Celebrity Ghost Encounters_ Keanu Reeves, Joe Jonas & More
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00:00 I looked over at the nanny and she's like this.
00:04 -Keanu Reeves had a ghost encounter
00:05 when he was a young boy and was being watched by a nanny.
00:08 -All of a sudden, we're looking over there,
00:09 and this, like, jacket comes waving through the doorway.
00:13 Like, there's an empty -- There's no head.
00:15 There's no body. There's no legs.
00:16 It's just there.
00:18 And then it disappears.
00:19 And I was a little kid, and I thought,
00:20 "Okay, well, that's interesting."
00:22 And then I looked over at the nanny, and she's like this.
00:26 [ Laughter ]
00:28 And I'm like, "Oh, wow. So that was real."
00:31 -Keanu is far from the only star
00:32 that's had a life-changing paranormal experience.
00:35 So many celebrities have shared stories
00:36 of their surprising, wild, frightening,
00:39 and even heartwarming run-ins with spirits.
00:42 Vanessa Hudgens had a paranormal experience as a child
00:44 when one of her toys moved on its own.
00:47 -There was, like, you know those ducks that, like --
00:49 It's, like, the duck thing that you pull.
00:50 It's a toy. -Yeah.
00:52 -There was one of those on the dining room table,
00:53 and I started walking, and it just started,
00:55 like, going alongside me.
00:56 And I was like, "Interesting."
00:59 -Demi Lovato also has a strong connection to spirits,
01:01 dating back to her youth.
01:03 The singer once told BuzzFeed that their childhood home
01:05 in Texas is, quote, "so ridiculously haunted"
01:08 and that the ghost of a little girl named Emily lives there,
01:10 saying, "There were so many times
01:12 that I saw her when I was growing up.
01:14 I saw her in my closet one time.
01:15 When I was 3 years old, my mom caught me
01:17 talking to something by myself.
01:19 She asked, 'Who are you talking to?'
01:20 And I said, 'My best friend Emily.'"
01:22 Lots of other stars have lived in haunted homes,
01:25 as Joe Jonas once revealed.
01:26 He realized his Los Angeles house might be haunted
01:29 when unexplainable things started occurring.
01:31 -Things like police showing up at the door,
01:33 saying there was a phone call from inside the house,
01:36 saying, "Help, help, help," from the landline.
01:38 -Stop. -And, you know, we're --
01:40 We knew of one landline that was in a closet, oddly.
01:44 So we go in to check.
01:45 Sure enough, there is the phone unplugged from the wall,
01:47 from the landline.
01:49 Just creepy things like that.
01:50 -Courtney Cox had so many people tell her
01:52 that her L.A. house was haunted,
01:54 but it was something a delivery man told her
01:55 that truly convinced her.
01:57 -I opened the door, and he said,
02:00 "Do you know this house is haunted?"
02:02 And I go, "Yeah, why? Why do you think that?"
02:04 He goes, "Because there's someone standing behind you."
02:08 -Even the White House is haunted,
02:09 according to Jenna Bush Hager.
02:11 The former first daughter told Kelly Clarkson
02:13 that she and her sister Barbara were surprised
02:15 to come across friendly and musical ghosts.
02:18 -All of a sudden, we heard, like, 1920s piano music
02:22 coming out of our fireplace.
02:24 It was the middle of the night,
02:25 and you could feel the music out of the fireplace.
02:29 And I know we tried to talk ourselves out of it, too.
02:31 You can't imagine what's happened there,
02:33 so I think it was from another era,
02:35 but it was definitely terrifying.
02:38 -For some celebrities,
02:39 paranormal experiences have been a blessing.
02:41 Dale Earnhardt Jr. once shared on his podcast
02:44 that he was rescued by a ghost
02:45 when he crashed during a race in 2004.
02:47 He said, "When I wrecked in the Corvette at 2004 in Sonoma,
02:51 it caught fire.
02:52 Somebody pulled me out of that car,
02:53 and I thought that it was a corner worker
02:55 because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits
02:57 and pull me out of the car," adding,
02:59 "And I fell to the ground,
03:00 and there's pictures of me laying on the ground
03:02 next to the car.
03:03 I know that when I got to the hospital,
03:04 I was like, 'Who pulled me out of the car?
03:06 I got to say thanks to this person,'
03:07 because it was a hand.
03:08 It was physical hands grabbing me.
03:10 I felt it, and there was nobody there."
03:13 For other celebrities,
03:14 ghost run-ins haven't been so lucky.
03:16 Jessica Alba once told "The Sydney Morning Herald"
03:18 that she had a harrowing paranormal experience
03:20 when she was 17, saying,
03:22 "I had no idea what it was.
03:23 I felt this pressure, and I couldn't get up.
03:25 I couldn't scream. I couldn't talk.
03:27 I couldn't do anything.
03:28 Something definitely took the covers off me,
03:30 and I definitely couldn't get off the bed.
03:31 And then, once I did, I screamed,
03:33 ran to my parents' room,
03:34 and I don't think I spent many nights
03:35 in that house ever again.
03:37 There was definitely something in my parents' old house.
03:39 I don't know what it was.
03:40 I can't really explain it,
03:42 but they got it blessed,
03:42 and they burn sage and stuff since then."
03:45 Meanwhile, some celebs have taken
03:47 their paranormal encounters to the next level,
03:49 to say the least.
03:50 "I did go to the Bone Zone with a ghost."
03:55 Kesha told Conan O'Brien about a surprising
03:57 sensual experience she had with a ghost.
03:59 "He just started, like, caressing me like this."
04:03 "Oh. And so then things proceeded from there."
04:06 "Right. It was a sexy time.
04:07 It wasn't, like, sex."
04:10 Joy Behar once joked on "The View"
04:12 that she'd also crossed paths
04:13 with an apparently amorous spirit.
04:15 "Wouldn't that be a terrible thing?"
04:16 "I'm just gonna let you ghost me without trying to --"
04:21 "I'm just gonna let that ride.
04:22 I don't know how many of you heard what Joy just said,
04:25 but I'm gonna let it ride."
04:27 "It's the safest sex you're gonna have."
04:30 Other stars have had paranormal encounters
04:31 related to their acting jobs.
04:33 Lily Collins was preparing for her role
04:35 in "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile,"
04:37 a movie about Ted Bundy,
04:38 when she started inexplicably waking up at 3:05 every night.
04:42 She told "The Guardian,"
04:43 "I started being woken up by flashes of images,
04:45 like the aftermath of a struggle.
04:47 I discovered that 3 a.m. is the time
04:49 when the veil between the realms is the thinnest,
04:51 and one can be visited."
04:52 Lily told the outlet she believed
04:53 she was being contacted by the women who Ted Bundy murdered,
04:56 saying, "I didn't feel scared.
04:58 I felt supported.
04:59 I felt like people were saying, 'We're here listening.
05:02 We're here to support.
05:03 Thank you for telling the story.'"
05:04 When Helena Bonham Carter was cast
05:06 as Princess Margaret in "The Crown,"
05:07 she had a psychic help her connect
05:09 with the late royal's spirit and get her approval.
05:11 Helena said, "I asked her, 'Are you okay with me playing you?'
05:14 And she said, 'You're better than the other actors
05:16 that they were thinking of.
05:18 They will not admit who it was.
05:19 It was me and somebody else.'
05:21 That made me think, 'Maybe she is here,'
05:23 because that is a classic Margaret thing to say.
05:25 She was really good at complimenting you
05:26 and putting you down at the same time."
05:29 Chloe Sevigny portrayed Lizzie Borden in the movie "Lizzie."
05:32 But years before, she stayed overnight at the house
05:34 where the Borden family was brutally murdered.
05:36 But it was a sleepless night.
05:38 Chloe told "Entertainment Weekly,"
05:40 "I kept hearing all these weird moaning and groaning noises,
05:42 but there wasn't anybody else in the house.
05:44 It was terrifying.
05:45 It was pretty early, and my then-boyfriend was like,
05:48 'I have to leave.'
05:49 He had a strange experience last night
05:50 where he felt a pressure on his chest."
05:52 Laura Linney was once performing
05:53 at the Belasco Theater on Broadway.
05:55 And at her final dress rehearsal,
05:57 she saw a figure up on the locked balcony.
05:59 "I looked up, and there was a woman
06:02 standing in the front row,
06:04 looking over with a blue dress and blonde hair.
06:07 And I -- I just thought, 'Well, hello.'"
06:11 When Laura looked back, she was gone.
06:14 She later told the house manager
06:15 that she thought she saw a ghost.
06:16 "And he went, 'Male or female?'
06:18 I said, 'Female.'
06:19 And he went, 'Blue dress, blonde hair?'"
06:21 "Oh, wow."
06:23 Some stars have felt the presence
06:25 of their deceased loved ones through the paranormal.
06:27 Cher once said in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything"
06:29 that she's gotten messages from beyond
06:31 from her late husband, Sonny Bono, writing,
06:34 "I actually think that Sonny makes the light go on.
06:36 I have a beautiful chandelier that he makes the light go on
06:38 when it's impossible.
06:39 There is no power on."
06:40 Duran Demedle told "People" magazine
06:42 that she's felt the presence of her late husband, Richard,
06:44 at their home in the Berkshires, saying,
06:46 "Because I've suffered loss,
06:48 I believe that people don't go away.
06:49 They just transform into different energy.
06:51 So I definitely think there's all kinds of good energy,
06:53 blessed energy in this house."
06:55 Some stars have been connected to their late family members
06:57 beyond the grave through mediums,
06:59 like "Hollywood Mediums" star Tyler Henry.
07:01 He previously told "Access Hollywood"
07:03 about how Michael Jackson came through to him
07:05 during his reading with LaToya Jackson.
07:07 "It was really interesting, 'cause when he came through,
07:08 I would have expected him to, like, moonwalk or see a fedora,
07:11 but it didn't come through that way at all.
07:13 He just came through as a brother,
07:14 looking to connect with his sister.
07:15 It came through very innocent, very childlike.
07:18 It was really fascinating."
07:19 What did he say about his death, though?
07:20 Because there were still so many questions
07:22 surrounding the way he died.
07:24 "I didn't realize that there were so many questions
07:25 around, like, the exact timeline and what happened.
07:27 And so LaToya actually came to the reading
07:29 with the hopes of getting an answer.
07:31 And so when Michael came through,
07:32 he helped basically fill in the last 48 hours of his life
07:35 and explained who was around, who wasn't,
07:37 kind of what happened, and it helped her get the answer
07:39 and really kind of put it to rest."
07:41 Another major medium is Teresa Caputo,
07:43 and she helped access Hollywood's very own Kit Hoover,
07:45 make an emotional connection with her late mother-in-law.
07:48 "She was battling four stage four cancers.
07:50 And Teresa, I wasn't there at the end,
07:52 but she was surrounded by my husband."
07:54 "I hear singing. Who was singing?"
07:56 "Oh, always singing.
07:57 She was always singing."
08:01 "Oh, she is. Was she funny?"
08:04 "Terrible.
08:05 She was in life so much gusto."
08:08 "She goes, 'Teresa, you could call me Mama.'
08:10 I go, 'All right.'"
08:12 "It's Mama! Oh, my gosh. I love this."
08:15 "And she says, 'You know the amazing gift
08:19 that my son gave me?'
08:20 She says, 'I was able to hold him
08:22 as he took his first breath,
08:25 and he helped me as I took my last breath.'
08:28 She says, 'That is the most beautiful gift
08:32 that anyone can ever have.'
08:33 She says, 'And this is what I meant by
08:35 that my passing was so beautiful.'
08:38 She says, she goes, 'Listen, don't get me wrong.'
08:40 She goes, 'I didn't want to die.'
08:42 She says, 'But I couldn't fight the fight anymore.'
08:45 She told me that, she goes, 'Oh,' she says,
08:49 'and my husband, she says, 'He felt me also.'
08:53 And she says, 'No matter how tough things were,'
08:56 she says, 'we always said goodnight to each other.'
09:00 And he still does.
09:01 Every night he says goodnight to me."
09:03 61 years, Teresa.
09:06 And the ups and downs that they witnessed together
09:08 is quite remarkable.
09:10 She's like, "Hush, no crying."
09:13 I know.
09:14 Sorry, mama.
09:15 She's like, "So however we can just validate with that."
09:17 And she just said, "I am with the stars."
09:20 So know that this was, experience was just all about
09:24 letting everyone know that she's at peace.
09:27 She did not take her illness with her.
09:29 She says, "I want to thank you.
09:31 All of the right choices and decisions were made."
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