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(Local6) Strange Ghost of angry student roaming school hallways, setting off motion-detecting cams (with video goodness)   (local6.com) divider line 157
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bsimmons [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-09 10:26:13 AM  
i was under the impression that ghosts did not have shadows. thank you FARK for making me smarter.

 
woodpecker from mars 2008-08-09 10:34:22 AM  
Yea. Moth. Bug. On Camera. Idiots.

 
VelcroFez [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 10:48:56 AM  
Why don't they just show us the video? It's so dumb to just have selected clips with cursor movements and voiceovers.

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 11:21:27 AM  
Oh my god, people are dumb.

 
SnakeLee [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 11:36:52 AM  
www.local6.com

That is a photo of the "ghost" - which looks suspiciously like "nothing"

 
ExJerseyGirl [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 11:48:38 AM  
I'm a logical person I think and I wanted to be able to these people what it is -- it's a bat flying around here and it casts a shadow, but then why is the shadow down here from a different angle and it's not in the shape of a bat?" Glazener said.

Say what?

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 11:51:21 AM  
i30.photobucket.com

 
DarkJohnson [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 12:13:36 PM  
Didn't anyone of this morons notice that the 'shadow' doesn't conform to the surface it's being cast upon?

It's obviously one of them cobs making a web.

The teacher is the scariest thing in the video.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 12:32:02 PM  
woodpecker from mars: Yea. Moth. Bug. On Camera. Idiots.

That looks like a moth to you? Really?
Pretty huge farking moth. You do see it's spatial relation to the other objects in the clip, right?

I have no idea what it is, but sometimes the sceptics are just as stupid as the "it's moving and I don't know what it is so it must be a ghost" people.

 
real shaman [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 12:33:09 PM  
This is the town I live in.... *face palm*

 
dewars-rocks [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 12:38:20 PM  
I want to be Leif

 
strangeguitar 2008-08-09 12:39:08 PM  
Where the hell is the Mystery Machine when you need it?

 
Crosshair [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 12:54:42 PM  
Heh, I work with cameras for a living now. The motion record settings of most systems have varying amounts of sensitivity.

A flicker of a light is enough to activate a camera since it "sees" that as "movement". The cameras usually record at only 7-10 fps so you can't really see the flicker in the video. The AC kicking on can send vibrations through the building that shakes the camera slightly, enough to activate it. RFI can mess with the signal on its way to the DVR, a common problem in elevator cameras, adding small imperfections in the signal that the system "sees" as movement. The signal synchronization of the camera can be off slightly, giving you a "shaky" picture.

So yea, there is lots of stuff that can set the cameras off and cause "ghost" artifacts in the picture. Sounds like they need to change the motion detect settings. I'm working on a DVR right now that tends to make the pictures turn into a techno freakout. I'm starting to think it might be somewhere in the distribution amplifier or video matrix, I'm documenting the video on the DVR right now and will call them on Monday.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:16:55 PM  
i253.photobucket.com

John Johnsonson: Albino Janitor Of The Damned.

 
Oznog 2008-08-09 01:32:32 PM  
frazettaartgallery.com

Exactly- it's THE MOTHMAN!!!

/mothmanbearbig?

 
TheGreatZarquon 2008-08-09 01:33:57 PM  
Every time I read a story like this, I can actually feel the public's IQ dropping by a few points.

 
Zulgaines 2008-08-09 01:34:49 PM  
ExJerseyGirl: I'm a logical person I think and I wanted to be able to these people what it is -- it's a bat flying around here and it casts a shadow, but then why is the shadow down here from a different angle and it's not in the shape of a bat?" Glazener said.

Say what?


Yeah, what the fark?

 
Captain Fapdaily 2008-08-09 01:35:59 PM  
Terrible video. Terrible narrative.

/I know, I know. Terrible post.

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:36:14 PM  
If that's not the face of Jesus then I don't know what is...

 
DarthLamont 2008-08-09 01:36:23 PM  
Bug crawling across light source. Next.

 
EighthundredmillionthFarker 2008-08-09 01:38:23 PM  
I'm a logical person I think and I wanted to be able to these people what it is -- it's a bat flying around here and it casts a shadow, but then why is the shadow down here from a different angle and it's not in the shape of a bat?" Glazener said.

Say what?


Obviously he's trying say to like such as the iraq.

/duh

 
picturescrazy 2008-08-09 01:38:57 PM  
It was probably just a loose bear running around.

 
outatime 2008-08-09 01:39:02 PM  
rhiannon: If that's not the face of Jesus then I don't know what is...

That's what I kept waiting for in the story. I figured someone who watched the tape would say "It was Jeeeeezus!"

 
NANCY'S MEAT PUPPET 2008-08-09 01:39:10 PM  
I need more beer to actually read this thread.

/I mean, come on!
/Makes me all stabby

 
Skyfrog 2008-08-09 01:39:51 PM  
content.answers.com

Duh.

 
tardigrade 2008-08-09 01:40:10 PM  
TheGreatZarquonEvery time I read a story like this, I can actually feel the public's IQ dropping by a few points.

Isn't IQ defined relative to the average, the average being 100?

 
FrostedBytes 2008-08-09 01:40:17 PM  
I think it's real.

/seriously

 
Zulgaines 2008-08-09 01:41:10 PM  
Skyfrog: Duh.

But it didn't happen in the bathroom, and the ghost isn't trying to molest the male students.

 
daffy 2008-08-09 01:41:17 PM  
It didn't look so angry to me. I thought he looked kind of board. Like most teenagers in school.

 
3rdorderofsimulacra 2008-08-09 01:41:25 PM  
Tee Hee. Youre smarter cause you dont believe in ghosts. Yeah!

 
rustik [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:41:51 PM  
It's some kind of insect on the lense of the camera. Why it set off the motion detector is anyone's guess, possibly the sensitivity is too high or the bug landed on the sensor. Take a camera, focus on something 15-20 ft away, and hold something small up to the lense - as long as it doesn't autofocus it'll show up very blurred and will probably look like a "floating shadow" in the frame.

Yes, the vid in TFA looks cool. But, it's not a ghost.

 
SerenityNow! 2008-08-09 01:42:38 PM  
Wow. That lady is teaching children.

She reminds me of my crazy Aunt Kathy. Who is a teacher.

Good times!

 
Zulgaines 2008-08-09 01:43:30 PM  
daffy: It didn't look so angry to me. I thought he looked kind of board. Like most teenagers in school.

Flat and easy to nail?

 
FrostedBytes 2008-08-09 01:43:31 PM  
rustik: it's not a ghost.

yes it is.

 
joegekko 2008-08-09 01:43:58 PM  
Zulgaines: ExJerseyGirl: I'm a logical person I think and I wanted to be able to these people what it is -- it's a bat flying around here and it casts a shadow, but then why is the shadow down here from a different angle and it's not in the shape of a bat?" Glazener said.

Say what?

Yeah, what the fark?


They need to do way instain ghosts who set thier camra.

 
snicker 2008-08-09 01:44:26 PM  
It's a bat. Seriously.

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:45:12 PM  
Zulgaines: daffy: It didn't look so angry to me. I thought he looked kind of board. Like most teenagers in school.

Flat and easy to nail?


I was going to say a shroud, not a board, but man, that was good.

 
Unknown_Poltroon [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:46:20 PM  
Holy fark people are stupid.

 
ptrifoliata2 2008-08-09 01:46:24 PM  
rustik: It's some kind of insect on the lense of the camera. Why it set off the motion detector is anyone's guess, possibly the sensitivity is too high or the bug landed on the sensor. Take a camera, focus on something 15-20 ft away, and hold something small up to the lense - as long as it doesn't autofocus it'll show up very blurred and will probably look like a "floating shadow" in the frame.

Yes, the vid in TFA looks cool. But, it's not a ghost.


the camera is the motion sensor - they use software now.

 
Oznog 2008-08-09 01:46:43 PM  
joegekko: Zulgaines:

They need to do way instain ghosts who set thier camra.


becuse these camras cant frigth back? it was on the news this mroing a gohst in nc who had set of thier camra.

 
Unknown_Poltroon [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:47:00 PM  
im going with bug on camera globe.

 
spill_thrill 2008-08-09 01:48:05 PM  
Its a bug, you can see the antennae

 
dracos31 2008-08-09 01:48:16 PM  
Zulgaines: daffy: It didn't look so angry to me. I thought he looked kind of board. Like most teenagers in school.

Flat and easy to nail?




[insert golf clap pic here]

 
damiangerous [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:48:51 PM  
HowlingFrog: woodpecker from mars: Yea. Moth. Bug. On Camera. Idiots.


That looks like a moth to you? Really?
Pretty huge farking moth. You do see it's spatial relation to the other objects in the clip, right?


Apparently you don't.


 
re-elect_jimmy_carter 2008-08-09 01:50:34 PM  
bsimmons: i was under the impression that ghosts did not have shadows. thank you FARK for making me smarter.

that's vampires. ghosts cast shadows but you cant see them.

 
evirus 2008-08-09 01:51:15 PM  
welcome to the wonderful world of reflected light.

 
Somacandra [TotalFark] 2008-08-09 01:51:36 PM  
Zulgaines: Skyfrog: Duh.

But it didn't happen in the bathroom, and the ghost isn't trying to molest the male students.


I'd hit it.

 
nunia 2008-08-09 01:52:07 PM  
I vote for bug on the lens.

But then, I took physics. YMMV.

 
prekrasno 2008-08-09 01:52:11 PM  
And we wonder why our public education system sucks so muchly.

 
BarackObamasBalls 2008-08-09 01:52:24 PM  
On a related topic, why is it that Christians are so eager to believe in ghosts? Aren't people supposed to end up locked in heaven or hell for eternity, not wandering around hallways setting off motion detectors?

/paging Dr. Venkman
//stop beating your wife and come look at this

 
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