A “ghost” has been caught on video at a gas station in Ohio. If you can’t see the video, it’s a blue blob, in the style of those sentient clouds from the ST:TOS episode, later parodied on the Simpsons. It hung in space for a while, then whooshed around and flew off.
If this was actual video tape and not a digital camera, I’m thinking some kind of flaw in the tape. It was on the video for over half an hour, which is a heck of a long time for it to have escaped notice by people on the property; it was only seen on the video AFAIK. Something damaged the video during the manufacturing process is my guess. Of course you have the obligatory guy saying that the gas station was built on an Indian burial ground, but he has to be taking the piss. So what say you?
I don’t know what it is but it seems similar to ball lightning. Ball lightning is the closest thing to a supernatural object that is probably real but not 100% proven. It makes these weird, floating orbs that can appear inside anything from building to inside airplanes and it moves about strangely sometimes squeezing through opening in solid objects.
I am not saying it is ball lightening because it lasts an awfully long time for that. I would guess that some type of reflection on the camera lens causes it.
The clip linked in the OP won’t play in my browser, but a clip that was playable from a link posted to Fark a couple of days ago was. (Local TV report.)
Absolutely nothing to get excited about at all. At best just something in front of the lens was reflecting light and occasionally bouncing around. At worst, just something faked up.
A guy walked from the pumps into the store without even glancing “at” it.
All I saw was a story about the German rail strike, which isn’t scary.
Also, have you noticed that all this crap seems to happen around Indian burial grounds? I swear, we should just outlaw all Indians from owning shovels, they just cause trouble down the line.
If there’s any chance it’s real, then it’s a bug crawling about on the lens or front glass of the camera, perhaps looking a weird colour because of some lighting that is close to the camera, reflecting off the bug. It moves like a bug.
Well, I know it’s not a ghost, or anything supernatural. I’m just wondering what it is. Art Bell had a really creepy video on his site once: you knew it was fog, but holy jeez, did it look like a skeleton crossing the road. This, though, I don’t know what it actually is, and I want to be able to say, “No, it’s not a ghost; it’s —.”
The bug theory has merit. I didn’t think plastic bag, because it didn’t look solid enough and seemed to move too fast. And I love the guy talking about the Indian burial ground; he can’t quite hide his smirk. Knows just what to say to get on TV!
Pepper Mill, who definitely does believe in ghosts, looked at it and said “Probably a bug on the lens or something.”
It doesn’t look like anything “real”, including supernatural phenomena. It looks like something in the optics or the electronics, but not actually present “at the scene”.
That said, I can’t say what it really is, although I can imagine lots of poassibilities. “Bug on the lens” doesn’t really seem like the right one to me.
It’s a bug…I have video cameras at my office and have seen many bugs (flying and non-flying), ants and spiders crawling and/or camping out on them for extended periods of time…they’re bugs, without a doubt.
The color of the bug and/or the lighting used at the station is however…interesting.