Meet the professional ghost hunter who investigates haunted sites others are too scared to visit.
Beckie-Ann Galentine, 33, first got interested in the paranormal when she saw a floating blue orb while out at night with pals ten years ago.
She worked as an undertaker - or mortician - for two years but spent her free evenings and weekends researching spooky stories and ghost hunting.
Beckie-Ann - who claims to have seen a "handful" of ghosts or beings in real life - began sharing spooky stories on her TikTok in lockdown.
She was soon flooded with requests to investigate haunted homes and creepy businesses and now she's a full time ghost hunter.
She picks a story of interest or one suggested by her 685,000 TikTok followers and researches the story using historical facts and newspaper archives.
And then verify's the clients concerns or queries regarding the spirits.
She camps out in abandoned graveyards, forests, hospitals and hotels to verify if ghosts are there.
Savvy Beckie-Ann also lectures on ghost hunting and earns most her money from views she gets to stories she shares on social media - which funds her travels.
Beckie-Ann, from Starford, Pennsylvania, US, said: "It's a process and it's not as simple as other senses like sight or sound.
"You mull it over and go 'that's what I experienced' and you try to understand it.
"Some of my early ghost experiences were misunderstood as fear but now I undertand they were just trying to say hello.
"It comes down to challenging your empathy and compassion.
"I've had experiences where I just couldn't believe what had happened. It's hard to explain so I don't try to convice sceptics.
"It doesn't happen when you're looking for it which contributes to the feeling of misunderstanding.
"I've had experiences when I've been asleep.
"I was dead asleep one night and I woke up to my bedroom door slamming, full force and I could smell this sour smell.
"I had sleep paralysis and I was trying to wake up my partner and I couldn't move, I thought I was going to die.
"As soon as it backed out of the door, I was able to wake up and it opened my roommates door who experienced the same thing. My partner told me no one came in the room last night.
"It was terrifying."
Beckie-Ann Galentine, 33, first got interested in the paranormal when she saw a floating blue orb while out at night with pals ten years ago.
She worked as an undertaker - or mortician - for two years but spent her free evenings and weekends researching spooky stories and ghost hunting.
Beckie-Ann - who claims to have seen a "handful" of ghosts or beings in real life - began sharing spooky stories on her TikTok in lockdown.
She was soon flooded with requests to investigate haunted homes and creepy businesses and now she's a full time ghost hunter.
She picks a story of interest or one suggested by her 685,000 TikTok followers and researches the story using historical facts and newspaper archives.
And then verify's the clients concerns or queries regarding the spirits.
She camps out in abandoned graveyards, forests, hospitals and hotels to verify if ghosts are there.
Savvy Beckie-Ann also lectures on ghost hunting and earns most her money from views she gets to stories she shares on social media - which funds her travels.
Beckie-Ann, from Starford, Pennsylvania, US, said: "It's a process and it's not as simple as other senses like sight or sound.
"You mull it over and go 'that's what I experienced' and you try to understand it.
"Some of my early ghost experiences were misunderstood as fear but now I undertand they were just trying to say hello.
"It comes down to challenging your empathy and compassion.
"I've had experiences where I just couldn't believe what had happened. It's hard to explain so I don't try to convice sceptics.
"It doesn't happen when you're looking for it which contributes to the feeling of misunderstanding.
"I've had experiences when I've been asleep.
"I was dead asleep one night and I woke up to my bedroom door slamming, full force and I could smell this sour smell.
"I had sleep paralysis and I was trying to wake up my partner and I couldn't move, I thought I was going to die.
"As soon as it backed out of the door, I was able to wake up and it opened my roommates door who experienced the same thing. My partner told me no one came in the room last night.
"It was terrifying."
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00:00 [Music]
00:17 My boyfriend bought me two 120 year old antique funeral portraits for my birthday and this
00:22 is the rabbit hole I went down to find out who these children were.
00:26 Normally the scroll would be filled out and have a name on it but it doesn't.
00:29 We only have their photo, some portraits, and some human hair to go on as well as this
00:35 information that is on the back.
00:37 The information was recorded in graphite and it's very faint because this has been washed
00:41 a few times.
00:42 All I know is that there's M A something something P P O R T. I can't even make out the state
00:49 and we have an A J L name.
00:51 But these were found under the eaves of a farmhouse in Harrison County, Indiana and
00:55 that's where I started.
00:56 I looked up the list of all the names of the towns in Harrison County, Indiana and I found
01:01 one called Mockport and if you take a look that seems to fit.
01:05 I started searching for anyone with an A J L initial in Mockport.
01:10 I came across this Facebook post in a Mockport, Indiana Facebook group where someone named
01:15 Andrew J Lopp and if we remember the name it was L O something it was L O P P and they
01:21 talked about him being a prominent figure in that town.
01:24 I'm confident and said this is the person who's buried in the cemetery.
01:27 So I looked that cemetery up and I find Andrew J Lopp's plot has two young children who have
01:34 passed away.
01:35 Now one is a boy and one is a girl.
01:37 One in 1900 and one in 1903.
01:39 This is Myrtle Lopp.
01:41 We now know her name and his name was Roscoe.
01:44 I started at newspapers.com.
01:46 I could not find their obituary but I did head to Ancestry and Myrtle passed away first
01:51 in 1900 from measles.
01:53 Roscoe passed a few years later from appendicitis and asphyxiation due to that appendicitis.
02:00 See the Estes session that made us cry.
02:03 We contacted the lost children of the Alleghenies, two boys ages 5 and 7 who went missing in
02:08 1856.
02:09 They were found lifeless under a birch tree at this location after they came to a farmer
02:14 in a dream.
02:16 In this method, the person with headphones can only hear white noise through a spirit
02:20 box and may enter a trance.
02:23 They are also blindfolded and messages received are said to come from spirit.
02:27 Who me?
02:30 Yes you, were you just touching my ear?
02:37 I did.
02:40 I'm resting.
02:43 Where are you resting?
02:47 Turn around.
02:50 I'm scared.
02:53 Look at me.
02:56 Turn around you.
02:59 Turn.
03:02 Look at me.
03:05 Inside.
03:08 Are you looking?
03:11 I'm looking.
03:14 I'm trying to listen.
03:17 Help me.
03:20 Tell them we're here.
03:24 Oh my god it's so clear.
03:28 Please.
03:29 What can we do?
03:32 You know us.
03:34 We do know you.
03:36 That's why we're here.
03:38 Is this dream?
03:40 Is it real?
03:42 Next to you?
03:44 Or not?
03:46 We're not afraid of you.
03:47 We're just all family.
03:50 Walk to the woods.