Comments on: Eerie footage of “ghost” captured by schoolboy? http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/ Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Skeptical http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/comment-page-1/#comment-1967 Skeptical Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:25:30 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/#comment-1967 By no means am I saying the original video is real, but the recreations presented here are dissimilar enough as to prove nothing. Even if they replicated the object exactly, the fact that something CAN be faked does not necessarily mean that it WAS faked. After all, how are we to know what a real apparition (if there is in fact such a thing) would look like? What if special effects are as cheesy in other realities as they are here? S By no means am I saying the original video is real, but the recreations presented here are dissimilar enough as to prove nothing. Even if they replicated the object exactly, the fact that something CAN be faked does not necessarily mean that it WAS faked.

After all, how are we to know what a real apparition (if there is in fact such a thing) would look like? What if special effects are as cheesy in other realities as they are here?

S

]]> By: kris http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/comment-page-1/#comment-1966 kris Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:51:45 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/#comment-1966 your reproduction looks like a fake way too much but the origanal looks real as for the light reflection it is just a ordanary hall way light that happend to be on. i no what iv seen in my life and that was a classic shadow man making him self noticed. great ghost vid your reproduction looks like a fake way too much but the origanal looks real as for the light reflection it is just a ordanary hall way light that happend to be on. i no what iv seen in my life and that was a classic shadow man making him self noticed. great ghost vid

]]> By: Mori http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Mori Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:50:12 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/#comment-1959 Excellent, Brian. I agree with you, a reflection of a dark thing in the transparent sheet would make hoaxing even easier and the result would probably be better than the translucid version the other British fellow tried to reproduce (and far better than the solid piece of black paper cutout I glued to the sheet of plastic). But I don't know if I will bother trying it. In the not-quite-there reproduction I made, you can see the reflection of the video camera I used. It does look... "eerie"? :-) Excellent, Brian. I agree with you, a reflection of a dark thing in the transparent sheet would make hoaxing even easier and the result would probably be better than the translucid version the other British fellow tried to reproduce (and far better than the solid piece of black paper cutout I glued to the sheet of plastic). But I don’t know if I will bother trying it.

In the not-quite-there reproduction I made, you can see the reflection of the video camera I used. It does look… “eerie”? :-)

]]> By: Brian Parsons http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Brian Parsons Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:32:50 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/#comment-1957 3 seconds into the video as the camera pans down the stairs you will see the reflection in the top center and again on the left as it pans back up a second later. You can clearly see the color change right before the "apparition" sneaks by, but I don't think it's coming from right in front of the lens. It seems from what I can see to be a reflection from behind and to one side of the camera to the clear plastic and back to the lens (via the light source that is causing the reflections we see). This is a simple thing to do if you have the time. 3 seconds into the video as the camera pans down the stairs you will see the reflection in the top center and again on the left as it pans back up a second later. You can clearly see the color change right before the “apparition” sneaks by, but I don’t think it’s coming from right in front of the lens. It seems from what I can see to be a reflection from behind and to one side of the camera to the clear plastic and back to the lens (via the light source that is causing the reflections we see). This is a simple thing to do if you have the time.

]]> By: Brian Parsons http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Brian Parsons Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:27:16 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/eerie-footage-of-ghost-captured-by-schoolboy/#comment-1956 The reproduction film is close to the answer. In various parts of the video you can clearly see the reflection of something into the lens of the camera. The trick is to use a clear refelctive surface near the camera with enough space between it and the lens to have something reflect back between the plastic and the lens. It's an easy trick and is responsible for numerous fake videos dating back several years (does anyone remember the Oklahoma junk yard video?). The reproduction film is close to the answer. In various parts of the video you can clearly see the reflection of something into the lens of the camera. The trick is to use a clear refelctive surface near the camera with enough space between it and the lens to have something reflect back between the plastic and the lens. It’s an easy trick and is responsible for numerous fake videos dating back several years (does anyone remember the Oklahoma junk yard video?).

]]>