As a skeptic I find it highly unlikely that any of them are authentic signs of anything supernatural/whatever. But some of them are pretty spooky, and I wonder how many of them have known explanations… ie, yeah, #7 was made as a project by a SFX student in 2002, or what have you.
My quick summaries: #14: crazy crawling spider creature, definitely spooky, need explanation #13: guy summons UFO, too blurry to be spooky, could be anything, don’t care #12: crop circle being formed, wish it was bigger and higher res, but seems spooky #11: “reptilian” secret service agent, just an awkward angle of a slightly funny-looking guy, not interesting #10: something flying near a volcano, doesn’t look at all UFO-y to me, could just be a plane or helicopter #9: hovering “drone”, from this video, could just be a RC helicopter or something #8: “aliens” on a rooftop, just looks like people wearing funny outfits. #7: VERY spooky, underwater alien/mermaid hand. Seems likely to be a hoax. #6: more vague out of focus lights over Hessdalen. If they are that frequent, someone should have gotten a better video of them by now #5: blah blah Denver airport Blah Blah who cares #4: “alleged” roswell video. Way too likely to just be a hoax #3: Tiny skeleton. Very interesting (although not necessarily supernatural). Some kind of fossilized fetus? Anyone have any info? #2: A guy got out of a van?! Oh noes, Michael Jackson must still be alive! Uninteresting #1: Super-elaborate crop circle responses to SETI-esque message. Neat, well done, but just way too easy for it to be a really really elaborate hoax
So I guess the most interesting ones to me are #14, #12, #7 and #3.
These appear to all be clips from movies and televisions shows.
I’ll debunk #14, #12, #7 and #3 for you:
There are no crazy crawling spider creatures like that so the video is not real.
Crop circles are formed by people using rope so the video is not real.
There are no such thing as mermaids so the video is not real.
[That might be the skeleton of a human fetus born prematurely](14, #12, #7 and #3.). That would definitely not be a supernatural event because supernatural events do not exist.
These are the BEST ones, right? The cream of the crop, the 14 most eerily convincing…
These phenomena are supposedly common enough that the internet is flooded with such videos, but they are universally wobbly, grainy, blurry shit.
That is not how it would be if there was a real phenonenon behind them that was so common., there would be decent quality footage by now.
Thus the poor quality is either the reason for the artifact (out of focus people against a light background looking like aliens, camera shake making blurry dots appear to move in unison), or the poor quality is a design choice made by woever faked the video, to conceal artificiality.
The videos debunk themselves. For other rare phenomena that turned out to be real (giant squid, for example), modern photography eventually comes up with decent footage, but never for aliens/bigfoot.
Those videos were debunked by anyone over the age of 15 the moment they appeared. It’s self explanatory. You can do amazing things with just a laptop and software these days.
One of those, I think it’s 14, it’s from some old foreign movie.
You know if it wasn’t for some of the users of Reddit going out of their way, gullible’s would probably still believe in stories like the black eyed children? It’s funny how many websites, blog writers…etc make decent money by perpetuating such things, often by just copying from someone else’s stuff.
I remember an unknown blog writer, created a few fictional stories previously, came up with a news story about how she investigated stories of people disappearing in a lake somewhere, eluding to some giant octopus that lives in this salt water lake. No names given of these supposed witnesses…anyway, this lake only had 1 incident in which a kid fell out of the boat and drowned because he couldn’t swim and his brothers couldn’t get him out in time. So she makes this story up in a blog and media sites run away with it, this story of a giant octopus, sites like unexplained mysteries…etc.
Fate magazine did the same things, often being stories that people made up and told the authors of the magazine without any authenticity or research whatsoever. Stories pay the bills I guess.
Yeah, #7 was from a fake documentary on Animal Planet called Mermaids and the Body Found or something like that. Several people debunked it, mostly because they were mad that Animal Planet aired something like that on a channel that should be airing factual stories/documentaries about animals.
Other than that, I lost all interest in these things when I turned 15 or so.
I assumed the mermaid was Special effects. The Spider Wacky wall crawler is the one that has me most curious. Probably CGI, but if it isn’t, what the hell is it?
ETA: who pissed in everyone’s corn flakes? Why the hostile attitude in this thread?
#12, crop circle being formed, is called the Oliver’s Castle video. The guy who made it, John Wabe, confessed to producing it with video software. He overlayed an image of the finished crop circle with the “before” picture, with each frame increasing the radius of the overlay. Then he inserted the little lights at the end. He specialized in 3D video animation in a company called First Cut Studio in Bristol.
#14 could be simply someone pulling off 2 legs of a poor stick insect and putting it on a detailed model of a building (a model with lights and everything).
I think the whole ‘it can’t be real because there are no such things’-attitude is missing the point of the thread. Of course, these things don’t show what one would naively think they show, but they show something, and I think it’s an interesting puzzle to try and figure out what it is that they show. Granted, with some grainy lights on a shaky video of a volcano going off, it’s probably completely impossible to tell, and anybody who takes it to mean that OMG aliens are real is probably not going to be a worthwhile conversation partner, but there’s some that I think it would be interesting to know the full story about, or at least have as good a crack at it as we’re gonna get; and I think that’s all the thread’s about.
For instance, there’s some chance that something like the Hessdalen lights represents some otherwise unknown or rare, but natural phenomenon, perhaps something like ionization due to strains in rock (‘earthquake lights’), or whatever; and an attitude like that of some posters here would just stymy any investigation. I mean, it was only recently that we learned what those sailing rocks in Death Valley were all about.
Yep. As someone who works in visual effects and CGI professionally, I was just going to post that #12 was an obvious Adobe After Effects type composite effect.
#11, the reptilian secret service agent: looks to me to be another example of a CG hoax. Someone taking actual footage, move matching the camera, then rendering an alien face in a CG software package like Maya or Cinema 4D and, again, using compositing software to blend the two as the guy turns his head.
Personally, if I wanted to, I could generate to the same quality or better a similar hoax in a day or two.
Thank you, precisely the kind of information I was looking for.
I don’t think a stick insect has stretchy legs like that. I googled around a bit. There was a similar video apparently in daytime that is a known hoax, but I couldn’t find anything definitive about the nighttime one.
If anyone read the OP and thought that I was some credulous believer who is half convinced that any of those video clips are real proof of anything, then either they didn’t read the OP very well or I did a terrible job of writing it (or possibly both). But it’s more interesting to know the backstory of the famous “surgeon’s photo” of the Loch Ness monster than to just know “well, there’s no dinosaur living in a lake in Scotland, so obviously that photo is fake”.
I thought #6, the Hessdalen lights were assumed to be someone shooting off a bunch of emergency flares or something to that effect. I don’t really recall much about that footage though, but that seems a likely scenario. Albeit they do seem to behave strangely.