All you skeptics should listen to the news report. The police station is definitely haunted – some of the officers have said that while working at their desks, they have distinctly felt “someone breathing down their neck”. I can confirm that this is an actual psychic phenomenon that I have experienced myself. Those who study the occult believe that it’s caused by the ghosts of deceased micromanaging bureaucrats who, even in death, continue to haunt the living by hovering behind them and breathing down their necks.
I love the investigative journalism thought process whereas step one in researching claims of a ghost siting involves finding out if the land is an ancient burial ground.
Television “news” stopped being anything like reporting or journalism a long time ago, especially local programs. It’s just ratings and ad draw like everything else.
Interestingly enough that is also one of the first steps in casino building.
Is no-one else thinking ‘spider’?
On second look, with fewer distractions than last night, it definitely moves like spiders I’ve seen on surveillance videos before. But the ones I’ve seen recently have been much higher definition. So as far as I’m concerned, ‘spider’ is the answer.
We detect an unknown object on a surveillance video, therefore it must be a ghost.
We detect an unknown object in the sky, therefore it must be aliens from another planet.
It all seems logical to me.
Nearly half of all known homicides in the USA are never solved. I think the number is over 40%, in which no suspect is ever prosecuted in cases where homicide is determined to be the cause of death.
When the police tell us there have been a lot of unsolved murders, they are telling us more about themselves and their own investigative skills, than about ghosts.
Most of the unsolved murder victims are probably a little darker.
It’s a bug. I had a night vision video camera set up for a while at my father’s house to film the foxes that would regularly come through his yard. various insects routinely flitted in front of the camera, and when they were close enough to be brightly illuminated by the camera’s infrared lights, they looked exactly like that.
You might have something there. Did you see how he was leaning back and relaxing when he was supposed to be solving some of those unsolved murders?
How does anybody get convicted based on those shitty old cameras and worn out tape? I wouldn’t recognize my mother in most surveillance videos.
After watching it for the second time I entirely and unequivocally concluded it was a bug walking across the lens.
What a stupid news story…
It’s a guh-guh-guh-guh-guh-guh-guh-GHOST!
To be clear, the post you’re responding to was in answer to Duke of York’s photo from his garage, not the police station video.
Joking aside, this appears to be pretty much what this police officer believes. :smack:
Think about it; these unsolved murders were probably not committed right outside the police station, and burial ground and executions on site have been “ruled out”.
So the only way to connect “unsolved murders”, “I do believe in ghosts” and what he think he saw, is he thinks a ghost has made its way to the police station.
Presumably, the spirit believes the officers aren’t doing enough to investigate its death, and has had no choice but to cross into the realm of the living and find out wtf they are playing at.
So the cops are bad at their jobs because they believe in ghosts and gut feelings instead of rational evaluation of what they know.
So they get haunted by ghosts of murdered victims they didn’t solve because they are dumb enough to believe in ghosts…
Unfortunately, while the police may not be great at this, who ya gonna call?
Observation: unknown object. Conclusion: known object.
Ghostbusters?
No, because it moves like something walking on two legs, not eight. A glare wouldn’t have what seems to be a human stride, either, not bouncing a little like someone walking does.
I think it has to be something like Johnny L.A. suggested in the OP - an artifact from something else previously recorded.