I’ve made it clear elsewhere that (as I see it) we basically have (3) logical possibilities:

(1) Deliberate Hoax
(2) Pareidolia
(3) Paranormal.

If you examine the two animated gifs of the second “figure” side-by-side, you’ll see that there are multiple flashlights in play in the scene, and that they’re in quite different places the two times the “figure” fades in and out.

Further, there seems to be significant similarity in the “Facial features” and “hair-styles” of the “doorway” and “chair” figures. For one to be “reflection” and the other “spider web” is a pretty big coincidence.

Add this to the fact (as you noted) the two “figures” appear within just a few seconds of video and … the odds of “coincidence” seem to ME to be so high as to strain credibility.

Which, to me, seems to leave the viable options as “deliberate hoax” and “paranormal.” I’m not convinced either way – the obvious fact is that all three images (counting each “appearance” of the second as separate though almost identical images) are comprised of just a few frames.

It would not be exceptionally difficult to “Fake” ~20 frames of video, though IMHO the second “set” – given the aforementioned play of multiple flashlights – would require a significant level of image-editing talent. I could not do it, but I know people who could without breaking a sweat…

Given a same-model camera, a few flashlights and a couple of helpers it wouldn’t be especially hard to print out all the “clearest” frames and go try to re-create the scene. Almost anyone could figure out the camera position, and the flashlights also could be relatively easy to duplicate to match a single frame at a time. I wish I were close enough to this location to go test it out for myself, but perhaps the original owner/creator of the vid would be willing to do so…?

For clarity, I believe nearly all of the so-called “paranormal” pics and vids I’ve ever seen are hoax or pareidolia – the ones I think are even POSSIBLY paranormal could be counted on a single hand. The subtlety you noted in this case is honestly one of the things that leads me to consider this one as a “possible” – meaning we’ve either got a true “evil genius” here, or a very lucky cameraman…

Thanks for sharing, and letting me chip in as well – I’ll be checking out your site as time permits!

DD