28:53was in fact real.
28:54The stories of these strange sounds
28:56seem to be nothing more than fiction.
28:59In recent years,
29:00the death record
29:01of the Kola borehole
29:02has already been broken twice.
29:04So if there is anything
29:05that lies below,
29:07we may be getting closer
29:08and closer to finding it.
29:13Can evil spirits possess our bodies
29:15even after we die?
29:18In our next story,
29:19we take a look at evidence
29:20from an ancient burial ground
29:22that indicates a genuine fear
29:24of the undead
29:25among a terrified community.
29:27Were they on to something?
29:28It's late 2023
29:31in the village of Pien, Poland.
29:34Darius Polinski,
29:35along with his team
29:35of fellow researchers,
29:37are excavating
29:37an unmarked 17th century cemetery
29:40first discovered in 2005.
29:43Archaeologists have unearthed
29:45nearly 100 graves at the site.
29:47Their digs just keep getting stranger
29:49until they make this ghastly discovery.
29:52This photo shows remains
29:54that archaeologists say
29:55are those of a six-year-old boy
29:57who was buried face down
29:59with a padlock
30:00under his left foot
30:01that's seemingly
30:03chaining him to the earth
30:04as if to keep the body
30:06from getting up
30:07and leaving the grave.
30:18A woman's body
30:20was also found in the cemetery
30:21with a sickle around the neck
30:23placed in such a way
30:24that if the deceased
30:25tried to get up,
30:26the head would be severed
30:28or at least injured.
30:33What's going on here?
30:41Journalist Aaron McCarthy
30:43says it could tie back
30:44to the concept of reanimation.
30:46Reanimation of this kind
30:48was a really big fear
30:50in Poland in the 17th century.
30:52They were really afraid of revenants.
30:55Revenant might not be a term
30:56that many people are familiar with.
30:59It actually comes from
30:59the French word revenir,
31:01meaning to come back,
31:02and it describes a number of creatures
31:04that rise from the dead.
31:05If the idea behind
31:07the demonic-like beings
31:08known as revenants
31:09sounds familiar,
31:11it's because the concept
31:12would overlap
31:13into what we now call
31:14the vampire.
31:15Many folklorists
31:17suggest that there was
31:18a perceived outbreak
31:19of vampirism
31:20in most of Eastern Europe
31:21during the 17th
31:23and 18th centuries,
31:24where many individuals
31:25reported seeing
31:27violent acts
31:28perpetrated by
31:29recently deceased individuals
31:30who continue
31:31to walk the earth.
31:32One famous tale
31:33is in 1674.
31:35A Polish man
31:36rose from the dead
31:37and he was going around
31:38sucking the blood
31:39of his neighbors.
31:40His nocturnal wanderings
31:41only stopped
31:42when the body
31:43was decapitated.
31:44Historians suggest
31:45materials made of iron,
31:47like the small lock,
31:48were used to keep
31:49members of the undead
31:51at bay.
31:52There are hundreds
31:53of burials like this
31:54across the Baltic states,
31:56in Poland,
31:57in Bulgaria,
31:58and in other areas.
32:00Vampire burials
32:00were so pervasive
32:01at this time
32:02that officials actually
32:03banned them
32:03to try to tamp down
32:04on the superstitions
32:05about the creatures.
32:06However,
32:07this is the only time
32:08a child
32:09has been found
32:10buried this way.
32:12Many scholars today
32:14believe that the legends
32:15we now know
32:16as vampires
32:17first originated
32:18amongst Slavic people
32:19as early as
32:20the 4th century.
32:21The word vampire
32:22itself is thought
32:23to be derived
32:24from the Latin word
32:26impurus,
32:27meaning impure
32:28or unclean.
32:30Could these remains
32:30really belong
32:32to early bloodsuckers?
32:34Let's see what
32:34our experts think.
32:38archaeologist Dr. Ed Barnhart
32:41believes we are seeing
32:42what he calls
32:43apotropaic burials,
32:45burials conducted
32:46in a specific manner
32:47with the intention
32:48of warding off evil.
32:49Practically speaking,
32:51shackling someone's toe
32:52is not going to prevent
32:54them from getting up,
32:55but they're talismans.
32:56The material mattered,
32:58the placement mattered,
32:59but they were basically
33:01magic incantations
33:04that prevented
33:05that body
33:06from coming back.
33:08But Barnhart suggests
33:09that the reason
33:10this child may have
33:11been considered
33:12a revenant-like vampire
33:13could be due to
33:14ignorance of a more
33:15real-world condition.
33:16Somehow or another,
33:18these people were
33:19mistreated
33:20or misunderstood.
33:21Perhaps they had
33:22a mental illness
33:23that people didn't
33:25sympathize with,
33:26but the remedy
33:27was always the same.
33:28Keep that body
33:29in its grave.
33:30Make sure that it
33:31can't wriggle out
33:33of the dirt
33:33and come for us.
33:35Anthropologist
33:36Kathy Strain adds
33:37that sometimes
33:37just getting sick
33:38and dying
33:39could provoke
33:40this extreme reaction.
33:41During the time
33:42of the plague,
33:43they probably overreacted
33:45in fear,
33:46and that might be
33:47what we're seeing here.
33:48It logically makes sense
33:50to me that the six-year-old
33:51was probably targeted
33:53because he was sick first,
33:54and they wanted to make sure
33:56that whatever it is
33:57that he had
33:58didn't spread.
34:03Our verdict?
34:04We're going with
34:05superstitious burial.
34:07There has never been
34:08tangible proof
34:09over the last
34:10several centuries
34:11to establish the existence
34:13of revenant-like vampires,
34:15but whatever was going on
34:16with this child
34:17spooked these people enough
34:19to bury him in this way.
34:21We end tonight
34:25with a disturbing piece
34:26of video out of Poland.
34:28As we mentioned earlier,
34:29many European countries
34:30are showing a steady increase
34:32in reports
34:33of supposed demonic possession,
34:35and in this case,
34:36the local cops
34:37had to get involved.
34:39We're in Poland again,
34:40but this story
34:41is much more recent.
34:42It's New Year's Eve 2022
34:44in the village of Grubsko.
34:46Three local policemen
34:48are dispatched to a house
34:49after receiving a phone call
34:51from a disturbed neighbor
34:52who claims to be hearing
34:54strange noises
34:55coming from within.
34:58This horrifying video
35:00has been verified
35:01as real
35:02by the Polish police.
35:10Supposedly,
35:10these monstrous sounds
35:12are coming from
35:12a 20-year-old woman
35:13named Kamilka
35:14who has barricaded herself
35:16inside the attic.
35:19The police attempt
35:21to coax her out
35:22as she continues
35:23to snarl
35:24like some type
35:25of ferocious beast.
35:29If there was ever
35:32such a thing
35:33as a classic
35:34demonic possession,
35:37this would be it.
35:39Clearly,
35:40this is somebody
35:41who went out
35:43of her element,
35:45her own personality,
35:46and for whatever reason
35:47took on
35:48the personality
35:49of another.
35:51And while Brooks
35:52stresses that this
35:53is just a first impression,
35:55she says that Poland
35:56has become ground zero
35:57of sorts
35:58in a battle
35:59between satanic forces
36:01and the religiously devout.
36:02Poland is actually
36:03the largest
36:04Roman Catholic population
36:06in all of Europe.
36:08So there's a concentration
36:09of exorcists in Poland
36:10about the same number
36:12as the whole
36:13United States,
36:14and yet Poland
36:15is only about
36:16the size
36:17of New Mexico.
36:18Brooks mentions
36:19online rumors
36:20claim Kamilka
36:21had been using
36:22a Ouija board
36:23with friends
36:24earlier that same evening.
36:25There's a very rich
36:26and long history
36:27associated with
36:29the Ouija board.
36:30It became known
36:31in the early
36:3220th century
36:33as something
36:34that would be used
36:35as portals
36:36to other dimensions
36:37in which certain
36:38entities
36:39can then come through.
36:41There are story
36:42after story
36:43of nefarious
36:45incidents happening,
36:46including but not
36:47limited to possession
36:49as a result
36:49of using a Ouija board.
36:51The Ouija board
36:52was originally invented
36:54as a parlor game
36:55in the late 1800s
36:56when many Americans
36:57became obsessed
36:58with the spiritual idea
36:59of communicating
37:00with the dead.
37:01By the 20th century,
37:02it was a tool
37:03frequently used
37:04by popular occultists
37:06like Aleister Crowley.
37:07Many experts believe
37:09Ouija boards
37:10should not be taken lightly.
37:11These things do communicate
37:13with spirits.
37:16The problem being
37:17is that one minute
37:18you're talking
37:18to your wonderful
37:20deceased grandmother
37:21and the next minute
37:22you're talking
37:23to a demonic spirit.
37:25So could Kamilka
37:26have accidentally
37:27opened the door
37:28to an evil entity?
37:30And could that explain
37:31how a 20-year-old girl
37:32can make these
37:33inhuman sounds?
37:34Something negative
37:35got to this woman.
37:37Something scared her
37:38so badly
37:39she lost her mind.
37:40might have even
37:41become possessed.
37:43With more than
37:44150 exorcists
37:46currently working
37:47in Poland,
37:48the practice
37:49has become so popular
37:50that the Catholic Church
37:51has approved plans
37:52for an exorcism center
37:54in the country's
37:55city of Katowice.
37:57It's described
37:58as a place
37:58where priests
37:59will be able
37:59to hone
38:00and perfect
38:00their exorcism skills.
38:02So are we witnessing
38:03an actual case
38:05of demonic possession
38:06in this video?
38:07or is there
38:08something else
38:09going on?
38:10We turn to our experts.
38:15As we did
38:16in our other
38:17investigations
38:18into demonic possession,
38:19we checked in
38:20with our forensic
38:20audio analysts
38:21to see if these
38:22sounds were even human.
38:23For a normal
38:27speech sound
38:28or even somebody
38:29yelling,
38:30we expect
38:30that the fundamental
38:31frequency
38:32is probably
38:33in the range
38:33of perhaps
38:34200 hertz,
38:35250 hertz,
38:37but with this
38:38growl sound,
38:39there's a lot
38:39of energy
38:40right around
38:411,000 hertz.
38:43So does that mean
38:44these vocalizations
38:45are truly
38:45inhuman?
38:46Not necessarily.
38:47If we look
38:48at a recording
38:49that has been
38:50made of a voice
38:51actor,
38:51we see again
38:55that we have
38:56this energy
38:57located in
38:58the spectrum
38:59up at around
39:001,000 hertz,
39:01which is what
39:01we also heard
39:02in the sound
39:03from the recording
39:04scene.
39:11So it's plausible
39:13that a human being
39:14would be able
39:14to make that
39:15shriek sound.
39:16Okay,
39:17so nothing
39:17inhuman
39:18about these
39:18sounds.
39:19Psychiatrist
39:20and demonic
39:20possession expert
39:21Richard Gallagher
39:22is also conflicted
39:24on this being
39:24real evidence
39:25of an actual
39:26possession.
39:26There is some
39:27suggestive sign
39:28that that's a
39:29possibility,
39:30but you'd need
39:31a lot more
39:31evidence.
39:32I would want
39:32to know much
39:33more about
39:34this woman's
39:34background.
39:36Interview people
39:36who know her
39:37and find out
39:38more about
39:39her history.
39:40Almost all
39:41the time,
39:41if you get
39:42all the facts
39:43of the case,
39:45you can make
39:45a discernment
39:46one way
39:46or the other.
39:47And while
39:48many of the
39:48facts remain
39:49shrouded in
39:49mystery,
39:50authorities
39:50confirmed that
39:51the woman in
39:52this video
39:52was eventually
39:53checked into
39:54a hospital.
39:55Whenever a
39:56young person
39:56presents to
39:57the hospital
39:57with bizarre
39:58behavior,
40:00illicit drug
40:00use has to
40:01be high up
40:02on your list
40:03of differentials.
40:04It's not
40:05uncommon for
40:06people to be
40:06like this in
40:07hospital.
40:08If we were
40:08to witness
40:09that in the
40:10emergency
40:10department,
40:11it wouldn't
40:11even be
40:12the most
40:13crazy story
40:14of the week.
40:15I think this
40:16footage conjures
40:17up the idea
40:18of a horror
40:18movie.
40:19But based
40:20on the
40:20limited evidence,
40:21there's no
40:21clear understanding
40:22of exactly
40:23what's gone on
40:24here.
40:29Our verdict?
40:30We're saying
40:30this is
40:31unexplained.
40:33On one
40:33hand,
40:33this video
40:34doesn't satisfy
40:35any of the
40:35verifiable signs
40:37of possession
40:37according to
40:38our experts.
40:40Yet when we
40:40dug further,
40:41the authorities
40:42refused to
40:43elaborate rather
40:44than just
40:45debunking it,
40:45which seems
40:46odd to some.
40:47So as of
40:48today,
40:49Kamilka's story
40:50is still an
40:51open case.
40:52And that's
40:53our episode
40:53for tonight.
40:54Although many
40:55believe the
40:55devil's presence
40:56continues to
40:57grow within
40:57modern society,
40:59much of what
40:59we found
41:00appears to
41:01be hoaxes
41:02or misjudgments
41:03rooted in
41:04faith-based ideas.
41:05However,
41:06there are still
41:06a couple of
41:07cases we
41:08just can't
41:09explain.
41:10Thank you so
41:11much for
41:11watching.
41:12And as always,
41:14keep those
41:14cameras rolling.
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