# Michael Jackson back at Neverland ranch... in ghost form. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141 "2009-07-07T00:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/1 "2009-07-07T00:01:01Z")
[Link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1197780/Ghost-Michael-Jackson-caught-camera-pacing-corridors-Neverland.html) to article. Irrefutable video footage that proves Michael’s back as a specter. What does he want? Has GhostMichael[sup]TM[/sup] returned to record _Thriller vol. II_, or is he here to impregnate some hapless female with his ghost child? All I know is Casper better not get too friendly with GhostMichael[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/2 "2009-07-07T01:40:23Z")
Yeah, no possible way that could be a shadow from someone walking outside a bedroom window. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/3 "2009-07-07T01:48:19Z")
I’m watching this nonsense on CNN right now. I guess they’re running out of things to say about MJ. Don’t ghosts haunt the places where they die? Where’s that guy who chimes in on how stupid it is for people to obsess over Michael Jacksons death, instead of important stuff like North Korea, world hunger, and war? He may have something there. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/4 "2009-07-07T02:44:12Z")
Fiddlesticks, if it was MJs ghost that shadow would had moonwalked across the room. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/5 "2009-07-07T03:07:11Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I’m watching this nonsense on CNN right now. I guess they’re running out of things to say about MJ. Don’t ghosts haunt the places where they die? Not necessarily. Ghosts also haunt places that they have a connection to, whether they died there or not. > [@](#): > > Where’s that guy who chimes in on how stupid it is for people to obsess over Michael Jacksons death, instead of important stuff like North Korea, world hunger, and war? He may have something there. No doubt. But if the ghost thing holds any traction expect a special on FOX about MJ’s haunted Neverland come Halloween. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/6 "2009-07-07T03:34:19Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Not necessarily. Ghosts also haunt places that they have a connection to, whether they died there or not… So we can expect sightings of MJ’s ghost at boys’ summer camps, juvenile halls, group homes, and lockerrooms? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/7 "2009-07-07T03:37:18Z")
How can anyone believe he would return to Neverland? That’s preposterous. Actually, he’s currently inhabiting a [tree stump in Stockton](http://cbs13.com/local/michael.jackson.tree.2.1072797.html). ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/8 "2009-07-07T03:55:14Z")
Ooh, lovely 😃 I’m only surprised it took such a short time. I thought it was more traditional to wait a while (well, a week or two at most) and then appear (or not) working in a burger or pizza shop somewhere. Or, of course, work in a British chip shop, but that might only work when you think about Kirsty MacColl, or more fun-ishly, Pterry, Sir Terence David John Pratchett. Think “Soul Music”.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/9 "2009-07-07T04:02:59Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > How can anyone believe he would return to Neverland? That’s preposterous. Actually, he’s currently inhabiting a [tree stump in Stockton](http://cbs13.com/local/michael.jackson.tree.2.1072797.html). Stockton is the home of a Michael Jackson woody! ---
**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/10 "2009-07-07T09:11:29Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > [Link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1197780/Ghost-Michael-Jackson-caught-camera-pacing-corridors-Neverland.html) to article. Irrefutable video footage that proves Michael’s back as a specter. What does he want? Has GhostMichael[sup]TM[/sup] returned to record _Thriller vol. II_, or is he here to impregnate some hapless female with his ghost child? All I know is Casper better not get too friendly with GhostMichael[sup]TM[/sup]. Clearly, that isn’t MJ’s ghost; it’s definitely black. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/11 "2009-07-07T14:29:07Z")
Shit… this is going to be even worse than Elvis sightings, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/12 "2009-07-07T14:42:25Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Not necessarily. Ghosts also haunt places that they have a connection to, whether they died there or not. Or, to be more specific, each individual ghost haunts the places that the person who made up that particular ghost says it haunts. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/13 "2009-07-07T19:51:20Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > How can anyone believe he would return to Neverland? That’s preposterous. Actually, he’s currently inhabiting a [tree stump in Stockton](http://cbs13.com/local/michael.jackson.tree.2.1072797.html). I’m looking at the picture of the stump, and I don’t see a darned thing, let alone a recognizable face. (My brother says maybe it’s that the stump is dark on the inside and white on the outside). ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/14 "2009-07-07T20:14:00Z")
I saw that video. You can clearly see the continuation of the shadow across the floor and off to the left. It is obviously a staff member or crewmember walking past lights they have setup for the next shoot location. The light is too bright and directed not be some sort of camera lighting. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/15 "2009-07-07T23:58:40Z")
[ghostly voice] Whoooooooo’s Got my Golden Nose? [/Ghostly Voice] ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/16 "2009-07-08T09:18:40Z")
Employees at Neverland report seeing a gaunt, pale, disfigured creature gliding uncannily across the floor while uttering unearthly shrieks. And then Michael Jackson died. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/17 "2009-07-08T20:47:57Z")
Remember the country song, think it was HW Deuce, a guy hitching a ride > [@](#): > > You don’t have to call me ‘mister’, the whole world calls me ‘Hank’ ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/18 "2009-07-08T23:09:10Z")
Why worry about a damn ghost; I fully expect him to resurrect in a day or so. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/19 "2009-07-09T22:49:27Z")
Depending on public demand, MJ might be making his first comeback in [Iowa](http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Iowa_reconsiders_massive_butter_Jackson&in_article_id=700154&in_page_id=2). If you want to see him, you can vote [here](http://www.iowastatefair.org/entertainment/butter-vote.php). ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141/20 "2009-07-09T23:03:04Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > How can anyone believe he would return to Neverland? That’s preposterous. Actually, he’s currently inhabiting a [tree stump in Stockton](http://cbs13.com/local/michael.jackson.tree.2.1072797.html). Loved this: > [@stockton](#): > > Because Michael Jackson was an icon to us," said one neighbor. "To Stockton, Michael Jackson meant more to us than Jesus, to some people. I think they’re both about even. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-back-at-neverland-ranch-in-ghost-form/502141.md?page=2)