Paranormal Caught on Camera

Next, on "Paranormal Caught on Camera,"

an investigator in Tennessee crosses paths...

...with an eerie apparition.

That's considered the holy grail,

is capturing a full apparition.

A couple on a notoriously dangerous highway

in California... -

...drives by a ghost.

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

Did the owner of a haunted hotel...

...capture the spirit of a young boy?

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

It's almost like he was disfigured.

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

...to believe.

When it comes to haunted locations,

the Jefferson Palace Hotel in Texas...

ranks amongst the spookiest.

The nearly 175-year-old building has changed hands

dozens of times and was once

a livery stable,

a family's home, a brothel,

and a speakeasy during Prohibition.

It's also where at least 30 deaths are said

to have occurred.

With such a long, dark history,

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

with paranormal activity.

Just ask the current owner,

who not only runs it, but also...

lives there with his family,

who the spirits interact with nearly every day.

June 2023, Jefferson, Texas.

Jeromy Jones and his daughter Mackenna are sitting in what

they refer to as a disappointments room.

A small, secret room

in the Jefferson Palace Hotel's attic

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

by a family who, to avoid shame,

hit a child with a disability or disfigurement

when guests came over.

And while such a room is inconceivable today,

Jeromy is parked here

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

the source of some paranormal activity within the building.

And just moments into his vigil...

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

As we were in there, we were hearing noises,

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

So I decided to snap some photos.

It's really dark in that disappointments room,

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

just making them brighter.

One particular photo stood out.

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

And what he saw was this.

It was a little boy...

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

which is the original entrance to the disappointments room.

You know, I started getting emotional.

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

The thing that really stood out to me though

is the facial expression on the boy.

It's almost like he was disfigured,

which would make a lot of sense

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

This image is really impressive, in my opinion.

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

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

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

this looks like a young person, likely a little boy

with a cropped collar and this somewhat mournful expression.

It's unmistakable.

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

wearing, it looks like a pea coat, right?

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

And the face itself I will point out,

does have some kind of grotesque features.

The look on the face of the boy is really

kind of sorrowful.

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

that -- that bedroom in the attic,

you can certainly understand why he would feel that way.

My immediate thought is that

his spirit stayed within this place.

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

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

And in the spirit realm, he's also stuck

in this particular room.

And it seems the boy's spirit

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

Another day, Jeromy wakes up to find some curtains

drawn across one of the hallways,

but when he checks the security camera

to see who pulled them closed....

...no one is there.

And what Jeromy sees when he looks at the curtains

from another camera angle...

is even creepier.

Probably about eight feet past where the curtains got pulled,

there was a shadow on the door.

Well, then all of a sudden, the shadow turns

into a solid figure.

It almost looked like it was cloaked,

and it was approximately eight feet tall.

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

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

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

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

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

connected, whatever the shadow was,

to the movement of the curtains.

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

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

When you see something like that on camera,

you start to wonder,

am I being watched all the time?

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

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

If they are... Jeromy and his family

don't seem to be too bothered by them.

It seems like almost every day something happens to where

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

you know, maybe something flying off the wall or hearing

a disembodied voice in the next room or a door

opening and closing.

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

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

Which is good, because let's face it,

they did purchase a haunted hotel.

Coming up, a couple driving in California...

...has a close call with a ghost.

Because of its sharp curves,

narrow lanes,

roaming wildlife, and hilly terrain,

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

dangerous freeways in the country.

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

Killer 17, a nickname earned not only for the treacherous

driving conditions...

- -

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

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

May 2025, outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Sabrina Valderrama and CJ Esparza

are traveling back home from a friend's concert,

when their vehicles the navigation app

takes them unexpectedly onto Highway 17.

And while the unfamiliar stretch of road is a bit

of a challenge for Sabrina,

it seems straightforward enough.

That is, until this happens.

Watch closely.

Watch again.

As Sabrina and CJ cruise down 17,

a figure

seemingly standing between lanes of the highway

and scaring the life...

...out of both Sabrina and CJ.

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

And this is our video.

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

in mountain area, and up high, and going downhill

because we were unfamiliar with the road.

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

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

realizing we're picking up speed.

And when that thing appeared, I screamed.

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

It scared me half to death because then

my thought process says, what was that?

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

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

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

have flew off the road.

But for Sabrina and CJ, perhaps the most horrifying

part of the experience happens the following morning

when they check what their vehicle's side

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

Watch and listen very closely.

While the front dash cam and Sabrina and CJ

pick up a figure,

the back dash cam and side dash cam...

capture nothing.

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

that there is a street light shining in that space.

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

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